Psychopathology Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, encompassing their origin, development, classification, and manifestations. This course explores the major categories of mental illness as defined by contemporary diagnostic systems, such as the DSM and ICD, and examines the biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of psychopathological conditions. Students will learn about common disorders including anxiety, mood, psychotic, personality, and neurodevelopmental disorders, with an emphasis on symptomatology, etiological theories, assessment tools, and evidence-based treatment strategies. The course also addresses historical perspectives, stigma, and current debates within the field of mental health.
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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 ______ model emphasizes a broad perspective that takes into account the social contexts in which abnormal behavior occurs.
A) sociocultural
B) Gestalt
C) social learning
D) environmental
Answer: A
Q2) Compared to the United States, the rates of schizophrenia in countries such as Colombia India, Denmark, Nigeria, and the former Soviet Union are_______.
A) lower
B) about the same
C) higher
D) lower for women and higher for men
Answer: B
Q3) Many people today argue that homosexuality should be considered a normal variation in behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) A little boy is allowed to play with a laboratory rat and shows no fear of it. Then, a scientist makes a scary noise by banging an iron bar whenever the little boy reaches For the rat. Soon, the boy begins crying whenever the rat comes near him. In this study, The boy's fear of the rat is the ______.
A) unconditioned stimulus
B) unconditioned response
C) conditioned stimulus
D) conditioned response
Answer: D
Q2) The hypothalamus is part of the ______.
A) limbic system
B) endocrine system
C) basal ganglia
D) hindbrain
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) 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
Q2) In the Middle Ages, abnormal behaviors were classified according to ______ causes.
A) genetic and environmental
B) environmental and natural
C) demonic possession and natural
D) demonic possession and genetic
Answer: C
Q3) Psychological tests are unstructured methods of assessment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Stress-Related Disorders
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Q1) Individuals with a history of childhood sexual abuse are more at risk for developing PTSD.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The general adaptation syndrome is based on the work of ______.
A) Lawrence Frank
B) Peter Kubiovsky
C) Oliver Sacks
D) Hans Selye
Q3) In PTSD, the loss of the ability to have loving feelings is which of the following common features of traumatic stress disorders?
A) Avoidance behavior
B) Emotional distress and impaired functioning
C) Heightened arousal
D) Emotional numbing
Q4) EMDR is a technique to treat ______.
A) PTSD
B) phobia
C) generalized anxiety disorder
D) obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Agoraphobia is often but not always associated with__________.
A) panic disorder
B) generalized anxiety disorder
C) social anxiety disorder
D) specific phobia
Q2) The prevailing understanding of the causes of panic disorder reflects a combination of _____________________.
A) biochemical and anatomical brain anomalies
B) cognitive and biological factors
C) cognitive and emotional factors
D) repressed psychological material and social prohibitions
Q3) Persistent, excessive fears of certain objects or situations are called ______.
A) specific phobias
B) social phobias
C) complex phobias
D) agoraphobia
Q4) Generalized anxiety disorder tends to be a temporary problem that fades over time. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Dissociative
Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, and Psychological Factors Affecting
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Q1) What percent of people with multiple personalities studied in Canada had attempted suicide?
A) 12
B) 32
C) 52
D) 72
Q2) In the college student case of depersonalization described in the text, the student experienced ______during the period of his disorder.
A) inability to develop a relationship with a girl
B) improvement in his grades
C) many physical complaints which he took to his college's health center
D) too much substance abuse
Q3) Fugue states commonly last for months or even years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The progressive relaxation technique heightens awareness of ______.
A) environmental stressors
B) finger temperature
C) time passage
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Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the 10 cognitive distortions related to depression as described by Burns?
A) all or nothing thinking
B) analytical reasoning
C) compartmentalization
D) objectivism
Q2) Which of the following drugs (or drug groups) is used to treat depressive disorders?
A) electrolytes
B) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
C) lithium
D) benzodiazepines
Q3) Research indicates that ______ who ruminate more following the loss of a loved one or when feeling down or sad are more likely to develop severe and prolonged depression.
A) neither men nor women
B) only women
C) only men
D) both men and women
Q4) Describe the features of major depression.
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Chapter 8: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
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Q1) The original formula for Coca-Cola contained an extract of cocaine.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is cited as a complication of cocaine use?
A) ulcers of the nostrils
B) cancer of the throat
C) diabetes
D) pancreatic damage
Q3) Two of the major types of substance use disorders identified in the DSM-5 are substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Drug-related problems are more frequent among ethnic minorities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Among Americans aged 12 or older, about 7 in 10 report having used marijuana or hashish at some point in their lives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Sleep-Wake Disorders
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Q1) What factors contribute to the imbalance between energy intake and expenditure that underlies obesity?
Q2) Overeating in orally fixated people would likely be triggered by ______.
A) reminders of the Oedipus complex
B) sexual intercourse
C) stress
D) nightmares
Q3) A combination of antidepressants and cognitive-behavior therapy has proven to be the ideal treatment for bulimia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most eating disorders develop in nurturing, conflict-free families.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Poorer people also exercise less regularly than more affluent people do.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the features of binge-eating disorder and how it differs from bulimia.
Q7) Discuss the causal factors involved with anorexia and bulimia.
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Chapter 10: Disorders Involving Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) Most rapes in the United States are committed by strangers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the role of learning skills in terms of sexual performance and satisfaction.
Q3) Which of the following is a fact rather than an inaccurate cultural myth about rape?
A) Rape is a crime of violence, not passion or sexual desire.
B) Rape usually results from a misunderstanding that gets out of hand.
C) Women secretly want to be overpowered by men.
D) If a woman initiates touching or petting with a man, it's her own fault if things go too far.
Q4) Boris becomes sexually aroused by depriving himself of oxygen as he approaches orgasm during masturbation. He does this by putting a plastic bag over his head. This extremely risky Practice is called ______.
A) necrophilia
B) hypoxyphilia
C) frotteurism
D) scatologia
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement?
A) Amphetamines can cause behavior in normal people that mimics generalized anxiety disorder.
B) Some positive symptoms of schizophrenia are associated with decreased dopamine activity.
C) Phenothiazines inhibit schizophrenic behavior patterns.
D) Autopsies on the brains of schizophrenics show decreased numbers of dopamine receptor sites in certain parts of the brain.
Q2) Hallucinations may involve any of the five senses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ______ claimed in 1961 that mental illness does not exist in his book, The Myth of Mental Illness.
A) Oliver Sacks
B) Lawrence Frank
C) Thomas Szasz
D) Hans Strupp
Q4) What are delusions? Describe types of delusions common to schizophrenia.
Q5) Describe the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Provide examples.
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Chapter 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders
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Q1) Explain the problem of confusing diagnostic labels with explanation. How might this blurring fall into the trap of circular reasoning?
Q2) Millon suggests that histrionic personality disorder may be rooted in childhood experiences in which social reinforcers, such as parental attention, are connected to the child's appearance and willingness to perform for others.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The close relationships between compulsive gambling and addictive disorders led to its reclassification as a type of _________in DSM-5 that is called gambling disorder. A) mood disorder
B) adjustment disorder
C) personality disorder
D) addictive disorder
Q4) Why is it important to weigh in the impact of cultural and sociopolitical factors when arriving at a diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder?
Q5) 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) Children most at risk for developing cultural-familial retardation are children
A) whose parents have intellectual developmental disorder
B) born into poverty
C) born into primitive cultures
D) whose parents are divorced before the child reaches age 5
Q2) The major cause of autism appears to be parents who are cold, distant, and rejecting toward their child.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Children who are hyperactive are often given central nervous system depressants to help calm them down.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Asperger Syndrome has been given a separate diagnostic category from autism spectrum disorders in the DSM-5.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What is PKU? How is it diagnosed? What causes PKU?
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders and Disorders
Related
to Aging
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Q1) Parkinson's disease is characterized by uncontrollable shaking or tremors, rigidity, disturbances in posture (leaning forward), and lack of control over body movements.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most dementias are ______ and ______.
A) episodic, reversible
B) progressive, reversible
C) episodic, irreversible
D) progressive, irreversible
Q3) The human form of mad-cow disease, a fatal illness spread by eating infected beef, is a variant of _______.
A) Huntington's disease
B) Parkinson's disease
C) vascular dementia
D) Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
Q4) Discuss the similarities and differences between Alzheimer's disease and Vascular neurocognitive disorder.
Q5) What are delirium tremens? What causes this condition? How should it be dealt with medically?
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Chapter 15: Abnormal Psychology and the Law
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Q1) In dealing with the insanity defense, jurors must cope with which of the following challenges?
A) Limiting media bias by avoiding national and local news during the course of the trial.
B) Deciding if the defendant was mentally incapacitated at the time of the crime.
C) Ascertaining whether the M'Naghten standard or the Durham standard should apply.
D) Determining if the client understands if his or her acts were wrong.
Q2) The courts have ruled that the rights of an intended victim are outweighed by a client's rights to confidentiality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Incorrectly predicting the occurrence of a problematic behavior is known as a(n) ______.
A) inherent negative bias
B) inherent positive bias
C) false negative
D) false positive
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