Foundations of Psychopathology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Foundations of Psychopathology introduces students to the study of mental disorders by exploring their historical development, diagnostic criteria, and theoretical frameworks. The course examines major categories of psychopathology, including mood, anxiety, psychotic, and personality disorders, emphasizing the biological, psychological, and social factors underlying abnormal behavior. Students will engage with contemporary research and case studies to understand assessment techniques and treatment approaches, fostering a foundational knowledge essential for further study in clinical and counseling psychology.
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Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World 9th Edition by Jeffrey S. Nevid
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Methods of Research
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Q1) Researchers have found that among schoolchildren, as the amount of time they spend watching television increases, their grades decrease. This is an example of a(n)
A) positive correlation
B) negative correlation
C) additive correlation
D) statistical anomaly
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is true of the first asylums for the mentally ill?
A) Patients were used as "guinea pigs" for new and risky medical experiments.
B) Residents were offered meaningful work as therapy.
C) Asylum inmates frequently performed in plays for the public.
D) They often were homes for beggars as well as the mentally disturbed.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is an aspect of critical thinking?
A) relying on feelings and gut impressions
B) remaining fixed in one's beliefs and attitudes
C) seeking evidence to support or refute beliefs or claims
D) maintaining an attitude of non-skepticism
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Efficacy studies examine the effects of treatment when it is delivered by therapists in real-world practice settings with the kinds of clients therapists normally see in their practices.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The sensory area of the ______ lobe receives messages from skin sensors all over the body.
A) parietal
B) temporal
C) frontal
D) occipital
Answer: A
Q3) Meta-analysis is a statistical technique which averages the results of a large number of studies to determine an overall level of effectiveness.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Interviews, psychological testing, self-report questionnaires, behavioral measures, and physiological measures are all used by clinicians as methods of ______.
A) assessment
B) inquiry
C) classification
D) treatment
Answer: A
Q2) In an assessment technique, the degree to which responses correlate with an independent external standard of what the assessment technique is intended to assess is called ______.
A) temporal validity
B) content validity
C) construct validity
D) criterion validity
Answer: D
Q3) Psychological tests are unstructured methods of assessment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Stress-Related Disorders
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Q1) Informed cardiac patients with a repressive style showed ______ incidence of medical complications than uninformed patients.
A) a lower
B) a similar
C) an unpredictable
D) a higher
Q2) In acute stress disorder, the person shows a maladaptive pattern of behavior many months following exposure to a traumatic event.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The melting-pot theory holds that ______.
A) immigrants can never truly acculturate
B) immigrants themselves can never truly acculturate but their children can
C) acculturation should be resisted until the third generation after immigration
D) acculturation helps people adjust to the host culture
Q4) Within a classical conditioning framework, describe the elements (conditioned response, unconditioned stimuli, etc.) as they apply to the associations formed from a traumatic experience.
Q5) Describe how psychological factors translate into physical health problems.
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Todd spends hours checking and rechecking the doors and windows to his house to make sure they are completely locked and secured before he leaves for work in the morning. This is the
Only way he can prevent himself from being overwhelmed by anxiety and fears he left Something unlocked as he drives to the office. Todd is suffering from ______ disorder.
A) phobic
B) panic
C) obsessive-compulsive
D) generalized anxiety
Q2) In one study, 92% of subjects overcame a fear of ______ with virtual reality therapy.
A) snakes
B) flying
C) enclosed places
D) heights
Q3) Panic attacks usually develop gradually over several hours.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Dissociative Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, and
Psychological Factors Affecting
Physical Health
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Q1) People with somatic symptom disorder are not overly concerned about their troubling physical symptoms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The illness anxiety disorder (IAD ) subtype that applies to people who postpone or avoid medical visits or lab tests because they fear what might be discovered is which of the following?
A) care-avoidant
B) care-seeking
C) acute
D) chronic
Q3) Reports on the effectiveness of psychoanalytic and other forms of therapy, such as behavior therapy, in treating dissociative disorders rely mostly on uncontrolled ______ studies.
A) case
B) correlational
C) naturalistic observation
D) experimental
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Q4) Provide a detailed description of either the Progressive Muscular Relaxation or Meditation technique.
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Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Disturbances in mood that are serious enough to impair daily functioning are called ______.
A) adjustment disorders
B) personality disorders
C) anxiety disorders
D) mood disorders
Q2) The treatment of choice for SAD is antidepressant medication.
A)True
B)False
Q3) MAO inhibitors interfere with the action of ______.
A) serotonin
B) monoamine oxidase
C) dexamethasone
D) norepinephrine
Q4) Discuss the use of lithium in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
Q5) Cognitive psychologists focus on helping depressed patients ______.
A) change their dysfunctional thinking patterns
B) develop a positive sense of self-worth through new goals and relationships
C) expand their awareness of their authentic feelings
D) modify behaviors that contribute to depression
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Chapter 8: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
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Q1) An estimated ______ percent of adults in the United States develop a substance abuse disorder at some point in their lives.
A) 1
B) 10
C) 20
D) 30
Q2) Endorphins are similar in chemical structure and lock into the same receptor sites as ______.
A) barbiturates
B) opioids
C) hallucinogenics
D) stimulants
Q3) Neurons in the brain have receptor sites into which opioids fit like a lock and key.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Among Americans aged 12 or older, about 7 in 10 report having used marijuana or hashish at some point in their lives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Sleep-Wake Disorders
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Q1) Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa usually begin in ______.
A) childhood
B) adolescence
C) young adulthood
D) middle adulthood
Q2) The absence or suppression of menstruation is called ______.
A) dysmenorrhea
B) hypomenorrhea
C) hypermenorrhea
D) amenorrhea
Q3) Albert weighs about forty percent more than his ideal body weight. He is most likely to be in which socioeconomic group?
A) upper class
B) upper-middle class
C) lower-middle class
D) lower class
Q4) The addition of body fat associated with puberty is natural in early adolescence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Disorders Involving Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) A convenient place for a frotteurist to act out his needs would be ______.
A) the beach
B) a college campus
C) a crowded subway
D) a movie theatre
Q2) Over the last several months, every time Lucia has attempted sexual intercourse she has experienced spasms of the muscles surrounding her vagina, making intercourse painful
Or impossible. Her disorder is ______.
A) dyspareunia
B) vaginismus
C) female sexual arousal disorder
D) sexual aversion disorder
Q3) The risk of developing erectile disorder________.
A) varies little across adult male age groups
B) increases through middle age and levels off
C) decreases with age
D) increases with age
Q4) Summarize the characteristics of and research findings on exhibitionism.
Q5) Summarize the characteristics of and research findings on pedophilia.
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) The newest generation of drugs to treat schizophrenia are called ______.
A) neuroleptics
B) phenothiazines
C) mood stabilizers
D) atypical antipsychotics
Q2) What has been revealed about through the research on evoked rate potentials (ERPs) and schizophrenia?
Q3) After discovering some spots on the bed sheets, Bruce is convinced that his wife of twenty years is being unfaithful to him. He has never found her with anyone and there is no other
Evidence that she has been unfaithful, but Bruce remains convinced that she is "fooling around"
On him. He is suffering from the ______ type of delusional disorder.
A) persecutory
B) erotomania
C) grandiose
D) jealous
Q4) How do schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia differ? Discuss the role of affect in the distinction between the two disorders.
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Chapter 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders
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Q1) A technique for treating antisocial personality disorder in which prosocial behaviors are rewarded with chips or tokens that can be exchanged for privileges is called
A) a token economy
B) systematic desensitization
C) response cost
D) cue-controlled socialization
Q2) Hans Kohut's views on the development of personality are labeled ______ psychology.
A) personal
B) self
C) individual
D) client-centered
Q3) Promising results are reported using structured forms of psychodynamically-oriented therapies in treating personality disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Should the DSM include a diagnostic category for anger disorder? Why or why not? Include Jerry Deffenbacher's position in your argument.
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Chapter 13: Abnormal Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) Which childhood behavior problem is least likely to result in treatment?
A) depression
B) stealing
C) setting fires
D) fighting
Q2) Which of the following countries/spoken languages have the highest rates of dyslexia?
A) German and Russian speaking countries
B) Spanish speaking countries
C) Italian speaking countries
D) English and French speaking countries
Q3) Soiling often appears to follow ______.
A) overeating
B) oversleeping
C) situational stress
D) harsh punishment for previous "accidents"
Q4) Intellectual developmental disorder is a type of learning disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the prevalence, features, and characteristics of savant syndrome.
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders and Disorders
Related to Aging
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Q1) The twitches characteristic of Huntington's disease are termed ______.
A) putamen movements
B) spastic movements
C) choreiform movements
D) vernacular movements
Q2) "Attending a funeral that never ends" is ______.
A) the title of a book about a victim of Parkinson's disease
B) the title of a book about a woman who was in a coma from an auto accident for 30 years
C) a description of the experiences of the family who cares for an Alzheimer's patient
D) a description of the chronic cognitive and emotional impairment from Korsakoff's syndrome
Q3) Muscle spasms, seizures and tremors are features of delirium which fall into which of the following domains?
A) Emotion
B) Cognition and perception
C) Behavior
D) Autonomic nervous system activity
Q4) Discuss the findings with regard to the genetic link to Alzheimer's disease.
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Chapter 15: Abnormal Psychology and the Law
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Q1) Which statement is true about the prediction of dangerousness by mental health professionals?
A) Psychological assessment allows clinician to be very accurate in their predictions of dangerousness.
B) They tend to underpredict dangerousness.
C) They err on the side of caution in predicting dangerousness.
D) They tend to not label individuals as dangerous when they actually are dangerous.
Q2) If a person is ruled unlikely to ever develop adequate competency to stand trial in a criminal case, that person must ______.
A) go to trial and plead "not guilty by reason of insanity"
B) be released from confinement
C) either be released from confinement or committed to a mental institution under the civil commitment procedures
D) either be released from confinement or committed to a mental institution under the criminal commitment procedures
Q3) Discuss the "guilty but mentally ill" verdict. Provide details on the controversy surrounding this verdict and assess its effectiveness.
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