General Psychology
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General Psychology is an introductory course that explores the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. It covers foundational topics such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and the biological bases of behavior. Through an examination of various theories, research methods, and real-world applications, students gain insight into the complexity of psychological phenomena and develop a deeper understanding of themselves and others. The course also emphasizes critical thinking skills and the relevance of psychological principles in everyday life.
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Psychology From Inquiry to Understanding 3rd Edition by Scott O. Lilienfeld
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Chapter 1: Psychology and Scientific Thinking
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Q1) Time,expertise,and resources are all obstacles that
A)diminish skepticism.
B)diminish metaphysical claims.
C)increase reliance on authorities.
D)increase reliance on empiricism.
Answer: C
Q2) According to the authors,much of the knowledge from popular psychology sources
A)is consistent with the results of psychological research.
B)is contradicted by what psychological research has demonstrated.
C)is not able to be studied empirically.
D)is of no or very little interest to psychologists.
Answer: B
Q3) With its concern on the adaptive functions provided by the various psychological characteristics,evolutionary psychology is most like what early psychological school of thought?
A)Behaviorism
B)Functionalism
C)Psychoanalysis
D)Structuralism
Answer: B
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Chapter 1: Exsetntion: Psychology and Scientific Thinking
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Q1) A psychologist is often skeptical of claims suggesting that A)people are influenced by others' thoughts and behaviors.
B)a particular behavior is the result of a single causal variable.
C)a person's culture is a strong influence on his or her everyday thoughts and behaviors.
D)a person's future behavior is often difficult to predict accurately.
Answer: B
Q2) What famous American psychologist also heavily influenced the field of advertising?
A)William James
B)Carl Rogers
C)B.F.Skinner
D)John Watson
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) Dr.Johansen randomly assigned subjects to three different groups during her last experiment.She then proceeded to give all the participants in the experiment a new study technique designed to enhance their learning for the upcoming test.What critical error did she make during her experiment?
A)She failed to identify the independent variable.
B)She failed to identify the dependent variable.
C)She failed to include an experimental group.
D)She failed to include a control group.
Answer: D
Q2) Sarah,a graduate student in psychology,just heard about a five-year-old child who has already learned calculus.She is thinking about doing an in-depth study of the child for her dissertation because such early-life math skill is so rare.Sarah is considering which research method?
A)Naturalistic observation
B)Experiment
C)Independent study
D)Case study
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Exsetntion: Research Methods
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Q1) A mechanism by which experts in a field carefully screen the work of their colleagues is known as
A)experimental validity.
B)experimenter bias effect.
C)peer review.
D)peer assessment.
Q2) A major limitation in reading about the results of psychological research in the newspaper is that
A)reporters provide too much detailed information about the research study that the general public cannot comprehend in their articles.
B)reporters are so well-trained to discuss research that they cannot easily communicate about it with the average lay person.
C)reporters create controversy where none exists by treating scientific evidence and dissenter's biased opinions as equally compelling.
D)reporters do not know how to identify experts to interview for many of their stories,and end up unintentionally misleading the public.
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) When a neuron fires,it fires in a(n)_____ fashion,as there is no such thing as "partial" firing.
A)all-or-none
B)rapid fire
C)accidental patterned
D)quick succession
Q2) People's genetic makeup is their A)genotype.
B)phenotype.
C)mRNA.
D)genome.
Q3) A cell in the human nervous system whose primary function is to help form myelin and the blood-brain barrier,respond to injury,remove debris,and enhance learning and memory is called a(n)_____ cell.
A)epidermal
B)adipose
C)glial
D)polypeptide-Y
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Chapter 3: Exsetntion: Biological Psychology
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Q1) Within neurons,the term potentiation refers to
A)synapses that show stronger and prolonged excitatory responses.
B)structural changes in the neuron.
C)neural plasticity.
D)maturational development.
Q2) Your teacher asks you to describe the sequence of parts of a neuron that the impulse travels during neural conduction.Which of the following sequences will you offer?
A)dendrites,axon,soma,synaptic knob
B)terminal buttons,axon,soma dendrite
C)axon,soma,dendrites,synaptic knob
D)dendrites,soma,axon,axon terminal
Q3) The flight-or-fight response is mobilized by the A)central nervous system.
B)somatic nervous system.
C)sympathetic nervous system.
D)parasympathetic nervous system.
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Pete has played lead guitar in a rock band for years.He often would turn the volume on his guitar way up and spend a great deal of time in front of the speakers during the shows.His resulting hearing loss over the past few years is most likely the result of
A)conductive deafness.
B)nerve deafness.
C)noise-induced hearing loss.
D)tinnitus.
Q2) Clara,the psychic,is addressing her audience prior to the show.She notices that two of the audience members are wearing military uniforms.After a brief conversation with one of the soldiers,she suggests to him that he may be experiencing some doubt over recent events that took place.Which process is Clara engaging in?
A)Cold reading
B)Precognition
C)Telepathy
D)Clairvoyance
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Chapter 4: Exsetntion: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Brightness refers to the intensity of light.The corresponding term when discussing sound is
A)hue.
B)loudness.
C)pitch.
D)timbre.
Q2) Infant Esme is just waking up from her nap.As her mom enters the room,Esme turns her head in Mom's direction.Which of the following allowed Esme to know the direction Mom would be entering from?
A)Echolocation
B)Sound shadow
C)Auditory perceptual cues
D)Binaural cues
Q3) Which of the following most closely mimics the process of transduction?
A)Betty mixes eggs,flour,and sugar together to make a cake.
B)While painting,Stan combines the colors red and blue to make purple.
C)Gas companies convert crude oil into a fuel that car engines can run on.
D)Nike changes its logo from a "swoosh" to a "panther."
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Q1) The treatment for _____ usually involves wearing a masklike device that forces air into the lungs during sleep.
A)narcolepsy
B)night terrors
C)somnambulism
D)sleep apnea
Q2) Even though sleep research suggests that most college students require approximately _____ hours of sleep nightly,they often get only _____ hours.
A)7; 6
B)9; 6
C)9; 8
D)10; 8
Q3) In a strange condition called sex sleep,or _____,people engage in sexual acts while asleep and don't remember what occurred after they awaken.
A)nocturnal erotica disorder
B)circadian coitus syndrome
C)erotoslumber
D)sexsomnia
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Chapter 5: Exsetntion: Consciousness
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Q1) Although he knows that it is wrong,Sean has a crush on his new stepmom.He dreams of the two of them running away together and living happily ever after.What aspect of dreaming does this represent?
A)Activation-synthesis
B)Repressed desires
C)Wish fulfillment
D)Dream-work
Q2) The need to take a drug in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms is an indication of
A)a craving
B)tolerance
C)psychological dependence
D)physical dependence
Q3) We spend the greatest amount of time engaged in what altered state of consciousness?
A)Dreaming
B)Under the influence of drugs
C)Out-of-body experiences
D)Sleeping
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Q1) Which of the following represents the findings of David Premack?
A)Disallowing a child to have ice cream because he/she did not eat his/her vegetables
B)Allowing a child to have ice cream only if he/she eats his/her vegetables
C)Allowing a child to have ice cream even if he/she does not eat their vegetables
D)Allowing the child to have an extra ice cream cone if he/she dislikes the first cone
Q2) Whenever five-year-old Claire goes to the dentist,she becomes anxious and cries.Since she was not afraid of the dentist on her first visit,her fear was a learned behavior.The UCS in this case was probably
A)the dentist's beard.
B)sweet toothpaste.
C)the pain associated with teeth cleaning.
D)the sound of the music in the dentist's waiting room.
Q3) The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is called _____.
A)operant conditioning
B)classical conditioning
C)effective based learning
D)discovery learning
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Chapter 6: Exsetntion: Learning
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Q1) The situation of a student's final grade improving one letter grade for every three books read represents which schedule of reinforcement?
A)Fixed interval
B)Fixed ratio
C)Variable interval
D)Variable ratio
Q2) Concerning cognitive maps,which is likely true?
A)Teens allowed to view a maze from 10 feet above before beginning will be just as capable of working their way through the maze,as compared to teens given a practice run through the maze before beginning.
B)Teens allowed to view a maze from 10 feet above before beginning will be less capable of working their way through the maze,as compared to teens given a practice run through the maze before beginning.
C)Forming a mental representation of the layout of the maze will likely confuse teens because they learn best by doing not thinking.
D)The ability to form accurate mental representations of the layout of the maze will be difficult for teens,so the group viewing the maze before beginning will likely perform worse on this task.
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Q1) In long-term memory,the _____ memory division does not require much effort or attention to recall information.
A)procedural
B)episodic
C)visual-spatial
D)prospective
Q2) Oscar is writing a fictional autobiography.He is combining real events with those that could have happened,as well as a few creative additions.In terms of the memory system,this approach is most similar to
A)the three systems of memory.
B)parallel distributed processing.
C)reconstructive memory.
D)implicit memory.
Q3) Who is most likely suffering from retrograde amnesia?
A)Billy,who can't seem to learn a foreign language
B)Mariana,who struggles to remember the names of the people she just met
C)Cecil,who can't remember much of anything after his wife died
D)Margie,who can't remember much of anything prior to being attacked on the street after a late-night party
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Chapter 7: Exsetntion: Memory
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Q1) The character of Dori from the movie Finding Nemo keeps complaining that she has short-term memory loss because she can't remember the name of the friend she just met.What is a more likely explanation for her memory failure?
A)Anterograde amnesia
B)Retrograde amnesia
C)Hippocampal damage
D)Blocking
Q2) Eyewitness testimony has been found to be most accurate when A)the witness has ample time to observe the person under good viewing conditions. B)the witness is presented a simultaneous,as opposed to a sequential,lineup.
C)a weapon is used in the commission of a crime.
D)the witness is distracted or must fill in gaps in their memory with stereotyped information.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Reasoning, and Language
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Q1) Eduardo is from Brazil.He is fluent in both Portuguese and English.When he uses English to speak to you of his home in Brazil,he seems to have trouble remembering details.Yet when he is speaking Portuguese to another Brazilian,he has no trouble remembering.This phenomenon can be best explained by
A)linguistic determinism.
B)linguistic relativity.
C)extralinguistic information.
D)cryptophasia.
Q2) Even those who are well-skilled at reading lips can only pick up about _____ percent of what is being said because most of our verbal expression is done inside of the mouth.
A)5-10
B)10-20
C)20-30
D)30-35
Q3) Much of our language use serves non-informational purposes,such as
A)establishing or maintaining social relationships.
B)telling the barista that we want a skim latte.
C)advising a friend what time to show up at a party.
D)providing directions to an event.
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Q1) As symbolic systems of communication,most languages
A)generally match sounds to the meaning of words.
B)are arbitrary in the relationship between words and meaning.
C)can be translated to another without impaired meanings of complex concepts.
D)do not have concepts that are unique to just one particular language.
Q2) If I am given 10 math problems,and I can and do solve the first nine in the same way,I may struggle with the tenth problem if it requires a different method to solve it.This best illustrates the concept of
A)the salience of surface properties.
B)thin slicing.
C)mental sets.
D)hindsight bias.
Q3) What problem-solving strategies are essentially mental shortcuts?
A)Heuristics
B)Algorithms
C)Mnemonic devices
D)Cognitive shortcuts
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and IQ Testing
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of "stereotype threat"?
A)Julie becomes anxious when told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,but she uses this as incentive to earn a high score on the SAT math section.
B)Julie becomes anxious when told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,and even though she is a gifted mathematician,she performs below average on the SAT math section.
C)Julie is told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,but she ignores this information and earns a high score on the SAT math section.
D)Julie is told that women perform worse than men on standardized math tests,but her preparation for the test allows her to earn a high score on the SAT math section.
Q2) Sterilization laws beginning in the early 1900s remained on the books in the United States until the
A)1940s.
B)1950s.
C)1960s. D)1970s.
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Chapter 9: Exsetntion: Intelligence and IQ Testing
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Q1) Twelve-year-old Arnold received an IQ test score of 75.What is his mental age?
A)9
B)10
C)5
D)7
Q2) A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point.The person is engaging in _____.
A)functional thinking
B)circular thinking
C)convergent thinking
D)divergent thinking
Q3) Corrie is well liked by all her classmates.She has lots of friends and is always one of the first people chosen whenever there are group projects.According to Gardner,at which type of intelligence does Corrie likely excel?
A)Interpersonal
B)Intrapersonal
C)Naturalistic
D)Spatial
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Chapter 10: Human Development
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Q1) _____ behaviors are defined as bodily motions that are self-initiated and move bones and muscles.
A)Motor
B)Muscular
C)Physical
D)Physiological
Q2) Which of the following statements is illustrative of the post hoc fallacy?
A)Believing that because most professional athletes lift weights,weightlifting produces professional athletes
B)Believing that because someone is muscular in body type,she is more likely to become a professional athlete
C)Believing that because someone is specially trained,he is more likely to become a professional athlete
D)Believing that because someone has benefited from the best coaching,she will have a good chance of becoming a professional athlete
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Chapter 10: Exsetntion: Human Development
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Q1) Lyette has recently given birth to her first child.She decides to start playing classical music near the baby's crib at night so that the child will develop greater intelligence.Which of the following may be an explanation for why such strategies appear to have some impact on the developing child?
A)These strategies are like "vegetables for the brain," and impact virtually every area of brain growth and development.This is why it is a good idea to play classical music for a child even before (s)he is born.
B)These strategies impact the use of echoic memory,which is distinctly tied to the ability to boost intellectual growth.
C)These strategies boost the activity of the temporal lobes,which are responsible for both hearing and intellectual development.Therefore,long-term intelligence improvement is likely to occur.
D)These strategies boost short-term arousal,which may help performance on mentally demanding tasks for a brief period of time; however,there is no evidence that they will impact long-term intelligence.
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Chapter 11: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Jane just met Allen at a bar.They talked for awhile and shared a cab home.She tells her roommates that she cannot stop thinking about him.What type of love is she experiencing?
A)Fatuous
B)Empty
C)Romantic
D)Infatuation
Q2) Mrs.Woodham wants her students to embrace the book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.She believes the message is a powerful one.What might you encourage her to do?
A)Have each student read the book and write a response.
B)Get the book on CD and play it for her students.
C)Read the book to the students every day.
D)Read the book to the students and then have them read it themselves.
Q3) Types of gestures and movements that can display our emotions are called
A)facial feedback.
B)nonverbal leakage.
C)mere exposure.
D)primary emotions.
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Chapter 11: Exsetntion: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Who is being driven by intrinsic motivation?
A)Matt,who is dying to win the trophy he sees behind the podium
B)Lucia,who hopes to earn a scholarship for college so her parents won't have to pay for her tuition
C)Kira,who enjoys running marathons for the challenge
D)Kip,who is working for a promotion and a raise at his job
Q2) Our unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behavior is called _____.
A)nonverbal communication
B)a manipulator
C)an illustrator
D)nonverbal leakage
Q3) Val has a crush on Ilene.What is one thing he might do to make himself more desirable?
A)Bring her flowers
B)Stop by every day to say hello
C)Compliment her on her hair
D)Tell her she has nice shoes
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Chapter 12: Stress, Coping, and Health
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Q1) Amanda signed up with the army right after she graduated from high school.She was soon sent to Iraq.During her two years in Iraq,she witnessed many gruesome catastrophes.Upon returning home,she felt detached and estranged from her old friends,was easily startled,and had difficulties sleeping due to the vivid memories of the horrific events.Amanda displays the symptoms of A)flashbacks.
B)posttraumatic stress disorder.
C)anxiety.
D)depression.
Q2) The prevailing explanation for the relationship between stress and illness has been that increased levels of stress result in a decrease in the immune system's ability to protect the body from illness.On the other hand,it is possible that people who are experiencing stress engage in more health-damaging behaviors,this leads us to a greater likelihood of illness.This different explanation of the relationship demonstrates the importance of A)falsifiability.
B)ruling out rival hypotheses.
C)replicability.
D)extraordinary claims.
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Q1) The purpose of the _____ is to protect the body against the invasion of bacteria,viruses,fungi,or other illness-producing organisms.
A)antigens
B)lymphocytes
C)phagocytes
D)immune system
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Hassles have a greater effect on adjustment than major life events.
B)Hassles are minor annoyances or nuisances that tax one's ability to cope.
C)Only major life events,and not hassles,are associated with poor general health.
D)Difficulties with relaxing and insomnia only reflect everyday hassles and are not related to depression or anxiety.
Q3) Which is true about the DARE program?
A)It is very unpopular in schools.
B)It targets first and second graders.
C)It teaches the negative effects of using drugs.
D)It produces long-lasting effects.
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Q1) What is the moral or take-home message of Solomon Asch's series of experiments in which participants were asked to judge the lengths of lines?
A)People will go to great lengths to please people on whom they depend.
B)People will go to great lengths to fit in with others.
C)People will go to great lengths to assert their independence.
D)People will go to great lengths to convince others of their points of view.
Q2) When their friend Vincent was walking down the hall after a pleasant conversation,Neil and Michaela watched as he suddenly tripped and fell to the floor,scattering his schoolbooks all over the hallway.They ran over to him,helped him pick up his books,and commented,"I didn't know that the floor was so slippery in this part of the hall!" Neil and Michaela have made a _____ attribution to explain why Vincent fell over.
A)dispositional
B)assistive
C)situational
D)cooperative
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Q1) A group of chemists,who have been working together on a new diet pill for the last four years,met to discuss their new drug.Over the years,they have all come to respect each other and have formed a close bond.Upon discussing the effectiveness and safety of the diet pill,many members of the group found themselves agreeing with most of the comments that were made.Somewhere along the way,no one seemed to pay much attention to the fact that some of the subjects in the clinical trials of that drug became ill.It seemed that because nobody wanted to disrespect anyone else,the topic of ill subjects was dropped.What psychological phenomenon occurred here?
A)Social facilitation
B)Group polarization
C)Groupthink
D)Social loafing
Q2) You get on an elevator.Everyone is facing to the right.You turn and also face to the right.This is an example of A)obedience.
B)comparison.
C)attribution.
D)conformity.
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Q1) The MMPI and MMPI-2 are personality tests that are designed to
A)detect individual differences in personality patterns.
B)detect symptoms of mental disorders.
C)detect relationships between body types and personality patterns.
D)detect differences in interpretation of ambiguous stimuli.
Q2) A major difference between the humanists and both the behaviorists and psychodynamic theorists is that the humanists focus on
A)the destructive side of human nature.
B)free will.
C)the scientific method.
D)unconscious information processing.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the dimensions of the Big Five?
A)Conscientiousness
B)Extraversion
C)Openness to experience
D)Sociability
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Chapter 14: Exsetntion: Personality
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Q1) What theorist strongly disagreed with Freud's ideas about women and their feelings of inferiority and the Oedipus complex?
A)Adler
B)Horney
C)Jung
D)Klein
Q2) The _____ is the most extensively researched of all structured personality tests.
A)TAT
B)MMPI
C)Rorschach
D)NEO
Q3) The book suggests that criminal profiling can fall victim to A)social durability bias.
B)the P.T.Barnum effect.
C)confirmation bias.
D)projective hypotheses.
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Q1) Any behavior that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life is considered abnormal because it creates _____.
A)deviance
B)distress
C)disapproval
D)impairment
Q2) Tommy is a seven year old boy with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Which of the following would be inconsistent with this diagnosis?
A)He has difficulty with language skills.
B)He enjoys playing with his older brother.
C)He isn't interested in playing with anything except his Tickle-Me-Elmo toy.
D)His symptoms first showed up when he was 8 months old.
Q3) False beliefs held by a person who has no evidence to support such beliefs are known as _____.
A)delusions
B)hallucinations
C)obsessions
D)compulsions
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Chapter 15: Exsetntion: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true regarding suicide?
A)More men than women attempt suicide.
B)More women than men attempt suicide.
C)Depression is a better predictor of suicide than are feelings of hopelessness.
D)There is no relationship between age and attempting suicide.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true about the DSM-5?
A)It describes symptoms and includes information regarding the prevalence of specific disorders.
B)It contains 12 specific "classifications" of mental illnesses.
C)It is used to diagnose medical conditions that may have an impact on mental health.
D)It is used to diagnose all kinds of medical conditions.
Q3) Major changes in sleep patterns,weight level,and a loss of interest in pleasurable activities,characterize
A)agoraphobia.
B)major depressive disorder.
C)schizophrenia.
D)social anxiety.
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Chapter 16: Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Q1) Which of the following professionals is trained as a medical doctor and may be found working in either private practice or in a hospital setting?
A)Clinical psychologist
B)Clinical social worker
C)Mental health counselor
D)Psychiatrist
Q2) George begins to project his anxieties and unresolved feelings about his mother onto his therapist.This is what Sigmund Freud would have called A)free association.
B)resistance.
C)transference.
D)working through.
Q3) A _____ provides counseling,support in spiritual context,wellness programs,as well as group,family,and couples therapy.
A)psychiatrist
B)mental health counselor
C)pastoral counselor
D)psychiatric nurse
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Chapter 16: Exsetntion: Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Q1) Dedric is being asked to anticipate an upcoming tennis match against a highly ranked opponent.He is to imagine falling behind by one set,in a best of two of three sets match,and what he would say to himself in such a scenario.This example illustrates what Meichenbaum would call
A)systematic desensitization.
B)person-centered therapy.
C)rational emotive behavior therapy.
D)stress inoculation training.
Q2) Lionel has been in therapy for four weeks now.At the first meeting with his therapist,the therapist waited for Lionel to begin discussing why he was there and what he hoped to gain from the session.The therapist also reminds Lionel that he is responsible for solving his own problems.Lionel's therapist is making use of A)Perls' Gestalt therapy.
B)Jung's analytic therapy.
C)Rogers's person-centered therapy.
D)Beck's cognitive therapy.
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