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Understanding Abnormal Behavior 12th
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Table Of Contents:
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1. Abnormal Behavior. w
2. Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders. w w w w
3. Assessment and Classification of Mental Disorders.
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4. Research Methods for Studying Mental Disorders.
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5. Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.
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6. Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders.
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7. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders.
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8. Depressive and Bipolar Disorders.
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9. Suicide.
10. Eating Disorders.
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11. Substance-Related and Other Addictive Disorders. w w w w
12. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. w w
13. Neurocognitive and Sleep-Wake Disorders. w w w
14. Sexual Dysfunctions, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders.
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15. Personality Psychopathology. w
16. Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence.
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17. Law and Ethics in Abnormal Psychology.
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Chapter w 1: w Abnormal w Behavior
MULTIPLE CHOICE w
1. Which statement about abnormal psychology is accurate?
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a. Abnormal apsychology aseeks ato adescribe, aexplain, apredict, aand amodify aunusual abehaviors.
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b. Although abnormal psychology has made several gains in the past 20
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w years, it isnot yet ascientific field of study.
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c. The subject matter of abnormal psychology is restricted to extremely bizarre behavior.
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d. Most diagnoses of abnormality are based on two or three basic behavioral factors.
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ANS: ww w A REF: The Concerns of
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2. Psychopathology, or abnormal behavior, results primarily from ____.
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a. genetic factors w
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d. an ainteraction aof amany afactors w
ANS: ww w D REF: Introduction OBJ: 1 w MSC: w Factual
3. Dr. Thompson collects information in order to describe and draw inferences
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w about anindividual'spsychological disorder. Dr. Thompson is engaged in ____.
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a. therapy
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c. psychodiagnosis
d. research
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ANS: C REF: The Concerns of
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4. Dr. Kohn is a psychoanalyst, Dr. Edwards is a humanistic therapist, Dr. Peterson is a
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cognitive behavioral therapist, and Dr. James is a Gestalt therapist. Each of them
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____ for a client's abnormality.
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a. time of onset
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b. explanation
c. diagnosis
d. prognosis
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5. A psychologist says, “Juan's abnormal behavior is likely due to a
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w combination ofbiology andinadequate interpersonal skills.” The psychologist
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a. predicting the future symptoms of Juan
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b. giving Juan a psychodiagnosis
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c. offering an explanation for Juan's problem
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d. describing how to control Juan's symptoms w w w w w
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6. Which statement regarding the prediction of abnormal behavior is accurate?
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a. Even experienced professionals tend to overpredict future violence.
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b. Psychologists are not interested in predicting clients' future behavior.
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c. Prediction is unrelated to understanding the cause of abnormality.
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d. Psychologists tend to underpredict future violence.
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7. One of Seung-Hui Cho's professors reported Cho's frightening behavior to many campus
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wauthorities.What reason did those authorities give her to explain why they could do
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a. Cho's therapist did not feel he posed a danger to others.
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b. There was no space in any of the local mental health facilities to house him.
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c. Cho did not make any overt threats against anyone.
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d. When compared with that of his peer group, Cho's behavior was not considered odd.
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8. When psychologists talk about modifying abnormal behavior, they mean they are ____.
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a. attempting to understand the underlying cause of that behavior
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b. restricting the freedom of dangerous clients
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c. attempting to anticipate the future behaviors of clients
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d. using therapy to improve client behavior
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9. Which of the following defines therapy most accurately?
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a. A program of systematic intervention designed to alter behavior, emotion, or thought
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b. The scientific study of abnormal behavior.
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c. A system of observing abnormal behavior in an attempt to classify it
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d. The application of a theoretical model to explain the cause of abnormal behavior
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