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61 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following statements is true?
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Sexual practices and standards are constantly evolving
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Which of the following is most likely to be a victim of incest?
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Stepdaughter
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The most common form of incest is between
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brother and sister
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Ted is a rapist. If he is typical of most convicted rapists, he
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is under 25 and has a prior criminal record
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Both surgical and chemical castration
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lower testosterone levels
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The McMartin Preschool case demonstrates how
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interviewing style can alter the nature of a child's testimony
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It was onve believed that masturbation caused
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insanity
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Rape shield laws
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limit the amount of information about a victim's past sexual history that can be used in court
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Which statement below about the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse is accurate?
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Because definitions vary widely, estimates of prevalence vary widely too.
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The role of anxiety in erectile dysfunction
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is not necessarily the problem-it is the cognitions associated with anxiety
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According to the DSMIVTR, the two components of gender identity disorder are cross-gender identification and
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gender dysphoria
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Which of the following statements about hypoactive sexual desire disorder is true?
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Hypoactive sexual desire disorder usually has no identifiable biological basis
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An important determinant of satisfactory outcome from sex reassignment surgery appears to be
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the extent to which an individual was psychologically well adjusted before the surgery
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Which of the following is a true statement about attitudes in the United States about masturbation?
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Masturbation is no longer viewed as a disordered behavior, but public discussion of it may be actively discouraged
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Which of the following is an argument against the use of surgical sex reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder?
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Surgery should not be used to treat a psychological disorder
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Julia has a shoe fetish-she is not able to enjoy sex unless her partner is wearing her shoes. She needs to be toughing the shoes in order to achieve sexual gratification. She becomes aroused by the sight of her own shoes. What is unique about Julia's case of shoe fetish?
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female fetishists are rare
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Pedophilia is defined by
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the bodily maturity of the preferred partner
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Concern about childhood sexual abuse has increased in the past decade due to
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the recognition that such abuse may lead to other problems later in life
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Sam was a child with gender identity disorder. Now he is 26 and he wants to become a woman. Adults with gender identity disorder are often referred to as
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transexual
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The blank enjoys inflicting pain, while the blank desires pain and degradation
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sadist, masochist
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One aspect of family environment has been found to be important in schizophrenia is
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the level of expressed emotion
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"Familial" does not mean the same thing as "genetic" because
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families share both genes and the environment
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Based on current research, which statement is most justified?
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Genetics increase a person's vulnerability to develop schizophrenia
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Most of the evidence suggests that, if schizophrenia is inherited, it
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involves a multitude of genes that work in concert
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"My father and i swiggered to the beach yesterday" is an example of a
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neologism
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Ursula has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. If PET scans were done to measure her brain's activity, which area would probably be underactive?
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the frontal lobes
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The term "demence precoce" is inconsistent with the
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discovery of a late onset form of schizophrenia
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Secondary prevention for schizophrenia
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involves trying to intervene early with people who are at high risk of developing schizophrenia
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Which of the following is a plausible explanation for how maternal influenza might lead to schizophrenia later in life?
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Maternal antibodies could cross the placenta and interfere with brain development such that the risk of developing schizophrenia is enhanced later in life
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Dyspareunia
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is a disorder involving genital pain associated with intercourse
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Among psychoanalysts, homosexuality was first seen as blank, but was later sen as blank.
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a variation of sexual function, a pathological escape from heterosexuality
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"Victim-precipitated rape"
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is a concept consistent with the view of rape as a sexually motivated act
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The most common personality characteristic of rapists is
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impulsivity
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To be diagnosed with paraphilia, a person
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must have acted on the sexual fantasies
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How common are delusions to schizophrenia?
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Over 90% of those with schizophrenia experience delusions.
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Harold and Tanya both have a wide range of schizophrenic symptoms that came on rather suddenly. Harold's symptoms have lasted for eight months; Tanya's have lasted only eight weeks. According to the DSM, their diagnosis should be
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undifferentiated schizophrenia for Harold; schizophrenic form disorder for Tanya
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The decision by APA to remove homosexuality from the DSM
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was based on a vote by the mental health professionals
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Social skills training for people with schizophrenia
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tries to help people gain skills they need for daily living outside the hospital.
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Angela is 10 and has been a victim of sexual abuse. The shot-term effects
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may include fears and sexual inappropriateness, but there is no single response syndrome.
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The only treatment that has been shown to be effective in treating gender dysphoria is
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surgical sex reassignment
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Which of the following statements is true?
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Sexual practices and standards are constantly evolving.
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Why is ritualized homosexuality practiced in Sambia?
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Women are viewed as dirty
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An important determinant of satisfactory outcome from sex reassignment surgery appears to be
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the extent to which an individual was psychologically well adjusted before the surgery
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The beliefs about homosexuality among the Sambi tribe illustrate
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that classification of sexual practices are abnormal is strongly influenced by culture.
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Sexual variants illustrate a theme in abnormal psychology better than any other category of disorder. Which theme?
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the difficulty in defining boundaries of normal and abnormal
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Most transexuals
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had gender identity disorder as children.
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Which of the following about hypoactive sexual desire disorder is true?
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Hypoactive usually has no identifiable biological basis
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During which phase of sexual response is there a characteristic sense of well being and relaxation?
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resolution
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One's sense of maleness or femaleness is called
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gender identity
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autogynephilic transexuals differ from homosexuals in that
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they are not especially feminine
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Which of the following is NOT true about paraphilias?
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Almost all people with paraphilias wish to change their sexual preferences
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Premature ejaculation is
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very difficult to define because many things affect time to ejaculaiton
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Rape shield laws
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limit the amount of information about a victim's past sexual history that can be used in court
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Which of the following is cross-culturally universal?
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males value physical appearance more than females
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Both of Mary's parents have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Bob has an identical twin who has schizophrenia. Who is more likely to develop schizophrenia and why?
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Bob because he has inherited the same susceptibility that his twin is expressing
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Psychosis is a striking and essential feature of schizophrenia. Psychosis means
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a significant loss of contact with reality
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Hallucinations are
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sensory experiences with no basis in reality
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Which of the following is suggested by the effectiveness of second generation antipsychosis in the treatment of schizophrenia?
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More than one bran area or neurotransmitter is involved in producing the symptoms of schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia occurs in about blank of the general population
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1 out of 100
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Secondary prevention for schizophrenia
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involves trying to intervene early with people who are at high risk of developing schizophrenia
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People with schizophrenia may have difficulty with the FORM of thought-in other words, their thoughts do not make sense. The observable sign of this is
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disorganized speech
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