Advanced Topics in Abnormal Psychology Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores specialized and contemporary issues within the field of abnormal psychology, focusing on the latest research, theoretical advancements, and clinical practices related to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of complex psychological disorders. Topics include the neurobiological and sociocultural underpinnings of psychopathology, emerging classification systems, advancements in therapeutic interventions, and the ethical challenges faced by practitioners. Through critical analysis of current literature, case studies, and in-depth discussions, students gain a deeper understanding of the complexities and evolving nature of abnormal psychology, preparing them for advanced study or clinical application in mental health settings.
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Abnormal Psychology Sixth Canadian Edition by Gordon L. Flett
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Definitional and Historical
Considerations, and Canadas Mental Health
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Q1) According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, what is the number one reason why only 1/3 of Canadians who suffer from depression seek help?
A)They deny that they have a mental disorder.
B)They think that their symptoms are temporary and will dissipate on their own.
C)They blame significant others for their difficulties.
D)They are afraid of others perceiving them negatively.
Answer: D
Q2) Demons thought to cause abnormal behaviour could be released by trepanning.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What does the term 'mental health literacy' mean?
A)The ability to read a person's mental state and send them to receive the proper services.
B)The accurate understanding of mental illness, its causes and treatment.
C)A person's ability to accurately make a diagnosis from another's story.
D)None of the above.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) Bullying, including cyberbullying, has become a big concern in schools, especially with the proliferation of social media. How is bullying related to abnormal behaviour?
A)Bullying clearly causes loneliness and depression
B)Adolescents who are lonely and depressed are easy targets for bullies
C)Bullies don't tend to discriminate - they pick on everyone
D)It's unclear whether bullying precedes or results from abnormal behaviour
Answer: D
Q2) Planning and decision making is carried out by the:
A)Id
B)Ego
C)Superego
D)Preconscious
Answer: B
Q3) Poor language skills create a barrier to accessing mental health care for immigrants.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
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Q1) The assessment of intellectual functioning and related processes in patients who have experience trauma (e.g., stroke)and as result, lack communication abilities is a major problem facing clinicians. One solution to this problem is the use of ____________ to examine cognitive functioning.
A)cognitive event-related potentials
B)non language-based tools
C)magnetic resonance imaging
D)computed tomography
Answer: A
Q2) The CT scans used in a study conducted in London Ontario by Malla and colleagues (2002)demonstrated that patients with a first episode of schizophrenia had __________ of the ventricles and cortical sulci.
A)minor enlargement
B)minor constriction
C)extensive enlargement
D)extensive constriction
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) In an experiment, the control group does not receive the A)third variable.
B)independent variable.
C)dependent variable.
D)experimental effect.
Q2) The case study method was particularly useful for __________, who proposed a new diagnosis of __________ from the observations made.
A)Casati and colleagues, trichotillomania
B)Kanner, infantile autism
C)Thigpen and Cleckley, dissociative identity disorder
D)Wolpe, generalized anxiety disorder
Q3) According to the 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, the most important reason why First Nation children come to the attention of child welfare personnel is:
A)Sexual abuse
B)Physical abuse
C)Parental physical neglect
D)Parental emotional neglect
Q4) What are the benefits of meta-analysis? What are the drawbacks?
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) The etiology of phobias, according to behavioural theories, involve
A)prolonged exposure to the feared object or situation.
B)modeling.
C)classical conditioning.
D)learning.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a cued panic attack?
A)One that occurs during sleep
B)One that occurs in the therapist's office, under control and as part of treatment
C)One that occurs in specific situations, such as when the person is driving
D)One that occurs without warning while watching T.V.
Q3) Rapee and Heimberg (1997)theorize that perfectionism and an attentional focus on perceived criticism combines with ________ to produce social anxiety disorder.
A)neuroticism
B)public self-consciousness
C)a negative attributional style
D)learned helplessness
Q4) Most people experience anxiety at some point(s)in their lives. What differentiates "regular" anxiety from an anxiety disorder?
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Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Felix feels the urge to turn a light switch on and off 12 times before leaving a room. This would be referred to as
A)an irrational belief.
B)generalized anxiety.
C)an obsession.
D)a compulsion.
Q2) Individual's with body dysmorphic disorder are often satisfied with results of cosmetic surgery.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Treatment for BDD will be more effective with ______ than _______.
A)medication; psychotherapy
B)medication; CBT
C)CBT; medication
D)medication and psychotherapy are equally effective
Q4) Obsessions are repetitive actions a person performs to calm themselves down.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the two body-focused repetitive behaviours? How are they similar? How are they different?
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) The treatment of somatoform disorders is relatively primitive because
A)somatoform disorders are rarer than other disorders seen by mental health professionals.
B)efforts to treat them have been unsuccessful.
C)of legal and professional prohibitions.
D)they are very difficult to treat.
Q2) In DSM-5, somatoform disorder is referred to as:
A)Somatoform disorder
B)Somatic symptom disorder
C)Conversion disorder
D)Illness anxiety disorder
Q3) Research by Goodman et al. (2003)has qualified earlier research on the forgetting of childhood sexual abuse by showing that:
A)Virtually all victims of childhood sexual abuse forget the early incidents
B)Therapists plant false memories of childhood sexual abuse in their patients
C)The degree of forgetting childhood sexual abuse is not as extensive as originally thought
D)None of the above
Q4) How does dissociative fugue develop? How does this condition differ from dissociative amnesia?
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) In a review conducted in British Columbia of ECT use from 1996-1999 for the treatment of depression, it was determined that ECT utilization had:
A)Decreased by 25%
B)Decreased by 50% or more
C)Increased by 25%
D)Increased by 50% or more
Q2) It is possible to prevent depression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following characteristics has been found to be the best predictor of suicide?
A)Depression
B)Hostility and cynicism
C)Ambivalence
D)Hopelessness
Q4) Low levels of self-criticism are associated with depression.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the treatment options and prognosis for individuals with bipolar disorder.
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Chapter 9: Stress-Related Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) Describe the major changes in the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Do you agree with them? Why (or why not)?
Q2) The Swissair disaster off the coast of Eastern Canada led to probable post-traumatic stress disorder in:
A)10% of the clean-up workers
B)25% of the clean-up workers
C)35% of the clean-up workers
D)Almost half of the clean-up workers
Q3) In a Canadian study by Muller and colleagues, adult survivors of abuse were more likely to receive:
A)Emotional support
B)Instrumental support
C)Financial support
D)All of the above
Q4) Activation of the HPA axis is associated with reactions to stress.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The same stressor can be good or bad. How do you determine which one it is? Give an example of a stressor and explain how it could be conceptualized each way.
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Opioid levels are thought to be high in people with bulimia nervosa.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Canadian psychologists Steiger and Israel (1999), psychodynamic models interpreted symptoms of anorexia from a _________ perspective while contemporary models interpreted symptoms of anorexia from a _________ perspective.
A)conflict; deficit
B)enmeshment; overprotectiveness
C)deficit; conflict
D)overprotectiveness; enmeshment
Q3) Anorexia nervosa can cause death.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Famous Russian ballerina Anastasia Volochkova is best known for:
A)Dying from anorexia
B)Losing her job for being too heavy
C)Altering her appearance to hide the fact that, genetically, she is a man
D)Staging a hunger strike to draw international attention to the ravages of anorexia
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) One goal of family therapy for schizophrenia is to reduce expressed emotion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Norman et al. (2002), in order for schizophrenic patients to benefit from stress management programs, they must:
A)Attend treatment programs on a regular basis
B)Begin treatment with at least a moderate level of task-focused coping
C)Take their medication prior to all sessions
D)Be able to engage in reality testing
Q3) Investigations of the Genain quadruplets found that _______ of the sisters had developed schizophrenia by the age of 24 years old.
A)4
B)3
C)2
D)1
Q4) Medication is the least important component of a schizophrenia treatment program.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) In accordance with stepping-stone theory of marijuana use, a study conducted in Montreal of rave participants found that experimentation with substances was:
A)Curvilinear
B)Linear
C)Quadratic
D)Exponential
Q2) Substance dependence may be distinguished from substance abuse as:
A)Substance dependence is associated more with legal trouble because of usage.
B)Substance use results in not meeting major obligations.
C)Substance dependent users endanger themselves by driving while under influence. D)Substance dependence is associated with failed attempts to reduce usage.
Q3) Explain why substance abuse is so resistant to treatment, and is associated with such high relapse.
Q4) The addicting agent in tobacco is:
A)Nicotine
B)Caffeine
C)Tar
D)None of the above
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) What does the updated 2009 version of the MMCI-III now contain?
A)New language to reflect the changing times
B)Therapy-guiding facet scales
C)A new treatment approach called 'personalized therapy'
D)Questions about substance use, since many people with personality disorders also use drugs
Q2) The traits of people with personality disorders are different than the traits of people without personality disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Tests of the continuity versus discontinuity of personality disorders have found evidence suggesting that ________ may represent a discrete, discontinuous category.
A)narcissistic personality disorder
B)paranoid personality disorder
C)antisocial personality disorder
D)passive-aggressive personality disorder
Q4) Why isn't group therapy a good treatment modality for antisocial personality disorder?
Q5) Discuss the rationale for including personality disorders in the DSM-5.
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Chapter 14: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) _________ is considered a paraphilia not otherwise specified, which involves the use of feces for sexual excitement.
A)Coprophilia
B)Necrophilia
C)Zoophilia
D)Scatalogia
Q2) About how many women experience some form of sexual dysfunction?
A)1 in 3
B)1 in 4
C)2 in 5
D)4 in 6
Q3) Given significant sex difference prevalence rates in the paraphilias, researchers have suggested that _______ plays a principle role in the development of these disorders.
A)epinephrine
B)GABA
C)androgen
D)dopamine
Q4) Describe some of the explanations offered for the development of gender identity disorder.
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following has been evaluated to determine whether it is a mild form of autism?
A)Rett's disorder
B)Disintegrative disorder
C)PKU
D)Asperger's syndrome
Q2) Samantha has a diagnosable level of separation anxiety. It is likely that
A)her father is a smoker.
B)her mother has a minimum-wage job.
C)her mother is depressed.
D)her father is absent.
Q3) The term learning disability:
A)Is a term that is used by the DSM-5
B)Is a term used by mental health professionals
C)Is a term that was first introduced in DSM-IV-TR
D)Is a term that was first introduced in DSM-III
Q4) Applied behaviour analysis is the best treatment for autism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare the etiology of intellectual disability with the etiology of autism.
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Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Cross-al studies do not allow us to make statements about age changes over time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In terms of Canadians who are 65 years or older, Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia is present in:
A)1 in 7
B)1 in 9
C)1 in 13
D)1 in 20
Q3) According to Alloul's (1998)review, the decision to institutionalize someone with dementia is predicted by the elderly person's A)level of aggression.
B)degree of incontinence.
C)psychiatric disturbances.
D)All of the above.
Q4) The main goal(s)of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging was (were)to A)estimate the prevalence of dementia in Canadians over age 65.
B)examine patterns of caring for people with dementia.
C)identify risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease.
D)All of the above.
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Chapter 17: Outcomes and Issues in Psychological Intervention
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Q1) Couples therapy is rooted in cognitive-behavioural principles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the client-centered view, people become disordered when they guide their behaviour according to their inner nature.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Saul, in treatment for anger, has found that anger control methods have helped him function at work and in relationships better. However, he has also found that identifying the early manifestations of his anger have helped him feel less anger overall, and the need to control it has diminished. He has accomplished this with the same therapist. This is an illustration of:
A)Cognitive therapy
B)Brief psychodynamic therapy
C)Psychotherapy integration
D)Family therapy
Q4) Intermittent reinforcement makes new behaviour more enduring.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) Which is not one of the concerns with respect to the VRAG?
A)It predicts only a small proportion of the variance in violent recidivism.
B)It requires further validation.
C)It is ineffective in predicting sexual recidivism.
D)It focuses on negative predictors.
Q2) Psychologists are said to "hold the privilege" for communications between themselves and their clients.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One reason to use community treatment orders is because people with mental illness often cannot make treatment decisions for themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The result of the Tarasoff case was that duty to warn was extended to include intended victims.
A)True
B)False
Q5) High profile cases (e.g., Vincent Li)create a fear that people with mental illness are violent. Is this true? Explain.
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