Psychological Disorders
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of psychological disorders, examining their symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment. Students will learn about major categories of disorders, such as anxiety, mood, psychotic, and personality disorders, with a focus on their development, psychological and biological factors, and the impact on individuals and society. The course also covers current approaches to assessment and intervention, the role of stigma, and emerging research and debates within the field of abnormal psychology, equipping students with a comprehensive understanding of mental health challenges across the lifespan.
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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) The Greek physician who expanded on the teachings of Hippocrates was ______.
A) Homer
B) Themistocles
C) Leonidas
D) Galen
Answer: D
Q2) In the epidemiological model, the number of new cases of a disorder occurring during a specific period of time are known as ______.
A) frequency
B) prevalence
C) incidence
D) populations
Answer: C
Q3) In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the belief that abnormal behavior could be treated by moral therapy fell into disfavor.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) Fred sleeps soundly. His alarm makes a loud beeping noise every morning at 7:00AM. Fred's getting out of ? bed and turning off the alarm is an example of____________.
A) positive reinforcement
B) negative reinforcement
C) punishment
D) aversive conditioning
Answer: B
Q2) People can remain outwardly calm and controlled while they inwardly harbor murderous or lustful impulses of which they are unaware through Freudian defense mechanism known as ______.
A) regression
B) projection
C) identification
D) repression
Answer: D
Q3) Freud equated psychological health with abilities to love and work.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) "Koro" syndrome is found mainly in ______.
A) India
B) China
C) Brazil
D) the Caribbean
Answer: B
Q2) Patrick recently was administered a Rorschach test. A number of his . responses indicate confusion about whether the percepts he saw as people were male or female. This response pattern suggests ______.
A) problems relating to people
B) visual perception impairment
C) conflict over her own gender identity
D) resentment about taking the test
Answer: C
Q3) The CT scan reveals abnormalities in brain shape and structure that may be suggestive of lesions, blood clots, or tumors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Stress-Related Disorders
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Q1) Discuss the factors involved with African American ethnic identity and resiliency to stress.
Q2) Strong social and family networks, coping skills, ethnic identity and self-efficacy are particular factors that help buffer stress among ______.
A) Euro-Americans
B) Asian Americans
C) Hispanic Americans
D) African Americans
Q3) According to a recent nationwide study by the American Psychological Association, _______percent of Americans polled reported that their level of stress had increased during the preceding five years (American Psychological Association, 2007a, 2007b, 2010).
A) 18
B) 50
C) 68
D) 93
Q4) Some leukocytes produce antigens which are specialized proteins.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Drugs like Prozac that operate on the serotonin system, are effective in treating ______.
A) obsessive-compulsive disorder
B) schizophrenia
C) conversion disorder
D) autistic disorder
Q2) It is normal to be anxious about some aspects of life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It may take an hour or more for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder to leave the house.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hoarding disorder affects an estimated 20% of the general population.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Obsessional thinking helps relieve anxiety.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the three domains of anxiety and provide an example of each domain. Page 7
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Chapter 6: Dissociative Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, and Psychological Factors Affecting
Physical Health
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Q1) "Amok" shares common features with the Western concept of ______ disorder.
A) anxiety
B) conversion
C) obsessive-compulsive
D) dissociative
Q2) Sudden loss of ability to recall important personal information, usually related to traumatic or stressful experiences, in the absence of any physical trauma to the brain or drug intoxication
Characterizes ______.
A) dissociative fugue
B) dissociative amnesia
C) retrograde amnesia
D) depersonalization-derealization disorder
Q3) Localized amnesia is the most common form of dissociative amnesia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The term "hysteria" derives from the Greek word for "testicle."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Recount various theoretical perspectives on the dissociative disorders. Page 9
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Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Some research has supported the hypothesis that depressed people think more negatively than others because their thinking is unrealistic or distorted.
A)True
B)False
Q2) About ______ Americans commit suicide each year.
A) 30,000
B) 60,000
C) 90,000
D) 120,000
Q3) If someone you know discloses that he or she is contemplating suicide, your goal should be to ______.
A) try to intervene on your own
B) get them to seek some professional help
C) leave them alone to sort through their thoughts and feelings
D) show them how crazy or misguided a suicide attempt would be
Q4) The treatment of choice for SAD is antidepressant medication.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss genetic factors in the mood disorders.
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Chapter 8: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
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Q1) Summarize research findings on the effectiveness of residential approaches to treating substance use disorders.
Q2) Which of the following is true?
A) Persons can become psychologically dependent on drugs in the absence of emotional dependence.
B) Persons cannot become physically dependent on drugs in the absence of psychological dependence.
C) Persons cannot become simultaneously psychologically and physically dependent on drugs.
D) Persons who are physically dependent on drugs are by definition also psychologically dependent.
Q3) Teenagers who start drinking before age 15 are ______ people who begin drinking at a later age to develop alcohol dependence in adulthood.
A) half as likely as B) just as likely as C) twice as likely as D) five times as likely as
Q4) Explain the controversy related to treatment for alcoholism with controlled drinking.
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Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Sleep-Wake Disorders
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Q1) A person with bulimia typically relies on strenuous exercise as a strategy for purging.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the features of the major types of parasomnias: nightmare disorder, sleep terror disorder, and sleepwalking disorder.
Q3) When you lose weight, your body starts putting the brakes on the rate at which it burns calories.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A person who has a binge-eating disorder may demonstrate which of the following?
A) a history of unsuccessful attempts at losing weight
B) a history of childhood sexual abuse
C) evidence of binge-eating once a month
D) a history of laxative abuse
Q5) Eating disorders are relatively easy to treat.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the features of binge-eating disorder and how it differs from bulimia.
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Chapter 10: Disorders Involving Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) Our psychological sense of being male or female is called our ______.
A) sex role
B) sexual orientation
C) gender identity
D) sexual preference
Q2) In transgendered individuals, gender dysphoria is ___________.
A) always present
B) not always present
C) a co-occurring feature for males but not for females
D) a co-occurring feature for females but not for males
Q3) Erectile disorder and delayed ejaculation can also result from a disease in which nerve cells lose the protective coating that facilitates transmission of neural messages. This disease is known as ______.
A) muscular dystrophy
B) Huntington's chorea
C) Turner's syndrome
D) multiple sclerosis
Q4) Most men who rape other men are driven by sexual needs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Summarize the evidence for a genetic factor in schizophrenia coming from twin studies' concordance rates.
Q2) A 54-year-old hospitalized woman diagnosed with schizophrenia was conditioned to cling to a broom by being given cigarettes as reinforcers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _____________ are outward expressions of traits, such as eye color or observed behavior.
A) Genotypes
B) Phenotypes
C) Endophenotypes
D) Endogenotypes
Q4) Most people with schizophrenia in organized mental health settings are treated with ______.
A) antipsychotic medication
B) electroconvulsive therapy
C) psychosurgery
D) sociocultural therapy
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Q5) What is tardive dyskinesia and what efforts have been made to control it?
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Chapter 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is true about personality disorders?
A) People with personality disorders often fail to see how their own behaviors are seriously disrupting their lives.
B) People with personality disorders accept responsibility for the problems they have
C) Personality disorders usually develop in late adulthood
D) Personality disorders affect close to 50% of the population.
Q2) Which of the following is a DSM cluster C personality disorder?
A) schizotypal
B) avoidant
C) histrionic
D) antisocial
Q3) Murders that are not cold-blooded and are committed more by non-psychopathic criminals have been labeled ______.
A) "gun for hire"
B) "crimes of passion"
C) "revenge crimes"
D) "drugs or money"
Q4) Discuss the two dimensions of antisocial personality disorder.
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Chapter 13: Abnormal Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following is true of children with learning disorders?
A) Many children with learning disorders are good athletes.
B) Many of them have problems processing sounds corresponding to particular letters.
C) Few children with learning disorders have trouble distinguishing speech sounds.
D) Many of them find that their disabilities improve or disappear as they mature into adolescence and adulthood.
Q2) Which U.S. vice president suffered from dyslexia?
A) Dan Quayle
B) Al Gore
C) Dick Cheney
D) Nelson Rockefeller
Q3) Oppositional defiant disorder typically starts in the __________environment but may extend to othersettings, such as ________.
A) school; home
B) daycare setting; home
C) home; the child's fantasy play
D) home; school
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders and Disorders
Related to Aging
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Q1) Death from Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease typically occurs ______ onset of symptoms.
A) within days of
B) within weeks of
C) within months of
D) several years after
Q2) A form of dementia that results from neurosyphilis is ______.
A) AIDS
B) general paresis
C) delirium
D) Creutzfeldt-Jacob
Q3) The memory impairment in Korsakoff's syndrome ______.
A) only involves short-term memory loss
B) is reversible as soon as alcohol is out of the patient's bloodstream
C) is caused exclusively by chronic alcoholism
D) persists for years after the person stops drinking
Q4) Discuss the features and causes of amnesia. Differentiate between the two types of amnesia presented in the text.
Q5) What is Lewy Body Disease? Discuss its commonalities with Alzheimer's. How does Lewy Body disease affect mood?
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Chapter 15: Abnormal Psychology and the Law
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Q1) The Supreme Court ruled in Addington v. Texas that individuals can be hospitalized involuntarily if they are ______.
A) mentally ill and dangerous to others
B) mentally ill and dangerous to themselves
C) mentally ill and dangerous to themselves or others
D) dangerous to themselves or others
Q2) Szasz argues that the label of mental illness is a societal invention which transforms social deviance into medical illness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss some of the conflicts involved in requiring helping professionals to warn third parties of threats.
Q4) Summarize the research concerning the problems of psychologists and other professionals who are given the task of attempting to predict dangerousness.
Q5) Discuss legal developments concerning patients' right to treatment.
Q6) Discuss Thomas Szasz's assertion that the insanity plea is degrading to the defendant.
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