Psychopathologie
Bachelor Psychologie
4e periode
Tilburg University
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Met de antwoorden achteraan elk hoofdstuk
15 Hoofdstukken
Elk hoofdstuk 40 vragen
,Hoofdstuk 1 - Abnormal Psychology: Past and present
1. __________ argues that societies invent the concept of mental illness so that they can control people
whose unusual patterns of functioning threaten the social order.
a. Carl Rogers
b. Jerome Frank
c. Thomas Szasz
d. Dick Gregory
2. A research procedure in which a variable is manipulated and the manipulation's effect on another
variable is observed is known as a(n):
a. experiment.
b. epidemiological study.
c. factorial study.
d. incidence study.
3. The ___________ perspective views the chief causes of abnormal functioning as psychological.
a. moral
b. somatogenic
c. psychogenic
d. positive
4. All forms of therapy have which three essential features?
a. patient, physician, and insurance company
b. client, insurance company, and treatment goals
c. sufferer, healer, and a series of contacts between healer and sufferer
d. sufferer, healer, and managed care
5. Studies that reveal the incidence and prevalence of a disorder in a particular
population are known as:
a. longitudinal studies.
b. high-risk studies.
c. epidemiological studies.
d. case studies.
6. General paresis, an irreversible disorder that causes physical and mental symptoms,
including paralysis and delusions of grandeur, was found to be caused by:
a. the HIV virus.
b. tuberculosis.
c. syphilis.
d. gonorrhea.
7. Judgments of abnormality depend on _______________ as well as on cultural norms.
a. geography
b. specific circumstances
c. politics
d. our health care system
,8. Researchers investigating a rare disorder that affects only a few subjects would most
likely use a/an ________________ design.
a. natural experimental
b. experimental
c. quasi-experimental
d. single-subject experimental
9. The "four D's" of abnormality are:
a. deviance, dysfunction, disturbance, and danger.
b. danger, dread, deviance, and disturbance.
c. deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger.
d. dysfunction, disturbance, delirium, and danger.
10. The role of a clinical practitioner in abnormal psychology is to:
a. detect, assess, and treat abnormal patterns of functioning.
b. research, detect, and assess abnormal functioning.
c. research, assess, treat, and speak about abnormal functioning.
d. research about abnormal functioning.
11. The policy of releasing patients from public mental hospitals was known as:
a. moral treatment.
b. the community mental health model.
c. the managed care model.
d. deinstitutionalization.
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12. Which of the following is the biggest limitation of correlational research?
a. While correlations allow researchers to describe relationships between two variables, they do not
explain the relationship.
b. Its results can only be applied to one subject at a time.
c. No relationship between variables is ever consistent, so findings cannot be applied to the real world.
d. The manipulation of a correlational variable requires an ABAB design, which is not always practical.
13. Before the 1950s, almost all outpatient care for psychological disturbances took the form of:
a. hospitalization.
b. private psychotherapy.
c. treatment at community mental health centers.
d. treatment by social services agencies.
14. The treatment mechanism associated with touching a troubled area of a patient's body with a special
rod was:
a. trephination.
b. exorcism.
c. mesmerism.
d. hypnotism.
,15. Which facet of experimental research is missing in a quasi-experimental design?
a. double-blind design
b. reliability
c. predictive validity
d. random assignment
16. The term "eugenics" refers to which of the following?
a. A public policy of providing free medication to those who suffer from mental illness.
b. A political policy of preventing those who suffer from mental illness from reproducing.
c. A private policy of linking mental illness to religion for the purpose of promoting a different religion.
d. The practice of diagnosing all patients with the same illness, regardless of symptoms, so that insurance
companies will provide payment for services.
17. According to ancient views of abnormality, if a standard exorcism failed to rid a person of their
abnormal behaviors, which of the following steps would be taken?
a. The shaman would perform a more extreme exorcism, such as whipping or starving the person.
b. The person would be burned alive because they were believed to be "beyond saving."
c. The person would be cast out of the society with no means for survival.
d. The person would be accepted by society as being a marked child of "God," and their abnormal
behavior would now be celebrated.
18. The work of Dorothea Dix led to the establishment of 32 _____________ around the country.
a. psychiatric surgery centers
b. American asylums
c. state hospitals
d. clinical practices
19. A/An _______ experiment may use animals as subjects in order to learn more about human beings.
a. digital
b. analogue
c. scientific
d. zoological
20. Which of the following terms, which has come to mean "a chaotic uproar," derived its name from a
London hospital where mentally ill patients were treated in horrendous ways?
a. bedlam
b. hysteria
c. furor
d. turmoil
21. At present, which single viewpoint dominates the clinical field as the psychoanalytic perspective once
did?
a. Gestalt
b. behavioral
c. cognitive
d. None of the answers are correct.
, 22. Which 19th century perspective held the view that abnormal psychological functioning has physical
causes?
a. psychogenic
b. somatogenic
c. psychotropic
d. moral
23. When an unusual problem does not occur often enough to permit a large number of
observations, it might be studied using a(n):
a. ABAB study.
b. experimental study.
c. case study.
d. correlational study.
24. Hippocrates believed that abnormal behavior was caused by:
a. evil spirits.
b. blood clots.
c. bone splinters.
d. imbalance in bodily fluids.
25. If a study found that there was a perfect correlation between two variables, which of the following
numbers would describe that relationship?
a. -100.00
b. 1.00
c. 0.00
d. +0.50
26. According to research conducted on eccentric people, which of the following statements is true?
a. They have fewer emotional problems than the general population.
b. They know they are different and usually wish to be more like others around them.
c. They visit their physicians an average of once every three months.
d. Most are unhappy, malcontented individuals who feel that life treats them very badly.
27. The French physician __________ was associated with asylum reform at La Bicêtre.
a. Jean Esquirol
b. Philippe Pinel
c. William Tuke
d. Johann Weyer
28. Today, the dominant form of insurance coverage for mental health patients is:
a. Medicare.
b. managed care.
c. private insurance.
d. Social Security.
