Psychological Disorders
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of psychological disorders, examining their symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment. Students will learn about a variety of mental health conditions, including mood, anxiety, psychotic, personality, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Emphasis is placed on understanding the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to the development of these disorders, as well as current approaches to assessment and therapeutic intervention. Through case studies and research analysis, students will gain insight into the impact of psychological disorders on individuals and society, fostering empathy and a deeper appreciation of the complexities of mental health.
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Abnormal Psychology 16th Edition by James N. Butcher
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Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: an Overview
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Q1) What are the benefits of classifying mental disorders?
Answer: Allows information to be organized,needed for research,most sciences do it,establishes the range of problems mental health professionals can address.
Q2) 1-10.Which of the following is included in the DSM-5?
A)A discussion of the various causes of mental disorders
B)A means of identifying different mental disorders
C)A description of all conditions for mental illness
D)A description of all of the possible treatments for each disorder
Answer: B
Q3) The number of people who have suffered from a particular disorder at any time in their lives is __________ .
Answer: lifetime prevalence
Q4) 1-32.What type of prevalence estimate tends to be lowest?
A)Point prevalence
B)One-year prevalence
C)Lifetime prevalence
D)Virtual prevalence
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior
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Q1) 1-14.Aristotle believed that
A)mental disorders could be caused by psychological factors.
B)mental disorders could not be caused by psychological factors.
C)bodily fluids had nothing to do with mental illness.
D)mental illness was due to demonic possession.
Answer: B
Q2) 1-56.Which of the following approaches to treatment focuses almost exclusively on physical well-being?
A)Moral management
B)Mental hygiene
C)Humanitarian
D)Deinstitutionalization
Answer: B
Q3) 1-61.The work of Dorothea Dix has been criticized for
A)interfering with the provision of moral therapy.
B)increasing the use of unproven treatment approaches.
C)popularizing humanitarian approaches.
D)preventing the development of biomedical approaches to mental illness.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Causal Factors and Viewpoints
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Q1) 1-25.Which of the following most accurately describes the notion of different viewpoints of abnormal behavior?
A)Each viewpoint accurately describes the causes and symptoms of 2-3 different disorders.
B)Each viewpoint offers its own explanation of abnormal behavior.
C)All viewpoints are equally valid.
D)Only the biological viewpoint has been studied experimentally.
Answer: B
Q2) 1-21.When psychologists say that a person shows resilience,it means
A)the person has not been faced with significant stressors.
B)that regardless of the stresses the person faces,he or she will feel no emotional distress.
C)the person can successfully adapt and survive in threatening circumstances. D)recovering from traumatic events without the need for psychological protective factors.
Answer: C
Q3) How do defense mechanisms contribute to psychopathology?
Answer: They reduce anxiety by distorting reality rather than dealing directly with a problem.
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Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) 1-62.The text presented the case study of Andrea C,a twenty-one-year-old student from Colombia.The MMPI-2 computer-based report was typical of such reports because
A)there was a large discrepancy between the report based on the MMPI and that based on the MMPI-2.
B)the report was invalid because Esteban is a member of an ethnic minority.
C)the report provided diagnostic and treatment considerations.
D)the report was not used appropriately in Esteban's treatment.
Q2) 1-49.Which of the following is a projective testing method that has been adapted for computer interpretation?
A)The Rorschach Test
B)The MMPI
C)The Thematic Apperception Test
D)The sentence completion test
Q3) 1-47.The aim of a projective test is to
A)predict a person's future behavior.
B)assess the way a patient perceives ambiguous stimuli.
C)compare a patient's responses to those of persons who are known to have mental disorders.
D)assess the role of organic factors in a patient's thinking.
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Chapter 5: Stress and Physical and Mental Health
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Q1) 1-85.Short-term crisis therapy
A)typically consists of six to ten sessions.
B)rarely involves family members or other medical personnel.
C)begins with the assumption that the affected individual was functioning well before the current crisis.
D)is usually provided by a trained lay person.
Q2) 1-51.What is Type D personality type?
A)The "depressed" type
B)The "dysfunctional" type
C)The "distressed" type
D)The "detached" type
Q3) 1-78.The impact of torture
A)is always a severe level of PTSD.
B)can vary depending on the type of torture used.
C)can vary depending on if the torture was perceived as uncontrollable or not.
D)depends on whether the person previously had another psychological disorder.
Q4) The outdated term "shell shock" is renamed __________ today.
Q5) 3-10.What is stress-inoculation training?
Q6) What are two factors that can lessen the impact of a stressful situation?
Q7) What is the allostatic load?
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Chapter 6: Panic,anxiety,obsessions,and Their Disorders
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Q1) 1-10.Gradual exposure to feared cues is
A)an old treatment for anxiety disorders that is no longer used.
B)a common component of treatment for all anxiety disorders.
C)likely to make someone with an anxiety disorder worse in the long term.
D)a useful treatment for phobias but not other anxiety disorders.
Q2) 1-89.Mark feels the need to tap everything within his arms reach twice.He doesn't have any particular thoughts associated with this,he just becomes anxious if he doesn't do it,because "something bad might happen." Mark
A)does not have obsessive compulsive disorder.
B)has obsessive compulsive disorder.
C)has an unusual type of specific phobia.
D)has no disorder.
Q3) Which of the following is a typical symptom of panic attacks?
A)Hallucinations
B)Delusions
C)Fear of dying
D)Paranoia
Q4) The __________ is the part of the brain that plays a central role in panic attacks.
Q5) Describe how a phobia could be learned through vicarious conditioning.
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Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) 1-92.Recent research on relapse among bipolar patients suggests that
A)stressful life events have very little influence.
B)personality styles interact with stress to increase the likelihood of relapse.
C)relapse is most likely among those with unrealistically positive attributional styles.
D)the more frequently a person has bipolar episodes,the less likely stressful events are able to induce a relapse.
Q2) 1-41.Which of the following is true?
A)Most first time episodes of depression are preceded by a very stressful life event.
B)Both first time and recurrent episodes of depression are usually preceded by a very stressful life event.
C)Even mildly stressful events are associated with the onset of episodes of depression.
D)Mildly stressful events are only associated with the onset of first time depression,not with recurrent episodes.
Q3) The hormone __________ has been found to be elevated in most patients hospitalized with major depressive disorder.
Q4) What changes in sleep are seen in depression?
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Chapter 8: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) 1-35.A nurse in an emergency room sees many illnesses and reported illnesses.A group of psychology students are listening to her speak and one asks her what might be one way to tell the difference between a conversion disorder and a true organic disturbance.Which of the following would be a valid answer?
A)The patient will show some signs of an illness but not enough signs.
B)The patient will not be able to use muscles that are "damaged."
C)The patient shows no signs of atrophy in damaged areas.
D)The patient shows the signs of illness under hypnosis.
Q2) 1-53.In the study mentioned in the text,the German man who had dissociative fugue denied that he could speak German.However,he learned German-English word pairs much faster than control words.This supports that
A)mainly episodic memory is lost,implicit memory stays intact.
B)mainly implicit memory is lost,episodic memory stays intact.
C)both episodic and implicit memory are affected.
D)most people with dissociative fugue are faking.
Q3) 3-11.What is the main goal of treatment for DID?
Q4) What factors tend to be associated with the onset of conversion disorder?
Q5) Briefly describe somatization disorder.
Q6) Explain the difference between somatization disorder and hypochondriasis.
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Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Obesity
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Q1) 1-61.Which of the following best explains why cognitive-behavioral therapy is a logical approach to the treatment of eating disorders?
A)It is the therapy of choice for most disorders.
B)The role of learning in the development of eating disorders is well-established.
C)Medical interventions have proven ineffective.
D)Both thoughts and behaviors need to be altered to achieve a lasting outcome.
Q2) 1-30.Which of the following statements about the prevalence of eating disorders in the 20th century is true?
A)While the incidence of anorexia has been increasing,the incidence of bulimia seems to be declining.
B)While there is no evidence to indicate that the incidence of anorexia has been changing,the incidence of bulimia has been declining.
C)While the incidence of anorexia has been increasing,there is no evidence to suggest a change in the incidence of bulimia.
D)While there is no evidence to indicate that the incidence of anorexia has been changing,bulimia appears to be increasing in frequency.
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Chapter 10: Personality Disorders
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Q1) 1-91.What is the main difference between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)?
A)People with OCD are more perfectionistic than people with OCPD.
B)People with OCPD are less conscientious about their rituals than people with OCD.
C)People with OCPD do not have true obsessions or compulsions like people with OCD have.
D)People with OCD can do a compulsion once and feel better,people with OCPD never feel better no matter how many times they do them.
Q2) 1-97.Donna has borderline personality disorder.She is in therapy,but progress is slow.One problem is that some days she thinks her therapist is the most wonderful person in the world.On other days,she thinks he is worthless and untrustworthy.This type of thinking is called
A)dialectical.
B)splitting.
C)entitlement.
D)psychopathological.
Q3) Why is histrionic personality disorder more prevalent in women?
Q4) What are examples of dangerous behavior seen in borderline personality disorder?
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Chapter 11: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) 1-72.The abstinence violation effect is
A)the relapse rate percentage used in treatment outcome studies of addicts.
B)the effect that physiologically addicting drugs have in making continued abstinence difficult.
C)the tendency of an abstainer to relapse completely after a minor transgression.
D)the Alcoholics Anonymous phrase for relapsing.
Q2) 1-91.Benzedrine is a(n)
A)amphetamine.
B)appetite stimulant.
C)narcotic.
D)cough suppressant.
Q3) 1-20.Which of the following best explains why women tend to not "hold their booze" as well as men?
A)Women tend to eat less.
B)Women metabolize alcohol less quickly than men.
C)Women usually drink more quickly than men.
D)Women tend to drink mixed drinks,while men prefer beer.
Q4) Why does the tension reduction hypothesis fail to explain the development of alcohol dependence?
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Chapter 12: Sexual Variants,abuse,and Dysfunctions
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Sexual practices and standards are constantly evolving.
B)Over time,all cultures develop more liberal attitudes toward sex.
C)There is little that is considered "taboo" in modern society.
D)Monogamy is a dated concept.
Q2) ________________is the paraphilia in which the person has urges involving the real act of inflicting physical suffering on someone for sexual excitement.
Q3) 1-74.Males who have been raped
A)show similar long-term psychological distress as women do.
B)show less long-term psychological distress than women.
C)show different long-term psychological symptoms than women.
D)never report it.
Q4) 1-52.Angela is 10 and has been a victim of sexual abuse.The short-term effects
A)will include dissociative symptoms.
B)will almost certainly produce severe changes in thought,feeling,and behavior.
C)generally involve a compensatory sense of control.
D)may include fears and sexual inappropriateness,but there is no single response syndrome.
Q5) How do incest offenders differ from extrafamilial offenders?
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Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
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Q1) 1-79.One aspect of family environment that has been found to be important in schizophrenia is
A)the level of expressed emotion.
B)the level of parental grief over their child's illness.
C)if the mother is cold and aloof.
D)if lots of double-bind communications are used.
Q2) 1-13.Sterling believes that the TV special that was on last night was shown to tell her that she should break up with her boyfriend.She is absolutely certain this is true and plans to do it.This type of belief is an example of a
A)thought broadcasting delusion.
B)delusion of reference.
C)made feelings delusion.
D)thought insertion delusion.
Q3) 1-48.Lori just found out that she is pregnant.Her husband has schizophrenia.What is her unborn child's risk of developing schizophrenia?
A)1 percent
B)10 percent
C)50 percent
D)90 percent
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Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Q1) 1-13.Someone with focal brain damage in his or her left hemisphere
A)will have anterograde amnesia.
B)will have problems with processing language.
C)will have problems with nonverbal reasoning.
D)will have problems with understanding new situations.
Q2) Your text lists nine types of impairments that are commonly found in neuropsychological disorders.List and describe five of them.
Q3) 1-79.The case of Phineas Gage demonstrates
A)the role of the brain in determining personality.
B)that even the most serious brain injuries need not lead to permanent alteration in behavior.
C)the role of the temporal lobe in controlling behavioral impulses.
D)the importance of a healthy cerebrovascular system.
Q4) What does the case of Phineas Gage suggest about traumatic brain injury?
Q5) What is delirium?
Q6) 1-25.Delirium
A)is usually permanent.
B)is usually reversible.
C)rarely is a medical emergency.
D)is characterized by a decline from a previously attained level of functioning.
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) Which child below best illustrates the typical child with functional encopresis?
A)A 12-year-old girl who soils herself at school.
B)A 14-year-old boy who suffers from chronic diarrhea.
C)A 7-year-old boy who soils himself when under stress.
D)A 10-year-old girl who also has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Q2) Suppose you were the director of a mental health center that provided treatment for children.Based on research,you would expect that
A)more girls would be diagnosed with disorders than boys.
B)the most common disorders diagnosed would be eating disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder.
C)the average age of your child clients would be around 5 or 6.
D)more boys would be diagnosed with maladjustment disorders than girls.
Q3) 1-84.Autism
A)is due to environmental factors like family environment.
B)is minimally related to genetics.
C)is caused by exposure to chemical toxins during early development.
D)is one of the most strongly genetic disorders in the DSM-5.
Q4) The parrot-like repetition of speech seen in some children with autism is also called
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Chapter 16: Therapy
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Q1) A randomized clinical trial
A)is a study where all subjects are treated the same to see what percentage of the total gets better,stays the same,or gets worse.
B)is a study where people are assigned to different types of treatment by the flip of a coin to see which treatment is best.
C)is a study where people go through different treatments in random order to see which one works best.
D)is a study where people are assigned to different groups by a flip of a coin,one-half to a treatment group and one-half to a seemingly identical placebo group.
Q2) Drugs that block dopamine receptors are most likely to be used to
A)distort perception.
B)alleviate depression.
C)stabilize mood.
D)treat psychotic disorders.
Q3) Describe the process and purpose of Freudian dream analysis
Q4) Describe Beck's cognitive theory and therapy.
Q5) What is token economy?
Q6) What is systematic desensitization and its purpose?
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Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology
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Q1) One difference between voluntary hospitalization and involuntary commitment is that people who are in the hospital voluntarily
A)need to be assessed as dangerous to themselves or others.
B)can,with sufficient notice,leave the hospital when they want to.
C)are eligible for aftercare services following.
D)must be treated in the least restrictive environment.
Q2) Which of the following is a characteristic of a therapeutic community?
A)Individual responsibility
B)Minimal interaction amongst the patients
C)Extensive use of medications
D)Many restrictions
Q3) What are the three strategies that the United States government has used to address the drug abuse problem? How effective have these strategies been?
Q4) The Tarasoff rule usually applies
A)anytime a client threatens to do a violent act.
B)only to violent acts against people.
C)only if the target of violence is clearly identifiable.
D)only if the client has given an informed consent.
Q5) Discuss the three requirements for psychosocial health.
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