Mental Health Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of mental health, focusing on the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence mental well-being. Students will examine common mental health disorders, their causes, symptoms, and evidence-based treatment approaches. The course also emphasizes the importance of mental health awareness, strategies for prevention, and the impact of stigma on individuals and communities. Through case studies and discussions, students develop practical skills for supporting mental health in themselves and others, and gain insights into the ethical and cultural issues surrounding mental health care.
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Understanding Abnormal Behavior 10th Edition by David Sue
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Chapter 1: Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) The American Psychiatric Association has published a manual that is the most widely used classification system of psychological disorders.It is called the ____.
A)International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
B)Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR)
C)Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM)
D)Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Answer: D
Q2) Headache is to ____ as delusions are to ____.
A)dysfunction; deviance
B)discomfort; deviance
C)deviance; dysfunction
D)discomfort; dysfunction
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following mental disorders is the most common in the United States?
A)schizophrenia
B)anxiety
C)mood
D)substance abuse
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Models of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) A major contribution of the humanistic perspective is its ____.
A)insistence on rigorous empirical studies
B)primary focus on improving the mental health of persons with serious disorders
C)positive view of the individual
D)emphasis on blocked instinctual forces
Answer: C
Q2) Unlike early editions of the DSM, DSM-IV-TR recognizes culture-bound syndromes and disorders that are more prevalent in some cultures than in others.These changes show the influence of which model?
A)humanistic
B)existential
C)multicultural
D)multipath
Answer: C
Q3) The function of neural dendrites is to ____.
A)release neurotransmitters
B)receive signals from other neurons
C)bind to receptors of other neurons
D)trigger synaptic excitation of other neurons
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Assessment and Classification of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) In which one of the following are inner motives and conflicts revealed by what is seen in inkblots and whether color plays a role in the responses?
A)Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)
B)Structured Diagnostic Interview (SDI)
C)Rorschach Technique
D)Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Answer: C
Q2) A psychologist says, "Viewing mental disorders on a continuum will have unexpected consequences resulting in a change of what is deemed normal to pathological." This psychologist ____.
A)is arguing for the abandonment of all assessment methods
B)would tend to ignore the situational causes of mental disorders
C)favors using a categorical system
D)favors a behavioral classification scheme
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Scientific Method in Abnormal Psychology
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Q1) Dr.Gonzalez devised a new scale to measure depressive symptoms of Hispanic females.To be sure that his test is actually measuring depressive symptoms, he will have his test group respond to his new instrument and the Beck Depression Inventory, as well as completing a social desirability scale, which should be unrelated to depression.Dr.Gonzalez is ____.
A)checking the validity of his measure of depressive symptoms
B)checking the reliability of his measure of depressive symptoms
C)assessing the honesty of his participants
D)pursuing idiographic research
Q2) Investigators using research designs involving a placebo group allows the investigator to ____.
A)compare effects from factors such as expectations and attention with the effects of the medication or other treatment
B)determine whether pain is inflicted on research participants
C)determine the value of the research design
D)consider the degree of relationship between two variables
Q3) What are some of the ways that psychologists attempt to understand human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Describe some of the obstacles psychologists encounter as well as ways they attempt to overcome these obstacles.
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Chapter 5: Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) More than two-thirds of people with general anxiety disorder have co-occurring disorders such as ____.
A)depression
B)schizophrenia
C)Tourette's disorder
D)borderline personality disorder
Q2) Sam has persistent and distressing thoughts of germs; he cannot eat without washing his hands three times before and three times after every meal.Although his hands are raw from the washings, he is overwhelmed with anxiety if he doesn't wash this way.Sam's problems illustrate ____.
A)posttraumatic stress disorder
B)obsessive-compulsive disorder
C)agoraphobia
D)generalized anxiety disorder
Q3) What is the first step in treating anxiety disorders?
A)getting the client to relax
B)teaching the client some simple cognitive strategies
C)ruling out possible medical or physical causes
D)explaining various perspectives about the disorders to the client
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Chapter 6: Stress Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following individuals is most likely to have high blood pressure?
A)Rebecca, a 45-year-old white woman
B)Randy, a 50-year-old Asian American male
C)Raul, an 80-year-old Mexican American male
D)Rosa, an 80-year-old African American woman
Q2) Lifetime prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)is highest among ____.
A)African Americans
B)Hispanic Americans
C)White Americans
D)Asian Americans
Q3) Which statement accurately describes the relationship between stress and health?
A)Stress reactions increase vulnerability to disease because the immune system is strengthened.
B)Stress reactions directly cause infections in the body.
C)Stress reactions occur after the immune system's strength has been decreased by other factors.
D)Stress reactions decrease the immune system's efficiency and thereby increase vulnerability to disease.
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) Jane Doe had total memory loss of her previous life.Even when her parents identified her when she appeared on television, she claimed she could not remember them as her parents.Jane illustrates ____.
A)generalized amnesia
B)localized amnesia
C)selective amnesia
D)systematized amnesia
Q2) Mrs.Klinger has a ten-year history of fearing a heart attack, although no doctor has found anything wrong with her heart.She frequently calls emergency services and lies in bed most days worrying that she will have a coronary.Mrs.Klinger suffers from ____.
A)complex somatic symptom disorder with pain features (pain disorder)
B)functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)
C)malingering
D)illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)
Q3) The symptoms of dissociative disorders generally become known through ____.
A)clinical observation
B)complaints by a patient's family members
C)self-reports
D)psychological testing
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders
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Q1) Jill has had one episode of major depression.What is the likelihood that she will have another during her lifetime?
A)1 percent
B)10 percent
C)50 percent
D)90 percent
Q2) The two primary aspects of mood disorders are ____, which is characterized by intense sadness, and ____, which is characterized by elevated mood and often results in hyperactivity.
A)mania; anxiety
B)mania; depression
C)depression; anxiety
D)depression; mania
Q3) Mel's therapist helps him create routines for his daily life, such as setting daily times for sleeping, eating, and exercising.This form of therapy for bipolar disorder is called
A)psychoeducation
B)social rhythm therapy
C)cognitive behavioral therapy
D)interpersonal therapy
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Chapter 9: Suicide
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Q1) A controversy concerning suicide prevention centers is that ____.
A)most communities are so upset with them that they are forced to close down
B)they rarely assess the lethality of clients accurately
C)they are open only during weekday business hours
D)their effectiveness has not been appropriately researched
Q2) Which psychological state of mind is most predictive of suicidal behavior?
A)depression
B)dissociation
C)anxiety
D)obsessive-compulsive disorder
Q3) ____ is patterned after a medical procedure and is a systematic attempt to understand the reasons for a person's suicide or homicide through case history analysis and interviews with family and friends.
A)Psychological autopsy
B)Terminal probe
C)Anomic assessment
D)Postmortem analysis
Q4) Discuss how men and women differ in their efforts to end their lives.How do marriage, age, and ethnicity influence these differences?
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Priscilla has been hospitalized because of her bulimia.Which of the following physical conditions might be expected to have resulted from her disorder?
A)bowel obstructions
B)cardiac arrhythmias and electrolyte imbalance
C)panic attack
D)hypertension
Q2) Define obesity and explain the reasons it is considered to be an epidemic in the United States.Discuss how, in a nation so obsessed with thinness, obesity has become such a problem.Explore the different treatment options and their effectiveness.
Q3) Identify two eating disorders and describe the symptoms that characterize these disorders.
Q4) Which of the following is a way in which bulimia nervosa is similar to binge-eating disorder?
A)engaging in compensatory behaviors after eating
B)being secretive about eating
C)individuals that have either disorder are generally overweight
D)intense fear of becoming obese
Q5) What treatment strategies are effective in the treatment of eating disorders?
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Chapter 11: Substance Use Disorders
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Q1) The FDA banned pre-mixed, flavored alcoholic energy drinks and issued a warning that "the combination of caffeine and alcohol poses a public health concern" because
A)high levels of caffeine combined with alcohol mask cues regarding intoxication
B)high levels of caffeine combined with alcohol causes seizures
C)high levels of caffeine combined with alcohol causes "drunkorexia"
D)high levels of caffeine combined with alcohol are gateway activities leading to greater polysubstance use
Q2) Mrs.Healy originally took this widely prescribed sedative medication to reduce anxiety and muscle tension.Now, however, she cannot deal with stress without using it, and she has developed a tolerance to it.What drug is she probably taking?
A)Antabuse
B)Valium
C)phencyclidine
D)caffeine
Q3) Describe progression from initial substance use to substance abuse.
Q4) Describe the Treatment for Alcohol Dependence.
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Chapter 12: Schizophrenia
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Q1) Which of the following brain findings is typically associated with schizophrenia?
A)increased cerebral volume
B)ventricular enlargement
C)larger cortical structures
D)increase in the size of the thalamus
Q2) You are a child psychologist doing an evaluation of an 8-year-old girl, Ramona.After you finish interviewing Ramona, you talk with her mother to get a history.During your discussion with Ramona's mother, you notice that she often smacks her lips, blinks her eyes, and thrusts her tongue out of her mouth.With what additional information do these observations of Ramona's mother provide you?
A)It suggests that Ramona's mother is in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.
B)It suggests that Ramona's mother is nervous and might have something to hide.
C)It suggests that Ramona's mother is high on "speed" or "crack."
D)It suggests that Ramona's mother has been taking an antipsychotic medication for some time and thus might have schizophrenia.
Q3) Identify and describe the four symptom categories of schizophrenia.
Q4) Identify and discuss the typical course of schizophrenia and its prognosis.
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Chapter 13: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Q1) Rozee is 91years old.Her doctor suspects that she may have Parkinson's disease because ____.
A)she has hand and face tremors
B)she was recently in a vehicle accident and injured her head
C)she has become very impulsive
D)she is experiencing seizures
Q2) Dexter has hearing loss, significant cognitive difficulties, and has seizures due to a disease that he contracted as an infant from a virus.That disease most likely was ____.
A)AIDS
B)meningitis
C)epilepsy
D)encephalitis
Q3) Describe the characteristics of dementia in general and Alzheimer's disease (AD)in particular.What is known about the cause of Alzheimer's and what appear to be some protective factors that reduce the risk of developing AD?
Q4) What are some of the treatments for neurocognitive disorders?
Q5) Describe the different neurocognitive disorders.Indicate how to differentiate among the different neurocognitive disorders.
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Chapter 14: Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Dysphoria Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is a psychological factor associated with female orgasmic dysfunction?
A)being raised in a sexually permissive home
B)having a partner who is sexually healthy and functional
C)having a crippling fear of performance failure
D)being over-informed about sexuality or sexual technique
Q2) Maria went on a date with a guy she knew from her office.After dinner, he attacked her and forced her to have sex.Maria's experience illustrates ____.
A)incestuous sex
B)date rape
C)sadomasochism
D)violent voyeurism
Q3) Shame and humiliation are most likely to be used by behavior therapists to treat
A)people with sexual dysfunction
B)masochists
C)people with gender identity disorders
D)exhibitionists
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Chapter 15: Personality Psychopathology
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Q1) Psychopaths are high in what Zuckerman calls ____.People with this trait want to seek adventures and thrills, are disinhibited, and are susceptible to boredom.
A)openness to experience
B)Big T's
C)impulsive unsocialized sensation seeking
D)thrill-seeking behaviors
Q2) Culture and ethnicity present challenges for diagnosing personality disorders because ____.
A)in their effort to avoid being culturally biased, therapists could miss certain symptoms
B)expressions of personality in one culture may differ from those in another culture
C)there is so much overlap in cultural norms around the world that it's difficult to tease out cultural factors from symptoms.
D)it is difficult to determine if diagnostic differences are due to biases in making diagnosis or to actual cultural differences
Q3) Evaluate the evidence that antisocial personality disorder stems from physiological abnormalities.
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Chapter 16: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) When treating delinquent youth, Dishion et al.(1999)caution that ____.
A)behavioral therapy, especially aversive conditioning for antisocial behaviors, works well
B)group interventions may increase substance abuse as well as antisocial and violent behavior
C)group interventions may help youngsters learn appropriate forms of social interaction
D)psychodynamic therapy is best for teaching them to control their aggressive impulses
Q2) Which statement about conduct disorder (CD)is accurate?
A)Males with CD have a better prognosis than females with CD.
B)Youths with CD who exhibit callous, unemotional personality traits with no remorse for their behavior may exhibit antisocial personality disorder in adulthood.
C)Youths with CD display anger responses that are exaggerated in intensity and duration.
D)Youths with CD do not demonstrate a serious violation of norms.
Q3) Compare and contrast the symptoms involved in the externalizing disorders of childhood: temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder.
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Chapter 17: Legal and Ethical Issues in Abnormal Psychology
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Q1) The case of Durham vs.United States (1954)left the task of defining mental illness to mental health professionals.This had the general result that ____.
A)relying on psychiatric testimony has served to confuse the issues because both the prosecutor and defense bring in psychiatric experts, who often present conflicting testimony.
B)many defendants were opting for a plea of insanity
C)a huge rift developed between mental health professionals and the legal system
D)the mental health professionals developed a stricter definition than the courts had previously followed
Q2) A clinical psychologist says, "I want my patients to maintain as much contact with their home communities as possible and to get their treatment on an outpatient basis using drug treatment and psychotherapy so that they can stay in the community." These comments support the principle of ____.
A)privileged communication
B)duty-to-warn
C)mainstreaming
D)right to refuse treatment
Q3) Name and describe two rights of mental patients.
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