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WorksheetsPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - EXAMPLE (2)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
