Abnormal Psychology Exam Review
Course Introduction
Abnormal Psychology explores the patterns, causes, and treatment of atypical thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The course examines psychological disorders such as anxiety, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and personality disorders, focusing on their symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and underlying biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Students gain an understanding of classification systems like the DSM, the history of abnormal psychology, and the ethical issues involved in diagnosis and intervention. Emphasis is placed on current research, theories of psychopathology, and evidence-based approaches to prevention and intervention.
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Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature 4th Edition by Randy J. Larsen
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a function of a theory?
A)Guides research
B)Eliminates domains of knowledge
C)Organizes research findings
D)Makes predictions
Answer: B
Q2) Mo looks at the ink blot and sees two birds nesting.Heidi looks at the ink blot and sees a tranquil forest.Joe looks at the ink blot and sees something sexual.These three responses are illustrating that ______ are important components of the person-environment interaction.
A)prostheses
B)provocations
C)perceptions
D)projections
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design
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Q1) If dominance correlates positively with ego-strength, we know that
A)dominance causes ego-strength.
B)ego-strength causes dominance.
C)people who score high on dominance also tend to score high on ego-strength.
D)people who score high on dominance also tend to score low on ego-strength.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a potential problem in collecting T-data?
A)Participants might guess what is being measured and alter their behavior.
B)Attempts to gather T-data often elicit behavior from the participants.
C)The testing situation might not be viewed the same by participants and researchers.
D)A researcher can inadvertently influence behavior in the testing situation.
Answer: B
Q3) What a person's friend tells you about that person would be considered
A)S-data.
B)O-data.
C)T-data.
D)L-data.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Traits and Trait Taxonomies
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Q1) In Wiggins' circumplex, the traits of dominance and warmth-agreeableness are A)adjacent.
B)bipolar.
C)orthogonal.
D)polar opposites.
Answer: C
Q2) The first researcher to discover the five factor model of personality by analyzing the structure of trait descriptive adjective was A)Cattell.
B)Allport.
C)Fiske.
D)Tupes.
Answer: C
Q3) A person who is antisocial and lacks empathy would score high on the trait of A)extraversion.
B)neuroticism.
C)psychoticism.
D)introversion
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Theoretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology
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Q1) A person who acts aggressively and often finds himself in uncomfortable conflicts demonstrates the concept of A)situational selection.
B)evocation.
C)manipulation.
D)aggregation.
Q2) The history of integrity testing has included all of the following EXCEPT A)questionnaires.
B)interrogation.
C)polygraphs.
D)rice powder.
Q3) We might include the same questions in a questionnaire multiple times to assess A)carelessness.
B)faking.
C)social desirability.
D)response sets
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Chapter 5: Personality Dispositions Over Time: Stability,
Coherence, and Change
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Q1) When does the trait of sensation seeking tend to peak?
A)In early childhood.
B)In late adolescence.
C)In midlife.
D)In late life.
Q2) Freud's theory of psychosexual stages is an example of personality change at the _____ level of analysis.
A)population
B)group differences
C)individual differences
D)individual uniqueness
Q3) Which of the following aspects of temperament is probably most stable?
A)Activity level
B)Fear
C)Duration of orienting
D)Soothability
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Chapter 6: Genetics and Personality
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Q1) Which of the following is probably most heritable?
A)Drinking behavior in men.
B)Drinking behavior in women.
C)Alcoholism in men and women.
D)Alcoholism is not heritable.
Q2) Which one of the following is NOT one of the fears about genetic research?
A)Genetic research will lead to the development of "designer" babies.
B)If criminal behavior is genetic then attempts at rehabilitation will be fruitless.
C)Decoding genetic differences will reveal complexities in human nature.
D)Genetic research will marginalize research in other areas of psychology.
Q3) The personality traits of extraversion and neuroticism have been found to be
A)highly heritable.
B)moderately heritable.
C)slightly heritable.
D)not at all heritable.
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Chapter 7: Physiological Approaches to Personality
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Q1) Which name is most associated with the reinforcement sensitivity theory?
A)Pavlov
B)Eysenck
C)Gray
D)Zuckerman
Q2) The idea that personality characteristics could be related to biology dates back to
A)the 1950s.
B)1892.
C)the 1400s.
D)170 A.D.
Q3) An advantage of the physiological approach to personality is that physiology
A)is easy to measure.
B)can be measured mechanically and reliably.
C)is the most important part of personality.
D)is the same for all people.
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Chapter 8: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality
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Q1) Rhonda only dates men that she finds to be extremely physically attractive.She is not as concerned about having a man who will commit to a relationship with her, or much about the man's past relationships.Rhonda is most likely pursuing a(n) _____ mating strategy.
A)restricted
B)unrestricted
C)shallow
D)independent
Q2) These are all components of differential gene reproduction EXCEPT
A)successful mate competition.
B)success at being chosen as a mate.
C)successful group selection.
D)successful survival skills.
Q3) Some women prefer mates who will invest in their offspring, while other women prefer mates with good genes.This suggests
A)an environmental effect that influences personality.
B)an adaptive self-assessment.
C)frequency-dependent selection strategies.
D)sex differences in jealousy.
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Chapter 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
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Q1) According to Freud, the main reason little boys give up on their sexual desire for their mother is
A)identification.
B)castration anxiety.
C)that Oedipus did too.
D)a sexual attraction to the father.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a type of anxiety described by Freud?
A)Objective
B)Moral
C)Neurotic
D)Inferiority
Q3) The psychosexual stage most associated with control is the _____ stage.
A)oral
B)anal
C)phallic
D)genital
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Chapter 10: Psychoanalytic Approaches: Contemporary Issues
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Q1) A professor enters the lecture hall with notes that look like they were written by candlelight.He is not very interested in what he is doing.From Erikson's perspective this professor is not progressing very well through the _____ stage of development.
A)autonomy versus shame and self-doubt
B)generativity versus stagnation
C)integrity versus despair
D)identity versus role confusion
Q2) Holly Ramona's memories of being abused as a child were
A)most likely implanted in her memory by her therapist.
B)considered accurate by memory researchers.
C)were thought to be misinterpretations of childhood fantasies.
D)based on the manifest content of her dreams.
Q3) The _____ bias is the tendency to only look for evidence that confirms a previous hunch.
A)confirmatory
B)repression
C)priming
D)regression
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Chapter 11: Motives and Personality
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Q1) The Thematic Apperception Test is a(n)
A)self-report questionnaire.
B)intelligence inventory.
C)psychopathology index.
D)projective test.
Q2) Which of the following statements about empathy is supported by research?
A)Empathy is moderately heritable.
B)Empathy can be effectively taught.
C)It is easier to teach empathy to women than to men.
D)All of these.
Q3) Which of the following are necessary conditions for client-centered therapy?
A)Unconditional positive regard
B)Genuine acceptance
C)Empathic understanding
D)All of these.
Q4) Who developed client-centered therapy?
A)Rogers
B)Maslow
C)Murray
D)McClelland
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Topics in Personality
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Q1) _____ tend to be more sociable than _____.
A)Individuals with an external locus of control; those with an internal locus of control
B)Individuals with an internal locus of control; those with an external locus of control
C)Field-independent individuals; those who are field-dependent
D)Field-dependent individuals; those who are field-independent
Q2) _____ intelligence is the term that most refers to a single broad factor of intelligence.
A)Achievement
B)Aptitude
C)General
D)Emotional
Q3) A pessimistic explanatory style has been shown to be associated with all of the following EXCEPT
A)aggressiveness.
B)poor health.
C)mortality.
D)lowered immunocompetence.
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Personality
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Q1) Someone who becomes very angry and irritated when receiving a bill in the mail or encountering traffic delays, for example, may be labeled A)neurotic.
B)hostile.
C)psychopathic.
D)antisocial.
Q2) Which of the following MOST suggests a cognitive basis of neuroticism?
A)Neuroticism scores are stable over time.
B)Neuroticism is associated with better recall of negative information.
C)Neuroticism is partially heritable.
D)Neuroticism is described by almost all cultures.
Q3) Studies have shown that emotion is associated with an increased activation of the A)hippocampus.
B)hypothalamus.
C)anterior cingulate.
D)prefrontal cortex.
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Chapter 14: Approaches to the Self
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Q1) The idea that identity remains relatively stable is referred to as identity
A)continuity.
B)contrast.
C)deficit.
D)conflict.
Q2) The ability to see oneself as other people might is known as A)a private self-concept.
B)social comparison.
C)perspective taking.
D)social identity.
Q3) Anxiety related to changes in one's identity is called identity
A)continuity.
B)contrast.
C)crisis.
D)All of these
Q4) Perspective taking usually develops around the age of _____ years.
A)2
B)5
C)9
D)13
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Chapter 15: Personality and Social Interaction
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Q1) Which of the following is most important to most people in choosing a mate?
A)Political ideology
B)Personality characteristics
C)Health
D)Good looks
Q2) The social and cultural domain of knowledge emphasizes the effects of _____ on an individual's behavior more than other approaches emphasize those factors.
A)internal factors
B)external factors
C)unconscious factors
D)conscious factors
Q3) Correlations between a person's preferences ratings for personality characteristics in a mate and ratings of the mate's personality characteristics measured across different sources of data are
A)weakly positive.
B)moderately positive.
C)weakly negative.
D)close to zero.
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Chapter 16: Sex, Gender, and Personality
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Q1) Men tend to score higher than women on personality measures of A)aggressiveness.
B)warmth.
C)neuroticism.
D)conscientiousness.
Q2) Beliefs about the ways men and women differ, in contrast to actual differences, are called
A)sex differences.
B)gender differences.
C)adaptive problems.
D)gender stereotypes.
Q3) The findings that women score higher in verbal ability and that men score higher in math ability have effect sizes that are considered A)small.
B)moderate.
C)large.
D)very large.
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Chapter 17: Culture and Personality
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Q1) A study of Asian Americans living in New York who did not identify themselves as Asian found that they used more
A)self-descriptive adjectives than Euro-Americans.
B)social role adjectives than Euro-Americans.
C)self-descriptive adjectives than Euro-Americans if they identified themselves as Asian.
D)abstract and autonomous self-statements.
Q2) A study of Chinese students' self descriptions found that they A)described themselves independent of the situation.
B)described themselves within the context of the situation.
C)typically described themselves by referring specifically to other people.
D)described themselves as being pretty ordinary.
Q3) Most cultures agree that the trait of _____ is more associated with women.
A)emotionality
B)independence
C)activeness
D)conceitedness
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Chapter 18: Stress, Coping, Adjustment, and Health
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Q1) Psychologists do not understand fully the link between optimism and health because
A)most of the research is correlational.
B)it is difficult to measure optimism.
C)most of the research is non-correlational.
D)optimism has only recently been studied.
Q2) When a person perceives that an event is a threat to his goals, he engages in
A)the optimistic bias.
B)the pessimistic bias.
C)primary appraisal.
D)secondary appraisal.
Q3) Which model describes personality as having an effect on stressful events (e.g., through selection, evocation, or manipulation)?
A)Health behavior model
B)Interactional model
C)Transactional model
D)Predisposition model
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Chapter 19: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) Kody Scott, a gang member nicknamed "Monster," is a violent person who craves excitement, fears nothing, and has no guilt or remorse.Scott most likely has _____ personality disorder.
A)antisocial
B)paranoid
C)schizotypal
D)narcissistic
Q2) According to the dimensional view of personality disorders each disorder
A)is seen as a quantitative break between abnormal and normal personalities.
B)is seen as a continuum ranging from normality at one end to severe disability and disturbance at the other.
C)is bimodal, with both normal and abnormal modes of behaviors.
D)has a different mean level of abnormality in the population.
Q3) Which of the following traits is NOT one of the traits Mason and his colleagues have developed to measure schizotypal personality disorder?
A)Cognitive disorganization
B)Unusual experiences
C)Conformity
D)Tendency to avoid people
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Chapter 20: Summary and Future Directions
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Q1) Research on the relationship between personality and health will likely NOT benefit in the future from
A)studies of positive emotions.
B)longitudinal studies.
C)studies of unconscious goals.
D)studies of heart disease
Q2) Researchers working in which of the following domains are most interested in stable characteristics that make people different from one another?
A)Adjustment
B)Dispositional
C)Social and cultural
D)Cognitive/experiential
Q3) The domain of personality most concerned with unconscious motivation is the _____ domain
A)intrapsychic
B)dispositional
C)biological
D)cognitive/experiential
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