1. A 50-year-old physician is recovering from aseptic meningitis that began two weeks ago. He appears to have lost considerable cognitive function, and he says he will not go on living if his cognitive ability remains compromised. To demonstrate to him that recovery is occurring, serial evaluations with which of the following psychological assessments is indicated? A. Halstead-Reitan Battery B. Stanford Binet Intelligence Test C. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale D. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale E. Wide Range Achievement Test 2. A young child is able to walk when held by one hand and speaks in strings of unrecognizable words. When placed in a room with other children, the child stays close to his mother but plays by himself. Based on these observations, in the next six to eight months the child is most likely to learn to (A) ride a tricycle (B) stand on his tiptoes ( C) draw a circle (D) build a tower of three blocks (E) play peek-a-boo 3. An oncologist tells his patient that her laboratory results support a diagnosis of advanced malignant melanoma with multiple metastases to the. liver and brain. He also advises her that the prognosis is poor. Which of the following is most likely to be the first statement that the patient will make? (A) "Can you keep me. alive until my daughter graduates from medical school?" (B) "Damn you doctor, you should have caught this earlier!” (C) "Doctor, you.mustbe wrong." (D) "I think it is timethat I make a will and say goodbye to everyone."
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1. A 50-year-old physician is recovering from aseptic meningitis that began two
weeks ago. He appears to have lost considerable cognitive function, and he says
he will not go on living if his cognitive ability remains compromised. To
demonstrate to him that recovery is occurring, serial evaluations with which of
the following psychological assessments is indicated?
A. Halstead-Reitan Battery
B. Stanford Binet Intelligence Test
C. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
D. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
E. Wide Range Achievement Test
2. A young child is able to walk when held by one hand and speaks in strings of
unrecognizable words. When placed in a room with other children, the child
stays close to his mother but plays by himself. Based on these observations, in
the next six to eight months the child is most likely to learn to
(A) ride a tricycle
(B) stand on his tiptoes
( C) draw a circle
(D) build a tower of three blocks
(E) play peek-a-boo
3. An oncologist tells his patient that her laboratory results support a diagnosis
of advanced malignant melanoma with multiple metastases to the. liver and
brain. He also advises her that the prognosis is poor. Which of the following is
most likely to be the first statement that the patient will make?
(A) "Can you keep me. alive until my daughter graduates from medical school?"
(B) "Damn you doctor, you should have caught this earlier!”
(C) "Doctor, you.mustbe wrong."
(D) "I think it is timethat I make a will and say goodbye to everyone."
(E) "It's no use, I always lose and get the short end of the. stick."
4. Which of the following would most likely be considered an example of an
objective, criterion-referenced test?
a. California Personality Inventory
b. Halsted-Reitan Battery
c. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
d. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
e. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Revised (WASIS-R)
5. For the average adult, most sleep time is spent in what stage of sleep?
a. Stage 1
b. Stage 2
c. Stage 3
d. Stage 4
e. REM
6. A 20-year-old woman sees her baby cousin for the first time. As she attempts
to play with the infant, he begins to cry incessantly. Which of the following is
the most likely age of this infant?
(A) 1-4months
(B) 6-9 months
(C) 9-12 months
(D) 13-16 months
(E) 17-20 months
7. A woman has difficulty going to sleep each night. She decides that the noise
of the traffic outside her home is keeping her awake. She shuts the bedroom
window, the noise is muffled, and she is able to go to sleep. Shutting the
bedroom window becomes a nightly routine. She most likely continues to shut
the window each night because of which of the following behavioral principles?
A. Classical conditioning
B. Extinction
C. Negative reinforcement
D. Positive reinforcement nite blind
E. Secondary reinforcement
8. Although at first, a heroin user may take the drug in order to experience the
drug-induced high, the heroin addict seeks his daily fix, not to feel good, but to
avoid the pain of withdrawal. From this perspective, the type of reinforcement
that most contributes to the maintenance of heroin addiction is which of the
following?
A. Classical conditioning
B. Extinction
C. Negative reinforcement
D. Positive reinforcement
E. Punishment
Questions 9–11
For the past year, pizza has been sold from a white van outside a high school.
The teenage students complain that they are often embarrassed because their
stomachs begin to growl whenever they see any white vehicle, even on
weekends. The principal then bans the van from selling pizza near the school
and the students' stomachs stop growling at the sight of white vehicles.
9. For this scenario, which element represents the unconditioned response?
(A) Stomach growling in response to the white van
(B) Stomach growling in response to pizza
(C) The white van
(D) Pairing the white van with getting pizza
(E) Pizza
10. For this scenario, which element represents the unconditioned stimulus?
(A) Stomach growling in response to the white van
(B) Stomach growling in response to pizza
(C) The white van
(D) Pairing the white van with getting pizza
(E) Pizza
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11. For this scenario, which element represents the conditioned stimulus?
(A) Stomach growling in response to the white van
(B) Stomach growling in response to pizza
(C) The white van
(D) Pairing the white van with getting pizza
(E) Pizza
12. As the physician enters the room, the patient sits quietly and says nothing.
The physician greets the patient and then says, "You seem very quiet today."
This statement by the physician would most likely be considered an example of
which of the following?
A. Confrontation
B. Directed action
C. Facilitation
D. Leading question
E. Redirection
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14. Before the beginning of a gynecological examination, the patient asks her
physician if they can stop and have a short prayer together before proceeding.
The physician is not an especially religious person. The best course of action on
the part of the physician would be to do which of the following?
A. Ask the patient why she thinks this is necessary
B. Ask the patient if there is some particular issue that may be causing her
anxiety
C. Begin saying a prayer and ask the patient to follow along
D. Explain to the patient that this is not part of normal medical procedure
E. Find out what sort of prayer the patient would like to have
F. Offer to wait quietly while the patient prays
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16. A 28-year-old male patient is brought to the emergency room after a fight in
which he attacked a man who cut into his line at the supermarket checkout. In
the emergency room he remains assaultive and combative. The body fluids of