PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - EXAMPLE (2)

A 28-year-old man seeks therapy after recent career-related stress. His personality assessment shows a very high score on Openness to Experience in the NEO-FFI. What is the most likely implication for the therapeutic process?

• He may resist new ideas or techniques and prefer a structured, conventional approach

• He is likely to respond well to creative or exploratory therapeutic methods, such as narrative or experiential therapy

• He will have difficulty reflecting on his inner experiences and emotions

• He prefers practical problem-solving and may avoid abstract or introspective discussions

A 42-year-old man being assessed for chronic pain reports a very high score on the Somatic Complaints (RC1) scale of the MMPI-2-RF. What is the most appropriate implication of this result?

• He is probably inventing his symptoms and should be discharged from treatment

• His physical complaints are not real and can be ignored

• He may have genuine physical symptoms along with emotional distress, so a combined medical and psychological approach is recommended

• The test results are invalid and cannot be interpreted

According to Chess and Thomas, which of the following is not one of the three basic temperamental types?

• Social child

• Easy child

• Difficult child

• Slow-to-warm-up child

Which of the following is not one of the three main categories of traits proposed by Cattell?

• Temperament

• Ability

• Motivation (dynamic)

• Social desirability

Meichenbaum created the self-instruction technique, to train the person in dialogue with themselves. This technique is commonly used in:

• Helping students

• Couple's therapy

• Children with ADHD

• A and C are correct

If we want to maximize the accuracy of the information collected using a self-recording technique, we should:

• Record the behaviour before happens

• Register positive aspects of the behavior

• Train the patient

• Create a remarkable register sheet

The faces revised test is characterized by (mark the incorrect)

• Assess focused and sustained attention

• The person has 3 minutes to complete it

• Doesn’t consider the mistakes

• Considers the impulsivity

What is the main task in the d2-R attention test?

• Memorize a list of symbols

• Identify and cross out every "d" with exactly two dashes above or below

• Count the number of letters "p" in each row

• Cancel out all the characters with three dashes

“If I don’t get this job, it means I’m a complete failure and I’ll never succeed at anything.” What type of cognitive error is this an example of?

• Selective abstraction

• Catastrophizing

• Emotional reasoning

• Mind reading

Which of the following is not one of the three global indices provided by the SCL-90-R?

• Global Severity Index

• Positive Symptom Total

• Symptom Intensity Quotient

• Positive Symptom Distress Index