Test 1

Question 0

Several researchers have shown that in a typical year in the United States about what percentage of adults show disturbances serve enough to need clinical treatment?

Answer 0

Over 15%

Question 1

College students who drink so much it interferes with their lives, health and academic careers are often not diagnosed as engaging in abnormal behavior because

Answer 1

Drinking is considered part of college culture

Question 2

Hippocrates attempted to treat mental disorders by

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Correcting underlying physical pathology

Question 3

Tarantism and lycanthropy are examples of

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Mass madness

Question 4

During the Middle Ages in Europe, demonology dominated views of abnormality for all of the following reasons except

Answer 4

The culture rejected religious beliefs.

Question 5

In many area asylums of the 1500, such as Bethlehem asylum in Londan became

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Tourists attractions

Question 6

The finding that syphilis causes general paresis is important because it supports the idea that

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Organic factors can cause mental illness

Question 7

The somatogenic treatment for mental illness that seams to have been the most successful was the use of

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Various medications

Question 8

Which point do view was supported be the discovery that the symptoms of hysteria could be induced by hypnosis

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Psychgenic

Question 9

Which of the following patients is most likely to benefit most from psychoanalytic treatment

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A person who has difficulty expressing ideas and feelings verbally

Question 10

One cause of the increase in homeless individuals in recent decades has been the

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Policy of deinstitutionalization

Question 11

In the US today one of the most likely to find a severely ill mental patient

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On the street or in jail

Question 12

The most accurate summary of the field of abnormal psychology at the present time is that clinical psychologists generally

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Do not accept on definition of abnormality and practice more than one form of treatment.

Question 13

Which of the following depressed people would be the least likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder because of specific circumstances

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Someone whose community was destroyed by a tornado

Question 14

R.D Laing said “insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” this statements illustrates

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That abnormality is situational.

Question 15

An individual has a 9 to 5 job. However this person seldom gets up early enough to be at work on time and expresses great distress over this fact. This individuals behavior would be considered abnormal because it is

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Dysfunctional and deviant

Question 16

Wich of the following exams would not be considered abnormal despite the fact that it is dysfunctional.

Answer 16

Someone who parties so much she cannot go to class.

Question 17

Despite common misconceptions most people with psychological problems are not

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Dangerous

Question 18

Which of the following is the best example of the nomothetic approach

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Review records to see if autism runs in families in the United States

Question 19

Which of the following is the best example of the idiographic approach?

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A detailed study of one case

Question 20

Wich is not considered a research method?

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A treatment plan for theIndividual.

Question 21

What is the problem with “conventional wisdom”

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It is not based on sound research.

Question 22

The idea that children from single parent families show more depression than those from two parent families is a

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Hypothesis

Question 23

Case studies are useful for all of the following except

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Determining general laws of behavior

Question 24

The ability to generalize results from a study of certain individuals to other individuals not studied is called

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External validity

Question 25

Correlations and experiments are preferred over case studies for all of the following reasons except

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The offer rich detail that make the results extremely interesting.

Question 26

A researcher finds individuals who report large number is "hassles" in their lives usually also report higher levels of stress. Those who report fewer "hassles" generally report lower levels of stress. The correlation between the number of "hassles" and stress level is.

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Positive

Question 27

if the correlation between severity of depression and age is -.05 it means that

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There is no consistent relationship between age and severity of depression

Question 28

Which of the following correlations is most likely statistically significant?

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-.8 based on a sample of 100 people

Question 29

All of the following are merits of the correlation all method except

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Provides individual information

Question 30

The form of correlation all research that seeks to find how many new cases of a disorder occur in a group in a give time period is termed

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Epidemiological (incidence)

Question 31

The number of new cases that emerge in a particular time interval is called the

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Incidence

Question 32

The total number cases of a disorder in the population is called the

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Prevalence

Question 33

The prevalence rate for a disorder will _______ the incidence rate.

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Always be the same of higher than

Question 34

If researchers studied Vietnam veterans for 30 years after their return the study would be

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Longitudinal.

Question 35

Which of the following is an aspect of the experimental approach

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The manipulation of a variable by the researcher

Question 36

The following experiment is conducted to study the causes of aggression in children. Half the children eat sugared cereal; the remaining half eat cornflakes. Te number of aggressive acts displayed by the children in one hour of play period after breakfast is the recorded. In this experiment:

Answer 36

The type of cereal is the independent variable and the number of aggressive princes is the dependent variable.

Question 37

In a study designed to to a new antidepressant to a large group of outpatient psychiatric patients was randomly assigned into on of two groups. One of the groups was give. The drug as a pill. The other group was given identical looking inert pills. Al participants were tested in the morning. The level of depression. Of each subject was measured by three psychologists independently, using Beck Depression Inventory. Which of the following was the independent variable.

Answer 37

The drug.

Question 38

Students are given a sensation seeking test and the. Divided into two groups depending on their scores. A researcher observes how many times students in each group get out of there seats in two hours. The dependent variable is

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Number of times getting out of ones seat.

Question 39

Factors other than independent variable May also act on the defendant variable. If these factors vary systematically with the independent variable, they are called ________ variables.

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Confounding