Clinical psychology worksheet with answers

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is an example of:

1. AA neuroimaging technique
2. BA projective storytelling test
3. CA self-report personality inventory
4. DAn intelligence test

Hypomania differs from mania mainly because hypomania:

1. AInvolves low mood and loss of interest
2. BLasts for at least two years with numerous periods of mild symptoms
3. CAlways requires hospital admission
4. DIs less severe and does not cause marked impairment or psychosis

Dissociative identity disorder was previously called:

1. AMultiple personality disorder
2. BConversion hysteria
3. CBorderline personality disorder
4. DSchizophrenia

A client says "I failed one test, so I will fail everything." Which cognitive distortion is this?

1. AMind reading
2. BPersonalisation
3. CEmotional reasoning
4. DOvergeneralisation

Validity scales on the MMPI are designed to detect:

1. AWhich therapy will work best
2. BInconsistent, exaggerated or defensive answering
3. CThe client's intelligence level
4. DBrain damage

A patient feels intense anxiety about having a serious illness despite having few or no bodily symptoms and repeated normal tests. Which diagnosis fits best?

1. AFunctional neurological symptom disorder
2. BSomatic symptom disorder
3. CIllness anxiety disorder
4. DFactitious disorder

Which statement about the placebo effect in antidepressant trials is most accurate?

1. APlacebos work only in physical illnesses
2. BPlacebo response rates are substantial, so trials need control groups to show drug effects
3. CPlacebo effects never occur in depression
4. DPlacebo response is so strong that antidepressants have never shown any benefit over it in trials

Learned helplessness (Seligman) was proposed as a model for:

1. ASchizophrenia
2. BAutism spectrum disorder
3. CSpecific phobias
4. DDepression