Psychology of Mental Disorders Solved
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Course Introduction
This course explores the scientific study of mental disorders, examining their symptoms, origins, and impacts on individuals and society. Students will gain an understanding of major diagnostic categories such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders, as well as the biological, psychological, and social factors contributing to their development. The course also covers methods of assessment, current treatment approaches, and ethical considerations, while applying research findings to case studies to better understand the lived experiences of those affected by mental disorders.
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Abnormal Psychology Sixth Canadian Edition by Gordon L. Flett
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Definitional and Historical
Considerations, and Canadas Mental Health
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Q1) Anxiety Disorders carry the heaviest burden.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Kevin was seen walking around campus naked on the first day of term. When campus security caught up with him, they told him he was crazy and needed a psychiatric evaluation, despite Kevin telling them he was a nudist. While Kevin is not mentally ill, his behaviour meets which criteria of abnormal behaviour?
A)Personal distress
B)Unexpectedness
C)Violation of norms
D)Disability or dysfunction
Answer: C
Q3) The early classification system developed by Kraepelin
A)was based on the psychogenic hypothesis.
B)was not influential in later diagnostic manuals.
C)emphasized the continuity of mental illness from normal to abnormal.
D)assumed each disorder was a distinct entity.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) In Hall's 1900 historical report on "insanity" in women from British Columbia, "Mrs. D" was reported to have delusions that her husband was trying to poison her and she frequently wandered away from home. Mrs. D's behaviour was attributed to:
A)Mercury poisoning
B)Evil spirits
C)Oversized ovaries
D)An overactive pituitary gland
Answer: C
Q2) Operant conditioning works well as a treatment for children with depression.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ________ treatment involves planting electrodes in the brain to deliver low-level electrical impulses
A)fMRI
B)Electroconvulsive shock treatment
C)Deep brain stimulation
D)CAT scan
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
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Q1) Traditionally ignored in original intelligence tests, there is growing interest in __________ aspects of intelligence to predict future success.
A)academic achievement
B)abstract reasoning
C)social comprehension
D)emotional
Answer: D
Q2) Pearl has been quite forgetful lately, in addition to experiencing mood changes. Her daughter wants her to be evaluated for Alzheimer's Disease. Which professional should she consult with?
A)Family doctor
B)Neurologist
C)Psychiatrist
D)Psychologist
Answer: B
Q3) Asperger's syndrome is a diagnosis in DSM-5.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) Correlational research differs from experimental research in that correlational research
A)is associated with external validity.
B)does not involve manipulation of variables.
C)relies on significance tests.
D)samples large groups of participants.
Q2) Chris Sizemore, better known as Eve, claimed to have ________ personalities.
A)three
B)ten
C)fifteen
D)twenty-one
Q3) The most distinguishing aspect of the zoophilia case presented by Earls and Lalumiere (2002)was that:
A)The patient engaged in sexual activities with a horse
B)The patient killed all animals with whom he had been sexually active
C)The sexual activities were accompanied by emotional involvement
D)Cruelty always accompanies animal sexual attractions
Q4) Meta-analyses offer an objective look at complicated data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) Anxiety is mainly defined based on physiological arousal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Carlos experiences chronic, uncontrollable worry. Psychoanalytic theory would view the source of his anxiety as
A)anger turned inward.
B)resulting from a weak superego.
C)an unconscious conflict between the id and the superego.
D)an unconscious conflict between the ego and the id.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a feared type of situation for an individual with social anxiety disorder?
A)Giving a speech in class
B)Sitting on a bus during rush hour
C)Going to a movie
D)Asking for directions on campus
Q4) What is the most common element of treatment for anxiety disorders and why is it considered so important for successful treatment?
Q5) How could a university student with social anxiety disorder pass a class in which s/he has to give multiple oral presentations?
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Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Several Canadian researchers have found that people with _________ tend to think too much about thinking per se (meta-cognition).
A)posttraumatic stress disorder
B)generalized anxiety disorder
C)obsessive-compulsive disorder
D)All of the above
Q2) One potential complication that can arise from excoriation is
A)patches of missing hair.
B)infection.
C)hearing loss.
D)loss of sensation in the hands.
Q3) In verifying the hypothesis that individuals with OCD have memory deficits, Cuttler and Graf (2009)found the following:
A)Checkers and non-checkers show retrospective memory deficits
B)Checkers have deficits in prospective memory
C)The retrospective memory deficits hypothesis does not hold
D)All of the above
Q4) How would you treat a client with trichotillomania? Why would it work?
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) Mildred has been struggling with feelings of chronic depersonalization for several years. If she has depersonalization/derealization disorder, she most likely:
A)Has impaired memory functioning
B)Has a well-developed sense of self, just feelings of not being present
C)Has experienced some abuse at an earlier age
D)Is not employed
Q2) Dr. Ritter believes that extreme physical abuse or sexual abuse in childhood causes dissociative identity disorder. He is operating from which model of dissociation?
A)Fantasy
B)Learned social roles
C)Trauma
D)Diathesis-stress
Q3) A small number of clinicians are responsible for a large percentage of dissociative identity disorder diagnoses.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the proposed etiology of conversion disorder? Compare the psychoanalytic and behavioural paradigms of the etiology.
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) The relapse rate following ECT is approximately:
A)10%
B)25%
C)50%
D)75%
Q2) Given that antidepressant medications have been demonstrated to be effective, why are other treatments for depression still used?
A)The medication is effective only for the first few weeks of use.
B)Medication is effective in treating bipolar but not unipolar patients.
C)The medications are only effective for children and adolescents.
D)Patients often relapse after they stop taking the medication.
Q3) Studies of neurochemistry and suicide have found low levels of ____________ in suicide victims.
A)Norepinephrine metabolites
B)Tricyclic metabolites
C)Serotonin metabolites
D)MAO inhibitors
Q4) Offer justification for staffing suicide prevention centres with non-professional staff. What problems do the staff face as a consequence of their work?
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Chapter 9: Stress-Related Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) The new symptom category for the diagnosis of PTSD in DSM-5 is:
A)Negative alterations in cognitions and moods
B)Intrusion symptoms
C)Persistent avoidance of stimuli
D)Marked alterations in arousal
Q2) The reorganization of DSM-5 resulted in a new chapter for trauma- and stressor-related disorders. What are the disorders in this chapter? Do you think they should be in one chapter all together or should they have remained where they were. Explain why.
Q3) In an Ottawa-area study, Sweet and colleagues (1999)recently found that the stress experienced during breast cancer screening is closely tied to
A)how the stressful situation is appraised and perceived.
B)how well the coping response matches with the stressor.
C)whether the individual engages in palliative coping or not.
D)whether the individual seeks social support.
Q4) Acute stress disorder is diagnosed when a person has symptoms following exposure to a trauma within the last 30 days.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) A significant limitation of research on the role of perfectionism in eating disorders is that:
A)Various dimensions of perfectionism have not been explored
B)Perfectionism seems to have an impact only in North American samples
C)The causal role of perfectionism has not been established in longitudinal research
D)The developmental antecedents of perfectionism and not known.
Q2) Although the hypothalamus has been considered a part of the biological etiology of anorexia, a limitation of this account is
A)it fails to account for purging episodes.
B)there is no accounting for the fear of becoming fat.
C)it lacks an adaptive feature.
D)the lack of attention paid to neurotransmitter systems known to be dysfunctional in anorexia.
Q3) Minuchin has argued that families of children with eating disorders are:
A)Chaotic
B)Low in conflict resolution
C)Hyper-critical
D)All of the above
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) One goal of family therapy for schizophrenia is to reduce expressed emotion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In evaluating the validity of the DSM-IV subtypes of schizophrenia, Linscott et al. (2009)found that:
A)There was not a single system of subtyping.
B)The current classification is fairly representative of current diagnosing.
C)More research needs to be conducted before appropriate decisions can be made.
D)None of the above.
Q3) Data on expressed emotion (EE)indicate that schizophrenics are more likely to relapse (that is, return to the hospital)if their families
A)are cool, calm, unemotional and aloof.
B)are uninvolved.
C)are critical and overinvolved with them.
D)provide excessive emotional support and encouragement.
Q4) Another term for 'loose associations' is
A)derailment.
B)delusion.
C)disorganized speech.
D)incoherence.
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) Haaga's work on the cognitions of ex-smokers shows that their ________ in their most challenging situation is a key variable in predicting whether they maintain abstinence a year later.
A)negative attributional style
B)self-efficacy
C)problem-solving ability
D)none of the above
Q2) According to a study by Fallon and colleagues (2005), what gender differences were found to be related to the effects of nicotine on the brain?
A)Before nicotine is used, there are no gender differences in metabolic brain activity in prefrontal systems
B)Before nicotine is used, women have higher cortical and subcortical brain activity
C)Male smokers have less overall cognitive activity both prior to and during nicotine use
D)Female smokers show no changes in brain activity both prior to and during nicotine use
Q3) Explain why Canada has lower rates of cigarette smoking than many other countries.
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is often comorbid with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy are the same thing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The traits of people with personality disorders are different than the traits of people without personality disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The PSY-5 assesses:
A)Negative emotionality
B)Low positive emotionality
C)Psychoticism
D)All of the above
Q5) Discuss the rationale for including personality disorders in the DSM-5.
Q6) Why isn't group therapy a good treatment modality for antisocial personality disorder?
Q7) How are the clusters of personality disorders distinguished?
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Chapter 14: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) What type of therapy does Queen's University researcher and clinician William Marshall support for use with sexual offenders?
A)Cognitive-behavioural therapy
B)Behavioural therapy
C)Pharmacotherapy
D)Psychodynamic therapy
Q2) The current thinking regarding the biological theory of paraphilias suggests:
A)A strong genetic contribution
B)The disposition toward paraphilias resides in the limbic system
C)A minor role for hormonal dysregulation
D)Biological factors are associated with alcohol use, which leads to paraphilias
Q3) A person with gender identity disorder is attracted to people
A)From the same sex.
B)From the opposite sex
C)From the same or opposite sex.
D)With the same sexual orientation.
Q4) Describe contemporary therapy for rape victims. Do these treatments share any similarities with therapy for rape perpetrators?
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) Investigations of the causes of ADHD have found that environmental toxins, such as food additives and lead
A)do not explain more than a small percentage of cases.
B)are usually the cause of the disorder in those children with an organic basis to their ADHD.
C)are more likely to cause attentional problems without hyperactivity, but not in those children with both attentional problems and hyperactivity.
D)cause subtle attentional problems, but not to the degree of ADHD.
Q2) The best treatment for ADHD is Ritalin.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research demonstrates that oppositional defiant disorder is:
A)A mild form of conduct disorder
B)An extreme form of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
C)A separate disorder from other similar ones
D)A construction of modern life
Q4) You are an intern working at a clinic that specializes in treating children with anxiety disorders. What type of treatment will most of the clinicians use and how will it work?
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Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following are currently used in the treatment of depression in the elderly?
A)Antihypertensive medication
B)Psychosurgery
C)Placebos
D)Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Q2) The Canadian Study of Health and Aging has allowed researchers to:
A)Develop better screening tools for dementia
B)Pinpoint the specific genes involved in Alzheimer's disease
C)Develop an algorithm to predict which seniors are most likely to develop dementia
D)Create new opportunities to study the elderly
Q3) Alzheimer's disease is the result of:
A)Age-based slowing of all bodily processes
B)Low social and intellectual stimulation
C)Tangled abnormal protein filaments called neurofibrillary tangles
D)Side-effects of long-term medication, such as anti-Parkinson's medication
Q4) Consideration of death and dying are often a part of therapy with older adults.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Outcomes and Issues in Psychological Intervention
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Q1) Canadians are more likely to receive empirically supported pharmacological therapies than empirically supported psychological therapies for the treatment of mental health issues.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Clinicians sometimes don't use empirically supported treatments because they lack training.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following concerns have been noted about the use of treatment manuals?
A)They encourage unqualified individuals to perform therapy
B)They promote rule-governed behaviour
C)Each manual usually covers only a single method or type of therapy, which may not be appropriate in all instances
D)Minimal clinical judgment is used because of the abstract representations of the typical patient
Q4) Compare and contrast treatment efficacy and treatment effectiveness. Which do you think is more important for treatment success? Why?
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) What condition could lawyers have argued that Louis Riel had suffered from when he led the Northwest Rebellion?
A)Megalomania
B)Schizophrenia
C)Bipolar disorder
D)Psychopathy
Q2) Human subjects committees and institutional review boards:
A)Have been proposed by the American Psychological Association
B)Have been outlawed since the Nuremburg war trials
C)Are used to ensure subjects participate in scientifically significant research
D)Are used to protect the safety and rights of research subjects
Q3) High profile cases (e.g., Vincent Li)create a fear that people with mental illness are violent. Is this true? Explain.
Q4) Fifty plus years ago, medical research with human subjects:
A)Was generally more ethical than mental health research
B)Was monitored by review boards in the institutions where the research was being conducted
C)Was used as a way of punishing mentally ill prisoners
D)Frequently led to serious harmful consequences to participants
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