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1
Acculturation is the extent to which a person identifies with his or her group of origin and its culture, or with the mainstream dominant culture.
A)True
B)False
2
The most widely used intelligence tests assess verbal and artistic abilities.
A)True
B)False
3
The Beck Depression Inventory is used as both an assessment tool and a monitoring tool.
A)True
B)False
4
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory has been criticized for its low test-retest reliability.
A)True
B)False
5
When administering the Rorschach Inkblot Test, clinicians are only concerned with the content of the clients' responses.
A)True
B)False
6
The Thematic Apperception Test is an example of a projective test.
A)True
B)False
7
Projective tests are criticized for not taking cultural context into account.
A)True
B)False
8
Self-monitoring is an alternative to direct observation by a clinician.
A)True
B)False
9
Teachers' assessments of children are almost always the same as assessments made by trained clinicians.
A)True
B)False
10
Overdiagnosis often occurs when a client cannot articulate complex emotions or strange perceptual experiences in the assessor's language and thus does not even try.
A)True
B)False
11
There is evidence that African Americans in the United States are overdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
12
One of the first classification systems for psychological symptoms was proposed by Hippocrates.
A)True
B)False
13
In the DSM-IVTR, the predictors of mild depression are very different from the predictors of severe depression.
A)True
B)False
14
Labeling a child abnormal strongly affects other children's behaviors toward him or her, even when there is no reason for the child to be labeled abnormal.
A)True
B)False
15
Many critics of the DSM feel it pathologizes the behavior of women.
A)True
B)False





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