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Psych 435 Abnormal Psychology Exam with verified detailed answers
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What is lycanthropy? - ✔✔A condition in which people believe themselves to be possessed
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by wolves
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Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
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a) Both Jane and her husband are alcoholics
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b) Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenics
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c) Karen, her mother, and her grandmother have all been diagnosed with generalized
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anxiety disorder ||
d) Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse - ✔✔Karen, her mother,
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and grandmother have all been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder
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Understanding the causes of mental disorders is important because________ - ✔✔such || || || || || || || || || || ||
knowlege might make both the prevention and cure of mental disorders possible
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Benjamin Rush, who encouraged more humane treatment of the mentally ill in the United
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States, used as his prinicpal remedies________ - ✔✔bloodletting and the tranquilizer chair
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Which variable is manipulated in an experiment? - ✔✔independent
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What does the case of JGH, a Native American elder illustrate? - ✔✔a person may focus on
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somatic symptoms rather than mood when depressed
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Which of the following factors has a significant effect on the rates of severe mental illness
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among Americans? ||
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a) family size
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b) gender
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c) geographic region of the country
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d) political affiliation - ✔✔gender
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If fraternal (or dizygotic) twins are more likely to be concordant for a trait than other
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siblings, can it be concluded that the higher concordance rate is due to the greater degree of
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genetic relatedness? - ✔✔No, because fraternal twins are no more genetically alike than
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other siblinings ||
Archaeology and early writings indicate the first people to think of the brain as the site of
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mental functions were the ________ - ✔✔ancient Egyptians
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The effects of early social deprivation _______ - ✔✔are explained differently by the various
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psychosocial perspectives. ||
Behaviourism was_________ - ✔✔a reaction to what the behaviorist perceived as a lack of
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scientific rigour in psychoanalysis || || ||
Which of the following most accurately describes the notion of different viewpoints of
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abnormal behaviour? - ✔✔each viewpoint offers its own explanation of abnormal behavior
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In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she looked at the academic histories of girls with an
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eating disorer and girls who didn't have such problems. In this example, the girls with
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eating disorders are the ____group - ✔✔criterion
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Medications for psychological disorders _________ - ✔✔were first used centuries ago
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After cheating on her husband and feeling ashamed, Julia accused her husband of cheating.
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Such behaviour is explained by which of the following defense mechanisms? -
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✔✔projection
Discuss some of the difficulties involved in attempting to define abnormal behaviour -
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✔✔"Abnormal" presupposes some norm from which behavior deviates, but there is no || || || || || || || || || || || ||
definition of "normal" about which people can all agree. Abnormal is also related to
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behavior that is deemed undesirable by society. Value issues therefore always complicate the
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objective definition of disorders. What, exactly, comprises distress, disability, or dysfunction
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is also difficult to define. In addition, definitions of abnormality vary not only with culture,
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but over time.
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Which statment about neural communicator is accurate? - ✔✔Neurotransmitters released
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into the synapse determine whether messages are sent from one neuron to another
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________refers to the estimated proprtion of actual, active cases of a disorder in a given || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
population at a given point of time. - ✔✔point of prevalence || || || || || || || || || ||
The role of learning is the central theme in _______ - ✔✔the behavioural perspective
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one of Freud's major contribution to current perspectives of mental disorders is ________ -
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✔✔the concept of the unconscious and how it can affect behaviour
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What is the value of using a ABAB design? - ✔✔the effects of a simple form of treatment
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are studied twice in the same subject
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what is a good control group for a research study on people with eating disorders? - ✔✔a
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group that is comparable to those with eating disorders except that they eat normally
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Psych 435 Abnormal Psychology Exam with verified detailed answers
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What is lycanthropy? - ✔✔A condition in which people believe themselves to be possessed
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by wolves
||
Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
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a) Both Jane and her husband are alcoholics
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b) Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenics
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c) Karen, her mother, and her grandmother have all been diagnosed with generalized
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anxiety disorder ||
d) Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse - ✔✔Karen, her mother,
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and grandmother have all been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder
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Understanding the causes of mental disorders is important because________ - ✔✔such || || || || || || || || || || ||
knowlege might make both the prevention and cure of mental disorders possible
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Benjamin Rush, who encouraged more humane treatment of the mentally ill in the United
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
States, used as his prinicpal remedies________ - ✔✔bloodletting and the tranquilizer chair
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Which variable is manipulated in an experiment? - ✔✔independent
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What does the case of JGH, a Native American elder illustrate? - ✔✔a person may focus on
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
somatic symptoms rather than mood when depressed
|| || || || || ||
Which of the following factors has a significant effect on the rates of severe mental illness
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among Americans? ||
,2
a) family size
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b) gender
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c) geographic region of the country
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d) political affiliation - ✔✔gender
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If fraternal (or dizygotic) twins are more likely to be concordant for a trait than other
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
siblings, can it be concluded that the higher concordance rate is due to the greater degree of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
genetic relatedness? - ✔✔No, because fraternal twins are no more genetically alike than
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other siblinings ||
Archaeology and early writings indicate the first people to think of the brain as the site of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
mental functions were the ________ - ✔✔ancient Egyptians
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The effects of early social deprivation _______ - ✔✔are explained differently by the various
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
psychosocial perspectives. ||
Behaviourism was_________ - ✔✔a reaction to what the behaviorist perceived as a lack of
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scientific rigour in psychoanalysis || || ||
Which of the following most accurately describes the notion of different viewpoints of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
abnormal behaviour? - ✔✔each viewpoint offers its own explanation of abnormal behavior
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she looked at the academic histories of girls with an
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
eating disorer and girls who didn't have such problems. In this example, the girls with
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
eating disorders are the ____group - ✔✔criterion
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Medications for psychological disorders _________ - ✔✔were first used centuries ago
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, 2
After cheating on her husband and feeling ashamed, Julia accused her husband of cheating.
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Such behaviour is explained by which of the following defense mechanisms? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔projection
Discuss some of the difficulties involved in attempting to define abnormal behaviour -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔"Abnormal" presupposes some norm from which behavior deviates, but there is no || || || || || || || || || || || ||
definition of "normal" about which people can all agree. Abnormal is also related to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
behavior that is deemed undesirable by society. Value issues therefore always complicate the
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
objective definition of disorders. What, exactly, comprises distress, disability, or dysfunction
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
is also difficult to define. In addition, definitions of abnormality vary not only with culture,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
but over time.
|| ||
Which statment about neural communicator is accurate? - ✔✔Neurotransmitters released
|| || || || || || || || || ||
into the synapse determine whether messages are sent from one neuron to another
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
________refers to the estimated proprtion of actual, active cases of a disorder in a given || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
population at a given point of time. - ✔✔point of prevalence || || || || || || || || || ||
The role of learning is the central theme in _______ - ✔✔the behavioural perspective
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
one of Freud's major contribution to current perspectives of mental disorders is ________ -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔the concept of the unconscious and how it can affect behaviour
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What is the value of using a ABAB design? - ✔✔the effects of a simple form of treatment
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
are studied twice in the same subject
|| || || || || ||
what is a good control group for a research study on people with eating disorders? - ✔✔a
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group that is comparable to those with eating disorders except that they eat normally
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