Describe the three primary goals of clinical assessment procedures, and give an example of each

Answer:


(1) making predictions: will this person engage in violence if he or she is released from jail? (2) plan interventions: does this person have the intelligence level necessary to benefit from insight-oriented therapy? (3) evaluate treatment effectiveness: has this person's depression decreased over the course of therapy?

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What is the IQ of a 6-year-old child whose MA is 8?

A) 75 B) 100 C) 125 D) 133

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When information in memory is held for 15 to 25 seconds, it is called

a) short-term memory. b) sequential memory. c) sensory memory. d) long-term memory.

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A(n) __________ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another.

A. independent variable B. dependent variable C. experimental effect D. correlation

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