Chapter 14 Quiz

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Chapter 14 Quiz

• Psychological Disorders

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• 1. Hani was unable to tell the difference
  between right and wrong. Which of the following
  definitions of abnormal behavior is described in
  this example?
• a) maladaptive
• b) insanity
• c) commitment
• d) statistical

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• 2. The behavioral approach attributes the cause
  of abnormal behavior to
• a) internal conflict from early childhood
  trauma
• b) the result of neurochemical imbalances
• c) poor self-concept
• d) reinforcement of maladaptive behaviors
  learned through experience

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• 3. A soldier who experiences sudden blindness
  after seeing his buddies killed in battle is best
  diagnosed with
• a) a phobic disorder
• b) hypochondriasis
• c) bipolar disorder
• d) conversion disorder

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• 4. A common feature among people diagnosed with
  dissociative identity disorder is
• a) early childhood sexual or physical abuse
• b) repeated physical complaints
• c) relatives suffering from bipolar disorder
• d) excess of dopamine

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• 5. Researchers have found that depression occurs
• a) nearly twice as frequent in women as
  men
• b) nearly four times as frequently in
  women as in men
• c) with equal frequency in women and men
• d) nearly twice as frequently in men as in
  women

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• 6. Which of the following is NOT characteristic
  of the manic state of bipolar disorder?
• a) inflated ego
• b) excessive talking
• c) shopping sprees
• d) too much sleep

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• 7. Paranoid personality disorder is
  characterized by
• a) unwarranted suspiciousness and mistrust
• b) lack of interest in social relationships
• c) a grandiose sense of ones own
  importance
• d) instability revolving around problems of
  mood and thought processes

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• 8. Herb lied easily as a child. He considers
  himself good with the ladies, has little remorse
  for his actions, and has had repeated trouble
  with authority figures. His likely diagnosis is
• a) autism
• b) narcissistic personality disorder
• c) antisocial personality disorder
• d) borderline personality disorder

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• 9. A delusion is
• a) phobia of being in social situations
• b) misperception of auditory and visual
  stimuli
• c) faulty and disordered thought pattern
• d) first indication of dissociative disorders

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• 10. A prognosis
• a) is a forecast about the probable course of
  illness
• b) involves distinguishing one illness from
  another
• c) refers to the apparent causation and
  developmental history of an illness
• d) is a plan for treating an illness

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• 11. All of the following are classified as
  anxiety disorders EXCEPT
• a) phobias
• b) posttraumatic stress
• c) obsessive-compulsive disorder
• d) conversion disorder

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• 12. Which of the following is a negative symptom
  of schizophrenia?
• a) delusional thinking
• b) incoherent speech
• c) hyperexcitability
• d) flat affect

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• 13. A person who maintains bizarre, false
  beliefs that have no basis in reality is said to
  have
• a) hallucinations
• b) delusions
• c) obsessions
• d) illusions

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• 14. Which of the following is NOT a common
  characteristic of the antisocial personality?
• a) manipulative behavior
• b) excessive guilt
• c) social charm
• d) aggressiveness

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• 15. At this time, one of the major
  neurotransmitters that has been linked to
  schizophrenia is
• a) norepinephrine
• b) dopamine
• c) GABA
• d) acetylcholine

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• 16 The rise of the medical model in the study of
  psychopathology brought about
• a. improvements in the treatment of individuals
  who exhibited abnormal behavior
• b. an increase in the number of asylums for the
  treatment of the mentally ill
• c. an increase in misconceptions about mental
  disorders
• d. decreases in the expression of sympathy
  towards the mentally ill

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• 17 Etiology refers to the
• a. projected course of a condition
• b. apparent cause of a condition
• c. study of mental illness
• d. collection of a group of symptoms

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• 18 The most common psychological disorders in the
  United States are
• a. schizophrenic disorders
• b. personality disorders
• c. mood disorders
• d. anxiety disorders

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• 19 Epidemiology is the study of
• a. the distribution of mental or physical
  disorders in a population
• b. treatments for psychological disorders
• c. sudden epidemics involving specific mental
  or physical disorders
• d. how cultural values affect judgments of
  abnormality

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• 20. The cartoon character Charlie Brown, with his
  extreme dread, pessimism, worrying, and brooding,
  could be diagnosed as having
• a. a generalized anxiety disorder
• b. a phobic disorder
• c. obsessive-compulsive disorder
• d. panic disorder

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Chapter 14 Answer Key

• 1. B
• 2. D
• 3. D
• 4. A
• 5. A
• 6. D
• 7. A
• 8. C
• 9. C
• 10. A

• 11. D
• 12. D
• 13. B
• 14. B
• B
• A
• B
• D
• A
• A

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Essay Questions
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Essay Question 1

• It has been said that not all deviant behavior is
  maladaptive, but all maladaptive behavior is
  deviant. Discuss this idea, based on what youve
  learned about the definition and criteria of
  abnormal behavior.

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Essay Question 2

• Freud believed that most, if not all,
  psychological disorders are mainly the result of
  anxiety. However, Freudian explanations of the
  anxiety disorders receive much less attention
  today than they once did. From what youve
  learned of Freudian theory, how would a Freudian
  explanation of the etiology of the anxiety
  disorders differ from the types of explanations
  presented in your text?

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Essay Question 3

• There appear to be some similarities between
  posttraumatic stress disorder (Chapter 13) and
  the dissociative disorders in that most cases of
  each type of disorder are thought to result from
  extreme stress. How would you justify creating
  separate classifications for these disorders?

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Essay Question 4

• Some of the most prominent modern theories of the
  mood disorders focus primarily on cognitive
  factors. You learned in Chapter 10 that some
  theorists believe the experience of emotion is
  heavily influenced by cognitive factors. In what
  ways do some of these cognitive theories of
  emotion agree with theories about cognitive
  factors in the etiology of the mood disorders?

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Essay Question 5

• According to the DSM-IV, individuals should not
  be diagnosed as having a personality disorder
  before theyre 18 years old because personality
  is not well established before then. From what
  you know about personality development (Chapters
  11 and 12), can you support this position? You
  may wish to answer from the particular viewpoint
  of one of the personality theorists covered in
  your text (e.g., Erikson, Mischel, Maslow, or
  others).

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