Abnormal Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Abnormal Psychology explores the scientific study of psychological disorders, delving into the nature, causes, and treatment of abnormal behavior. The course examines major diagnostic categories including anxiety, mood, psychotic, personality, and developmental disorders, as classified by the DSM. Students will analyze biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives to understand abnormality and critically evaluate contemporary assessment methods and therapeutic interventions. Ethical and cultural considerations in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues are addressed, providing a comprehensive foundation for further study or careers in psychology and mental health fields.
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Personality 8th Edition by Jerry M. Burger
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Chapter 1: What Is Personality?
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Q1) To explain depression,trait theorists would most likely focus on
A)identifying people prone to depression.
B)the genetic susceptibility individuals have toward depression.
C)the unconscious feelings of anger within people.
D)how people interpret a world that seems uncontrollable.
Answer: A
Q2) Which approach to personality is most likely to argue that genetics plays an important role in determining personality and behavior?
A)Psychoanalytic
B)Biological
C)Humanistic
D)Behavioral/social learning
Answer: B
Q3) When personality researchers use the term individual differences they are referring to
A)the different behavior patterns individuals display across time.
B)the interpersonal processes that originate within the individual.
C)the consistent behavior patterns that individuals display across situations.
D)fluctuations in behavior patterns for individual situations.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Personality Research Methods
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Q1) A test maker conducts the appropriate statistical tests to make sure that all the items on his new personality test are measuring the same basic concept. He wants to demonstrate that the test has good
A)discriminant validity.
B)congruent validity.
C)test-retest reliability.
D)internal consistency.
Answer: D
Q2) Typically,a case study
A)has no comparison group.
B)is of little interest to personality theorists.
C)reports a large amount of numerical data.
D)allows researchers to draw strong conclusions about cause and effect.
Answer: A
Q3) A formal prediction about the relationship between two or more variables is more commonly called a correlation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Psychoanalytic Approach: Freudian Theory, Application,
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Q1) One defense mechanism that is successful,productive,and adaptive is reaction formation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Little Timmy is extremely jealous whenever his mommy and daddy kiss or show affection. Timmy wants to get kisses from his mommy. Little Timmy is in which stage of psychosexual development?
A)Oral
B)Anal
C)Phallic
D)Genital
Answer: C
Q3) According to Freud,many accidents are
A)caused by the death instinct.
B)unconsciously motivated.
C)a type of defense mechanism.
D)repressed immediately.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Freudian Approach: Relevant Research
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Q1) Psychoanalytic researchers have used the results of studies on the frequencies of male and female dream characters to support which aspect of Freud's theory?
A)Repression
B)The Oedipus complex
C)Projection
D)The pleasure principle
Q2) Sociocognitive theories of hypnosis point out that a person cannot do under hypnosis what they would not do without it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Proponents of the neodissociation theory interpret the results of the "hidden observer" demonstrations as evidence for
A)a division of consciousness during hypnosis.
B)the release of id impulses during hypnosis.
C)the influence of motivation on hypnotic responsiveness.
D)the power of hypnosis to control pain.
Q4) List and describe the techniques used to increase hypnotic responsiveness. Explain why it can be said that hypnosis is largely a participant variable.
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Chapter 5: The Psychoanalytic Approach: Neo-Freudian
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Q1) Wanda was the hardest working student in her school.Her constant efforts were rewarded at graduation when she received an award as the university's best math student.She confessed at that time that in elementary school she had failed math and was told by her teacher that she should pick an occupation that did not require her to work with numbers.What might Alfred Adler have said about Wanda?
A)Wanda is the exception to the rule, in that she should have instead displayed an inferiority complex.
B)She most likely is a first-born child.
C)Her striving for achievement resulted from her earlier feelings of inferiority.
D)She achieved because she never saw herself as inferior, regardless of what happened to her in elementary school.
Q2) According to Erikson,a person in middle adulthood is most likely to be dealing with which of the following issues?
A)Whether or not to take an active role in the lives of young people
B)Whether or not to commit to a romantic relationship
C)Whether or not to feel guilty about facing challenges
D)Whether or not to feel satisfaction with choices made in life
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Chapter 6: Neo-Freudian Theories: Relevant Research
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Q1) State the early version of the distinction between active and avoidant coping strategies. Give some examples of a person's response to stress from each end of the dimension. Distinguish coping strategies that are problem-focused from emotion-focused strategies. State the relative effectiveness of these different strategies.
Q2) Describe three kinds of parent-child attachment relationships. Contrast with examples of each of the four categories of adult attachment styles.What are the implications for children in each of the three relationships when they are adults?
Q3) The psychologists who developed the frustration-aggression hypothesis used or adapted each of the following concepts from Freudian theory except one. Which one?
A)Displacement
B)Sublimation
C)Catharsis
D)Reinforcement
Q4) Karen Horney agreed with Freud that unconscious conflicts often trigger anxiety.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Trait Approach: Theory, Application, and Assessment
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Q1) The idiographic approach to personality has advantages. For example,
A)researchers can compare all people on measures of a certain trait.
B)it reveals common traits.
C)the person rather than the researcher determines what traits to examine.
D)it provides information about the relationship between traits and behavior.
Q2) A man is said to have one personality trait that dominates his personality.Allport would identify this personality trait as a
A)common trait.
B)central trait.
C)cardinal trait.
D)secondary trait.
Q3) If we say Ted is high on the personality trait of assertiveness,we would expect that he will act assertively
A)all of the time.
B)more often than someone low in assertiveness.
C)in some situations that call for assertiveness, but not in others.
D)because he puts himself in situations that call for assertion.
Q4) The projective test that Murray developed the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Trait Approach: Relevant Research
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Q1) Compared to Type Bs,how do Type A people typically respond to a stressful task?
A)They become more aroused than Bs, but try to adjust their arousal level down.
B)They are aware of becoming highly aroused, but choose to do nothing about it.
C)They do not become as aroused as Type Bs.
D)They become more aroused than Bs, but tend to ignore or deny physiological stress.
Q2) In one study presented in the textbook,participants were asked to engage in a five-minute "get acquainted" conversation. The researchers found in this study that
A)shy people made little attempt to be polite to the other person.
B)socially anxious people were less likely to agree with the other person.
C)shy people attempt to minimize the amount of evaluation by the other person.
D)all of these
Q3) The original researchers of achievement motivation were not interested in all kinds of achievement. They were specifically interested in A)achievement in school.
B)entrepreneurial behavior.
C)individual differences in achievement behavior.
D)cultural difference in achievement concepts.
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Chapter 9: The Biological Approach: Theory, Application, and Assessment
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Q1) Using factor analysis,Eysenck found that people who score high on the dimension of psychoticism tend to be
A)egocentric and aggressive.
B)impulsive.
C)not generally concerned with the rights and welfare of others.
D)all of these
Q2) Scales designed to measure BAS and BIS correlate with measures of extraversion and introversion ,respectively.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sarah is a grade school teacher faced with a variety of student capabilities in her class. According to the goodness of fit model,a good teaching strategy for Sarah would be
A)to focus on the students with high ability and request they assist the others.
B)to present lessons and assignments that fit with what her students enjoy.
C)to optimize learning by matching assignments and tasks with individual students' learning styles.
D)to ignore different temperaments and hold high academic standards for all.
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Chapter 10: The Biological Approach: Relevant Research
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Q1) Behavior genetics researchers have taken their data from twin studies and used formulas to estimate that about _________ percent of the stability in adult personalities can be attributed to genetics.
A)10
B)20
C)30
D)40
Q2) Critics have pointed to several weaknesses in the research used to make a case for the role of genetics on personality development.Their criticisms include each of the following points except one.Which one?
A)Dizygotic twins may share an environment more alike than the environment shared by monozygotic twins.
B)Families who adopt children are different from those who do not adopt.
C)Parents may treat adopted children differently than they treat biological children.
D)Parents of dizygotic twins may look for and emphasize the differences between the twins more than parents of monozygotic twins.
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Chapter 11: The Humanistic Approach: Theory, Application, and Assessment
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Q1) "Eupsychian management" refers to
A)the way a psychotherapist controls the direction of therapy.
B)how well a person manages all of the different aspects of his or her life.
C)rearranging an organization to help employees satisfy higher-level needs.
D)taking responsibility for one's life.
Q2) According to Rogers,clients are able to overcome defenses and accept experiences that have been denied and distorted when they
A)experience conditional positive regard.
B)experience unconditional positive regard.
C)think about what they are saying to the therapist.
D)have a good self-concept.
Q3) As a client becomes more fully functioning during the course of several psychotherapy sessions,we would expect the correlation between his or her real and ideal selves to
A)decrease.
B)stay the same.
C)increase.
D)do any of these, for the correlation is unrelated to progress in therapy.
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Q1) Research has shown that men and women are more likely to be accepted when they disclose according to appropriate gender roles in society. For men,this means
A)withholding information for the most part.
B)disclosing information that is misleading or simply false.
C)never revealing anything about one's self.
D)none of these
Q2) Mark often goes to great lengths to avoid situations in which he might look foolish and embarrass himself.He won't try out for the school play and avoids speaking in front of groups whenever possible.A psychologist might identify Mark as suffering from A)loneliness.
B)low self-esteem.
C)poor social skills.
D)poor cognitive development.
Q3) If Malory is high in self-esteem,research findings suggest she is probably A)anxious or depressed.
B)stable in her feelings of self-worth.
C)either low or average in feelings of self-worth.
D)either high or low in self-worth, because the two concepts are not correlated.
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Chapter 13: The Behavioral/Social Learning Approach:
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Q1) A person can learn a behavior without ever performing it.This concept is part of which approach to personality?
A)Skinner's radical behaviorism
B)Bandura's social-cognitive theory
C)Rotter's social learning theory
D)Watson's behaviorism
Q2) According to B.F.Skinner,we are mistaken when we look to inner causes for our actions because
A)inner mental states have no impact on behavior.
B)we have not identified the cause of behavior.
C)only a few of the most obvious inner states, such as anxiety, can be a cause for our behavior.
D)subjective feelings are the result of our behavior, not the cause.
Q3) Critics of behaviorism point out that
A)behaviorists give too much attention to the role of heredity.
B)there are limits on the usefulness and effectiveness of basic conditioning principles.
C)behaviorists need to do more research with lab animals and less with human participants.
D)behaviorists have failed to test many of their ideas with empirical studies.
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Chapter 14: The Behavioral Social Learning Approach:
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Q1) We would expect children to be least likely to imitate an aggressive model if the model
A)is declared a hero and rewarded.
B)has engaged in behavior that is justified.
C)is punished for the aggressive behavior.
D)does something the child likes.
Q2) According to the original learned helplessness model,depression begins when people
A)fail at some important task.
B)experience an inability to control important events in their lives.
C)have a series of aversive experiences.
D)lose their motivation to work.
Q3) Research finds that happiness with one's relationship is related to having a partner who is
A)masculine or androgynous.
B)feminine or androgynous.
C)masculine if a male, feminine if a female.
D)masculine if you are masculine, feminine if you are feminine.
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Chapter 15: The Cognitive Approach: Theory, Application, and Assessment
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Q1) One study of the self-schema presented students with 40 questions for which they pressed yes or no. Researchers found that participants were more likely to remember the information when
A)the words had the ability to generate emotions.
B)participants were asked about a rhyme.
C)a self-referent question was difficult to answer.
D)the question was processed about the participants themselves.
Q2) Kelly suggested that the better we understand another person's construct system,the better
A)chance we will have of forming a romantic relationship.
B)we will enjoy one another.
C)chance we will have for psychological health.
D)we will get along.
Q3) According to Kelly,anxiety results when
A)people become aware of inconsistencies between the actual self and the ideal self.
B)people can't predict future events.
C)defense mechanisms fail.
D)people use faulty logic in arriving at self-defeating conclusions about themselves.
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Chapter 16: The Cognitive Approach: Relevant Research
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Q1) The way people process information in threatening situations begins with a social encounters and then depends on
A)the way other people are acting in the situation.
B)the way the situation is appraised in awareness.
C)the kind of situation people are in.
D)whether or not people are self-actualized.
Q2) Which of the following is a component of the depressive cognitive triad?
A)Interpreting ongoing experiences in a negative light.
B)Pessimistic thoughts about the future.
C)Negative thoughts about oneself.
D)all of the above
Q3) Researchers use the idea of negative cognitive style to
A)identify people at high risk for depression.
B)predict students who will have at least one episode of major depression.
C)determine those suffering more depressive symptoms after trauma.
D)all of these
Q4) The cognitive approach maintains that negative thoughts are a symptom of depression.
A)True
B)False
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