Abnormal Psych Final Exam: Possible Questions

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1. Dissociative amnesia fugue subtype is defined by:
a. poor performance on neuropsychological tests
b. assumption of a new identity
c. symptoms of early dementia
d. an acute confusion brought on by drug use

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B: Assumptions of a new identity

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2. Most typically, dissociative amnesia involves being unable to remember:
a. the entire life
b. childhood
c. a trauma
d. life up until a trauma

Back 2

C: A Trauma

Front 3

3. In the context of dissociative identity disorder, alter refers to:
a. extreme splitting
b. a distinct personality
c. the host personality
d. the bridge between different personalities

Back 3

B: A distinct personality

Front 4

True or false?
1. Prevalence of DID is currently at an all-time high.

Back 4

True

Front 5

True or False?
2. Most people with DID report childhood abuse.

Back 5

True

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3. The _____ model of DID emphasizes role enactment, and the ____ model of DID emphasizes dissocation.

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Sociocognitive, posttraumatic

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Check your knowledge 8.3

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True or False?
1. Functional neurological disorder is highly heritable.

Back 8

False

Front 9

True or False?
2. The two-stage psychodynamic model of functional neurological disorder emphasizes unconscious perceptions and motivation for having symptoms.

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True

Front 10

True or False?
3. Complex somatic symptom disorder involves hyperactivation of the cerebellum.

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False

Front 11

List the symptom that each clinical vignette describes.
1. Charlie enjoyed going to movies. He particularly liked to see horror
movies because they made him feel really scared. His sister was surprised
to learn this, because when she went to movies with Charlie, he didn’t
gasp out loud or show fear on his face.

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Blunted Affect

Front 12

List the symptom that each clinical vignette describes.
2. Marlene was convinced that Christian Bale was sending her messages. In his movie The Dark Knight, his battles with the Joker were a signal that he was prepared to fight for them to be together. That he signed autographs at his movie opening also told her that he was trying to get in touch with her.

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Delusion or Ideas of reference

Front 13

List the symptom that each clinical vignette describes.
3. Sophia didn’t want to go out to dinner with her family. She reasoned
that these dinners were always the same food and conversation, so why bother? Later in the week, her mother mentioned that Sophia was not doing much around the house. Sophia said that nothing she could think of to do would be fun.

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Anhedonia

Front 14

List the symptom that each clinical vignette describes.
4. Jevon was talking with his doctor about the side effects of his medication. He talked about having dry mouth and then immediately began talking
about cottonmouth snakes and jungle safaris and how hiking was good for your health but that Barack Obama was in better shape than George Bush.

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disorganized thinking or derailment

Front 15

l. _____ and _____ studies do not do such a good job of teasing out genetic and environmental effects: _____ studies do a better job.

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Family; Twin; adoption

Front 16

2. _____ and _____ are two genes that have been associated with schizophrenia; _____ and _____ are two genes that have been associated with cognitive deficits seen in schizophrenia.

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DTNBP1; NGR1; COMT; BDNF

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3. Some studies showing the _____ area of the brain to be disrupted in schizophrenia also show that people with schizophrenia do poorly on tasks that rely on this area, such as planning and problem solving.
.

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Prefrontal

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4. _____, _____, and _____ are the three components of expressed emotion.

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Hostility; critical comments; emotional overinvolvement

Front 19

1. First-generation antipsychotics include medications like Haldol or Prolixin; second-generation antipsychotics include clozapine and olanzapine.

Back 19

True

Front 20

Second-generation antipsychotics produce more motor side effects than first-generation antipsychotics.

Back 20

False

Front 21

Cognitive behavior therapy, but not cognitive enhancement therapy, is
effective for schizophrenia, if given along with medications.

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False

Front 22

One important focus of residential treatment programs is to help people
with schizophrenia become employed.

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True

Front 23

True or false?
1. The two broad domains of childhood psychopathology are internalizing
disorders and externalizing disorders.

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1. True

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2. Girls with the combined type of ADHD have more severe problems than
girls with the predominantly inattentive type, similar to findings with boys.

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2. True

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3. Dopamine has been investigated in ADHD, particularly genes for the
DRD4 receptors.

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3. True

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4. The most effective treatment for ADHD is behavioral treatment without
medication.

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4. False

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Fill in the blanks.
1. Moffitt and colleagues have provided a good deal of evidence for two
types of conduct disorder. The _______ type is associated with an early
age of onset and continued problems into adolescence and adulthood.
The _______ type begins in the teenage years and is hypothesized to
remit by adulthood, though a recent follow-up study has not supported
the idea that this type remits.

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life-course-persistent, adolescent-onset;

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2. Comorbidity is common in conduct disorder. Other problems that cooccur with conduct disorder include: _______, _______, _______, and _______.

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ADHD, substance abuse, depression, anxiety;

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3. A successful treatment for conduct disorder that involves the family is
called _______. Another successful community-focused treatment that
works with the child, parents, peers, and schools is _______.

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parent management training, multisystemic treatment.

Front 30

1. Which of the following is not considered a learning disability?
a. dyscalculia
b. dyslexia
c. intellectual developmental disorder
d. developmental coordination disorder

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c. intellectual developmental disorder

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2. A study examining children with dyslexia who spoke either Chinese or
English found:
a. The left middle frontal gyrus showed less activation during reading
among Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia.
b. The left temporoparietal cortex showed less activation during reading
among Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia.
c. The left middle frontal gyrus showed less activation during reading
among English-speaking children with dyslexia.
d. The left temporoparietal cortex showed more activation during reading among English-speaking children with dyslexia.

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a. The left middle frontal gyrus showed less activation during reading

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3. Which of the following has not been established as a cause for intellectual developmental disorder?
a. chromosomal abnormalities such as trisomy 21
b. PKU
c. lead poisoning
d. All the above have been found to cause intellectual developmental disorder.

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d. All the above have been found to cause intellectual developmental disorder.

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4. Which of the following has been studied as possible causes for dyscalculia?
a. gene–environment interactions
b. the frontal lobes of the brain
c. dyslexia
d. All the above have been found to cause dyscalculia.

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a. gene–environment interactions

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True or false?
1. All children with ASD also have intellectual developmental disorder.

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false

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2. Children with ASD have difficulty recognizing emotions in others.

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true

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3. Medication is an effective treatment for ASD.

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false

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True or false?
1. Most of the DSM-IV-TR personality disorders can be diagnosed with
good interrater reliability if structured diagnostic interviews are used.

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True

Front 38

2. Most people diagnosed with a personality disorder will still show that
personality disorder 2 years later.

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False

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3. Most studies of personality disorders include informants.

Back 39

False

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Answer the following question.
4. List three ways in which the proposed DSM-5 approach to personality
differs from DSM-IV-TR.

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Any three of the following: six personality disorder
types instead of ten; inclusion of personality trait domains and facets
(dimensional scores); inclusion of levels of functioning scale

Front 41

1. Mariana refuses to meet with customers. She states that she is terrified
that they will see that she does not know much. It turns out that she
has called in sick the last three times her boss scheduled an appointment with her, and her colleagues barely know her name. When asked,
she says that meeting with any of these people makes her feel horribly
nervous about potential rejection of her ideas. She asks for a position
that would involve little social contact.

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1. avoidant personality disorder type;

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2. Sheila has had three subordinate employees request transfers from her
department. They each stated that she was too controlling, picked on small
mistakes, and would not listen to any new ideas for solving problems. At the
interview, she brought in a typed, 15-page chart of the goals she would like to
execute for the company. Despite having an inordinate number of goals, she
has failed to complete a single project during her first year with the company.

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2. obsessive-compulsive
personality disorder type

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3. Police contact you to let you know that they have arrested Sam, one of
your employees. He was caught at a bank trying to cash a $10,000 company check on which he had forged the signature. You learn that Sam
had previously defrauded three other companies. When you meet with
Sam, he laughs about how easy it was to get access to the checkbook,
and he does not seem the least bit sorry.

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3. antisocial personality disorder type

Front 44

1. Which personality disorder type is most related to schizophrenia in
family history studies?
a. schizoid
b. schizotypal
c. antisocial
d. borderline

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b. schizotypal

Front 45

2. Which of the following factors play a central role in Linehan’s model of
BPD (choose all that apply)?
a. emotional dysregulation
b. parental invalidation
c. conflicts between introjected values and current needs
d. splitting as a defense mechanism

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a. emotional dysregulation & b. parental invalidation

Front 46

3. Which of these personality disorders is most common in clinical settings?
a. obsessive-compulsive
b. schizotypal
c. antisocial
d. borderline

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d. borderline

Front 47

4. Which personality disorder types have been related to impulsivity
(choose all that apply)?
a. schizotypal
b. avoidant
c. obsessive-compulsive
d. antisocial
e. borderline

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d. antisocial & e. borderline

Front 48

Match the statement with the correct insanity standard.
1. can’t control behavior
2. found guilty
3. doesn’t know right from wrong
4. affirmative defense

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1. irresistible impulse
2. GBMI
3. M’Naghten rule
4. NGRI

Front 49

1. The Jackson case established that people who will not be restored to
competency should be found NGRI.

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False

Front 50

2. To be competent to stand trial, a person must be able to understand the
charges and assist his or her attorney.

Back 50

True

Front 51

3. The Supreme Court ruled that executing prisoners with mental illness
constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Back 51

True

Front 52

1. People with schizophrenia who have delusions are more likely to be
violent than those without delusions.

Back 52

False

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2. Past violence is a predictor of future violence.

Back 53

true

Front 54

3. Court decisions have determined that hospitalized patients do not have
a right to treatment unless they are dangerous.

Back 54

False

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4. People with mental illness can refuse treatment if they are found incompetent to stand trial after being charged with a nonviolent offense.

Back 55

True