Personality Disorders Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of personality disorders as classified in the DSM, examining their diagnostic criteria, etiology, prevalence, and impact on functioning. Students will learn about the major clusters of personality disorders, their clinical features, and the challenges of comorbidity and differential diagnosis. The course also covers contemporary theories on the development and maintenance of personality pathology, incorporating both biological and psychosocial perspectives. Treatment approaches, including pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions, are discussed alongside ethical and societal considerations, preparing students for further study or practical work in mental health settings.
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Abnormal Psychology 16th Edition by James N. Butcher
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Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: an Overview
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Q1) 1-67.In Dr.Lu's study of eating disorders,she looked at the academic histories of girls with an eating disorder and girls who did not have such problems.In this example,the girls with eating disorders are the ________ group.
A)comparison
B)control
C)criterion
D)treatment
Answer: C
Q2) 1-15.Which concept provides psychologists with a consistent naming system that can be used to organize and identify information in a helpful manner?
A)Epidemiology
B)Classification
C)Brain research
D)Labeling
Answer: B
Q3) ______________is used to study questions that would not be possible to study with human subjects.
Answer: Analogue studies
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Chapter 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Explain how the link between the brain and mental disorders was first established.
Answer: While Hippocrates and others had long proposed that mental disorders had some physical cause,it was not until the 1800s that a clear link between a physical disease process and mental illness was established.This finding then paved the way for further exploration of how brain malfunctions could result in mental illness.General paresis was an illness that produced paralysis,insanity,and,typically,death within two to five years.This mental illness was recognized as a specific type of mental disorder in 1825.Thus,it was recognized as a unique disorder,and attempts could then be made to treat it.It was eventually recognized that this illness was caused by syphilis.This is the first documented link between an identifiable brain infection and mental illness.With this finding,and the rising influence of modern experimental science,the investigation of brain pathology as the cause of mental illness began in earnest.
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Chapter 3: Causal Factors and Viewpoints
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Q1) 1-75.After cheating on her husband and feeling ashamed,Julia accused her husband of feeling ashamed.Such behavior is explained by which of the following defense mechanism?
A)Sublimation
B)Displacement
C)Projection
D)Rationalization
Answer: C
Q2) What is the diathesis-stress model of psychopathology?
Answer: A person must have both a vulnerability for a disorder and exposure to some type of stressors in order to develop the disorder.
Q3) 1-27.The disorders first recognized as having biological bases are best characterized as disorders that
A)involved significant damage to brain tissue.
B)were characterized by neurochemical imbalances.
C)did not cause neurological damage.
D)resulted from contact with other animal species.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) 1-18.The fMRI technique cannot currently be used as a diagnostic tool.This is because
A)the images it produces aren't sharp enough.
B)the devices needed for the technique aren't readily available.
C)it is very difficult to interpret the results.
D)it has been shown to have very low reliability.
Q2) The term MRI in assessment of the brain means __________ .
Q3) Compare and contrast the following: MRIs,PET scans,and fMRI.
Q4) 1-65.One limitation of the MMPI-2 is that it
A)cannot detect whether an individual is attempting to distort his or her responses.
B)requires a clinical interview as a supplement to the test itself.
C)is based on factor analysis,which often leads to measures that sacrifice validity for the sake of reliability without intending to do so.
D)requires an individual to be literate.
Q5) 1-10.A valid test
A)measures what it is designed to measure.
B)yields consistent results.
C)is standardized.
D)rarely is reliable.
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Chapter 5: Stress and Physical and Mental Health
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Q1) What are some of the reasons why political activists who were tortured were less affected by PTSD long term?
Q2) 1-73.Why should we study the causal factors in PTSD,since we already know traumatic events cause it?
A)Because if we do not study it,we will not diagnose it.
B)Political lobbying requires the study of it.
C)Victims often feel guilt about their reaction to the trauma.
D)Because not everyone who is exposed to a trauma develops PTSD.
Q3) 1-66.According to DSM-5,Acute stress disorder becomes PTSD when
A)the trauma is an event out of the realm of normal life experience.
B)the symptoms last for more than 2 weeks.
C)the symptoms last for more than 4 weeks.
D)the symptoms begin within 6 months of the trauma.
Q4) 1-60.For an adjustment disorder,the symptoms must appear within __________ months of the stressor?
A)two
B)nine
C)three
D)six
Q5) The biological cost of adapting to stress is called the __________ .
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Chapter 6: Panic,anxiety,obsessions,and Their Disorders
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Q1) That humans have evolved to fear certain objects or situations because they pose real threats is called __________ learning.
Q2) 1-35.Social phobia
A)is characterized by significant fear of most social situations.
B)and antisocial personality commonly are comorbid disorders.
C)involves a fear of one or more specific social situations.
D)typically develops in childhood.
Q3) 1-51.Panic disorder is best described as a(n)________ condition.
A)chronic
B)acute
C)dissociative
D)inherited
Q4) 1-82.If a pharmaceutical company were looking for a drug that would maximally treat generalized anxiety disorder they would want one that
A)suppressed the activity of the locus coeruleus in the brain stem and the central gray in the midbrain.
B)decreased GABA levels while increasing norepinephrine.
C)increased GABA levels while regulating serotonin.
D)decreased serotonin levels and suppressed activity in the locus coeruleus.
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Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) 1-104.Which statement about the risk of suicide is true?
A)Depressed people are no more likely to commit suicide than nondepressed people.
B)The risk of suicide is greatest at the lowest point in a depression.
C)About half of people who complete suicide do so in the recovery phase of a depressive episode.
D)Suicide is most likely when a person in a manic episode is getting "high."
Q2) 1-20.What is meant by the phrase "double depression"?
A)Symptoms are consistent with two different subtypes of major depression.
B)The individual has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and a mood disorder.
C)Symptoms of both typical and atypical depression are exhibited.
D)An individual with dysthymia later develops major depressive disorder as well.
Q3) 1-93.Cross-cultural studies of mood disorders are made difficult due to
A)the variability in the prevalence of bipolar disorders.
B)the variability in the prevalence of unipolar disorders.
C)the lack of clear-cut distinctions between bipolar and unipolar disorders.
D)differences in diagnostic practices.
Q4) The diagnosis of __________ occurs when symptoms are similar to a manic episode but are milder.
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Chapter 8: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) 1-57.Which of the following is most suggestive of dissociative identity disorder?
A)Grace's feelings about James switch from positive to negative instantly.
B)Peter could not explain why he didn't complete the project.
C)Delilah was never able to make up her mind.
D)Kyla could not recall where she had been or what she had done all day.
Q2) 1-53.In the study mentioned in the text,the German man who had dissociative fugue denied that he could speak German.However,he learned German-English word pairs much faster than control words.This supports that
A)mainly episodic memory is lost,implicit memory stays intact.
B)mainly implicit memory is lost,episodic memory stays intact.
C)both episodic and implicit memory are affected.
D)most people with dissociative fugue are faking.
Q3) 1-51.Once a dissociative fugue ends,people
A)can remember everything that has happened to them.
B)remembers who they are but cannot remember their past.
C)can remember their past but cannot remember what happened during the fugue.
D)can remember their past but keep their new identity.
Q4) ______________is the disorder in the DSM-5 used to replace hypochondriasis without somatic symptoms.
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Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Obesity
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Q1) 1-51.Which statement best describes trends in actual and ideal weight in American young women?
A)While the weight of the average woman is decreasing,the average weight of the ideal woman is decreasing even faster.
B)While the weight of the average woman is increasing,the average weight of the ideal woman is decreasing.
C)While the weight of the average woman is increasing,the average weight of the ideal woman is increasing even faster.
D)Weight of the average woman doesn't seem to be affected by the average weight of the ideal woman.
Q2) 1-73.Which of the following factors is associated with an increased risk for obesity?
A)High socioeconomic status
B)Living in an Asian culture
C)Being well-cared-for as a child
D)Low parental education
Q3) What medications are commonly used in the treatment of bulimia nervosa? What evidence is there that medications are beneficial in treating this condition?
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Chapter 10: Personality Disorders
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Q1) 1-109.Which of the following seems to have the most impact in decreasing the amount of criminal activities of people with psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder?
A)Cognitive behavioral treatment
B)Medication
C)Growing older
D)Nothing has any impact
Q2) 1-106.Carl has psychopathy.You would expect him to
A)be very concerned about possible punishment and to try to avoid it as much as possible.
B)be very interested in rewards and to continue his behavior even when the rewards don't come as often as they did.
C)only be interested in rewards occasionally and to change his behavior quickly if rewards don't come as often as they did.
D)be equally interested in rewards and punishments and do his best to get the first and avoid the second.
Q3) Which of the personality disorders appears to be most related to schizophrenia? What evidence is there of this relationship?
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Chapter 11: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) Describe two psychosocial causal factors in the development of alcohol abuse and dependence.
Q2) 1-61.Why might opiate antagonists be used in the treatment of alcoholism?
A)To minimize withdrawal
B)To minimize cravings
C)To make alcohol aversive
D)To prevent alcohol from acting on the brain's reward system
Q3) 1-99.Barbiturate withdrawal
A)usually last several months.
B)are purely psychological.
C)are far less serious than opiate withdrawal.
D)can be minimized by administering another drug.
Q4) 1-94.Which of the following has legitimate medical uses,but is associated with both physiological and psychological dependence and lethal overdoses?
A)Cocaine
B)Barbiturates
C)Heroin
D)LSD
Q5) 3-10.Describe and give an example of the abstinence violation effect?
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Chapter 12: Sexual Variants,abuse,and Dysfunctions
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Q1) How are gender dysphoria and transvestic fetishism similar and different?
Q2) 1-47.The most recent studies of satisfactory outcome from sex reassignment surgery find
A)most individuals are satisfied
B)few individuals are satisfied
C)satisfaction depends upon whether the operation involves a male-to-female or a female-to-male change.
D)satisfaction depends on the length of time that individuals live as the gender they wish to become prior to the surgery.
Q3) 1-78.Ted is a rapist.If he is typical of most convicted rapists,he
A)has never committed a crime before.
B)is under 25 and has a prior criminal record.
C)is well-educated,charming,and middle-class.
D)was a close friend or lover of the rape victim.
Q4) Charles is a chronic sex offender in treatment.After being given electric shocks whenever he became sexually aroused to deviant stimuli,his arousal to those stimuli diminished.What additional forms of treatment is he likely to need in order to be effectively treated?
Q5) Why is it difficult to estimate the prevalence of incest?
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Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
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Q1) 1-79.One aspect of family environment that has been found to be important in schizophrenia is
A)the level of expressed emotion.
B)the level of parental grief over their child's illness.
C)if the mother is cold and aloof.
D)if lots of double-bind communications are used.
Q2) 1-11.Delusions are
A)perceptions with no basis in reality.
B)only seen in schizophrenia.
C)necessary for a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
D)disturbances in the content of thought.
Q3) 1-47.Studies of family concordance patterns for schizophrenia have found
A)little evidence of increased concordance with increased gene-sharing.
B)such strong correspondence between gene-sharing and diagnosis that environmental factors have been ruled out.
C)strong correspondence between gene-sharing and diagnosis but only for males.
D)that the more genetically related you are to someone with schizophrenia,the greater your risk of the disorder.
Q4) The most important neurotransmitter implicated in schizophrenia is __________ .
Q5) What is the evidence for and against the dopamine hypothesis?
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following could occur as a result of exposure to formaldehyde?
A)high blood pressure
B)epilepsy
C)asthma.
D)attention deficits
Q2) 1-31.Which of the following disorders affects men and women in equal numbers and is characterized by a chronic,progressive chorea?
A)AIDS
B)Alzheimer's disease
C)Huntington's disease
D)Parkinson's disease
Q3) 1-80.Emotional dyscontrol and personality alterations are expected with A)amnestic syndrome.
B)vascular dementia.
C)frontal lobe damage.
D)prolonged oxygen deprivation.
Q4) Many people with brain damage resulting in neuropsychological disorders have problems with __________ and self-regulation.
Q5) What is anterograde amnesia?
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) 1-107.The current trend for treatment of the intellectually disabled is
A)to place them in institutions.
B)to place all but the mildly intellectually disabled in institutions.
C)to place all but the mildly and moderately retarded in institutions.
D)to keep even the most severely retarded in the community rather than institutions.
Q2) What relationship is there between conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder?
Q3) As children with ADHD become adolescents and adults,
A)they outgrow their ADHD symptoms.
B)many continue to experience symptoms.
C)most get worse.
D)those with hyperactivity tend to get worse,the rest get better.
Q4) 1-98.Genetic factors
A)are very common in all levels of retardation.
B)are clearly involved in the more severe forms of retardation.
C)are involved only in cases of profound retardation.
D)are involved only in Down syndrome.
Q5) The most common chromosomal abnormality seen in Down syndrome is the __________ of chromosome 21.
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Chapter 16: Therapy
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Q1) Which of the following is a type of "classical antidepressant"?
A)GABA agonists
B)monoamine oxidase inhibitors
C)neuroleptics
D)selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Q2) In the psychoanalytic analysis of dreams,the type of content that is disguised in the dream is the __________ content,as the motives are too painful to express directly.
Q3) Antidepressants are used to treat all of the following EXCEPT A)panic disorder.
B)bulimia.
C)borderline personality disorder.
D)schizophrenia.
Q4) Because much of Donald's depression is a result of his lack of a healthy sexual relationship with his wife,Dr.Jones figured that the best drug to treat him with would be A)Chlorpromazine.
B)Prozac.
C)Wellbutrin.
D)Zoloft.
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Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology
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Q1) The movement to close down mental hospitals and treat the mentally ill in the community is __________ .
Q2) Which of the following is a characteristic of a therapeutic community?
A)Individual responsibility
B)Minimal interaction amongst the patients
C)Extensive use of medications
D)Many restrictions
Q3) Which of the following is a criticism of the use of token economies?
A)They are ineffective.
B)They are inconsistent with how the real world works.
C)The patient is not an active part of the treatment process.
D)It is inhumane to expect a mental patient to behave in accordance with an established schedule of reinforcements.
Q4) What treatment approach is most likely to be employed by an HMO to treat an anxiety disorder?
A)Aversion therapy
B)Flooding
C)Pharmacotherapy
D)Systematic desensitization
Q5) What have been some of the negative effects of deinstitutionalization?
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