Abnormal Psych

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Which of the following characterizes the mood-state known as anxiety

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Apprehension about the future

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According to the textbook, the experience of fear can be described as a(an)

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Immediate emotional reaction to danger

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People perform best when they are

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A little anxious

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Anxiety is thought to be a __________ state while fear is more __________

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Future oriented ; Immediate

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Which of the following terms is most associated with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Worry

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A relative of yours who suffers from panic disorder asks what treatment would have the most long-lasting benefits. Since you have just read about the double-blind NIMH research study evaluating psychological treatments with and without medication, you tell your relative to first try:

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Panic control treatment that includes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a situational phobia

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Animal phobia

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Which of the following is the most prevalent psychological disorder in the general population

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Social phobia

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Individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) display a characteristic set of symptoms including all of the following except

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Decreased startle response and chronic under-arousal

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Actions, or sometimes thoughts, that an individual with OCD uses to reduce anxiety are

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Rituals

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An essential element of hypochondriasis is

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Anxiety

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Hypochondriacial patients are likely to

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Demand unnecessary medical procedures

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Which of the following statements is true with regard to the treatment of Somatization disorder

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It is difficult to treat and there are no treatments with proven effectiveness

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The disorder that involves physical malfunctioning withouth any physical cause is called

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Conversion Disorder

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One important feature of pain disorder is that the pain is

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Real and it hurts

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Individuals who see themselves as having some defect in appearance even though no such defect is present are diagnosed with

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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While driving alone in her car, Sarah suddenly looks around and, for a moment, she can't remember where she is, how she arrived at this point on the road or even why she is driving her car. She is experiencing

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Depersonalization

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Derealization is defined as

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Altered perception involving loss of the sense of one's own reality

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Dissociative identity disorder tends to be associated with

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Child abuse

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In dissociative identity disorder, the transition from one personality to another is called a

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Switch

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Which of the following characterize the disorder known as schizophrenia

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Delusions and hallucinations

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In working with schizophrenic patients, mental health professionals typically distinguish between _______ symptoms (an excess or distortion of normal behavior) and _______ symptoms (deficits in normal behavior)

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Positive ; Negative

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The most common type of hallucination experienced by psychotic individuals is

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Auditory

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Of the various genetic linkage and association studies, the one that seems to be a possible "markers" for schizophrenia involves:

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Eye-tracking

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Which of the following is not correlated with schizophrenia

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viral exposure as a toddler

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Families with a high expressed emotion (EE) score view the symptoms of schizophrenia as

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Controllable

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The neuroleptic drugs introduced in the 1950s affect primarily the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, which include all of the following EXCEPT

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Social deficits

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One of the ways of improving patient compliance in regard to taking anti-psychotic medication involves the use of

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Injections

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A token economy is an incentive system in which hospitalized schizophrenic patients

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Both of these

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Assertive community treatment for schizophrenia utilizes

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All of the above

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One of the symptoms of a mood disorder is called anhedonia, which means

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An inability to experience pleasure

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Dysthymic disorder differs from major depressive disorder because persons diagnosed with dysthymia have symptoms of depression that are

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longer-lasting

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Symptoms of severe depression are generally NOT considered a psychological disorder when they are associated with

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Grief reaction

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Rates of depression appear to be

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Increasing at every age worldwide

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Suicide associated with bipolar disorder usually occurs during

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Depressive episode

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Manic episodes alternate with depressive episodes in the disorder called

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Bipolar Disorder

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The postpartum onset specifier is used to characterize a severe manic or depressive episode with psychotic features that occurs in a woman following

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Childbirth

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Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the relationship between anxiety and depression

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Almost all depressed patients are anxious, but not every anxious patient is depressed

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Which of the following factors contribute to the integrative theory of depression

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All of these

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Which of the following is a well-known and widely used selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)

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Prozac

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Which of the following degrees is earned by a psychiatrist

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M.D.

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The scientific study of psychological disorders is called

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Psychopathology

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Prevalence refers to

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How many people in the population as a whole have a disorder

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If a psychological disorder is said to have an acute onset, it means that the symptoms developed

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Suddenly

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In the 19th century United States, John P. Grey, a well-known psychiatrist, believed that mental illness was due to

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Physical causes

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Which of the following is NOT included as part of Freud's structure of the mind

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Psyche

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The systematic development of a scientific approach to psychopathology is represented by

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The behavioral model

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Anton Mesmer, an early 18th century physician, purported to be effective cures in patients by unblocking their flow of a bodily fluid he called "animal magnetism." In fact, any effectiveness of his methods was actually due to

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The power of suggestion

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According to Classical Conditioning, learning occurs when

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A neutral stimulus is paired with a response until it elicits that response

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Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, based his theories of conditioning on the results of experiments he conducted on

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Dogs

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The basis of multidimensional integrative approach to understanding psychopathology is that each dimension (psychological, biological, emotional, etc

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Is influenced by the other dimensions

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According to the diathesis-stress model

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It is possible to inherit a diathesis and never develop a disorder

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The idea that our inherited tendencies influence the probability that we will encounter stressful life events is characteristic of

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Reciprocal gene-environment model

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The central nervous system is made up of the

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Brain and spinal cord

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Neurotransmitters are important because they

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Allow neurons to send signals to other neurons

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GABA, dopamine, and norepinephrine are all examples of

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Neurotransmitters

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The ability to plan, think, reason, and create is located in the part of the brain called

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Cerebral cortex

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The fact that women are more likely to suffer from insect phobias then men is most likely due to

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Cultural expectations

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The fact that a disorder can be caused by a variety of factors illustrates the principle of

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Equifinality

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The area between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron is the

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Synaptic Cleft