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TEST BANK FOR ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 17TH EDITION
BY JILL HOOLEY, JAMES BUTCHER, MATTHEW NOCK,
SUSAN MINEKA / LATEST A+




Chapter 1 Abnormal Psychology: Overview and Research Approaches


Section 1 Test Item File
Multiple-Choice Questions


1. 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 all have been diagnosed with generalized
anxiety disorder.
d. Kim’s suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother’s abuse.
Answer: c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized
anxiety disorder.

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Difficulty: 1
Skill: Apply What You Know Learning Objective: N/A


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.
Answer: d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one’s life. Difficulty: 1
Skill: Understand the Concepts Learning Objective: N/A
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. Difficulty: 1
Skill: Understand the Concepts Learning Objective: N/A


4. What does Scott’s case best illustrate?
a. The problems associated with higher education in America today.
b. That homelessness often causes psychopathology.
c. That some psychological conditions are “late onset” —initially occurring in adolescence
or young adulthood.
d. That lower social economic status is a causal factor of psychosis.
Answer: c. That some psychological conditions are “late onset” —initially occurring in
adolescence or young adulthood.
Difficulty: 1
Page: 2

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5. Scott is most likely suffering from what psychological condition?
a. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
b. Depression
c. Schizophrenia
d. Dissociative Identity Disorder
Answer: c. Schizophrenia. Difficulty: 1
Page: 2
Skill: Understand the Concepts Learning Objective: N/A


6. 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.
Answer: b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal. Difficulty: 2
Skill: Remember the Facts
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how we define abnormality and classify mental disorders.
7. Which of the following is a sufficient element to determine abnormality?
a. Suffering
b. Maladaptiveness
c. Deviancy
d. There is no single sufficient element.
Answer: d. There is no single sufficient element. Difficulty: 2


Skill: Remember the Facts
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how we define abnormality and classify mental disorders.
8. 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.

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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.
Answer: d. the values of a society may change over time. Difficulty: 2
Page: 5
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how we define abnormality and classify mental disorders.
9. Brett persistently injects himself with pain killers. This has greatly increased his chance
of overdosing and dying. His behavior harms no one else. According to the DSM-5, is Brett’s
behavior consistent with the definition of a mental disorder?
a. Yes, because many people in society engage in this behavior.
b. Yes, because he is persistently acting in a way that harms him.
c. No, because his behavior must also harm the well-being of others in the community.
d. No, because there is no evidence that his actions are out of his own control.
Answer: b. Yes, because he is persistently acting in a way that harms him. Difficulty: 2
Page: 5
Skill: Apply What You Know
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how we define abnormality and classify mental disorders.


10. According to the DSM, when is deviant behavior viewed as indicative of a mental
disorder?
a. Always
b. Only when the behavior is inconsistent with cultural norms
c. When it is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual
d. Never
Answer: c. When it is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual Difficulty: 1
Page: 7
Skill: Remember the Facts
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how we define abnormality and classify mental disorders.




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