Psych 160 Clinical Psychology Exam 1 Study Guide Fall 2015



Psych 160 Clinical Psychology Exam 1 Study Guide Fall 2015

This is a general framework to help you organize your study

Chapter 1:

1. What is the current scope/focus of clinical psychology?

2. Pay attention to the requirement to present science-based intervention in clinical psychology. What are some of the concerns expressed in this regard? Is information based on group-data appropriate for all individuals?

3. Be familiar with all aspects of McFall’s Manifesto

4. What distinguishes clinical psychology form other areas of psychology?

5. Make sure to be familiar with the similarities and differences between clinical psychology and other areas (e.g. school psychology counseling etc)

Chapter 2:

1. Be familiar with the various activities of clinical psychologists

2. What are the goals of assessment? Of prevention?

3. Be familiar with the 3 different training models of clinical psychologists

4. Be very familiar with the APA Ethical Principles

Chapter 3:

1. Be very familiar with the categorical approach, the dimensional approach and the prototype approach

2. Be familiar with examples of external and internal problems as identified by Achenbach

3. What is the papoose of a diagnostic system?

4. Be very familiar with the field of Developmental Psychopathology

5. Be familiar with the nature of diagnosis and with the DSM diagnostic system

6. Be familiar with the nomothetic and idiographic approaches

7. What is Dyscontrol?

8. Be familiar with the DSM

Chapter 5:

1. Describe the process of assessment

2. What is an iterative process in the context of assessment?

3. What are the goals of assessment?

4. Be familiar with issue of child-custody assessments

5. Be familiar with the process of screening

6. Be familiar with the terms sensitivity, base rate, true-positive, false positive,

7. Be familiar with the types of validity and reliability

8. Be familiar with issues of standardization

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