Psychology of Mental Illness Review
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Psychology of Mental Illness explores the scientific understanding of mental disorders, emphasizing the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to their development and manifestation. The course covers major categories of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, psychotic, and personality disorders, examining their symptoms, causes, and treatment options. Students will engage with current diagnostic criteria, ethical considerations, and the impact of mental illness on individuals and society. Through case studies, research analysis, and discussion, this course aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of mental health issues and promote empathy toward those affected.
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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) If Barry were to be admitted to Homewood Retreat in the late 1800s, what kind of treatment would he have likely received under the care of Dr. Lett?
A)Compassionate and caring moral therapy
B)Drug treatment
C)Electro-convulsive treatment (ECT)
D)Psychoanalysis
Answer: A
Q2) The first theory of deviant behaviour attributed the behaviour to A)demonic possessions.
B)dysfunctional learning experiences.
C)excessive black bile.
D)hypochondria.
Answer: A
Q3) Who delivers the majority of primary mental health care in Canada?
A)Psychiatrists
B)Psychologists and psychological associates
C)General Practitioners
D)Social Workers
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) Research has demonstrated the use of linkage analysis. Zai and colleagues (2005)in Toronto found an association between obsessive-compulsive disorder and a _______ gene.
A)dopamine
B)serotonin
C)norepinephrine
D)GABA
Answer: D
Q2) Another name for the biological paradigm is:
A)Medical model
B)Neural paradigm
C)Biochemical paradigm
D)Psychiatric paradigm
Answer: A
Q3) The diathesis-stress and biopsychosocial models are more or less the same thing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
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Q1) fMRI has been used to diagnose schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) People with symptoms of depression but not enough symptoms to meet the threshold for depression:
A)Can still have significant impairment and they still warrant treatment.
B)Are deemed to not have significant impairment and do not warrant treatment.
C)Are not valid candidates to be included in research on depression.
D)Are not reliable candidates to be included in research on depression.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is a structured interview?
A)MMPI
B)SCID
C)TAT
D)Rorschach
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) What research design is illustrated by the following? A therapist gathers data showing that, repeatedly, a patient is better on days his wife visits and worse on days she does not.
A)Observation
B)Correlational method
C)Single-subject (ABAB)experiment
D)Mixed design
Q2) Case studies allow us to make definitive claims about the causes of mental illness. A)True
B)False
Q3) "The primary problem is an unmeasureable unconscious anger at his mother." What makes this statement unscientific?
A)It is not reliable.
B)It is not valid.
C)It is not theoretical.
D)It is not testable.
Q4) Define internal and external validity. Which is more important for an experiment? Why?
Q5) What are the benefits of meta-analysis? What are the drawbacks?
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) Implicit and explicit memory tests conducted by University of Toronto researcher McCabe (1999)on high and low anxiety sensitivity scorers have shown:
A)Low scorers show enhanced explicit memory for positive words
B)Higher scorers show enhanced explicit memory for positive words
C)There was no difference in implicit memory between high and low scorers
D)There was no difference in implicit memory between social and physical threat words
Q2) Sally startles easily, whereas it takes a lot to rile her sister Rose. Which sister is more likely to have a specific phobia?
A)Sally, because she's autonomically labile.
B)Rose, because she's so laid back if something scares her it will scare her big.
C)Both are equally likely to develop a phobia because they are genetically similar.
D)It's impossible to determine based on this information alone.
Q3) Social anxiety disorder is linked with dropping out of school.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the seven major anxiety disorders? Describe each one.
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Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Sam can't decide what type of treatment to seek for OCD. Your advice to him is to:
A)See a psychoanalyst
B)See a cognitive-behavioural therapist
C)See a medical doctor to get a prescription medication
D)Join a humanistic-based therapy group
Q2) In studying the hypothesis that individuals with OCD have memory deficits, Cuttler and Graf (2009)identified prospective memory as:
A)The ability to remember recent events and experiences
B)The ability to look forward and to remember at the right time or place to perform an intended action
C)The ability to remember recent events and to remember to perform an intended action
D)The ability to remember having performed compulsive activities
Q3) The overall findings regarding treatment of OCD are that:
A)There is no difference between individual or group therapy
B)There is no difference between CBT and ERP
C)Medication and CBT together are no better than CBT and a placebo
D)All of the above
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) Which theory has dominated the study of somatoform disorders?
A)Psychoanalytic
B)Biological
C)Behavioural
D)Cognitive
Q2) Conversion disorder was first studied by Freud, when it was referred to as
A)la belle indifference.
B)hysteria.
C)hypochondriasis.
D)Briquet's syndrome.
Q3) Dr. Davis, a psychoanalyst, and Dr. Besner, a behaviourist, are discussing a case of dissociative identity disorder. It is likely that they will agree that the symptoms arise:
A)Due to an effort to embrace things that are otherwise disliked by the patient.
B)Due to an effort to avoid painful information.
C)By an effort to rise above the family dysfunction.
D)By attributing unpleasant emotions onto others.
Q4) Dissociative disorders are quite common amongst the general population.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Research indicates which cognitive style is most strongly associated with suicide?
A)Rigid thinking
B)Impulsivity
C)Confusion
D)Illogical thinking
Q2) It is possible to prevent depression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to learned helplessness theory, following a failure on an important exam, which of the following explanations for the failure is most likely to lead to depression?
A)This teacher doesn't like me.
B)I am stupid.
C)I was in a bad mood on the day of the test.
D)I did not study hard enough.
Q4) In Canada, physician assisted suicide is legal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Stress-Related Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) The essence of the interactionism model is that:
A)The coping style one typically uses interacts with the stressful situation at hand to produce behaviour.
B)An individual's personality traits and the situation will interact with one another to produce behaviour.
C)One's physiological response interacts with the individual's perception of the situation to produce behaviour.
D)Personality or coping style, the degree of state anxiety, and the situation all interact to produce behaviour.
Q2) Due to Canada's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, the number of veterans with PTSD has ______ since 2007.
A)stayed the same
B)doubled
C)tripled
D)quadrupled
Q3) Job spillover is the notion that stress from work spills over into one's home life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Night eating syndrome is a type of purging disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A factor that influences the fear of fat among individuals with anorexia and bulimia is:
A)Biochemical dysregulation
B)Genetic factors
C)Negative societal stereotypes regarding fat
D)Largely rational
Q3) Hospitalization is often the first step in treating bulimia nervosa.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Julie is a 14 year old girl. She is surfing the internet and discovers a "pro-ana" site. What will she most likely find there?
A)Information about the dangers of eating disorders
B)Information about balanced eating
C)Information about the importance of thinness
D)Information about how to encourage someone else to become anorexic
Q5) Describe the contributions of genetic and biological theory to our understanding of eating disorders.
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) Most hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are
A)visual.
B)tactile.
C)auditory.
D)olfactory.
Q2) The presence of many negative symptoms is a strong predictor of _____ two years following hospitalization.
A)relapse
B)poor quality of life
C)suicide
D)good quality of life
Q3) A deficit in motivation, known as _________, seems to predict poorer life functioning in people with schizophrenia.
A)alogia
B)asociality
C)apathy
D)flat affect
Q4) Discuss the differences between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Q5) Do you agree with the changes to the diagnosis of schizophrenia in DSM-5? Why or why not?
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) Naltrexone is effective for treating alcoholism by:
A)Helping maintain abstinence
B)Reducing cravings
C)Causing vomiting if a person drinks while taking it
D)Making alcohol taste bad
Q2) A Vancouver research study (Tan et al., 2009)regarding the combined use of marijuana and tobacco has shown:
A)A substantial increase in respiratory symptoms and asthma
B)Increase in respiratory disease among those who have smoked at least 50 marijuana joints in their lifetime
C)A decrease in pulmonary functioning, but no change in respiratory symptoms
D)No tangible differences in the number of respiratory symptoms and chronic pulmonary disease
Q3) In order to treat alcoholism successfully, it is important to understand:
A)An individual's motivation for drinking
B)Why an individual prefers a particular drink over another
C)That it is completely unacceptable for an alcoholic to ever have another drink
D)That treatment is unlikely to help
Q4) Contrast biological and psychological therapies for alcohol use.
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) Given that people with borderline personality disorder are impulsive, we would expect them to do poorly on tests that measure functioning of the
A)frontal lobe.
B)parietal lobe.
C)occipital lobe.
D)temporal lobe.
Q2) People are typically distressed and seek treatment for personality disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders may be distinguished only by the presence of which of the following symptoms in schizotypal persons?
A)Indifference to others
B)Visual hallucinations
C)Flat affect, little overt emotion
D)Overtly odd behaviours
Q4) Antisocial personality disorder is virtually impossible to treat.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How are the clusters of personality disorders distinguished?
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Chapter 14: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) According to Marshall and his colleagues, which of the following factors has been shown to reduce treatment amenability among sexual offenders?
A)Thinking that their victims will not make credible witnesses
B)Blaming their victim for seducing them
C)Believe they can control their own behaviour without professional assistance
D)All of the above
Q2) In the Green and Fleming (1990)review, which of the following factors was not found to predict successful adjustment following sex-reassignment surgery?
A)High expectations for the surgery
B)Emotional stability
C)Psychotherapy in the context of a gender identity program
D)All of the above choices are correct.
Q3) The Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women has found that ____ of sexual assaults are perpetrated by men who know the victim.
A)81%
B)61%
C)41%
D)21%
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) Brain imaging studies (Gao et al., 2010; Jones et al., 2009; Marsh et al., 2008)on the biological bases of cognitive and affective deficits found in antisocial youths show that these youths experience:
A)Autonomic arousal to the distress of others
B)Amygdala hyporeactivity to the distress of others
C)An increase in amygdala-ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity
D)All of the above
Q2) Which of the following is a learning disorder?
A)Pervasive developmental disorder
B)Mental retardation
C)Mathematics disorder
D)Attention deficit disorder
Q3) Autism was formerly considered a form of:
A)Learning disability
B)Mental retardation
C)Schizophrenia
D)Conduct disorder
Q4) Medication can be effective in curing children of learning disabilities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
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Q1) According to a 2004 survey of practicing psychologists, which of the following factors were deemed to be of critical importance for suicide in the elderly?
A)Severe hopelessness
B)A family history of suicide
C)Depression
D)All of the above
Q2) Contrary to popular belief, _________ is indeed a problem among the elderly.
A)depression
B)eating disorders
C)alcohol abuse
D)pain disorder
Q3) The most prominent symptom of dementia is difficulty remembering past events.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dementias, other than Alzheimer's disease, tend to have acute onset.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Paraphrenia is schizophrenia with onset in old age.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Outcomes and Issues in Psychological Intervention
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Q1) What percentage of surveyed practitioners (Ogrodniczuk et al., 2010)believe that randomized control trials were overemphasized?
A)30%
B)40%
C)50%
D)60%
Q2) In a survey of practitioners, Ogrodniczuk et al. (2010)revealed that 60% of practitioners endorsed which of the following?
A)That psychotherapy research does not reflect the complexities of group therapy.
B)Research procedures tend to support the typical therapy process.
C)Randomized control trials are appropriately emphasized.
D)Therapist, patients, and settings tend to reflect real life clinics.
Q3) According to Messer and Abbass (2010), which elements of contemporary psychodynamic treatment of personality disorders are emphasized?
A)Defensive and affective restructuring
B)Defensive and cognitive restructuring
C)Defensive, cognitive and behavioural restructuring
D)Defensive, affective and cognitive restructuring
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) Who is most likely to be a violent offender?
A)Patricia, a 40-year old addicted to prescription painkillers
B)Robert, a 53-year old smoker with schizophrenia
C)Dylan, a 24-year old high school dropout who uses drugs
D)Mallory, a 24-year old single mother
Q2) Relative to Ontario's criteria, what is one way that Saskatchewan's criteria for imposing a Community Treatment Order differs?
A)It is more stringent in terms of the number of previous hospital admissions.
B)It requires that services exist within the province to treat the individual in question.
C)It requires that the individual is capable of making the decision on their own whereas Ontario will make the decision for the individual regardless of capacity.
D)It requires that the individual complies with the CTO for two years whereas Ontario only requires that they do for one year.
Q3) One reason to use community treatment orders is because people with mental illness often cannot make treatment decisions for themselves.
A)True
B)False
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