The clinical interview typically includes _______________?

A. A follow up evaluation and assessment after therapy is terminated
B. The initial diagnosis of a client’s psychological functioning
C. The psycho physiological assessment
D. The client’s initial and final evaluation

The ability to exercise precise control over a variable is what distinguishes the _____________ method from other methods of scientific observation?

A. Randomized selection
B. Control group identification
C. Experimental
D. Hypothesis testing

A hypothesis is _____________?

A. The independent variable
B. An explanation of a phenomenon
C. A testable prediction derived from a theory
D. The dependent variable

The ability to move objects with mental concentration is an example of ___________?

A. Clairvoyance
B. Kinesthesis
C. Psychokinesis
D. Precognition

The structuralist school of psychology viewed consciousness as _____________?

A. Divided into three separate layers
B. A flow of ideas without clear boundaries
C. A collective unit passed down genetically
D. A set of discrete sensations

A person who tries to lessen tension between management and workers is ___________?

A. Psychiatrist
B. Social psychologist
C. Educational psychologist
D. Industrial psychologist

Psychologists who are interested in the perception of the motion, part-whole relationships and in how people judge size were identified with what school of psychology?

A. Psychoanalytic
B. Gestalt
C. Biological
D. Structural

Correlation studies _____________?

A. Indicate causality
B. Are more valid than laboratory studies
C. Indicate some relationship between two variables
D. Involve manipulation of independent variables

An experimenter investigates test anxiety in military academy cadets by utilizing galvanic skin response measurement. The GSR represents ____________?

A. Dependent variable and operational definition of anxiety
B. Independent variable and operational definition of anxiety
C. Intervening variable and operational definition of anxiety
D. Only operational definition of anxiety

Clinicians attempting to systematically assess the abnormal behavior of a client will frequently _____________?

A. Rely primarily on personality tests
B. Employ a battery of tests
C. Rely primarily on projective tests
D. Rely primarily on neuropsychological tests