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| An otherwise “normal” person during hypnotic suggestion is made to bark, sit, and fetch like a dog. The occurrence of these “abnormal” behaviors lends support to which explanation for abnormality? |
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| Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself and work productively? |
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| “Many people are not aware of the sources of their abnormality, because abnormality often arises from unconscious psychological processes; such people need insight about those processes.” Who would agree most strongly with this statement? |
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| “'Moral treatment' is the best way to deal with abnormality; even the best of us at some time may break under stress.” Who of the following would agree most strongly with this statement? |
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| Immigration and differences in birth rates among minority groups in the United States have caused psychological treatment to become more: |
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| clergy of the Middle Ages. |
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| Mesmer became famous—or infamous—for his work with patients suffering from bodily problems with no physical basis. His patients' disorders are termed |
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| Research shows that danger to self or others is found in |
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| some cases of abnormal functioning. |
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| Hippocrates attempted to treat mental disorders by |
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| correcting underlying physical pathology. |
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| One who studies the history of the field of abnormal psychology most likely would compare our current understanding of abnormal behavior with a book that: |
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| is in the process of being written |
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| If your primary symptom were excessive worry, the best psychotropic drug for you would be an |
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| Which of the following pairs of words best describes the current emphasis in mental health? |
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| prevention and positive psychology |
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| The man who brought about the reforms of moral therapy to northern England was: |
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| Margie's ability to think clearly and remember events has been deteriorating over the last several years. She now has difficulty even reading anything longer than a sentence because she cannot keep track of what she is reading. She is almost completely unable to function intellectually. According to Greek and Roman views, this is an example of: |
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| Several researchers have shown that in a typical year in the United States about what percentage of adults show disturbances severe enough to need clinical treatment? |
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| | One who systematically gathers information in order to describe, predict, and explain abnormality is a clinical: | | [image] |
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| Part of the downfall of moral therapy was that: |
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| it did not work for everyone. |
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| Jena is very unhappy. The condition is chronic and severe. If her psychiatrist prescribed medication it would likely be: |
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| If you are a typical person undergoing therapy in the United States, your therapy will last for: |
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| The practice of trephination was probably used to |
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| allow the release of evil spirits. |
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| The most accurate summary of the field of abnormal psychology at the present time is that clinical psychologists generally |
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| do not accept one definition of abnormality, and practice more than one form of treatment. |
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| Acquiring insight about unconscious psychological processes is a feature of: |
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| Which of the following is estimated to occur most frequently in the adult population of the United States? |
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| Greek and Roman physicians described a person with mania as having symptoms of |
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| euphoria and frenzied activity. |
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| A physician who offers psychotherapy is called a: |
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| The approach to therapy for mental illness in which a person pays a psychotherapist for services is called |
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| The fact that hundreds of thousands of people with severe psychological disturbances end up living on the streets or in jails points out one deficiency of: |
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| In this research question, “Do children from single-parent families show more depression than those from two-parent families,” there is(are) ______ known variable(s). |
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| As opposed to clinical practitioners, who search for individualistic understanding of human behavior, clinical researchers search for general truths about abnormality. The approach of clinical researchers is: |
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| Which of the following is true of the correlation coefficient? |
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| It rangers from –1.00 to +1.00 and indicates the strength and the direction of the relationship between two variable. |
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| A researcher randomly divides young women suffering from anorexia into two groups. Participants in Group A receive psychotherapy and drug treatments; participants in Group B receive attention (but no therapy) and a “sugar pill.” The researcher then compares participants in the two groups on relief of anorexia symptoms. One important criticism of this research is that it is a: |
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| A sugar pill used as the control condition in a drug study is a: |
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| If one were studying the hypothesis that people with high levels of stress are more likely to get cancer and wanted to include a matched control group, that group: |
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| would have low levels of stress |
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| Case studies are useful for |
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| studying unusual problems |
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| Using generally accepted standards, what is the chance that a statistically significant result is due to chance? |
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| Experimenters are generally willing to: |
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| subject animals to more discomfort than humans. |
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| To accomplish random assignment, one could assign participants to groups by |
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| Which of the following results most likely came from an epidemiological study? |
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| The rate of suicide is higher in Ireland than in the United States |
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| If a particular study of alcoholism failed to control for cultural patterns in drinking in the participants, the study would have low: |
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| Research shows that the result of lobotomies was |
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| irreversible brain damage and withdrawal |
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| The function of the double-blind design is to guard against |
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| participant and experimenter expectancies |
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| Seligman's study in which he created learned helplessness in the lab is an example of a(n) ______ study |
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| the independent variable. |
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| A researcher wishes to study the effect of a new drug on symptoms of depression. Research participants are randomly assigned to two groups. Participants in Group A receive the drug whenever they report depressive symptoms to the experimenter; participants in Group B receive nothing when they report depressive symptoms to the experimenter. After a month of this procedure, participants in Group A report significantly fewer symptoms of depression. A serious flaw of this study is that it: |
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| is not a double-blind design. |
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| In single-subject experimental designs, the participant is observed and measured before the manipulation of an independent variable. This initial observation period is called the |
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| A researcher is interested in the effects of a new drug for treating anxiety. He decides to study it in rats by conditioning the fear of a high-pitched noise and then testing rats' reactions with and without the drug. This is an example of: |
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| Which of the following is the best way for clinicians to come to an understanding of abnormal behavior? |
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| to rely on findings that have been supported by multiple research methods |
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| The group of participants that is not exposed to the independent variable under investigation (in an experiment) is called the: |
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| In an experiment on the effects of two new drugs on mood, neither the patients, researchers, nor those who are evaluating mood know which drug the patients are getting. The study is ______ blind. |
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| A researcher wishes to study the effect of a new drug on symptoms of depression. Research participants are randomly assigned to two groups. Participants in Group A receive the drug whenever they report depressive symptoms to the experimenter; participants in Group B receive nothing when they report depressive symptoms to the experimenter. After a month of this procedure, participants in Group A report significantly fewer symptoms of depression. In this study, Group A is the: |
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| Which of the following is true about case studies and single-subject designs? |
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| Single-subject designs have more internal validity |
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| The first step in using the treatment called “systematic desensitization” is to: |
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| teach the skill of relaxation over the course of several sessions |
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| Providing treatment as soon as it is needed, so that problems that are moderate or worse do not become long-term, is called |
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| The model of abnormality that examines the effects of society and culture is the |
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| When a gestalt therapist refuses to meet her patient's demands, the therapist is using |
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| Therapists who often deliberately frustrate and challenge their clients, and who often use role playing and a “here and now” orientation, are: |
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| Multicultural theorists would explain the higher levels of mental illness among poor people as most likely due to |
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| social factors leading to stress |
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| Barney's mother is taking cookies out of the oven. Which of the following would suggest most strongly that the id is firmly in control of Barney's behavior? |
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| Barney grabs some of the cookies and runs. |
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| Which of the following would be most likely to use skillful frustration as a part of therapy? |
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| Evidence in support of the psychodynamic model has come primarily from: |
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| If a person had an anxiety disorder, one would suspect a problem with which of these neurotransmitters? |
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| If you recognize your worth as a person, Carl Rogers would say that you have developed: |
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| unconditional self-regard |
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| According to Freud, another term for the symbolic meaning of dreams is |
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| The model of abnormality that pays particular attention to a client's family structure, societal norms, and a client's roles in society is: |
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| “You can do anything you want. You can lead a perfectly useless life. It is all up to you.” A therapist who would say these frustrating statements as a primary part of the therapy process would follow the ______ tradition |
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| According to psychoanalytic theory, which of the following is true regarding dreams? |
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| They reflect our unconscious desires and needs. |
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| Abnormal chemical activity in the body's endocrine system relates to the release of |
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| According to family systems theory, families that show “disengagement” are characterized by |
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| rigid boundaries between family members. |
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| If a mother seems excessively involved in her child's life such that they do not seem to be independent people, their relationship is said to be |
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| The model of abnormality that focuses on unconscious internal processes and conflicts in behavior is the: |
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| What we would call “conscience” is most like what Freud would call the |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used most often in the treatment of: |
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| the sexual energy of the id |
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| An important factor to consider in using drugs for the treatment of abnormality would be that |
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| some people do not benefit from drug treatments |
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Henry goes into a fit of depression and self-abuse when anyone criticizes or expresses disapproval. Much of what he does is for the purpose of getting people to like him. Cognitive theorists would say that Henry's depression results in large part from: |
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| According to Freud's psychodynamic theory, ineffective interaction of the id, ego, and superego can lead to entrapment at a developmental level. This is called: |
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| Which of the following phrases would one be most likely to hear in a self-help group? |
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| try this it worked for me |
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| The model most likely to use terms such as “resistance” and “transference” is the ______ model. |
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| Evidence that supports the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapies has come from |
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| If you imagine biting into a big, juicy, sour lemon, you are likely to salivate. The lemon is an example of |
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| an unconditioned stimulus |
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Infants tend to do things that feel good. This is in accord with what Freud called: [image] |
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| If a clinician focused on where you placed your drawing on the page, the size of the drawing, and the parts you omitted, you most likely took which of the following tests? |
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| A clinician has developed a test that requires test takers to tell stories about a series of pictures of city skylines. Most likely, this new test is a: |
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| If it were necessary to get the clearest and most accurate picture of the physical anatomy of the brain in order to aid in the diagnosis of a psychological disorder, the method of choice would be |
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| Racine has recently broken up with her boyfriend and at the same time lost her job. Which axis of DSM-IV-TR would these factors be included under |
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| Which of the following tests is likely to have the lowest reliability |
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| An adult frequently displays symptoms of depression at home, but seldom does so at work. In this case, clinical observations of this person at home would lack: |
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| Youssef is the kind of person who breaks laws and rules with no feeling of guilt and is emotionally shallow. He would probably score high on the MMPI-2 scale called: |
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| A patient complains of a phobia. Two lines of questioning by the clinician concern the specific object of the phobia and what the person does when he or she confronts that object. This clinician's orientation is probably: |
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If a clinician wanted to know more detailed information about a person's functioning in a specific area, the clinician would use: |
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| The clinical interviewer most interested in stimuli that trigger abnormal responses would have what orientation? |
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| The single most effective treatment for schizophrenia is: |
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| The greater reliability of the DSM-IV-TR is most likely because of: |
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| its field trials of new criteria and categories. |
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| What kind of validity is most important to clinicians in evaluating the utility of a classification system? |
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| If you received the diagnoses of both social phobia and agoraphobia, your diagnoses would be |
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| The initial problem in studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy is: |
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| defining what it means for a treatment to be successful. |
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| If a clinician begins by asking, “Would you tell me about yourself?” the clinician is most likely conducting |
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| an unstructured interview |
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| Binet and Simon are know for their work in creating a: |
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| A clinician gathers data about what things might be reinforcing to someone's abnormal behavior. This variety of assessment is called: |
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| Clients check off either “Applies” or “Does Not Apply” to a series of 200 items dealing with what they do and what they think in a variety of situations. The kind of test they are taking most likely is a: |
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| A response inventory that asks individuals to provide detailed information about their typical thoughts and assumptions is a(n) |
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| any relevant general medical condition. |
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| Compared to projective tests, personality inventories: |
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| Under the instructions of a psychologist, Tina's mother records the number of times Tina hits her brother at home, and what happens immediately prior to the hitting. In this situation, Tina's mother is |
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In order to study the general effectiveness of treatment, Smith and Glass and their colleagues performed: |
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| a meta-analysis of many studies. |
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| Because people who are manic have very elevated moods, a new test for mania includes questions about how happy the person feels and how often he or she laughs. This test has |
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| The assumption behind the use of projective tests as assessment tools is that: |
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| the responses come from the client's unconscious. |
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| When a person has organic brain impairment, that person would most likely have difficulty completing the/a |
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| The proportion of panic-attack sufferers who are helped at least somewhat by antidepressant drugs is about |
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| The treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder with exposure and response-prevention therapies has produced: |
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| considerable improvement in more than half of those treate |
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| “Everyone has intrusive and unwanted thoughts. Most people ignore them. But some people blame themselves and expect terrible consequences, so they act in ways they hope will neutralize the thoughts.” The type of theorist most likely to agree with this quote would be a: |
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| One of the drawbacks of exposure and response prevention as a therapy is that it: |
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| is less effective with clients with obsessions but no compulsions. |
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| Steve is afraid of eating in public, expecting to be judged negatively and to feel humiliated. As a result, he always makes up excuses when asked out to eat. He would most likely be diagnosed with: |
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| Psychodynamic and humanistic therapies have in common: |
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| their lack of strong support from controlled studies. |
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| Panic disorder develops most often in |
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Karla's phobia about small insects is: [image] |
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| GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter believed to be involved in reducing the excitability of neurons in the limbic system, has been implicated in the etiology of: |
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| generalized anxiety disorder. |
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| A lasting and groundless fear of a specific object, activity, or situation is called: |
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| A college student who is so anxious that he can't function unless his clothes are arranged by color and type in his closet is experiencing: |
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| an obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
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| A phobic person is taken to a snake-handling convention in order to actually confront snakes as part of desensitization training. This is an example of the ______ technique. |
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| Someone who can tell you exactly how many ceiling tiles there are in each classroom and how many people's names were in the credits of the movie he watched last night is exhibiting a: |
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| Panic disorder appears to be related to abnormal activity of which neurotransmitter? |
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| Every once in a while, Ona feels nervous to the point of terror. It seems to come on suddenly and randomly. Her experience is an example of: |
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| Using traditional research studies, which of the following has been shown to be a highly effective long-term treatment for generalized anxiety? |
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| antidepressant medication |
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| If a professor had the notion that there were germs lurking everywhere, on papers students handed in, on books checked out of the library, on the chalk left by the previous teacher, the professor would be experiencing: |
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| Fear differs from anxiety in that |
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| fear is to a specific threat and anxiety is more general. |
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| If a client were instructed to tape-record obsessive thoughts and listen to them for two hours each day, the client would be experiencing what therapy technique? |
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| Antidepressants that are effective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder serve to: |
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| increase serotonin activity in the brain. |
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| Object relations therapists: |
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| use psychodynamic techniques to help patients work through childhood trauma. |
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| Which of the following is true about drug and cognitive treatments for panic disorder? |
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| For an antidepressant to be effective against obsessive-compulsive disorder, it must |
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| increase serotonin activity. |
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| Someone who believes that among our ancestors, those who feared animals, darkness, and heights were more likely to survive long enough to reproduce, represents the ______ explanation of the development of phobias. |
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| Sally is never sure of the right thing to do. She married Tod and has been wondering for years if that was the right thing to do. She is exhibiting: |
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| A neurologist who was working with a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder would be suspicious of abnormality in what region of the brain? |
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| Regarding disasters and stress, which of the following is not true? |
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| The symptoms of disaster-induced stress disorders are different from those of combat-induced disorders |
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| The flight-or-fight system is controlled in part by the: |
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| sympathetic nervous system. |
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| The lymphocytes that identify foreign invaders and trigger the production of other kinds of immune cells are called: |
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last longer than a month. often occur with depression and sleep difficulties. |
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| Which of the following best reflects the correct order of Selye's stages of response to stress? |
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| sympathetic arousal, parasympathetic response, exhaustion |
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Investigators have shown that traumatic events are related to abnormal activity of the neurotransmitter: |
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| A person who has difficulty expressing unpleasant emotions such as anger or hostility is displaying a ______ and is at greater risk for heart disease/asthma. |
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| Salina was terrified during the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 (who wouldn't be?). For a couple of weeks after, she did not sleep well or feel comfortable inside a building. However, gradually the fears diminished, and they disappeared within a month. Her reaction to the earthquake was: |
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| an acute stress disorder. |
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| | Helping survivors talk about their feelings and fears regarding a disaster is designed to: | | [image] |
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| help people express anxiety, anger, and frustration. |
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| Imagine that you just had a “close call” while driving, but now you feel your body returning to normal. Which part of your nervous system is controlling this return to normalcy? |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| Those most likely to experience substantial stress symptoms after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001: |
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If someone were to correlate scores on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale with the numbers of physical (health) complaints, one would most likely find: [image] |
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| a significant positive correlation. |
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| The Social Readjustment Rating Scale does all of the following except: |
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| reflects responses from many different ethnic groups. |
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| Research suggests that which of the following is best related to a person's risk for developing a stress disorder? |
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| generally being described as lacking in resiliency |
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| Looking for rainbows while walking the dog in the rain is an example of a: |
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| Which phase of the general adaptation syndrome is assumed to involve activation of the sympathetic nervous system? |
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| If you are similar to most other people, which of the following are you most likely to do to relieve stress? |
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Maureen is learning to warm her hands. She looks at a dial that reflects the output from a heat-sensitive device on her fingers. She simply tried to make the dial go up. This is a form of: | |
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| | | A person with posttraumatic stress disorder who refuses to talk about it is: |
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| A flash flood hits a small Appalachian community. Those providing critical incident stress debriefing intervention would: |
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| provide short-term counseling services. |
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| We would expect posttraumatic stress disorder to be most common among military personnel who were prisoners of war for a: |
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| long time, and who were not welcomed home. |
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| A woman complains of an assortment of physiological ailments. You think that she is intentionally producing the physical symptoms in order to gain attention. You think that the ailment fills some psychological need. You would diagnose: |
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| Which of the following would you not find on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale? |
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| Research suggests that which of the following people would be most immune to developing a stress disorder following trauma? |
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| someone who believes that events are generally under his or her control |
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| Which of the following accurately describes the sympathetic nervous system pathway of the stress response? |
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| The hypothalamus excites the sympathetic nervous system which excites body organs to release hormones that serve as neurotransmitters, producing even more arousal |
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| Some people are stimulated by exciting, potentially dangerous activities that terrify others. These varying reactions represent differences in: |
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| he part of the body that releases hormones into the bloodstream is the ______ system |
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| A person with posttraumatic stress disorder who has symptoms of derealization and depersonalization is: |
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| experiencing reduced responsiveness. |
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| The organ most related to controlling emotional memories and “turning off” the body's arousal is the |
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| After Marie's plane crashed, her mother came to stay with her. Her friends visited often, and went to lunch and dinner with her occasionally. This situation, which probably contributed to Marie's coping ability after the accident, relates to ______ as a factor in her response to the stress. |
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| Of the following, the individual with the highest risk of developing heart disease is: |
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| A person who copes well with a happy event in life is showing a positive |
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| Regarding disasters and stress, which of the following is not true? |
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| The symptoms of disaster-induced stress disorders are different from those of combat-induced disorders. |
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| The flight-or-fight system is controlled in part by the: |
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| sympathetic nervous system. |
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| The lymphocytes that identify foreign invaders and trigger the production of other kinds of immune cells are called: |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorders |
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| last longer than a month. |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorders: |
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| often occur with depression and sleep difficulties |
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| Which of the following best reflects the correct order of Selye's stages of response to stress? |
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| sympathetic arousal, parasympathetic response, exhaustion |
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| Investigators have shown that traumatic events are related to abnormal activity of the neurotransmitter: |
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| A person who has difficulty expressing unpleasant emotions such as anger or hostility is displaying a ______ and is at greater risk for heart disease/asthma. |
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| Salina was terrified during the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 (who wouldn't be?). For a couple of weeks after, she did not sleep well or feel comfortable inside a building. However, gradually the fears diminished, and they disappeared within a month. Her reaction to the earthquake was: |
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| Helping survivors talk about their feelings and fears regarding a disaster is designed to: |
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| help people express anxiety, anger, and frustration. |
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Imagine that you just had a “close call” while driving, but now you feel your body returning to normal. Which part of your nervous system is controlling this return to normalcy? |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| Those most likely to experience substantial stress symptoms after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001: |
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| If someone were to correlate scores on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale with the numbers of physical (health) complaints, one would most likely find |
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| a significant positive correlation |
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The Social Readjustment Rating Scale does all of the following except: [image] |
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| reflects responses from many different ethnic groups. |
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| Research suggests that which of the following is best related to a person's risk for developing a stress disorder? |
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| generally being described as lacking in resiliency |
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| Looking for rainbows while walking the dog in the rain is an example of a |
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| Which phase of the general adaptation syndrome is assumed to involve activation of the sympathetic nervous system? |
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