Counseling Psychology Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Counseling Psychology is a field dedicated to facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan, with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns. This course introduces students to the major theories, techniques, and processes in counseling, emphasizing the development of helping relationships, assessment skills, and ethical practice. Students will examine culturally responsive approaches and evidence-based interventions while exploring topics such as client diversity, crisis intervention, and the promotion of mental health and well-being. The course prepares students for further training and professional roles in counseling settings such as schools, clinics, and community agencies.
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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) Which province leads the way in mental health promotion?
A)Alberta
B)British Columbia
C)Ontario
D)Quebec
Answer: D
Q2) About how many Canadian adults (aged 15 and over)report symptoms of a disorder in the past year?
A)1 in 10
B)1 in 20
C)1 in 50
D)1 in 100
Answer: A
Q3) It is easy to remain objective when studying abnormal psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) What is the healthy immigrant effect?
A)Immigrants to Canada have a positive impact on society by adding to our nation's diversity
B)Immigrants to Canada tend to have higher rates of physical illness, but lower rates of mental illness
C)Immigrants to Canada tend to have lower rates of physical illness, but higher rates of mental illness
D)Immigrants to Canada tend to have lower rates of physical illness and lower rates of mental illness
Answer: D
Q2) The behaviour genetic view suggests which of the following relations between genes and abnormal behaviour?
A)Genetic predispositions increase the likelihood of abnormal behaviour.
B)It is possible and reasonable to manipulate an individual's genes.
C)Twins, mono or dizygotic, are more likely to exhibit abnormal behaviour.
D)Abnormal behaviour is solely the result of environmental influences on genetics
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
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Q1) What was the emphasis in preeminent Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb's theory of biological psychology?
A)The role of neurotransmitters
B)The role of biofeedback
C)The role of behaviour
D)The role of brain lesions
Answer: C
Q2) Non-suicidal self-injury is not a disorder on its own, as it is a symptom of borderline personality disorder.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Compared to the original MMPI, the MMPI-2
A)is almost identical.
B)has a much larger and more diverse standardization sample.
C)has completely new scales and norms.
D)has turned out to be much less valid at discriminating psychiatric patients.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) A group of researchers identify and study children who are considered more likely to develop anxiety disorders in adulthood. This method is:
A)The genetic proband method
B)The high-risk method
C)The known-risk method
D)The mixed design method
Q2) Persons with schizophrenia are randomly assigned to either an attention-training group or a social skills training group. Equal numbers of males and females were in each training group. Scores on a measure of thought disorder, a prominent symptom in schizophrenia, were examined after the end of the training sessions. What is the independent variable?
A)Schizophrenia
B)Thought disorder scores
C)Treatment groups (attention or social skills)
D)Gender of the participants
Q3) How are case studies and single-case experiments similar? How are they different?
Q4) What is the value of double-blind procedures? What are the limits to this procedure in psychopathology research that does not involve medication?
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) Jamie, a 20 year old university student, has had three panic attacks in his life; he most likely has panic disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hillary is beginning behavioural treatment for blood-injection phobia. She is most likely to begin therapy by
A)learning to relax deeply.
B)use flooding in order to increase sympathetic nervous system activity.
C)learning to tense her muscles when she is about to have an injection.
D)none of the above; behaviourists have not yet found effective methods for treating this particular type of phobia.
Q3) Dental phobia is universally recognized as part of the blood-injury-injection phobia. A)True B)False
Q4) Benzodiazepines are used to treat both anxiety and mood disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the seven major anxiety disorders? Describe each one.
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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) Which of the following is the most widely used behavioural treatment for OCD?
A)Cognitive-behavioural therapy
B)Exposure and response prevention
C)Thought stoppage
D)Medication
Q3) When presented with dirty items, Rauch et al. (1994)found that people with contamination fears resulting from OCD show increased regional blood flow to the:
A)Parietal lobe
B)Basal ganglia and frontal lobe
C)Hippocampus and amygdala
D)Locus ceruleus
Q4) How would you treat a client with trichotillomania? Why would it work?
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) fMRI studies of a patient with dissociative identity disorder suggest that these two brain structures are implicated:
A)Frontal cortex & limbic system
B)Prefrontal cortex & limbic system
C)Prefrontal cortex & nucleus accumbens
D)Nucleus accumbens & frontal cortex
Q2) Hypnosis is not recommended for treatment of dissociative identity disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Lucy complained of paralysis in her leg that made it impossible for her to work or do household chores. When in the emergency room, she appeared unconcerned with her ailment, and discussed it at great length. She even invited people to come and poke her leg to show that she experienced no sensations. Lucy's style of discussing her symptoms is called:
A)La belle indifference
B)Hypochondriasis
C)Briquet's syndrome
D)Fugue
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) The best summary statement of our knowledge about the role of brain structures in bipolar disorder is:
A)We know what causes bipolar disorder.
B)We think we know what causes bipolar disorder.
C)We think we know what causes bipolar disorder, but we don't really know.
D)It's unclear that brain structures have anything to do with bipolar disorder.
Q2) Gerard is severely depressed. In addition to depressive symptoms, he also experiences delusions. What type of treatment will be the most successful for him?
A)Psychotherapy
B)Antidepressant medication
C)Antipsychotic medication
D)Antidepressant and antipsychotic medications
Q3) In people diagnosed with moderate to severe depression, Fournier et al. (2008)determined that a comorbid ____ predicts a poor response to 16 weeks of CT (44%), relative to antidepressant groups (66%).
A)personality disorder
B)anxiety disorder
C)psychotic disorder
D)eating disorder
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Chapter 9: Stress-Related Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) Due to Canada's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, the number of veterans with PTSD has ______ since 2007.
A)stayed the same
B)doubled
C)tripled
D)quadrupled
Q2) A major factor that influences essential hypertension is
A)physiological mechanisms affected by stress.
B)various identifiable physical conditions.
C)atherosclerosis (clogging of the arteries).
D)chronic overexertion.
Q3) A factor that contributed to the PTSD among workers cleaning up the Swissair disaster off the Eastern coast of Canada was:
A)Repeated reminders of the disaster on television
B)Pre-existing stressors such as unemployment
C)Community silence about the stress involved
D)The excessive length of time needed for clean-up operations
Q4) The most effective treatment for PTSD is EMDR.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) What percentage of women with eating disorders did Toronto researchers find to have a reported history of sexual abuse?
A)<10%
B)25%
C)35%
D)50%
Q2) Which of the following dimensions of perfectionism have been found to be related to eating disorder symptomatology?
A)Doubts about actions
B)Socially prescribed
C)Concern over mistakes
D)All of the above
Q3) Which of the following has been identified as a strong risk factor for engaging in intentional self-harm?
A)A diagnosis of anorexia nervosa
B)A diagnosis of bulimia nervosa
C)A personality disorder involving dramatic and erratic symptoms
D)A personality disorder involving psychotic symptoms
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) Do you agree with the changes to the diagnosis of schizophrenia in DSM-5? Why or why not?
Q2) Several recent studies including one conducted in Montreal of people with schizophrenia suggest that critical comments and emotional over-involvement on the part of their mothers:
A)Are responses to schizophrenia
B)Cause schizophrenia by themselves
C)Interact with a genetic predisposition to cause schizophrenia
D)None of the above
Q3) If genetic transmission was the only factor in the etiology of schizophrenia, the concordance of the disorder for monozygotic twins would be:
A)0%
B)50%
C)80%
D)100%
Q4) Catatonic schizophrenia was the second most common subtype (after paranoid schizophrenia).
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) Inhalant use:
A)Is usually just a phase of drug use in young people that does not correlate with other drug use.
B)Is correlated with sedative use in Native children.
C)Is correlated with adjustment problems.
D)Is a serious problem particularly among Francophone youth.
Q2) The best strategy to treat substance abuse is prevention.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although it has been shown that alcohol does not have a consistent effect upon stress, people continue to drink as a means to alleviate stress because
A)they expect it to help.
B)others suggest drinking to unwind.
C)drinking is more socially acceptable than consuming other drugs.
D)they are unaware of the severity of life stress they are experiencing.
Q4) Thinking of alcoholism as a disease supports research for brain mechanisms implicated in addiction.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the links between psychopathy and the five-factor model is true?
A)Psychopaths are low in neuroticism
B)Psychopaths are high on conscientiousness
C)Psychopaths are high on antagonism
D)Psychopaths are low in agreeableness
Q2) According to Montreal psychiatrist Joel Paris, which of the following individuals with borderline personality disorder would be most likely to commit suicide?
A)Anna, a 25-year-old female student with 2 attempted suicides
B)Pierre, a 25-year-old male student with 2 attempted suicides
C)Margaret, a 25-year-old female student with 5 attempted suicides
D)Joe, a 25-year-old male student with 5 attempted suicides
Q3) Tyrer et al. (2007)concluded the following regarding the assessment of personality disorders:
A)Assessment is inaccurate and largely unreliable
B)Assessment is infrequently wrong and in need of improvement
C)Assessment is accurate under specific circumstances
D)Assessment is inaccurate unless there are two raters
Q4) 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) According to a Canadian study by Seto and colleagues (2006), the strongest predictor of pedophilia is:
A)A history of child pornography offences
B)A history of previous sexual offences against child victims
C)Female gender
D)A history of conduct disorder
Q2) Hannah reports that she has a low sex drive and sometimes has trouble reaching orgasm. However, when asked by her doctor, she does not report distress or impairment from these symptoms. The most likely diagnosis for Hannah would be
A)female orgasmic disorder.
B)sexual aversion disorder.
C)Hannah would not receive a clinical diagnosis.
D)dyspareunia.
Q3) Incest appears in DSM-5 as:
A)A subtype of pedophilia
B)Its own disorder
C)A sexual disorder, not otherwise specified
D)Incest is not in DSM-5
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) The term learning disability covers which DSM disorders?
A)Learning, communication, and motor skills disorders
B)ADHD, learning, and communication disorders
C)ADHD, learning, and motor skills disorders
D)ODD, learning, and communication disorders
Q2) The three domains of adaptive functioning are:
A)Conceptual, academic, and familial
B)Academic, social, and practical
C)Familial, practical, and concrete
D)Social, practical, and concrete
Q3) Most cases of stuttering resolve by the age of 8.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Breslau et al. (2010)reported that increases in teacher-rated attention problems at ages 6 to 11 were followed by what type(s)of problems at ages 11 to 17?
A)Declines in academic achievement in math and reading
B)Declines in reading and social skills
C)No changes in reading and social skills
D)No changes in academic achievement in math and reading
Q5) What are some reasons that autistic children score low on intelligence tests?
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Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Cohort effects are reflected in which of the following problems in research?
A)Third variable
B)Directionality
C)Reliability
D)Longitudinal
Q2) Which of the following statements is an example of an age effect?
A)Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
B)Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
C)Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well than younger adults on measures of academic performance.
D)In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.
Q3) What factors have contributed to the stereotypes associated with dementia and delirium among older adults?
Q4) Distinguish between dementia and delirium.
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Chapter 17: Outcomes and Issues in Psychological Intervention
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Q1) According to Johnson and Lebow (2000), the single most frequent problem(s)presented in therapy is:
A)Depression
B)Anxiety
C)Relationship problems
D)Self-esteem problems
Q2) Why don't therapists deliver empirically supported treatment for PTSD?
A)There are no empirically supported treatments for PTSD
B)Empirically supported treatments for PTSD require expensive software and equipment
C)They are not aware of such treatments
D)They don't feel competent delivering such treatments
Q3) Jen and Jon have been married for a few years and have hit a bit of a rough patch. They decide to see a counsellor to try to work things out. What is the likelihood that they will no longer have significant relationship dissatisfaction at the end?
A)20% chance of happiness
B)30% chance of happiness
C)50% chance of happiness
D)80% chance of happiness
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) The two most violent groups of people are substance abusers and the mentally ill.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Bill C-30, assessments may be ordered for:
A)Fitness to stand trial
B)Criminal responsibility
C)Infanticide
D)All of the above
Q3) Which of the following landmark cases allowed mentally ill individuals to be institutionalized rather than being returned to prison or the community?
A)Rex v. Hadfield
B)Rex v. M'Naghten
C)Regina v. Swain
D)Regina v. Chaulk
Q4) Because "insanity" is a legal term, one can be found not guilty due to insanity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How has human research changed in recent years to conform to ethical guidelines?
Q6) Can a person in Canada refuse treatment when civilly committed? Explain.
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