Author Question: As part of a routine interview of a patient in a psychiatric hospital, a psychologist asked, What ... (Read 72 times)

clmills979 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

As part of a routine interview of a patient in a psychiatric hospital, a psychologist asked, What did you have for dinner? The patient described a dinner of Beef Wellington and all the trimmings.

After determining that Beef Wellington had not been served, the psychologist checked the patient's records and found he had been admitted for severe alcohol problems. With that information, the psychologist concluded the answer was most likely an example of
a) repression.
b) confabulation.
b) delusional thinking.
d) dissociative amnesia.

Question 2

Which type of diagnostic system rates the prominence of personality features, not just their presence or absence?

a) axial
b) medical
c) categorical
d) dimensional