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Psych 435 Abnormal Psychology
1. What is lycanthropy?: A condition in which people believe themselves to be possessed by wolves
2. Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a) Both Jane and her husband are alcoholics
b) Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenics
c)Karen, her mother, and her grandmother have all been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder
d) Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse: Karen, her mother,
and grandmother have all been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder
3. Un
derstanding the causes of mental disorders is important because - : such knowlege might make both the prevention and cure of mental disorders possible
4. Benjamin Rush, who
encouraged more humane treatment of the mentally ill in the United States, used as his prinicpal remedies : bloodletting and the tranquilizer chair
5. Which variable is manipulated in an experiment?: independent
6. What does the case of JGH, a Native American elder illustrate?: a person may focus
on somatic symptoms rather than mood when depressed
7. Which of the following factors has a significant effect on the rates of severe mental illness among Americans?
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a) family size
b) gender
c)geographic region of the country
d) political affiliation: gender
8. If fraternal (or dizygotic) twins are more likely to be concordant for a trait than other siblings, can it be concluded that the
higher concordance rate is due to the greater degree of genetic relatedness?: No, because fraternal twins are no more genetically alike than other siblinings
9. Archaeology and early writings indicate the
first people to think of the brain as the site of mental functions were the : ancient Egyptians
10. The effects of early social deprivation : are
explained ditterently by the various psychosocial perspectives.
11. Behaviourism was : a reaction to what the behaviorist perceived as a lack of scientific rigour in
psychoanalysis
12. Which of the following most accurately describes the notion of different viewpoints of abnormal behaviour?: each
viewpoint otters its own explanation of abnormal behavior
13. In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she
looked at the academic histories of girls with an eating disorer and girls who didn't have such problems. In this example, the girls with eating disorders are the group: criterion
14. Medications for psychological disorders
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24. Scott is most likely suffering from what psychological condition?: schizophrenia
25. According to Hippocrates, mental disorders were part of which three general categories?: melancholia, mania, and
phrentisis
26. Which of the following mental health professionals perscribes medications and monitors the patient for side
effects?: psychiatrist
27. which of the following is a misconception:
a) the influence of genetics on behavior disappears as we get older
b) just because a disorder runs in families doesn't mean genetics are the reason
c)genetic research strategies provide useful tests of the influence of the envi- ronment on behavior
d) genetics influence behavior by making the person more or less susceptible to enviornmental influences: the influence of genetics on
behavior disappears as we get older
28. Recent historical reviews of the literature
indicate that the typical accused witch in the Middle Ages in Europe was : an ill-tempered, impoverished woman
29. Which of the following was a form of treatment that addressed a patient's social, individual, and
occupational needs?
a) moral management
b) the treatments provided at Geel Shrine
c)Anton Mesmer's approach to treating the mentally ill
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d) the treatment started by the Nancy School: Moral Management
30. Dana's mother suffers from serious depressive episodes. Dana is likely to
.: be at risk for depression herself
31. While having a gene for parkinson's
disease gaurantees that Parkinson's dis- ease will develop, this isn't the only factor that can lead to Parkinson's disease. In other words, the presence of the gene is a , but not a : suflcient cause; necessary cause
32. Describe the retrospective and prospective research designs. What are the benefits and problems of these designs?:
Retrospective: study people with a disorder by collecting information about their lives before they became sick. Problem is faulty and selective memory, bias on the part of the person and the researcher. Prospective: find people with high risk of developing a disorder before they have it, measure variables ahead of time and track the person to see who develops the disorder. The problem with these designs are that you can't know how may will develop the disorder; smaller sample size
33. What does stress tend to do to telomeres?: decrease their physical length
34. James began having panic attacks immediately after his mother died sud- denly. As they became more
frequent, he began to fear going into public situations where they might occur now he is unable to leave his apartment and has others go out to shop for him. what is unusual about this case?: it is unusal for a person with severe agoraphobia to be a man
35. psychological assessment refers to the :
procedures used to summarize a client's problem
36. Virtua
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46. one of the main functions that worry seems to serve in generalized anxiety disorder is : to
keep people from feeling the emotional and physiological consequences of anxiety
47. which of the following provides a unique challenge when trying to eliminate the obsessions seen in OCD: attempting to not
think about something might lead to thinking about it more
48. Controlled drinking (i.e. teaching alcoholics to drink in moderation)
: seems to work for people with less severe alcohol problems
49. All drugs that people become
dependent upon : act on pleasure pathways in the brain
50. if schizophrenia were
exclusively a genetic disorder : the concordance rate for monozygotic twins would be 100%
51. Neuroimaging studies suggests that personality
disorder is associat- ed with increased amygdala activation in emotion-inducing situations: borderline
52. Which of the following statements isn't true of treating personality disor- ders?: people with both a personality disorder
diagnosis and another type of disorder are easier to treat than people with just a personality disorder because they have more distress
53. Which of the following statements is true about paraphilias: many people with paraphilias have more than one
54. there is a general agreement among researchers with personality
: can be characterized by five basic trait dimensions
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55. patients with schizophrenia who
receive are less likely to relapse or be readmitted to the hospital than those receiving the standard treatment only: psychoeducation
56. psychosis is a striking and essential feature of schizophrenia. Psychosis means : a
significant loss of contact with reality
57. an involuntary reoccurrence of perceptual distortions can occur weeks or months
after taking a particular drug. The phenomenon is called ; the drug is called .: flashback; LSD
58. Incest offenders differ from extra-familial child molesters in that the incest offenders: typically choose girls as victims
59. sexual variants illustrate a theme in abnormal psychology better than any other category of disorder. Which theme?:
the diflculty in defining the coundaries of normal and abnormal
60. why does it make sense to view addiction as a mental disorder?: the symptoms reflect behaviors that involve the pathological need
for a substance
61. recently, disorder has been re-evaluted an many prominent sex researchers consider
it to be a physical, medical problem rather than a psycho- logical one: genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder
62. Thought and speech odditie comparable to those seen in schizophrenia have
been documented in personality disorder: schizotypal
63. Which of the following is a consequence of organic impairment resulting from long-term substance use, as
opposed to being a consequence of drug toxicity?: alcohol amnestic disorder
64. The individual with personality disorder is likely to be described as
rigid and cold: obsessive-compulsive
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74. Harold and Tanya both have a wide range of schizophrenic symptoms. Harold's symptoms have lasted for
eight months; Tanya's have lasted only eight weeks. According to the DSM-5, their diagnoses should be: schizophrenia for harold; schizophreniform disorder for Tanya
75. Which of the following statements is true?
a) sexual practices and standards are constantly evolving
b) over time, all cultures develop more liberal attitudes toward sex
c)there is little that is considered "taboo" in modern society
d) monogamy is a dated concept: sexual practices and standards are constantly evolving
76. the majority of cases of schizophrenia
begin in : late adolescence or early adulthood
77. Most boys with gender dysphoria: become homosexual adults who no longer wish to change their gender.
78. What are the two dimensions of childhood temperament related antisocial personality disorder and psychpathy,
and what is the relationship?: Dimension 1: the person is attective and has interpersonal traits such as lack of remores and empathy, exaggerate self woth, and pathological lying. Dimension 2: they have deviant behavior and lifestyle, they are very impulsive and irresponsible most cases are from dimension 2; the psychopaths emerge from the former
79. What is the evidence for and against genetics in alcoholism?: heredity plays an important role in a person's developing sensitivity to
the addictive power of alcohol. Almost one third of alcholics had at least one parent with an alchol problem. Adoption studies also provide evidence for a genetic vulnerabiltiy for alcohol problems. An alcohol-risk personality has been described as an individual who has an inherited
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80. Low
socieconomic status and living in a poor neighborhood are vari- ables that increase the probability of a child developing conduct disorder: socio- cultural
81. Franklin is 72 years old. His daughter notes his failing memory and tells the doctor she thinks Franklin
has Alzheimer's. The doctor notes Franklin's depressed mood and unsteadiness on his feet, and diagnoses Franklin with : vascular dementia
82. which of the following statements about the brain is true?
a) the skull could support as much as 3 tons of weight
b) the brain is protected only by the skull
c)the human brain typically weighs about 5 pounds
d) brain damage rarelt results in cognitive challenges: the skull could support as much as
3 tons
83. What kind of mistake do most mental health professionals make when assessing dangerousness?: they
overpredict violence
84. The concepts of universal, selective, and indicated interventions were widely used by: public health experts to describe ways
of preventing disease
85. which of the following best illustrates the analysis of resistance?
a) the client is able to talk freely about their mother but not report anything about their father
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c)custody cases
d) law suits resulting from delinquent acts: law suits resulting from delinquent acts
93. the newer anxiety
drug Buspar has the advantage that : it has a low potential for abuse
94. In autistic children, head banging, spinning in circles, and rocking are behav- iors that: are common forms of self-
stimulation
95. what evidence is there that genes are involved in Alzheimer's disease?: genes
are involved in AD show that there is an increase in the likelihood of developing the disease, but don't garuntee that it will. APOE e4 is the first gene identified and it remains the gene that has the strongest impact. Everyone inherits a copy of some form of APOE from each parent. Those who inherit one copy of APOE e4 have an increased risk of developing AD. Those who inherit 2 cipoes have an even higher risk, but it isnt garunteed.
96. comorbidity: the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual
97. behaviorism: school of psychology that formerly restricted itself primarily to the study of overt behavior
98. free association: method for probing the unconscious by having patients talk freely about themselves, their
feelings, and their motives
99. psychoanalytic perspective: the perspective that stresses the influences of unconscious forces on human behavior
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100. diathesis-stress model: suggests that a person may be predisposed for a psychological disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress
101. structured assessment interview: interview with a set introduction that follows a predetermined set of procedures and questions throughout. Far
more reliable results.
102. unstructured assessment interview: Typically subjective interviews that do not follow a prede- termined set of questions. The beginning
statements in the interview are usually general, and follow-up questions are tailored for each client. The content of the interview questions is influenced by the habits or theoretical views of the interviewer.
103. the categorical approach: assumes that
1. all human behavior can be divided into categories of healthy and disordered.
2. that within the latter there exists discrete, nonoverlapping classes or types of disorder that have a high degree of within-class homogeneity in both symptoms.
104. the dimensional approach: consider psychological disorders along a continuum in which people
vary in degree rather than in kind
105. the prototypical approach: system for categorizing disorders using both essential, defining charac- teristics and a range of variation on other
characteristics
106. DSM-5: the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for
classifying psychological disorders.
107. adjustment disorder: an emotional disturbance caused by ongoing stressors within the range of common experience
108. disaster syndrome: Reactions of many victims of major catastrophes during the traumatic experience and the initial and long-lasting reactions after
it
109. distinguish between fear and anxiety: -anxiety have anxiety and panic or both at their core. they were initially considered a subset of the
neuroses
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121. avoidant personality disorder: A personality disorder characterized by consistent discomfort and restraint in social situations, overwhelming
feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.
122. dependent personality disorder: A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of separation, and an ongoing
need to be taken care of.
123. paranoid schizophrenia: A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur.
124. disorganized schizophrenia: type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes, frequent incoherence, disorganized
behavior, and inappropriate attect.
125. catatonic schizophrenia: A type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity.
126. schizoaffective disorder: form of psychotic disorder in which the symptoms of schizophrenia co-occur with symptoms of a mood disorder
127. schizophreniform disorder: a psychological disorder characterized by symptoms of schizophrenia present for a period of 1-6 months during which
the symptoms may or may not have interfered with functioning
128. delusional disorder: a psychotic disorder in which the primary symptom is one or more delusions
129. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A traumatic insult to the brain capable of producing physical, intellec- tual, emotional, social, and vocational
changes.
130. Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): pattern of behavior, persisting into middle childhood, marked by negativity, hostility, and defiance
131. Conduct Disorder (CD): a pattern of repetitive behavior in which the rights of others or social norms are violated
