Midterm Exam for Abnormal Psychology | Assessment Questions and
Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
Acquiring insight about unconscious psychological processes is a feature of:
Correct Answer: psychoanalysis
Question 2.
Commonly accepted features of abnormality include deviance, distress, dysfunction, and:
Correct Answer: danger
Question 3.
Compared with physical disorders, insurance reimbursement for treatment of mental
disorders prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act was gener- ally:
Correct Answer: lower
Question 4.
Which statement BEST reflects the impact of deinstitutionalization?
Correct Answer: Many people with severe disturbances are in jail or on the
street
Question 5.
Which statement is the MOST accurate conclusion about the current state of abnormal
psychology in the United States?
Correct Answer: There is no single definition of abnormality, no single
theoretical understanding of the causes of mental illness, and no single best
treatment.
Question 6.
A correlational study of college employees shows a strong positive correlation between
self-reported stress levels and days of work missed for illness, allowing the researcher to
conclude that:
Correct Answer: The researcher can make a fairly accurate prediction of days a
person will miss for illness if the person's stress level is known
Question 7.
A researcher designed an experiment to study the causes of aggression in children. Half
the children ate a sugared cereal; the other half ate cornflakes. The researcher then
recorded the number of aggressive acts displayed by the children in a one-hour play
period after breakfast. In this experiment, _____ is
Correct Answer: the number of aggressive responses; cornflakes
, Question 8.
Case studies are useful for:
Correct Answer: studying unusual problems
Question 9.
Factors other than the independent variable may also act on the dependent variable. If
these factors vary systematically with the independent variable, they are called:
Correct Answer: confounds
Question 10.
Which statement distinguishes a quasi-experimental study from a "pure" experiment?
Correct Answer: The quasi-experiment does not allow for manipulation of the
independent variable
Question 11.
According to cognition-focused therapists, which is a factor in abnormal behavior?
Correct Answer: Illogical thinking
Question 12.
A general term used for Freud's, Adler's, and Jung's theories is:
Correct Answer: psychodynamic
Question 13.
A goal of behavior-focused therapy is to:
Correct Answer: replace problematic behaviors with more appropriate ones
Question 14.
An important factor to consider when prescribing drugs for the treatment of abnormality
would be that:
Correct Answer: some people do not benefit from drug treatments
Question 15.
The biological treatment known as psychosurgery would MOST likely be used in the
treatment of a patient with:
Correct Answer: a severe disorder and who has not responded to any other
therapies over years of treatment
Question 16.
Correct Answer: standardization
Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
Acquiring insight about unconscious psychological processes is a feature of:
Correct Answer: psychoanalysis
Question 2.
Commonly accepted features of abnormality include deviance, distress, dysfunction, and:
Correct Answer: danger
Question 3.
Compared with physical disorders, insurance reimbursement for treatment of mental
disorders prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act was gener- ally:
Correct Answer: lower
Question 4.
Which statement BEST reflects the impact of deinstitutionalization?
Correct Answer: Many people with severe disturbances are in jail or on the
street
Question 5.
Which statement is the MOST accurate conclusion about the current state of abnormal
psychology in the United States?
Correct Answer: There is no single definition of abnormality, no single
theoretical understanding of the causes of mental illness, and no single best
treatment.
Question 6.
A correlational study of college employees shows a strong positive correlation between
self-reported stress levels and days of work missed for illness, allowing the researcher to
conclude that:
Correct Answer: The researcher can make a fairly accurate prediction of days a
person will miss for illness if the person's stress level is known
Question 7.
A researcher designed an experiment to study the causes of aggression in children. Half
the children ate a sugared cereal; the other half ate cornflakes. The researcher then
recorded the number of aggressive acts displayed by the children in a one-hour play
period after breakfast. In this experiment, _____ is
Correct Answer: the number of aggressive responses; cornflakes
, Question 8.
Case studies are useful for:
Correct Answer: studying unusual problems
Question 9.
Factors other than the independent variable may also act on the dependent variable. If
these factors vary systematically with the independent variable, they are called:
Correct Answer: confounds
Question 10.
Which statement distinguishes a quasi-experimental study from a "pure" experiment?
Correct Answer: The quasi-experiment does not allow for manipulation of the
independent variable
Question 11.
According to cognition-focused therapists, which is a factor in abnormal behavior?
Correct Answer: Illogical thinking
Question 12.
A general term used for Freud's, Adler's, and Jung's theories is:
Correct Answer: psychodynamic
Question 13.
A goal of behavior-focused therapy is to:
Correct Answer: replace problematic behaviors with more appropriate ones
Question 14.
An important factor to consider when prescribing drugs for the treatment of abnormality
would be that:
Correct Answer: some people do not benefit from drug treatments
Question 15.
The biological treatment known as psychosurgery would MOST likely be used in the
treatment of a patient with:
Correct Answer: a severe disorder and who has not responded to any other
therapies over years of treatment
Question 16.
Correct Answer: standardization
