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Mental Health Studies
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Mental Health Studies explores the psychological, biological, and social factors that influence mental well-being and the development of mental health disorders. The course examines the theoretical foundations of mental health, diagnostic criteria, and evidence-based interventions for common conditions such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Students will learn about the impact of stigma, cultural perspectives, and the importance of holistic approaches in mental health care. Through case studies and current research, the course emphasizes prevention, early intervention, and strategies to promote mental health across diverse populations.
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Abnormal Psychology 17th Edition by Jill M. Hooley
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Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: Overview and Research Approaches
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Q1) Discuss the limitations of self-report data.
Answer: Can be misleading, sometimes deliberately lie, misinterpret questions or try to present themselves more favorably or less favorably than is true.
Q2) What is the most prevalent psychological disorder among adults in the United States?
A) Anxiety disorders
B) Mood disorders
C) Substance abuse disorders
D) Dissociative disorders
Answer: A
Q3) What does the case of JGH, a Native American elder, illustrate?
A) Alcoholism has long lasting effects on mood and behavior, even when drinking has ceased.
B) A person may focus on somatic symptoms, rather than mood, when depressed.
C) Depression is not universal.
D) The symptoms of some illnesses are not apparent until after lengthy psychological evaluation.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) The early asylums ________
A) were primarily warehouses for the mentally ill.
B) were designed to be places of refuge for the mentally ill.
C) were designed to treat the mentally ill with physiological treatments, such as bloodletting.
D) were similar to the places the early Greeks used for people with mental illness.
Answer: A
Q2) Chung Ching wrote two well-known medical works around A.D. 200 and has been referred to as the ____________ of China.
A) Aristotle
B) Galen
C) Plato
D) Hippocrates
Answer: D
Q3) How did people in the Middle Ages view physical and spiritual possession differently?
Answer: People who experienced physical possession were mentally ill, those who experienced spiritual possession were witches.
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Chapter 3: Causal Factors and Viewpoints
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Q1) Behaviorists suggest maladaptive behavior can be a result of ________
A) extinction.
B) lack of generalization of behaviors.
C) a poor response-outcome expectancy.
D) failure to learn adaptive behaviors.
Answer: D
Q2) Suppose that, using linkage analysis, a researcher finds that family members with a high likelihood of developing depression also are very likely to be of below average height. This would mean ________
A) being short is a contributory factor for depression.
B) the gene for depression is probably located near the gene for height.
C) height and depression are probably caused by the same gene.
D) having depression causes people not to grow as tall as they would if they didn't have depression.
Answer: B
Q3) The ______________ perspective in psychology takes into account biological, sociological, and psychological factors associated with a person's behaviors.
Answer: biopsychosocial
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Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) Which statement about the Rorschach is accurate?
A) The ambiguous stimuli it employs are pictures of people interacting in an unclear way.
B) A considerable amount of training is required to administer and score it accurately.
C) It assesses the kind of specific behavioral deficits that most mental health facilities require today.
D) It is the quickest projective tests to administer and score.
Q2) Which of the following is a projective testing method that has been adapted for computer interpretation?
A) The Rorschach Test
B) The MMPI
C) The Thematic Apperception Test
D) The sentence completion test
Q3) What would determine whether the WISC-IV or the WAIS-IV is used to test intelligence?
A) The suspected level of impairment
B) The amount of time available for test administration
C) The age of the client
D) Whether organic brain damage is present
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Chapter 5: Stress and Physical and Mental Health
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Q1) Despite the many barriers to effectively researching the effectiveness of disaster responses, it has been found that _________
A) treatment benefits everyone.
B) a single debriefing session is always an effective "quick fix."
C) cognitive therapy reduces the PTSD symptoms of the majority of those who are treated.
D) more study in this area is not needed as it is too expensive, too time consuming, and too subjective.
Q2) Approximately ____ percent of women develop PTSD over the course of their lives.
A) 5
B) 10
C) 15
D) 20
Q3) Which was not an effective treatment for stress-related disorders, according to your text?
A) Psychoanalysis
B) Emotional disclosure
C) Meditation
D) Biofeedback
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Chapter 6: Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions, and Their Disorders
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Q1) The cognitive model does not account for ________
A) nocturnal panic attacks.
B) the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapies.
C) findings from panic provocation studies.
D) evidence of a role for genes in anxiety disorders.
Q2) Quentin is seeking medication to treat his panic disorder. Due to Quentin's history of substance abuse, his doctor hesitates. After some consideration, the doctor is most likely to write Quentin a prescription for a ________, confident that abuse won't be an issue.
A) SSRI
B) tricyclic
C) monamine oxidase inhibitor
D) benzodiazepine
Q3) Which of the following would be an example of anxiety?
A) Julie jumped when she saw the snake.
B) Hilda dreaded walking home alone.
C) Carl was certain that the food was poisoned.
D) The voices in Paul's head told him he should be afraid.
Q4) What do the results of panic provocation agents tell us about panic disorder?
Q5) What is necessary for a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder?
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Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) One criteria for diagnosing major depressive disorder is that _________
A) the episode can be associated with the side effects of certain medications.
B) there has never been a manic or hypomanic episode.
C) it lasts less than two weeks.
D) schizophrenia is diagnosed as a comorbid condition.
Q2) Drugs that alter the availability of norepinephrine and serotonin are not clinically effective in the treatment of depression for several weeks. Which of the following does this finding suggest?
A) These neurotransmitters are not involved in depression.
B) It is overactivity of these neurotransmitters that underlies depression, not underactivity.
C) That the effectiveness of antidepressants is a placebo effect, as opposed to a result of a biochemical manipulation.
D) Changes in neurotransmitter function, as opposed to neurotransmitter level, cause depression.
Q3) Discuss Beck's cognitive theory of depression.
Q4) In what way do the symptoms of depression in Western and non-Western societies differ?
Q5) Two types of mood disorders are __________ and bipolar depressive disorders
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Chapter 8: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is in the DSM-5?
A) Hypochondriasis
B) Somatization disorder
C) Pain disorder
D) Somatic symptom disorder
Q2) There has been little systematic research conducted on dissociative amnesia and fugue, yet some studies have revealed new information. Which of the following is the source of this information?
A) Experiments using medication
B) Checking reports from doctors' offices
C) Testing personality traits of individuals who have experienced these issues
D) Use of different brain imaging methods to determine where loss of function occurs
Q3) In an individual with DID, "switches" between identities ________
A) usually take several days.
B) produce gaps in memory.
C) occur symmetrically, such that all identities share equal control.
D) are controlled by the host identity.
Q4) Distinguish between Freud's concepts of the primary and secondary gains experienced by those with conversion disorder.
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Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Obesity
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Q1) In addition to altering the eating patterns of clients with binge eating disorder, therapists using cognitive-behavioral therapy will also ________
A) teach the clients to be greater risk-takers.
B) educate the clients that fat people have certain character flaws.
C) provide factual information about eating and dieting.
D) help the client to emotionally separate from her family.
Q2) Which of the following appears to be an enduring personality trait of people who are susceptible to developing an eating disorder?
A) Neuroticism
B) Perfectionism
C) Pessimism
D) Individualism
Q3) What is the most serious challenge in treating eating disorders?
A) Making a diagnosis before the disorder becomes life threatening
B) Engaging the family in the treatment process
C) Finding an effective pharmacological treatment
D) Overcoming the patient's ambivalence toward treatment
Q4) What factors put males at risk for developing eating disorders?
Q5) How does the set-point impact eating disorders?
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Chapter 10: Personality Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following traits associated with histrionic personality disorder are more common in men than in women?
A) Vanity and seductiveness
B) Over-concern with physical appearance
C) High excitement seeking and low self-consciousness
D) Self-dramatization and exaggerated expression of emotion
Q2) People with __________ have excessive attention-seeking behaviors.
Q3) Sam shows little emotion and is a loner. He has no social relationships, other than his family, and he seems to experience little pleasure, if any. What personality disorder might Sam have?
A) Paranoid
B) Schizoid
C) Borderline
D) Narcissistic
Q4) Unlike disorders such as depression and PTSD, ________
A) personality disorders develop gradually.
B) multiple causal events can be identified when a personality disorder has developed.
C) those with personality disorders experience considerable subjective distress.
D) personality disorders are emotional disorders.
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Chapter 11: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is the most significant barrier to getting an alcoholic into treatment?
A) The availability of alcohol
B) The detoxification process
C) Overcoming denial
D) Finding a suitable treatment program
Q2) James has two alcoholic parents. Research suggests that his risk for alcoholism is
A) nearly 100 percent.
B) greater than if he had one alcoholic parent.
C) no greater than if he had one alcoholic parent.
D) about 10 percent higher than if he had no alcoholic parents.
Q3) What causes alcohol amnestic disorder?
Q4) Which of the following is a misconception about alcohol?
A) A person with a strong will cannot become an alcoholic.
B) Alcohol can interfere with sleep.
C) Mixing different types of alcohol does not make people more drunk than the same amount of a single type.
D) Drinking coffee does not counteract the effects of alcohol.
Q5) Barbiturates are most commonly prescribed to allow for__________.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Variants, Abuse, and Dysfunctions
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Q1) Research on memory finds that ________
A) memory is highly accurate.
B) false memories can be experimentally induced.
C) false "recovered memories" only develop under hypnosis.
D) children are no more likely than adults to provide inaccurate testimony.
Q2) What was unique about Freud's view of homosexuality?
Q3) Describe the Sambian people's beliefs about sex. How does this illustrate the impact of culture on sexual attitudes and practices?
Q4) Which of the following best fits the subset of rapists known as "date rapists"?
A) A 19-year-old white male university student from a wealthy family
B) A 45-year-old black man who works for a cable company
C) A 30-year-old Asian man who lives with his parents
D) A 67-year-old Hispanic man who is married with teenage children
Q5) Sam was a child with gender dysphoria. Now he is 26 and, feeling trapped in a man's body, he wants to become a woman. Adults with gender dysphoria are often referred to as a ________
A) transvestite.
B) transsexual.
C) lesbian.
D) person with autogynephilia.
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Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
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Q1) What is a possible reason why schizophrenia patients in less industrialized countries tend to do better than those in more industrialized countries?
Q2) Having basic problems in social cognition is one symptom associated with schizophrenia. Which of the following is an example of a lack of social cognition?
A) Picking up on implicit rules.
B) Being able to follow the speed limit.
C) Not being able to follow the speed limit.
D) Not being able to pick up on emotions associated with facial expressions.
Q3) _____________ are discrete, stable, and measurable traits that are thought to be genetic.
Q4) How is dopamine theorized to induce psychosis?
Q5) Over the course of the disorder, most individuals with schizophrenia ________
A) show either positive-syndrome or negative-syndrome types.
B) show the Type II form exclusively.
C) develop the "disorganized" form of the disorder.
D) display a mix of positive and negative symptoms.
Q6) ____________ impairment is regarded as a core feature of schizophrenia.
Q7) The most important neurotransmitter implicated in schizophrenia is _________.
Q8) What is thought to explain the delayed onset of schizophrenia in women?
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Q1) It has been observed that if a woman gives birth to a child with Down syndrome before the age of 35, she has an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Which of the following best explains this observation?
A) The same gene underlies both Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.
B) Women under 35 are not emotionally mature enough to manage a child with mental retardation.
C) Multiple copies of the APOE-4 allele increase the likelihood of both conditions.
D) A genetic mutation that increases susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease also increases the likelihood of passing on chromosomal abnormalities.
Q2) Of the choices listed below, the most common cause of traumatic brain injury is
A) stroke.
B) falls.
C) drug abuse.
D) Alzheimer's disease.
Q3) Describe delirium and dementia. What are the main differences?
Q4) How can a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease be definitively made?
Q5) What evidence is there that genes are involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD)?
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence (Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
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Q1) Which of the following is a symptom of Tourette's syndrome?
A) Coprolalia.
B) Enuresis.
C) Encopresis.
D) Pica.
Q2) Children and youth who experience or are exposed to violence are at _________ risk for developing psychological disorders.
Q3) Describe the ways parents can contribute to anxiety disorders in their children.
Q4) The diagnosis of conduct disorder is typically preceded by a diagnosis of ____________________.
Q5) What are three of the special factors associated with treatment for children and adolescents?
Q6) What are the vulnerabilities specific to children that contribute to the development of psychological problems?
Q7) Which ADHD medication is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine?
A) Ritalin.
B) Pemoline
C) Strattera.
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Chapter 16: Psychological Treatment
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Q1) Why are the SSRIs the most commonly used antidepressants today?
A) Because they only have minimal effects on dopamine, they are less likely to produce side effects.
B) They are more effective than the classic tricyclic antidepressants.
C) Their side effects are more tolerable than those of the first-generation antidepressants.
D) They are not addictive.
Q2) Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is typically ________
A) the first line of treatment for treating depression.
B) used to treat schizophrenia.
C) is only considered to treat depression after psychotherapy and medication has proven ineffective.
D) used in coordination with neurosurgery.
Q3) The technique of free association is designed to ________
A) help the client feel understood and not judged.
B) help the client fully experience his or her emotions during therapy.
C) explore unconscious and preconscious material.
D) keep the client in the present.
Q4) What is a randomized clinical trial?
Q5) Describe Beck's cognitive theory and therapy.
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Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology
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Q1) What are the key tasks involved in universal interventions? Why is epidemiological research particularly important to these efforts?
Q2) Which of the following was an unforeseen consequence of deinstitutionalization?
A) An increased demand on the welfare system
B) Abuses of antipsychotic and anxiolytic medications
C) The need for mental health services in the community
D) A rise in homelessness
Q3) The underlying basis of the insanity defense is ________
A) people who have a mental illness should not be punished.
B) people who have a mental illness cannot ever form the intent needed to commit a crime, so shouldn't be punished.
C) some people who have a mental illness are not able to fully comprehend their behavior, so are not able to form the needed intent for a crime, so should not be punished.
D) even if they had the required intent for a crime, the mentally ill still shouldn't be punished.
Q4) The American Law Institute (ALI) standard is also called the __________ test.
Q5) What factors increase the risk of violence in someone with mental illness?
Q6) Discuss three of the six specific mental health risk factors in work situations.
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