1. Therapist Dr. X is working with a client who is heavily involved with body piercing. The client enjoys it, but Dr. X thinks the amount is so excessive she considers it abnormal behavior. She is employing which definition of abnormality? - Answer-Culturally inappropriate or unexpected
2. Which...
Abnormal Psychology Exam Questions
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1. Therapist Dr. X is working with a client who is heavily involved with body piercing.
The client enjoys it, but Dr. X thinks the amount is so excessive she considers it
abnormal behavior. She is employing which definition of abnormality? - Answer-
Culturally inappropriate or unexpected
2. Which of the following lobes of the brain and cerebral cortex is associated with
thinking and reasoning skills and memory, as well as some aspects of emotion? -
Answer-Frontal Lobe
3. Which of the following contains all of the elements of the definition of psychological
disorder? - Answer-impairment or distress; culturally inappropriate or unexpected
reactions (violation of norms); psychological dysfunction
4. Marcus is suffering from depression for which his therapist has prescribed
medication. His therapist is most likely - Answer-a psychiatrist
5. Which of the following has been an important recent (last 50 years) development in
the field of psychopathology/psychotherapy? - Answer-Adoption of scientific
methodology
6. "Presenting Problem" refers to - Answer-Reason the client first came to therapy; his
or her initial complaint(s)
7. The number of people in the population displaying a particular disorder, or the rate of
the disorder in the population is called the - Answer-prevalence
8. Etiology refers to - Answer-causation
9. Who is associated with the mental hygiene movement? - Answer-Dix
10. The id is NOT associated with which of the following? - Answer-secondary process
11. According to psychoanalytic theory, the role of the ego is to - Answer-Mediate
conflict between the id and superego
12. Tim owns a cat who licks her chops when she hears cellophane cat food packets
being opened. This is not a skill her wild ancestors learned in the jungle. According to a
classical conditioning account, the cellophane sound is a(n) - Answer-Conditioned
stimulus
, 13. A common media explanation of psychological disorder is "chemical imbalance",
which is sometimes correct. In any case, this represents what model of causality? -
Answer-biological
14. John was given a medication that increases the activity of serotonin. This type of
drug would be called - Answer-an agonist
15. In discussing the diathesis-stress model of the development of psychopathology,
diathesis refers to a(n) - Answer-inherited biological or genetic tendency
16. Which of the following most accurately illustrates the reciprocal gene-environment
model of interaction? - Answer-George, who has a vulnerability to depression,
frequently sits alone in hi room, watching sad movies
17. The receptor for a neuron is the___; the transmitter is the___. - Answer-Receptor-
dendrite; transmitter-axon
18. Lower levels of the neurotransmitter GABA are associated with - Answer-increased
anxiety
19. Janie comes to you for an evaluation. She presents with symptoms of extreme
anxiety and fear, including an increased heart rate, trembling, and thoughts of wanting
to run. These seem to occur in rather specific settings and people do not have to be
around for these to occur. She does not experience worry or anxiety in most other
situations. Based on this information, you are thinking that she may have one of two
possible anxiety disorder, which are: - Answer-panic disorder or a phobia
20. While biking in the woods, you unknowingly come upon a large bear who lets out a
large growl and lunges toward you before scampering away. You exhibit an immediate,
but normal response of fear. What section of your nervous system account for your
reaction? - Answer-Sympathetic
21. Reuptake refers to a - Answer-Neuron reabsorbing a neurotransmitter after it is
released
22. A circuit of this system control alarm/fear of "fight or flight" reactions: - Answer-
Norepinephrine
23. "Affect" is - Answer-One's emotional tone at a point in time or the manner in which a
mood is conveyed with facial expression
24. Emily has been evaluated by three different professionals, each of whom offers a
different diagnosis. She wonders whether the field has any standards because their
judgments obviously lack - Answer-reliability
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