Introduction to Clinical Psychology (Midterm 1) || with 100% Error-free Solutions.
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Introduction To Clinical Psychology
What are the professional activities involved in being a clinical psychologist? correct answers assessment, therapy /intervention, research, training/teaching/supervising
What is counseling psychology? correct answers provide individual counseling/therapy often focused on identity, culture, and ...
Introduction to Clinical Psychology (Midterm 1) || with
100% Error-free Solutions.
What are the professional activities involved in being a clinical psychologist? correct answers
assessment, therapy /intervention, research, training/teaching/supervising
What is counseling psychology? correct answers provide individual counseling/therapy often
focused on identity, culture, and vocational issues
Health Psychologists correct answers Psychologists whose research or practical work focuses on
good health or the prevention of an illness, or the treatment of individuals with diagnosed
medical conditions
What is the philosophy of the "Scholar-Practitioner" model? correct answers Emphasis on
clinical training, research training in order to be "consumers" of research and to be able to
integrate existing research literature into clinical practice
What is the philosophy of the "Scientist-Practitioner
model? correct answers Trains students to both produce and consume research, also receive
training in providing treatment with emphasis on research evidence. (integrate role of scientist &
practitioner)
What is the philosophy of the "Clinical Science Model"? correct answers focuses on evidence
based approach to assessment, prevention and clinical intervention (many who get clinical
science for future careers in academia and research)
Where does the term "clinical psychology" come from? correct answers traces back to 1907, with
journal Psychology Clinic published by Lightner Witmer
How was clinical psychology defined originally? correct answers the study of individuals, by
observation or experimentation, with the intention of promoting change
How did the ancient greeks "practice clinical psychology"? correct answers According to
Humoral theory, which believes that functioning is related to four key bodily fluids (humors)
Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
Having too much or too little could lead to depression and other mental illnesses, could be
treated with environmental treatments
Who wrote the book that established what is now known as the DSM? correct answers Emil
Kraeplin
What are some of the treatments that were established after the discovery that the brain is the hub
for mental disorders? correct answers Electroshock (ECT), Lobotomy and eventual medications
, Who was Francis Galton? correct answers found that difference in reaction time may be
indicative of differences in intelligence
Who was Wilhem Wundt? correct answers First psychology lab, studied sensation and
perception
Who was James Mckeen Cattel? correct answers studied connection between reaction time and
intelligence and coined the term "mental test"
Who was Alfred Binet? correct answers French Gov had him develop a cognitive deficit
assessment for children - Binet-Simon Scale
What were the Army Alpha & Beta Tests? Who developed them? correct answers Developed by
the APA for scale measure of mental functioning of recruits. Alpha - verbal abilities, Beta- non-
verbal
What is the "Scientist Practitioner" Model? (Boulder Model) correct answers training happens
within a psychology department of a university, trained as both a scientist and a clinician,
requires original research (contribution to the field, one year internship, competence in
psychotherapy, diagnosis and research
The Barnum Effect correct answers the tendency to accept certain information as true, such as
character assessments or horoscopes, even when the information is so vague as to be worthless
What are some of the complications of treatment research? correct answers spontaneous
recovery, placebo/expectancy effects, nonspecific aspects of being in therapy
Attrition correct answers loss of participants (problem with longitudinal studies)
Epidemiology correct answers the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution,
and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health
Incidence correct answers The rate of new cases of a disease or disorder that develop within a
given period of time
Selective Prevention correct answers Targets groups of people at risk
Indicated Prevention correct answers Targets specific individuals who are showing early signs of
a disorder
ABAB Design correct answers A- Baseline, B- Treatment A- take away treatment see if return to
Baseline B- Reinstate treatment to see if improvement returns
How do researchers establish of a treatment worked? correct answers Reduction in symptoms,
Remission, General Wellbeing
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