Psychiatric Disorders Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of psychiatric disorders, focusing on their classification, etiology, symptomatology, and treatment. Students will learn about major categories of mental illnesses such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and neurodevelopmental conditions as outlined in the DSM and ICD. Emphasis is placed on understanding the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to mental health and illness. The course also covers diagnostic processes, current therapeutic interventions, emerging research, and the ethical considerations involved in mental health care. Through case studies and real-world examples, students will gain insight into both the challenges and advances in the field of psychiatry.
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Abnormal Psychology 5th Canadian Edition by Gerald C. Davison
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Chapter 1: Introduction Definitional And Historical
Considerations, And Canadas Mental Health System
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Q1) The role of provincial psychiatric hospitals today is
A) to provide tertiary inpatient care for complex cases.
B) to provide care mostly for non-psychotic conditions.
C) to provide centres of excellence for all mental conditions.
D) to provide portable community-based primary care services.
Answer: A
Q2) Mental illness can affect anyone.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Elizabeth was receiving moral treatment while in an early asylum. Which of the following treatments was she most likely to receive?
A) Medication
B) Physical restraints
C) Purposeful work activities
D) No treatment at all
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) Which of the following factors is an example of a diathesis according to the diathesis-stress model?
A) A genetic predisposition for schizophrenia.
B) Socio-cultural pressure to be thin for eating disorders.
C) Negative cognitive set for depression.
D) All of the above.
Answer: A
Q2) When one refers to their conscience, they are also describing the:
A) Id
B) Ego
C) Superego
D) Ego defences
Answer: C
Q3) Poor language skills create a barrier to accessing mental health care for immigrants.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment
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Q1) According to Wilgosh et al's (1986) study, what percentage of Inuit children would be classified as mentally retarded based on their verbal IQ scores alone?
A) 25
B) 40
C) 60
D) 75
Answer: D
Q2) A criticism of the Family Assessment Measure-III developed by Skinner and associates is that:
A) It does not include a measure of social desirability
B) It does not assess the functioning of the entire family
C) It has found to be of limited use in assessing the families of people with certain disorders, such as anorexia
D) It takes too long to complete
Answer: D
Q3) Monitoring one's own behaviour can be called experience sampling.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Classification and Diagnosis
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Q1) What was one of the main criticisms of the first WHO classification system?
A) It was simply a listing of potential behaviours and symptoms without a diagnosis.
B) It listed diagnoses but no behaviours or symptoms which defined the disorders.
C) It was a dimensional rather than categorical approach.
D) It was a categorical rather than dimensional approach.
Q2) When Sally becomes overwhelmed with life, she makes small cuts on her arms and stomach with a razor. Lately, she has been engaging in this behaviour once every few weeks. Sally is an ideal candidate for which proposed diagnosis?
A) Borderline personality disorder
B) Persistent complex bereavement disorder
C) Suicidal behaviour disorder
D) Non-suicidal self-injury
Q3) How are learning disorders classified in DSM-5?
A) Anxiety disorders
B) Neurocognitive disorders
C) Neurodevelopmental disorders
D) Learning disorders are no longer included in the DSM-5.
Q4) How are cultural considerations different in DSM-5 from DSM-IV?
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Chapter 5: Research Methods In The Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) Dr. Wilhelm randomly assigned 50 depressed patients (half women and half men) to two groups for treatment. One group received medication, and the other received cognitive therapy. Ratings of the depression level of the participants were taken before and after treatment. The gender of the participants in the study is the:
A) dependent variable.
B) independent variable.
C) classificatory variable.
D) third variable.
Q2) According to Walters (1995), what was one of the major incentives for the development of Canada's duty to report legislation?
A) To increase the public's sense of responsibility and reduce the burden on law enforcement
B) To prevent further increases in the prevalence of child abuse
C) To guard against the long-term effects of child abuse
D) To enforce stricter standards against parents
Q3) Even if a correlation is statistically significant, it may not be meaningful.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the benefits of meta-analysis? What are the drawbacks?
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Chapter 6: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following anxiety disorders is hardest to treat?
A) Specific phobia
B) Social phobia
C) Bipolar disorder
D) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Q2) Sharon, a five-year-old girl, developed the following symptoms after being sexually molested: difficulty sleeping, nightmares, a tendency to be easily startled, and bedwetting. Which of the following would be the most likely diagnosis for Sharon?
A) Generalized anxiety disorder
B) Adjustment disorder
C) Depressive disorder
D) Post-traumatic stress disorder
Q3) Dysfunction in the ___________________ brain region has been linked to both OCD and Tourette's syndrome.
A) basal ganglia
B) corpus callosum
C) hypothalamus
D) cingulated gyrus
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) Body dysmorphic disorder used to be considered a somatoform disorder and is now listed together with the obsessive-compulsive disorders in DSM-5. Do you think this makes sense? Why or why not?
Q2) Having thoughts such as "I am frequently looking on as if I am not part of things" and feeling that your body is not in harmony with your being is most likely a symptom of:
A) Hysteria
B) Depersonalization disorder
C) Conversion disorder
D) Body dysmorphic disorder
Q3) In two Canadian cases of Munchausen's syndrome, nurses:
A) Made themselves ill by ingesting poison
B) Made their own children ill by getting them to ingest poison
C) Made themselves ill by injecting blood into their own bladders
D) Made their children ill by injecting blood into their bladders
Q4) Which of the following best illustrates hypochondriasis?
A) An ulcer caused by stress
B) Persistent unsubstantiated fear of having cancer
C) Obsessions with an imagined physical defect, such as facial wrinkles
D) Recurring pain with no physical basis
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) People who say they are going to kill themselves
A) are at high risk for suicide.
B) are only trying to get attention and won't actually commit suicide.
C) are not usually depressed.
D) will usually commit 'subintentioned' suicide.
Q2) Juan has symptoms of sad mood most of the day most days for 3 weeks, increased sleep, agitation, poor appetite, and concentration difficulties. Julia, on the other hand, has symptoms of loss of interest in activities, lethargy, increased appetite, feelings of worthlessness, and recurrent thoughts of death. What can be concluded regarding Juan and Julia?
A) Both Juan and Julia have major depression, and have it at a similar level of severity.
B) Juan has mania, whereas Julia has major depression.
C) Both have major depression, but it is unclear whether they are qualitatively part of the same class.
D) Both have bipolar I disorder.
Q3) Low levels of self-criticism are associated with depression.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Psychophysiological Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) A problem with studies on the link between psychological factors and physical health has been:
A) A general inability of respondents to report physical problems.
B) Overreporting of physical illness among individuals with high neuroticism.
C) Underreporting of physical illness among individuals with high psychoticism.
D) The non-uniform nature of physical illness and associated psychological distress.
Q2) ________ seems to be an effective pain management intervention.
A) Long-term painkiller use
B) Electroconvulsive shock treatment
C) Mindfulness
D) Systematic desensitization
Q3) Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Canada.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Assessment of Daily Experience measures
A) the person's psychological reaction to life events.
B) the occurrence of mundane events that may be stressful.
C) major stressful events occurring in a person's life.
D) all of the above.
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Anorexia nervosa in males:
A) Is almost nonexistent.
B) Is related to less family conflict than in females.
C) Is less likely to be fatal than in females.
D) Is quite similar to that in females.
Q2) In Canada, the one-year prevalence rates for eating disorders in women and men (age 15 and older) are respectively:
A) 0.5%; 0.1%
B) 0.6%; 0.2%
C) 0.8%; 0.2%
D) 0.9%; 0.3%
Q3) According to a recent study from Sweden (e.g., Bulik et al., 2006), heritability estimates of eating disorders are
A) 3%
B) 17%
C) 56%
D) 92%
Q4) People with eating disorders tend to be low on measures of perfectionism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) Mr. Cook grew up in severely impoverished circumstances. His mother was unmarried and homeless, and Mr. Cook and his six siblings lived on the streets or in shelters for most of their childhood. They had little formal education or opportunity to make progress in the world. After 17 years of this life, Mr. Cook had his first psychotic episode while digging through a trash can looking for food for his mother; he heard voices telling him to take off his clothes and eat them. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Cook was picked up by police, taken to a psychiatric hospital, and diagnosed as schizophrenic. Mr. Cook's story fits the _______________ theory of social class and schizophrenia.
A) schizophrenogenic
B) high-risk
C) sociogenic
D) social-selection
Q2) Inappropriate affect is a negative symptom of schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
Q3) There is strong genetic evidence for schizophrenia, however even monozygotic twins do not have 100% concordance rates. Why not?
Q4) Discuss the differences between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) The first step in becoming a substance abuser is:
A) Experimentation with a drug
B) Occasional use of a drug
C) Having a positive attitude about a drug
D) Being exposed to a drug by friends or family
Q2) Lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates for alcohol dependence in the U.S. are approximately _____ and _____ respectively.
A) 10%; 4%
B) 12)5%; 4%
C) 14)5%; 8%
D) 17%; 5%
Q3) A major goal of hospital based treatment for alcohol abuse is
A) to focus upon sobriety as a major criteria for discharge.
B) helping the individual admit there is a problem.
C) increasing nutrition, and creating a behaviour that inhibits alcohol consumption.
D) detoxification.
Q4) Explain why substance abuse is so resistant to treatment, and is associated with such high relapse.
Q5) Contrast biological and psychological therapies for alcohol use.
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) According to Paris, how many borderline personality disorder patients commit suicide?
A) 1 in 50
B) 1 in 25
C) 1 in 15
D) 1 in 10
Q2) The movie Girl Interrupted portrayed Susanna Kaysen (played by Winona Ryder) as a person suffering from:
A) Bipolar depression
B) Kleptomania
C) Borderline personality disorder
D) Antisocial personality disorder
Q3) Dialectical behaviour therapy is a combination of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural therapies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dependent personality disorder is more prevalent in North America than elsewhere in the world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) Carlos had a shoe fetish which he wished to overcome. His therapist had him view slides of shoes while giving him mild electric shocks. This is an example of:
A) Aversion therapy.
B) Systematic desensitization.
C) Orgasmic reorientation.
D) Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT).
Q2) Which of the following is true about the prevalence of pedophilia (Seto, 2009)?
A) It occurs equally in women and men, but men receive more media attention
B) It is rarely comorbid with mood and anxiety disorders
C) It is defined exclusively in heterosexual contacts
D) Is increasingly associated with Internet use
Q3) What factor has University of Ottawa researcher Firestone found to distinguish homicidal from non-homicidal child molesters?
A) They show a greater response to descriptions of assault on children.
B) They most often do not know the child they are assaulting.
C) They are often younger and less experienced.
D) They show a greater tendency to also be involved in the rape of adult victims.
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) A proposal by Child and Youth Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada to establish a national mental health framework specific to children and youth suggested the following EXCEPT:
A) Assisting provinces and territories in creating or modifying their child and youth mental health strategies, policies, and plans.
B) Raise public awareness to the importance of addressing issues related to children and youth mental health.
C) Serving as a reference point or resource for people interested in child and youth mental health.
D) Assisting adult national organizations as they address child and youth mental health domains under their responsibilities.
Q2) Recent analyses (Benzies et al., 2008) of families of conduct disordered children are apparently:
A) High in family cohesion.
B) High in hostile / ineffective parenting .
C) High in factors associated with combativeness.
D) Low in cohesion.
Q3) What are some reasons that autistic children score low on intelligence tests?
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Chapter 16: Aging and Issues in Psychological Disorders
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Q1) The cognitive reserve hypothesis in dementia suggests that ________education levels will delay cognitive decline, which is thought to be related to
A) low; already low levels of cognitive capacity
B) low; crystallized intelligence
C) high; reserve neural structures as a form of neuroplasticity
D) high; years of cognitive inactivity
Q2) Delirium can occur only:
A) After age 70
B) Following a stroke
C) After a significant life stressor such as loss of a spouse
D) None of these are correct. Delirium can occur at any time
Q3) Canadian Michael J. Fox is an advocate of stem cell research. He suffers from:
A) Huntington's chorea
B) Muscular dystrophy
C) Parkinson's disease
D) Atropic Dystonia
Q4) The most prominent symptom of dementia is difficulty remembering past events.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Outcomes And Issues In Psychological Intervention
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Q1) After several weeks of therapy, George's therapist visits his home and manipulates his surroundings in order to support the changes they've made in therapy. This generalization attempt is referred to as:
A) Naturalistic reinforcement
B) Environmental modification
C) Eliminating secondary gain
D) Relapse prevention
Q2) Alyssa is nearly finished her clinical training program. She is discussing her training with her clinical supervisor and is expressing concern that the bulk of her training has been from only one theoretical orientation - CBT. The reason behind her concern is that:
A) It will be hard to establish herself as a therapist since so many other clinicians practice CBT
B) CBT is not superior to treatments from other theoretical orientations
C) CBT has little empirical support
D) Clients don't tend to respond well to CBT
Q3) CBT and integrative behavioural couples therapy (IBCT) work about equally well.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) The Tarasoff case led to the ruling that a therapist who learns that a client is threatening to harm someone:
A) Must take steps to have the person committed.
B) Must physically detain the client.
C) Must warn the intended victim of the client.
D) Must break confidentiality and notify police or other authorities that the person is dangerous.
Q2) The Fitness Interview Test that was developed in Canada assesses all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Whether the person understands the nature and purpose of the legal proceedings
B) Whether the person is mentally ill and thus not fit to stand trial
C) Whether the person understands the possible or likely consequences of the proceedings
D) Whether the person is capable of communicating with his or her lawyer
Q3) Criminal and civil commitment can be best distinguished by:
A) Whether the one being committed is insane.
B) Whether a crime has been committed by the individual.
C) The severity of the symptoms and the crime committed.
D) The type of police intervention necessary.
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