Psychology of Mental Disorders
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Course Introduction
Psychology of Mental Disorders explores the origins, symptoms, and treatment of major psychological conditions as classified in the DSM-5, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The course examines how biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors interact to influence the development and course of these conditions. Students will analyze various theoretical perspectives, diagnostic criteria, and treatment approaches, while considering ethical issues and the impact of stigma. Through case studies and current research, the course prepares students to critically assess mental health issues and apply psychological principles to real-world scenarios.
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Abnormal Psychology Sixth Canadian Edition by Gordon L. Flett
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Definitional and Historical
Considerations, and Canadas Mental Health
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Q1) Women seek mental health care more than men.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) For what viewpoint on the treatment of mentally ill people is writer J.F. Lehman famous?
A)He was a strong proponent of moral treatment.
B)He preferred psychotherapy in favour of the medical management of symptoms.
C)He attempted to overcome neglect and suffering by moving patients into the community.
D)He promoted the use of stringent discipline, even to the point of physical punishment. Answer: D
Q3) Lobotomies were never performed in Canada.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) A major emphasis of client-centered therapy is:
A)Emphasizing self-actualization
B)Unconditional positive regard
C) Improving awareness of one's own behaviour
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The biological paradigm adopts the stance that mental illness is the result of physical illness.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Freud's limited sample makes it difficult to say that his therapy works for everyone.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The phenotype changes over time; the genotype does not.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
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Q1) The MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)test is superior to a CT scan (i.e., computerized axial tomography)because:
A)It is less expensive
B)Patients find it less anxiety-provoking
C)It does not rely on the use of radiation
D)All of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Zachary, a hunter from the James Bay area, was given the Kohs Blocks test and completed the test so fast that his IQ went "off the scale" (exceeded 180)on all seven examples. What does this tell us about IQ tests?
A)The scale was invalid
B)IQ scales require a greater range to capture all levels of functioning
C)IQ tests can be biased in favour of the Inuit due to their specialized skills
D)Because of their tendency to get lower IQ scores, Inuit's performance scores are often adjusted upward
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) A double-blind procedure is when one group is given a placebo and the other is given an actual drug.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the results of the 1990 Ontario Mental Health Supplement study, the biggest early risk factor for a subsequent mental disorder is:
A)Failure to graduate from high school
B)Having low income
C)Parental mental disorder
D)None of the above
Q3) In the field of psychopathology, what is the most common use of the experiment?
A)Evaluating the effects of therapies
B)Discovering the causes of disorders
C)Disconfirming the results of correlational studies
D)Identifying third variables
Q4) If anxiety has a lifetime prevalence of 4%, you have a 4% chance of being anxious.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) Watson and Rayner used ________ to condition a fear of white rats in Little Albert.
A)operant conditioning
B)observational learning
C)classical conditioning
D)all of the above
Q2) Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder link social anxiety disorder with:
A)Low public self-consciousness
B)Perfectionistic standards
C)An attentional bias that focuses attention on neutral social information
D)An attentional bias that focuses attention on positive social information
Q3) Researchers studying the psychometric adequacy of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI)allege the following criticism:
A)It has a high false-positive rate.
B)It does not correspond with current diagnostic criteria.
C)It overemphasizes physiological symptoms.
D)Its number of factors remains uncertain.
Q4) Anxiety disorders are the most common psychological disorders.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Douglas believes that adding three shakes of pepper to all of his food will keep him from getting sick. A cognitive-behavioural therapist will focus mainly on A)having Douglas remove all the pepper from his house so that he cannot put it on his food.
B)challenging Douglas's beliefs about pepper and illness.
C)having Douglas research whether pepper is an antimicrobial substance.
D)challenging Douglas to try eating without adding pepper to see if he does in fact get sick.
Q2) 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
Q3) 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?
Q4) How would you treat a client with trichotillomania? Why would it work?
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) Mildred has been struggling with feelings of chronic depersonalization for several years. If she has depersonalization/derealization disorder, she most likely:
A)Has impaired memory functioning
B)Has a well-developed sense of self, just feelings of not being present
C)Has experienced some abuse at an earlier age
D)Is not employed
Q2) Among the dissociative disorders, dissociative fugue is characterized by:
A)Massive repression
B)Moving away and establishing a new identity due to memory loss
C)Sudden development following severe stress
D)Memory loss for virtually all past events
Q3) The somatoform and dissociative disorders are thought to be rooted in:
A)Anxiety
B)The body
C)Faulty cognitions
D)Depression
Q4) What is the controversy surrounding repressed memories? Explain the importance of this controversy in the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder.
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Initial research on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy indicates that rates of relapse for depression are:
A)Not reduced as a result of treatment
B)Reduced only among patients with three or more past episodes of depression
C)Actually increased rather than decreased, presumably because the person has become more self-focused
D)None of the above are true; existing results are too inconsistent across studies and do not permit conclusions to be drawn
Q2) Ken's mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Dean's father was diagnosed with depression. Which of the following is true?
A)Ken is at higher risk than Dean of developing depression.
B)Dean is at higher risk than Ken of developing depression.
C)Dean is at higher risk than Ken of developing bipolar disorder.
D)It's impossible to predict whether Ken or Dean will develop either disorder.
Q3) The number of symptoms and duration of symptoms for a diagnosis of depression is a widely accepted decision.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Stress-Related Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) The Type D personality has been positively associated with which type of coping?
A)Avoidance
B)Problem-focused
C)Emotion-focused
D)None of the above
Q2) Simon experiences severe levels of anger, anxiety, and depression. His mood fluctuates closely with his job success, although he places a great deal of pressure upon himself to succeed. Simon would have Type D personality if
A)he avoids expressing his emotional disposition.
B)he freely discloses when he feels negative emotion.
C)he also has coronary heart disease.
D)he states that he dislikes his job.
Q3) What are some of the major factors that contribute to essential hypertension?
Q4) Members of the Canadian military who served in Afghanistan were __________to have PTSD than other military personnel.
A)as likely
B)more likely
C)less likely
D)difficult to say as the military doesn't screen for PTSD
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Sybil is a teenager who weighs 100 pounds and has an intense fear of gaining weight, even though girls her age and height should weigh around 110 pounds. She diets and exercises frequently, and has purged after eating by using laxatives. She has not menstruated in the past three months. Sybil is likely suffering from:
A)Anorexia nervosa, restricting type
B)Anorexia nervosa, binging-purging type
C)Bulimia nervosa, purging type
D)A diagnosis cannot be made because the criteria have not been satisfied
Q2) Eating disorder not otherwise specified is diagnosed at which rates?
A)Between 10% and 30%
B)Between 20% and 40%
C)Between 40% and 60%
D)Between 40% and 70%
Q3) Fat talk and body mass index (BMI)are related in that:
A)As BMI increases, so does fat talk
B)As BMI decreases, so does fat talk
C)As BMI increases, fat talk decreases
D)There is no relationship between BMI and fat talk
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) Kraepelin labelled schizophrenia "dementia praecox" to reflect his view that the main characteristic of schizophrenia is
A)intellectual decline and early onset.
B)confusion and delusions.
C)stereotyped behaviour and autistic aloneness.
D)underlying thought disorder.
Q2) The word 'dementia' in 'dementia praecox' was used by Kraepelin to refer to:
A)Acute amnestic syndrome
B)Stroke-like language disorders
C)Aging-like dementias
D)Mental enfeeblement
Q3) A review by Liddle (2000)found that the strongest predictor of inappropriate affect in schizophrenic patients is:
A)Brain injury
B)Traumatic events like sexual abuse
C)Chronic cognitive impairment
D)Dopamine depletion
Q4) Haloperidol (Haldol)is the single best medication for treating schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) Heatherton and Sargent (2009)found that adolescents who have high exposure to smoking in movies, as compared to adolescents with low exposure, are:
A)Four times more likely to try smoking or become smokers
B)Three times more likely to try smoking or become smoker
C)Two times more likely to try smoking or become smoker
D)No more likely to try smoking or become a smoker
Q2) The condition known as delirium tremens refers to:
A)A symptom of conversion disorder.
B)The symptoms that accompany an overdose of heroin.
C)The symptoms that may accompany withdrawal from alcohol.
D)The hallucinations common in schizophrenia.
Q3) Tolerance for alcohol is mostly determined by psychological factors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cocaine is classified as a A)sedative.
B)stimulant.
C)barbiturate.
D)hallucinogen.
Q5) Contrast biological and psychological therapies for alcohol use.
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is emphasized in Linehan's dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder?
A)Systematic assessment before therapy begins
B)Calm acceptance of contradictions and acting out
C)Focusing on fears of vulnerability in a dangerous, unpredictable world
D)Setting appropriate limits clearly from the beginning
Q2) Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder
A)are the terms from DSM-II and DSM-IV for the same basic disorder.
B)are genetically linked.
C)are unrelated conditions.
D)have similar symptoms but a different etiology.
Q3) Meta-analysis research (Verheul & Widiger, 2004)found that the third most prevalent personality disorder diagnosed via structured interviews is ______________, with prevalence rates ranging from 8% to 13% of clinical samples.
A)borderline personality disorder
B)antisocial personality disorder
C)narcissistic personality disorder
D)personality disorder not otherwise specified
Q4) Discuss the rationale for including personality disorders in the DSM-5.
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Chapter 14: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) The internet has made it easier for people to access child pornography but has also led to:
A)Finding the child victims and offering them help
B)Charging the parents of the children with neglect
C)Finding large networks of users and arresting them
D)All of the above
Q2) Which of the following attachment styles has been linked with sex offenders?
A)Secure
B)Insecure
C)Avoidant
D)Ambivalent
Q3) Canada's best known sexual sadist is most likely:
A)Russell Williams
B)Robert Pickton
C)Karl Toft
D)Paul Bernardo
Q4) Name and describe one sexual dysfunction from each stage of the human sexual response cycle.
Q5) Why do people with paraphilias have low motivation for treatment and what can be done to counter that?
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) Peter is 13 and quite anxious. His parents are investigating treatment for him and are taking him to his family doctor for help. What treatment is the doctor likely to recommend for successful initial treatment?
A)Medication
B)Watchful waiting
C)Cognitive-behavioural therapy
D)Physical activity
Q2) Genetic causes are at the root of ____ of cases of autism.
A)10%
B)20%
C)35%
D)50%
Q3) Autism was first identified by:
A)Sigmund Freud
B)Leo Kanner
C)Emil Kraepelin
D)Eugen Blueler
Q4) Billy is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. What type of treatment would you recommend for him and why do you think it will help?
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Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following statements is an example of an age effect?
A)Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
B)Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
C)Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well than younger adults on measures of academic performance.
D)In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.
Q2) A review of the literature indicated that the top five correlates of delirium among elderly hospitalized patients are:
A)Low education, medical illness, being on medication, age, and male gender
B)Dementia, medical illness, drug sensitivity, malnutrition, and age
C)Dementia, medical illness, being on medication, age, and male gender
D)Low education, brain trauma, drug sensitivity, age, and female gender
Q3) What factors have contributed to the stereotypes associated with dementia and delirium among older adults?
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Chapter 17: Outcomes and Issues in Psychological Intervention
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Q1) According to Dobson and Hamilton (2002), what should effectiveness researchers try to maximize in their studies?
A)Internal validity correct answer
B)External validity correct answer
C)Ecological validity
D)Experimental validity
Q2) Barry is depressed and his wife Rhonda encourages him to seek therapy. He is reluctant, but agrees to go so long as she joins him. What is the likelihood that couples therapy will help Barry's depression?
A)It is unlikely to help, as he needs to focus on his issues without Rhonda's input
B)It is unlikely to help, as Rhonda will most likely direct the sessions and do most of the talking
C)It is likely to help, because any therapy tends to help depression
D)It is likely to help, because Rhonda may be contributing to his depression and she can learn what to do differently
Q3) Therapy research is usually more restrictive than what is seen in the community.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) Melanie is learning about what she should and should not do in her role as a psychologist. She is learning:
A)Laws
B)Morals
C)Ethics
D)Principles
Q2) Mental health courts can help divert the mentally ill to treatment rather than jail.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Tommy is a 9 year old who has been referred to therapy by his teacher. She is concerned about his seeming inattentiveness and hyperactive behaviour. Tommy's parents have noticed the same behaviours at home, but were not too concerned until the teacher asked them to get him help. Tommy, on the other hand, is not bothered by his behaviour at all, and when asked about why he behaves that way at school, states that he is bored. If you are the therapist treating Tommy, who is your client and who do you need to get consent from? What would the goals for treatment be? Explain.
Q4) How do civil and criminal commitment differ, and under what conditions would each be utilized?
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