As a clinician is assessing the social context in which a client functions, which question best represents the concept of dynamic formulation?
A. What about the adult client's childhood may be driving their current behavior?
B. What are the person's notable deficits in social skills?
C. What is the current situation and how might it drive the client's current and future behavior?
D. What current stressors explain the client's past behaviors?
Answer: C
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The perceptual system adapts to:
A) constant levels of stimulation faster than it does to variable levels of stimulation. B) changing levels of stimulation faster than it does to constant levels of stimulation. C) unpredictable levels of stimulation faster than it does to predictable levels of stimulation. D) rare occurrences of stimulation faster than it does to frequent occurrences of stimulation.
Items that are more accessible in memory are judged as having occurred more frequently. This phenomenon is called the:
A) hindsight bias. B) frequency effect. C) availability bias. D) conjunctive fallacy.
Freud considered dreams the __________
a. royal road to the unconscious c. path to the superego b. window to the soul d. path of least resistance
The textbook notes that there was an "epidemic" of dissociative identity disorder diagnoses in the 1970s, and offers which explanation for this increase in frequency of this condition?
A. Clinicians were looking more carefully for symptoms of DID. B. There was a television program that unintentionally hypnotized a number of viewers into demonstrating DID symptoms. C. People watched the President of the United States reveal that he had struggled with DID and this led to people believing that they had the condition. D. It was a side effect to some new psychotropic medications that people were taking.