, Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An Overview
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Multiple-Choice Questions
1.1-1. Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a. Both Jane and her husband are alcoholic.
b. Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenic.
c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety
disorder.
d. Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse.
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Applied
Answer: c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety
disorder.
1.1-2. What does Monique’s case best illustrate?
a. Most individuals with mental disorders are violent.
b. Women are more likely to commit suicide than men.
c. Most individuals who experience a mental breakdown are clearly unwell long before
treatment is sought.
d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one's life.
Difficulty: 1
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Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Conceptual
Answer: d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one's life.
1.1-3. What does Monique’s case best illustrate?
a. Abnormal behavior usually produces more distress in others than the person who engages in
the abnormal behavior.
b. Abnormal behavior covers a wide range of behavioral disturbances.
c. Most people who suffer from abnormal behavior are quickly identified as deviant by other
people.
d. When people suffer from mental disorders, they are unable to work or live independently.
Answer: b. Abnormal behavior covers a wide range of behavioral disturbances.
1.1-4. What makes defining abnormality difficult?
a. There are so many types of abnormal behavior that they can't be accurately described.
b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
c. Most of us are abnormal much of the time so that we cannot tell what is normal.
d. Criteria for abnormality have yet to be developed.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-4
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Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
Skill: Factual
Answer: b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
1.1-5. Which of the following is a sufficient element to determine abnormality? a. Suffering
b. Maladaptiveness
c. Deviancy
d. There is no single sufficient element.
Difficulty: 2
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Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
Skill: Factual
Answer: d. There is no single sufficient element.
1.1-6. The fact that body piercings are commonplace today while they would once have been viewed
as abnormal illustrates that
a. modern society is unlikely to change.
b. what is acceptable for men and women is no longer different.
c. American culture values independence.
d. the values of a society may change over time.
Difficulty: 2
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Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
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