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Abnormal Psychology Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers Which of the following statements accurately describes a characteristic indicator of abnormality? - ANSWER-Violating the standards of society, particularly when statistically rare, is abnormal. What individual mental disorder in the Unit...

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Abnormal Psychology Exam 1 Practice

Questions and Answers


Which of the following statements accurately describes a characteristic indicator of abnormality? -

ANSWER✔✔-Violating the standards of society, particularly when statistically rare, is abnormal.


What individual mental disorder in the United States has the highest lifetime prevalence rate -

ANSWER✔✔-Major depressive disorder


What is external validity? - ANSWER✔✔-The extent to which research findings can be generalized

beyond the stud


Why is a representative sample desirable? - ANSWER✔✔-The more representative a sample is, the more

generalizable the data.


According to the results of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), which of the following

statements accurately describes individuals who have a history of at least one serious psychological

disorder - ANSWER✔✔-Over 50 percent of those with a disorder rated as serious have two or more

other disorders


What is the primary purpose of a classification system such as the DSM-5? - ANSWER✔✔-To facilitate a

shared, simplified communication system across professional boundaries


As it relates to the stigma of mental illness, what is meant by "stereotyping"? - ANSWER✔✔-The

automatic and incorrect beliefs many have about people with a psychiatric diagnosis




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What is the value of using an ABAB design? - ANSWER✔✔-The effects of a single form of treatment are

studied twice in the same subject


Which of the following statements describes an unintended consequence of the trend away from the

use of traditional hospitalization for mental health care treatment? - ANSWER✔✔-The number of prison

inmates being treated for severe mental illness has increased dramatically.


What is a good control group for a research study on people with eating disorders? - ANSWER✔✔-A

group that is comparable to the one with eating disorders, except that they eat normally


In what significant ways do correlational research designs differ from experimental research designs? -

ANSWER✔✔-There is no manipulation of variables in correlational research.


Which of the following is a disadvantage to having a classification system for mental disorders? -

ANSWER✔✔-When labels are used to describe an individual's behavior, important details about the

person are lost.


What is the term for the statistical approach that calculates and then combines the effect sizes from

multiple studies? - ANSWER✔✔-Meta-analysis


Carl is asked to provide information about his drinking. Despite the fact that he has had several arrests

for driving while intoxicated, Carl reports that he has no problems with drinking. This is an example of

__________. - ANSWER✔✔-the problems with self-report data


The trend toward deinstitutionalization in recent years has meant that __________. - ANSWER✔✔-

people are hospitalized more briefly, and then treated on an outpatient basis


The mayor of a city wants to know the number of new cases of a disorder over the past year. The mayor

should ask an epidemiologist for the __________ of the disorder. - ANSWER✔✔-incidence rate


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Which of the following is an example of an analogue study? - ANSWER✔✔-Rats prenatally exposed to

alcohol are studied to further our understanding of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.


Expressed as a percentage, __________ refers to the number of active cases in a population during any

given period of time. - ANSWER✔✔-Prevalence


What is epidemiology? - ANSWER✔✔-The study of the distribution of diseases, disorders, or health-

related behaviors in a given population


Prayer, incantations, and noise-making were all techniques for __________. - ANSWER✔✔-conducting

an exorcism


Who is considered the father of modern medicine, and shifted the view of the origins of mental disorder

from supernatural forces to problems in the human body? - ANSWER✔✔-Hippocrates


In ancient societies, if a person's abnormal conduct consisted of speech that appeared to have a religious

or mystical significance, then the person was - ANSWER✔✔-treated with awe and respect


Dorothea Dix __________. - ANSWER✔✔-is credited with establishing numerous humane mental

hospitals in at least 20 states


Which of the following approaches to treatment focuses almost exclusively on the physical well-being of

hospitalized patients? - ANSWER✔✔-Mental hygiene


Which of the following statements describes the original purpose for placing individuals in asylums? -

ANSWER✔✔-to remove troublesome individuals from society who could not care for themselves


By the end of the nineteenth century, __________. - ANSWER✔✔-alienists had taken control of insane

asylums and incorporated moral management therapy



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