Abnormal Psychology Review Questions
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Abnormal Psychology explores the nature, origins, and treatment of psychological disorders. This course examines patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion considered outside the norm, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Students will study historical and current perspectives on abnormality, diagnostic criteria, assessment techniques, and the various biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that contribute to mental health issues. The course also covers contemporary therapeutic approaches, ethical considerations, and the impact of stigma on individuals experiencing mental disorders.
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Chapter 1: Examples and Definitions of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) What were the two categories of the causes of mental disorders described by Samuel Woodward?
A)moral and physical
B)viral and bacteria
C)conscious and unconscious
D)poverty and lack of will power
Answer: A
Q2) People who seek help for mental disorders are most likely to receive help from which of the following?
A)primary care physicians
B)social workers
C)psychiatrists
D)psychologists
Answer: A
Q3) On what does the DSM-5 place primary emphasis?
A)mechanisms that regulate emotion
B)the ability to distinguish between real or imagined auditory sensations
C)the consequences of certain behavioral syndromes
D)a person's social or occupational role
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Causes of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) You are watching a movie about a mental hospital.In one scene two mental health professionals are talking about a patient.One of them asks about the patient's prognosis.The response to this question will deal with the patient's A)diagnosis.
B)predicted course.
C)premorbid history.
D)developmental norm.
Answer: B
Q2) When discussing biological functions,it is important to note the distinction between the study of biological structures and biological functions.Explain these distinctions. Answer: The field of anatomy is concerned with the study of biological functions; the field of physiology investigates biological functions.Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology are subspecialties within these broader fields that focus on brain structure and brain functions.The study of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology is the domain of an exciting,multidisciplinary field of research called neuroscience.
Q3) ____________ is the emotional and practical assistance received from others. Answer: Social support
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Chapter 3: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) __________ prevention tries to improve the environment or social situation so fewer new cases of a mental problem get started.
Answer: Primary
Q2) What is the meaning of the term "interpretation" from psychoanalysis?
A)a method used to induce catharsis in difficult cases
B)a general guideline for the therapist that is not shared with the patient
C)material the therapist shares with patients to help them understand their own behavior
D)statements the patient shares with the therapist that explain the troubling behavior
Answer: C
Q3) What occurs in a double-blind study of medication?
A)Any placebo effect can be seen as a hoax.
B)There is a higher risk of expectation effects.
C)The doctor,but not the patient,knows if the medication is a placebo.
D)Neither the patient nor the doctor knows if the medication is a placebo.
Answer: D
Q4) According to Albert Ellis emotional disorders are caused by __________ beliefs.
Answer: irrational
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Chapter 4: Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Ray is suspicious and has the unrelenting delusion that agents of a foreign government are following him with the intention of killing him.If Ray were administered the MMPI-2,you expect that he would have a high score on the scale measuring A)hysteria.
B)paranoia.
C)ego identity.
D)narrow-mindedness.
Q2) In reliability research,the statistic that is used to measure agreement between clinicians is known as __________.
Q3) An actuarial procedure of interpretation of psychological tests relies on
A)subjective ratings of clinical interviews.
B)current behavior rather than past behavior.
C)psychoanalytic interpretation of test results.
D)probability statements derived from empirical research.
Q4) Modern classification systems in psychiatry were introduced
A)by biologists and then adapted by psychiatrists.
B)by clinical psychologists working for the World Health Organization.
C)by Freud before WWII.
D)shortly after WWII.
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Chapter 5: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) A report in a research journal describes the symptoms of a mental disorder along with information on its etiology,including a heritability of 50 percent.How should this finding be interpreted?
A)Genetic factors and the environment contribute about equally to this disorder.
B)Half of the people who suffer from the disorder have a genetically caused disorder.
C)Half of the children of carriers of this disorder will actually develop the disorder.
D)Geneticists have identified half of the genes thought to be responsible for this disorder.
Q2) Meredith is depressed.According to the concept of depressogenic attributional style,what is a likely description of Meredith?
A)She makes internal,stable,and global causal attributions.
B)Her interpersonal style may alienate others.
C)Her grief over early childhood losses was not resolved.
D)She erroneously believes that her relationships are inadequate.
Q3) Discuss Joiner's (closely related to Schneidman's)model of the psychological factors that are involved in the cause of suicide.Mention the common elements of suicide.
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Chapter 6: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) The observation that conditioned responses to fear-relevant stimuli,such as spiders and snakes,are more resistant to extinction than are those responses to fear-irrelevant stimuli,such as flowers,supports the __________ model.
Q2) The close relationship between symptoms of anxiety and the symptoms for depression suggests that
A)anxiety and depression are really the same emotion.
B)these disorders may share common etiological features.
C)psychological testing is needed to tell them apart.
D)anxiety and depression are not true mental disorders.
Q3) What have studies of the genetics of panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder found concerning the genetic component in a model of the cause of these disorders?
A)both appear to be either modestly or moderately heritable
B)neither appears to have a significant heritable component
C)both have a very high heritable component
D)generalized anxiety disorder has a high heritable component,but panic disorders appear to be very low
Q4) Discuss the prevalence rates of anxiety disorder across life spans,comparing adults with the elderly.
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Chapter 7: Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders,
Dissociative Disorders, and Somatic Symptom Disorders
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Q1) Which of these individuals is most likely to suffer from somatic symptom disorder?
A)Eight-year-old Alice,who is from an upper socioeconomic background and is in grade-school at this time
B)Sixty-five-year-old Harry,who is from a lower socioeconomic background and has two college degrees
C)Fifty-year-old John,who is from an upper socioeconomic background and has a doctoral degree in education
D)Twenty-two-year-old Mary,who is from a lower socioeconomic background and has eight years of education
Q2) What element would make for an adequate test of the hypothesized relationship between child abuse and dissociative disorder?
A)retrospective analysis
B)prospective research with objective measures
C)accurate prevalence rates for child sexual abuse
D)intensive case studies of patients with multiple personality disorder
Q3) _________ is defined in DSM-5 as an event that involves actual or threatened death,or serious injury to self or others,and creates intense feelings of fear,helplessness,or horror.
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Chapter 8: Stress and Physical Health
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Q1) Lucas is feeling increasingly stressed because a coworker has been belittling his contributions and spreading gossip behind his back ever since he declined her offer to go out for drinks after work.Which of the following behaviors is an example of Lucas's problem-focused coping?
A)He makes an appointment with the Human Resources office to file a harassment complaint.
B)He tries to see his office mate's point of view.
C)He repeats Reinhold Niebuhr's "Serenity Prayer" until he calms down.
D)He thinks about the problem so much that it interferes with his work.
Q2) Why is hypertension often called the "silent killer"?
A)It has a strong genetic link.
B)It produces no obvious symptoms.
C)It is not currently a focus of research efforts.
D)It results from the use of convenience foods and reliance on modern conveniences that reduce opportunities for exercise.
Q3) Lazarus defines our assessment of our abilities and resources for coping with a challenging life event as __________ appraisal.
Q4) Give examples of the primary,secondary,and tertiary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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Chapter 9: Personality Disorders
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Q1) A psychologist has developed a series of personality inventories and wants to determine if they are valid.One of the scales measures perfectionism,so he asks a colleague for advice on how to establish the validity of this scale.The colleague tells him that if he were to find a sample of people with __________ personality disorder,these people would obtain high scores on a scale that measures perfectionism.
A)avoidant
B)histrionic
C)antisocial
D)obsessive-compulsive
Q2) Which personality disorder is characterized by excessive emotionality,attention-seeking behavior,and inappropriate seductiveness?
A)dependent
B)histrionic
C)schizotypal
D)obsessive-compulsive
Q3) DSM-5 describes personality disorders in terms of discrete categories.Discuss the limitations of this approach.
Q4) What do we mean when we say a disorder is ego-syntonic?
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Chapter 10: Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Q1) A third generation of more successful prevention efforts for eating disorders does not directly focus on body image or disordered eating.These efforts attack the thinness ideal indirectly,or focus on
A)eliminating unhealthy eating habits rather than promoting healthy habits.
B)promoting healthy eating rather than eliminating unhealthy habits.
C)encouraging healthy communications styles in families.
D)eliminating unhealthy communication styles in families.
Q2) What patterns in the epidemiology of eating disorders suggest sociocultural influences on their development?
Q3) A national survey found that almost _____ percent of American women have a negative body image,particularly concerning their waists,hips,and/or thighs.
A)1
B)25
C)50
D)75
Q4) As a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of bulimia nervosa,you have been asked to design a program based on the successful work of Fairburn,who utilized a variety of cognitive-behavioral techniques.Discuss the program you will design.
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Chapter 11: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
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Q1) Several genes that affect the reception of which neurotransmitter have been seen to correlate with the risk of alcohol dependence?
A)norepinephrine
B)GABA
C)serotonin
D)MAO
Q2) Discuss the other disorders commonly associated with substance use disorders.
Q3) The active substances in opium are
A)LSD and PCP.
B)cocaine and heroin.
C)codeine and morphine.
D)marijuana and cocaine.
Q4) Polysubstance abuse refers to abuse of A)synthetic drugs.
B)more serious drugs.
C)prescription drugs.
D)several types of drugs.
Q5) Cocaine is a member of a group of drugs known as __________ stimulants.
Q6) The dried leaves and/or flowers of a cannabis plant are know as __________.
Q7) Discuss cultural differences in alcohol-related problems.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Dysfunctions, Paraphilic Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) Dyspareunia refers to A)sexual aversion.
B)premature ejaculation.
C)sexual attraction to unusual objects.
D)genital pain associated with sexual intercourse.
Q2) The compulsive and inflexible features of paraphilias make them similar to A)mood disorders.
B)addictions.
C)sexual dysfunctions.
D)antisocial personality disorder.
Q3) Explain what cases of pseudohermaphroditism tell us about what factors influence the development of gender identity.
Q4) What was the basis of the descriptions of the human sexual response cycle offered by William Masters and Virginia Johnson?
A)detailed interviews with thousands of adults
B)observations of people engaging in sexual activities
C)cross-cultural analysis of texts on human sexuality
D)analogue studies of the sexual behavior of primates
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Q5) The association of sexual arousal with nonliving objects is called __________.
Chapter 13: Disorders
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Q1) What is the long-term outcome for people with schizophrenia?
A)Most people recover.
B)Most people do not recover completely.
C)Males have a higher recovery rate than females.
D)Those who develop the disorder while young rarely recover completely.
Q2) What are delusions?
A)examples of disorganized speech
B)rigidly held,idiosyncratic beliefs
C)sensory experiences in the absence of external stimuli
D)lifelong convictions that are limited to one's cultural group
Q3) Patients who do not respond to traditional antipsychotic drugs may respond to new antipsychotic drugs like clozapine,which has a major effect on A)GABA levels.
B)neuropeptides.
C)dopamine systems.
D)serotonin systems.
Q4) In support of the theory that viral infection may play a role in the etiology of schizophrenia is the observation that children born during the __________ season are more likely to develop the disorder.
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Q1) What are some of the features that distinguish delirium from dementia?
Q2) A psychologist holds out a comb and asks Mr.Bonte if he knows what it is called.Mr.Bonte replies,"I have no idea what that's called." The psychologist then asks Mr.Bonte to show what he would do with the object.Mr.Bonte says,"How should I know? I don't know what it is!" Mr.Bonte's response led the psychologist to describe his condition as
A)aphasia.
B)agnosia.
C)apraxia.
D)Alzheimer's disease.
Q3) What is one way that Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease can usually be distinguished?
A)Only Parkinson's disease involves motor symptoms.
B)Huntington's disease usually leads to neurocognitive disorder,while Parkinson's does not.
C)It is possible to recover from Huntington's disease but not Parkinson's.
D)Only Huntington's disease carries a risk for depression.
Q4) A term that means "perception without meaning" is
Q5) Which chromosomes contain genes that,when mutated,cause early-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease?
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Chapter 15: Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Some theorists propose that autism is related to elevated levels of A)education.
B)praise.
C)endorphins.
D)serotonin
Q2) Many human characteristics,such as height,are distributed so the majority of scores fall in the middle of the distribution,with fewer extreme scores.What do we call this type of distribution?
A)bimodal curve
B)standardized curve
C)normal distribution
D)expected distribution
Q3) Who is most likely to suffer from ASD?
A)Jane,an eight-year-old,from a middle class family
B)Jill,a five-year-old,from a lower socioeconomic family
C)Jack,a nine-year-old whose brother has autistic disorder
D)Jim,a 13-year-old whose brother has been diagnosed as having intellectual disability
Q4) The most common form of intellectual disability with a known biological cause is the chromosomal disorder known as
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Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) Psychologists become concerned only when a child deviates substantially from developmental __________ .
Q2) Which of the following describes the temperaments classified by Chess and Thomas as slow-to-warm-up?
A)distant and unfriendly
B)unpredictable and challenging
C)friendly and obey rules
D)shy and withdrawn
Q3) The peer sociometric method involves
A)training children to make friends.
B)teachers' ratings of children's friendships.
C)children's ratings of their peers' popularity.
D)sociologists' observations of children's alliances.
Q4) Adolescents often engage in rule violations,so it is essential to distinguish between _________ and _________ antisocial behavior.
A)externalized / internalized
B)biologically-based / psychologically-based
C)adolescent-limited / life-course-persistent
D)intentional / unintentional
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Chapter 17: Adjustment Disorders and Life-Cycle
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Q1) How would we describe a teen with identity diffusion?
A)In the middle of a profound identity crisis
B)Not actively seeking new adult roles
C)Actively searching for new adult roles
D)Never questioned his childhood identity
Q2) Describe the five stages of bereavement outlined by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and discuss one of the criticisms of this approach.
Q3) Researchers have just begun to study the phenomenon of ________,or remembering and recounting experiences from the distant past,which is common among the elderly.
Q4) Hormone replacement therapy in women generally involves replacing depleted supplies of __________ .
Q5) ____________ is the cessation of menstruation in women.
Q6) What element is important in both the Bowlby and Kübler-Ross models of bereavement?
A)anger
B)bargaining
C)moratorium
D)identity crisis
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Chapter 18: Mental Health and the Law
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Q1) Briefly outline the conditions inherent in the M'Naghten ruling for finding a defendant not guilty by reason of insanity,and then discuss the changes that have occurred in U.S.law that have modified the conditions for its successful application.
Q2) As a therapist,you are obliged to maintain confidentiality because you have an ethical obligation not to reveal a patient's private communication during therapy.What is an exception to this rule?
A)hiding assets during a divorce
B)anger toward others
C)suspected illegal activity
D)suspected cases of child abuse
Q3) A neutral third party who helps partners in divorce decisions is a(n) A)mediator.
B)unbiased lawyer.
C)facilitator.
D)family counselor.
Q4) A new legal device that addresses the issue of treatment for patients who lack insight yet who are eligible for release into the community is ________.
Q5) Describe the disorder of Munchausen-by-proxy.
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