Psychology 101 Exam Bank
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Psychology 101 provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This foundational course covers key concepts, theories, and research methods in psychology, including biological bases of behavior, perception, learning, memory, emotion, developmental stages, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Students will explore how psychological principles apply to everyday life and gain a broad understanding of how humans think, feel, and act individually and in groups.
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Psychology From Inquiry to Understanding 3rd Edition by Scott O. Lilienfeld
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Chapter 1: Psychology and Scientific Thinking
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Q1) Nico is meeting with his academic advisor.He wishes to pursue a career where he'll work to diagnose and treat mental disorders.Nico aspires to be a(n)
A)clinical psychologist.
B)experimental psychologist.
C)forensic psychologist.
D)school psychologist.
Answer: A
Q2) In the natural world,there often are many different factors associated with the occurrence of a particular outcome.Therefore it is important that we as critical thinkers _____ whenever possible.
A)create unfalsifiable theories
B)propose complex statements of causation
C)remember that correlation equals causation
D)rule out rival hypotheses
Answer: D
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Chapter 1: Exsetntion: Psychology and Scientific Thinking
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Q1) Professor Clark gives her students an assignment to develop hypotheses on global warming.To be consistent with a scientific method,students should develop their hypotheses based on
A)their own existing beliefs about the issue.
B)reports discussed on television.
C)untestable predictions.
D)a well-supported scientific theory.
Answer: D
Q2) A psychologist is often skeptical of claims suggesting that A)people are influenced by others' thoughts and behaviors.
B)a particular behavior is the result of a single causal variable.
C)a person's culture is a strong influence on his or her everyday thoughts and behaviors.
D)a person's future behavior is often difficult to predict accurately.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) The peer review process is designed to
A)block alternative therapies from being made available to the general public.
B)identify flaws in a research study's methods,findings,and conclusions.
C)make researchers feel bad when their article is not published.
D)place obstacles in front of people whose theories differ from mainstream science.
Answer: B
Q2) The perception of a statistical association between two variables where none exists is known as
A)confirmation bias.
B)illusory correlation.
C)existence proof.
D)type I error.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Exsetntion: Research Methods
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Q1) Students of psychology are often frustrated because there are very few,if any,clear-cut answers to many of their questions.What is the primary limiting factor in obtaining first-hand knowledge of questions such as the long-term effects of child abuse or the effects of smoking marijuana on a pregnancy?
A)Most people in the general public are not concerned with these issues.
B)It is difficult to find people who are victims of abuse or mothers who smoke marijuana during pregnancy.
C)Ethical guidelines in research prevent psychologists from carrying out many of these studies.
D)Institutional review boards encourage participation in studies that may be harmful to participants either mentally or physically.
Q2) Which of the following is one of the two types of statistics that researchers use to analyze the data that they collect?
A)Predictive statistics
B)Constrictive statistics
C)Descriptive statistics
D)Computational statistics
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) The _____ is sometimes called the emergency center of the body.
A)pineal gland
B)pituitary gland
C)thyroid gland
D)adrenal gland
Q2) A cell in the human nervous system whose primary function is to help form myelin and the blood-brain barrier,respond to injury,remove debris,and enhance learning and memory is called a(n)_____ cell.
A)epidermal
B)adipose
C)glial
D)polypeptide-Y
Q3) If Darren's brain is like that of most people,then fine-tuned language skills will be handled by his _____.
A)corpus callosum
B)occipital lobe
C)right cerebral hemisphere
D)left cerebral hemisphere
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Chapter 3: Exsetntion: Biological Psychology
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Q1) Within neurons,the term potentiation refers to
A)synapses that show stronger and prolonged excitatory responses.
B)structural changes in the neuron.
C)neural plasticity.
D)maturational development.
Q2) Your teacher asks you to describe the sequence of parts of a neuron that the impulse travels during neural conduction.Which of the following sequences will you offer?
A)dendrites,axon,soma,synaptic knob
B)terminal buttons,axon,soma dendrite
C)axon,soma,dendrites,synaptic knob
D)dendrites,soma,axon,axon terminal
Q3) The flight-or-fight response is mobilized by the A)central nervous system.
B)somatic nervous system.
C)sympathetic nervous system.
D)parasympathetic nervous system.
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The difference between high-definition television and regular television is analogous to which component of sound?
A)Pitch
B)Loudness
C)Amplitude
D)Timbre
Q2) Cason is initially blinded as he walks out of a daytime movie.However,very rapidly his eyes begin to adjust to the bright light.What is the best explanation for his rapid recovery?
A)Perceptual adjustments
B)Sensory deprivation
C)Oversensitivity of his rods and cones
D)Sensory adaptation
Q3) Attending to many modalities simultaneously is a phenomenon called
A)bottom-up processing.
B)top-down processing.
C)parallel processing.
D)selective attention.
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Chapter 4: Exsetntion: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) _____ processing is conceptually driven and influenced by our beliefs and expectations.
A)Bottom-up
B)Parallel
C)Top-down
D)Sensory
Q2) Rafael has a cold and plugged sinuses.These symptoms are most likely to affect
A)his ability to listen to his Art History professor's lecture.
B)his enjoyment of the food at the university cafeteria.
C)his pain tolerance threshold.
D)his sense of balance.
Q3) A disorder of the inner ear would be most likely to impact our A)equilibrium.
B)hearing.
C)sense of pain.
D)sense of smell.
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) The positive effects that have been noted when using hypnosis have been explained in a number of ways.One suggestion is that the relaxed state that accompanies a "hypnotic trance" is uniquely responsible for all of the effects.This reminds us of which principle of critical thinking from your book?
A)Replicability
B)Ruling out rival hypotheses
C)Correlation vs.causation
D)Falsifiability
Q2) Nathan was a psychologist in the 1930s.Which of the following would best represent his understanding of what happened inside the brain during sleep?
A)Humans pass through five distinct stages of sleep.
B)Humans,unlike animals,experience REM sleep but both experience non-REM sleep.
C)Neurons fire and create the biological underpinnings of dreams and nightmares as we sleep.
D)Nothing interesting happens as humans sleep through the night.
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Chapter 5: Exsetntion: Consciousness
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Q1) Although he knows that it is wrong,Sean has a crush on his new stepmom.He dreams of the two of them running away together and living happily ever after.What aspect of dreaming does this represent?
A)Activation-synthesis
B)Repressed desires
C)Wish fulfillment
D)Dream-work
Q2) At its most basic level,_____ is an exercise in suggestion.
A)hypnosis
B)meditation
C)dreaming
D)lucidity
Q3) The need to take a drug in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms is an indication of _____.
A)a craving
B)tolerance
C)psychological dependence
D)physical dependence
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the metronome,he experimented with sounding the metronome but not presenting the meat powder to the dogs.Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the metronome.This represents the process called _____.
A)acquisition
B)testing
C)extinction
D)spontaneous recovery
Q2) Omar and Patrick sell magazine subscriptions by telephone.Omar is paid $1.00 for every 5 calls he makes,while Patrick is paid $1.00 for every subscription he sells.Omar is paid on a _____ _____ schedule while Patrick is paid on a _____schedule.
A)fixed ratio; variable ratio
B)fixed ratio; fixed interval
C)variable ratio; fixed ratio
D)fixed ratio; variable interval
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Chapter 6: Exsetntion: Learning
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Q1) Which of the following statements about learning is true?
A)Learning and maturation are related but different concepts.
B)Learning does not involve changes in thinking.
C)Learning does not involve changes in behavior.
D)Learning can occur without having an experience.
Q2) Concerning cognitive maps,which is likely true?
A)Teens allowed to view a maze from 10 feet above before beginning will be just as capable of working their way through the maze,as compared to teens given a practice run through the maze before beginning.
B)Teens allowed to view a maze from 10 feet above before beginning will be less capable of working their way through the maze,as compared to teens given a practice run through the maze before beginning.
C)Forming a mental representation of the layout of the maze will likely confuse teens because they learn best by doing not thinking.
D)The ability to form accurate mental representations of the layout of the maze will be difficult for teens,so the group viewing the maze before beginning will likely perform worse on this task.
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Q1) In long-term memory,the _____ memory division does not require much effort or attention to recall information.
A)procedural
B)episodic
C)visual-spatial
D)prospective
Q2) Oscar is writing a fictional autobiography.He is combining real events with those that could have happened,as well as a few creative additions.In terms of the memory system,this approach is most similar to A)the three systems of memory.
B)parallel distributed processing.
C)reconstructive memory.
D)implicit memory.
Q3) As we age,our ability to recognize the strengths and limitations of our own memories improves.This is known as A)meta-cognition.
B)meta-memory.
C)permastore.
D)transience.
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Chapter 7: Exsetntion: Memory
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Q1) Which of the following best illustrates the paradox of memory?
A)Jillian can remember all of her favorite baseball player's statistics for the last 7 years,but forgets where she left her car keys.
B)Amy remembers the names of most of her third-grade students from the last several years.
C)Ryan can remember almost all of the states and capitols,but is struggling to remember the names of foreign countries.
D)Nina finds it difficult to accurately recall some of her childhood memories.
Q2) The character of Dori from the movie Finding Nemo keeps complaining that she has short-term memory loss because she can't remember the name of the friend she just met.What is a more likely explanation for her memory failure?
A)Anterograde amnesia
B)Retrograde amnesia
C)Hippocampal damage
D)Blocking
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Reasoning, and Language
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Q1) A loose screw on the visor causes it to drop down while Ben drives; however,he keeps forgetting to take a screwdriver out to the car to fix it.When he notices the visor drop again,he reaches into his pocket for a dime,which he uses to tighten the screw holding the visor.What problem-solving difficulty did Ben overcome?
A)Relative comparison
B)Functional fixedness
C)Poor problem representation
D)The representative heuristic
Q2) One explanation for schizophrenia holds that schizophrenic individuals have difficulty in filtering their attention.This is most closely related to the concept of A)cognitive economy.
B)schema development.
C)chunking.
D)top-down processing.
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Chapter 8: Exsetntion: Thinking, Reasoning, and Language
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Q1) If I am given 10 math problems,and I can and do solve the first nine in the same way,I may struggle with the tenth problem if it requires a different method to solve it.This best illustrates the concept of
A)the salience of surface properties.
B)thin slicing.
C)mental sets.
D)hindsight bias.
Q2) As symbolic systems of communication,most languages
A)generally match sounds to the meaning of words.
B)are arbitrary in the relationship between words and meaning.
C)can be translated to another without impaired meanings of complex concepts.
D)do not have concepts that are unique to just one particular language.
Q3) Our co-worker says,"It's awful in here." To understand what she means,we must
A)take into account extralinguistic information,such as location and facial expressions.
B)examine the grammatical structure of her comment.
C)examine the morphemes in the statement to determine the smaller units of meaning in the sentence.
D)ignore nonverbal cues so that we are not distracted.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and IQ Testing
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Q1) If you want to preserve your level of intelligence,which of the following should you be most concerned with?
A)A hard blow to the side of your head
B)A hard blow to the back of your head
C)A hard blow to the front of your head
D)A hard blow to any part of the head will have the same impact on intelligence.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of "stereotype threat"?
A)Julie becomes anxious when told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,but she uses this as incentive to earn a high score on the SAT math section.
B)Julie becomes anxious when told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,and even though she is a gifted mathematician,she performs below average on the SAT math section.
C)Julie is told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,but she ignores this information and earns a high score on the SAT math section.
D)Julie is told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,but her preparation for the test allows her to earn a high score on the SAT math section.
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Chapter 9: Exsetntion: Intelligence and IQ Testing
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Q1) Culture-fair tests attempt to measure _____.
A)the intelligence of people coming from inside the culture in which the test was devised
B)cultural background
C)the effects of culture on people's intellectual and creative skills
D)the intelligence of people coming from outside the culture in which the test was devised
Q2) A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point.The person is engaging in _____.
A)functional thinking
B)circular thinking
C)convergent thinking
D)divergent thinking
Q3) Identical twins have IQ correlations around .7 to .8,whereas fraternal twins have IQ correlations of about .3 to .4.What do these correlations suggest?
A)Identical twins have very similar IQs while fraternal twins do not.
B)Both identical twins and fraternal twins have similar IQs.
C)Fraternal twins have very similar IQs while identical twins do not.
D)Neither identical twins or fraternal twins have very similar IQs.
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Chapter 10: Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements is illustrative of the post hoc fallacy?
A)Believing that because most professional athletes lift weights,weightlifting produces professional athletes
B)Believing that because someone is muscular in body type,she is more likely to become a professional athlete
C)Believing that because someone is specially trained,he is more likely to become a professional athlete
D)Believing that because someone has benefited from the best coaching,she will have a good chance of becoming a professional athlete
Q2) "Human beings do not demonstrate _____," said Professor Spiegelman."Otherwise,most newborns would think that the physician who was handling the childbirth was its mother or father!"
A)plasticity
B)reflexes
C)instincts
D)imprinting
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Chapter 10: Exsetntion: Human Development
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Q1) Which hormone increases in production during puberty and is generally believed to be responsible for physical growth?
A)Gall bladder bile
B)Estrogen in girls and testosterone in boys
C)Adrenal androgen
D)Serotonin
Q2) 16-year old Brenda's parents are political conservatives,while she identifies more with liberal political views.When asked her political orientation,Brenda seems uncertain and does not respond.Brenda is dealing with the _____ crisis.
A)industry versus inferiority
B)autonomy versus shame and doubt
C)ego integrity versus despair
D)identity versus role confusion
Q3) The correct order of the stages of prenatal development is
A)fetal stage,embryonic stage,zygotic stage.
B)germinal stage,embryonic stage,fetal stage.
C)zygotic stage,fetal stage,germinal stage.
D)zygotic stage,embryonic stage,germinal stage, fetal stage.
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Chapter 11: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Jane just met Allen at a bar.They talked for awhile and shared a cab home.She tells her roommates that she cannot stop thinking about him.What type of love is she experiencing?
A)Fatuous
B)Empty
C)Romantic
D)Infatuation
Q2) Who proposed the triangular theory of love?
A)Robert Sternberg
B)Soloman Asch
C)Stanley Milgram
D)Philip Zimbardo
Q3) Mrs.Woodham wants her students to embrace the book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.She believes the message is a powerful one.What might you encourage her to do?
A)Have each student read the book and write a response.
B)Get the book on CD and play it for her students.
C)Read the book to the students every day.
D)Read the book to the students and then have them read it themselves.
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Chapter 11: Exsetntion: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Little Denny is listening to Grandpa Joe talk about the "good old days." How is Grandpa Joe likely to be feeling?
A)Tired
B)Sad
C)Happy
D)Nostalgic
Q2) "Look at those two,they can't keep their hands off of each other! They've only been on two dates,and they barely know each other!" What type of love is being depicted?
A)Companionate
B)Infatuation
C)Committed
D)Intimate
Q3) According to the triangular theory of love proposed by Sternberg,_____ love is the ultimate love.
A)romantic
B)companionate
C)fatuous
D)consummate
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Chapter 12: Stress, Coping, and Health
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Q1) Research has found that the body's immune system can attack your own body parts,leading to all but which of the following conditions?
A)Arthritis
B)AIDS
C)Multiple sclerosis
D)Diabetes
Q2) Amanda signed up with the army right after she graduated from high school.She was soon sent to Iraq.During her two years in Iraq,she witnessed many gruesome catastrophes.Upon returning home,she felt detached and estranged from her old friends,was easily startled,and had difficulties sleeping due to the vivid memories of the horrific events.Amanda displays the symptoms of A)flashbacks.
B)posttraumatic stress disorder.
C)anxiety.
D)depression.
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Q1) Research into the post-event reactions of those who were living in New York City many months after the attacks on September 11,2001 found which of the following to be true?
A)A majority of those polled demonstrated remarkable resilience to the potential effects of the trauma of 9/11.
B)A majority of those living in New York City at that time had moved to the city since the attacks,indicating that most of those who lived in the city when the attack occurred had left the area.
C)A majority of those polled were suffering significant levels of PTSD symptoms.
D)A majority of those polled were willing to discuss mundane details of their lives,but were very resistant to discussing anything related to the 9/11 attacks.
Q2) Vanna's mother is ill and Vanna is feeling overwhelmed and sad.To cope with this stress of her mother's illness,Vanna has been writing her feelings down in a journal.Vanna is using _____.
A)problem-focused coping
B)emotion-focused coping
C)distraction
D)reappraisal
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Q1) Your friend asks to borrow $50 from you.You tell him no.Then he asks for a mere $10,which you gladly give him.While you feel glad to have helped him out,you may have just experienced the
A)foot-in-the-mouth technique.
B)foot-in-the-door technique.
C)door-in-the-face technique.
D)door-in-the-foot technique.
Q2) Who is least likely to be aggressive?
A)Cody,a Southerner who has just been insulted by a neighbor
B)Juan,who just watched a daylong marathon of slasher movies
C)Jeff,who has been drinking heavily at a bar
D)Shoshone,who lives in Anchorage,Alaska
Q3) The phenomenon whereby we are more likely to believe something we've heard many times is known as the A)availability heuristic.
B)recognition heuristic.
C)rule of thumb.
D)bandwagon fallacy.
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Q1) Who is more likely to engage in physical aggression?
A)Billy,who was raised in North Dakota
B)Mao Lin,who was raised in Beijing,China
C)Beau,who was raised in Savannah,Georgia
D)Tanaka,who was raised in Tokyo,Japan
Q2) When she is not at the bar,Jayla preaches to everyone about the dangers of smoking.However,she does smoke an occasional cigarette when she is at the bar with her friends-although at those times,she feels somewhat frustrated by her own smoking behavior.Jayla is likely experiencing _____ when she smokes.
A)groupthink
B)cognitive dissonance
C)social facilitation
D)compliance
Q3) According to research,humans have a biological need for interpersonal interactions.This is called the
A)need for friends theory.
B)need for intimacy theory.
C)need for interpersonal interactions theory.
D)need to belong theory.
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the dimensions of the Big Five?
A)Conscientiousness
B)Extraversion
C)Openness to experience
D)Sociability
Q2) Dylan believes that his hard work,rather than luck or chance,resulted in his promotion at work.Dylan probably has
A)an external locus of control.
B)self-delusions.
C)an internal locus of control.
D)an inferiority complex.
Q3) The neo-Freudian,Carl Jung,suggested the existence of a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people,called _____.
A)schemas
B)archetypes
C)prototypes
D)instincts
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Chapter 14: Exsetntion: Personality
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Q1) Achak is upset.He tells his roommate that if his psychology teacher knew how to teach,Achak would not have flunked his midterm.What locus of control is Achak demonstrating?
A)Latent
B)Reciprocal
C)Internal
D)External
Q2) Research suggests that the Big Five personality traits are
A)unique to each culture.
B)identical in every culture.
C)fairly consistent across many cultures.
D)useless for cultural evaluation.
Q3) Which of the following statements might lead to feelings of incongruence?
A)"If you want to go out for the cheerleading squad,I think that is wonderful."
B)"I would rather you join the band than go out for the basketball team."
C)"I think it is wonderful when you draw pictures,but why don't you try using markers next time?"
D)"I know that you are shy,so why don't you sit in the back of the class?"
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Q1) Any behavior that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life is considered abnormal because it creates _____.
A)deviance
B)distress
C)disapproval
D)impairment
Q2) After being passed up for a promotion and then getting into a heated argument with his son,a man disappears.He shows up two weeks later in another town with no memory of who he is or how he got there.He appears to be suffering from _____.
A)schizophrenia
B)a somatoform disorder
C)a dissociative disorder
D)factitious disorder
Q3) Which psychological disorder has the strongest evidence for a genetic link?
A)Antisocial personality disorder
B)Bipolar disorder
C)Obsessive-compulsive disorder
D)Schizophrenia
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Chapter 15: Exsetntion: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about the DSM-5?
A)It describes symptoms and includes information regarding the prevalence of specific disorders.
B)It contains 12 specific "classifications" of mental illnesses.
C)It is used to diagnose medical conditions that may have an impact on mental health.
D)It is used to diagnose all kinds of medical conditions.
Q2) Believing that other people,or the government,is out to get you is one way in which sufferers of schizophrenia experience their A)compulsions.
B)delusions.
C)hallucinations.
D)obsessions.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true regarding suicide?
A)More men than women attempt suicide.
B)More women than men attempt suicide.
C)Depression is a better predictor of suicide than are feelings of hopelessness.
D)There is no relationship between age and attempting suicide.
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Chapter 16: Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Q1) Karen is a family therapist who has just arrived at her client family's home to have dinner with them and spend the evening.Her visit is not social,but rather will be an opportunity for her to see how the family interacts with one another.Karen is using which family therapy model?
A)stratified family therapy
B)structural family therapy
C)logical family intervention
D)strategic family intervention
Q2) Kennedy meets with a therapist who is trying to merge her "quiet expert" with her "risk taker" so that she'll become a complete "risky expert." This would be an example of
A)Ellis' rational emotive behavior therapy.
B)Freud's psychoanalysis.
C)Perls' Gestalt therapy.
D)Rogers' person-centered therapy.
Q3) Rico suffers from bipolar disorder.His psychiatrist will most likely prescribe
A)Lithium.
B)Prozac.
C)Ritalin.
D)Thorazine.
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Q1) Psychotherapy is an intervention designed to help people to deal with and manage
A)legal problems.
B)financial problems.
C)interpersonal problems only.
D)behavioral,emotional,and interpersonal problems.
Q2) In family therapy,a therapist seeks to understand
A)how a person's psychological disorder creates stress for those who love him or her.
B)how family members can help someone with a psychological disorder live a productive life.
C)the family context out of which problems presumably arise.
D)why some families seem to experience more problems than others.
Q3) Dedric is being asked to anticipate an upcoming tennis match against a highly ranked opponent.He is to imagine falling behind by one set,in a best of two of three sets match,and what he would say to himself in such a scenario.This example illustrates what Meichenbaum would call
A)systematic desensitization.
B)person-centered therapy.
C)rational emotive behavior therapy.
D)stress inoculation training.
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