Clinical psychology worksheet with answers

Which term describes the mental strategies, proposed in psychoanalytic theory, that protect the ego from anxiety?

1. AConditioned responses
2. BSafety behaviours
3. CCognitive distortions
4. DDefence mechanisms

Which test is a projective test in which people describe what they see in inkblots?

1. AThe Beck Depression Inventory
2. BThe WAIS-IV
3. CThe MMPI-2
4. DThe Rorschach test

Systematic desensitisation is mainly used to treat:

1. ADementia
2. BSchizophrenia
3. CPhobias
4. DPersonality disorders

In Ellis's ABC model, what does "B" stand for?

1. ABackground of the client
2. BBodily sensations during stress
3. CBeliefs about the activating event
4. DBehaviour that follows the event

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has best evidence for:

1. ACuring dementia
2. BTreating acute psychosis
3. CTreating attention problems in young children with ADHD
4. DPreventing relapse in people with recurrent depression

Reliability of a diagnosis refers to:

1. AWhether different clinicians reach the same diagnosis for the same patient
2. BWhether the diagnosis uses medical tests
3. CWhether the diagnosis is accepted by the patient
4. DWhether the diagnosis accurately predicts the course and outcome of the illness

A therapist says: "Rather than fighting the thought 'I'm a failure', notice it as just a thought, and act on what matters to you." Which therapy does this best represent?

1. AAcceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
2. BSystematic desensitisation
3. CClassical psychoanalysis
4. DRational emotive behaviour therapy

A patient with schizophrenia stays motionless in an awkward posture for hours and resists attempts to move him. Which symptom cluster does this describe?

1. ATardive dyskinesia
2. BThought broadcasting
3. CCatatonia
4. DAlogia