ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM Questions with
Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Dissociative Disorders.
Answer: disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories,
thoughts, and feelings
Question 2: Anxiety.
Answer: a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined)
misfortune
Question 3: Abnormal Psychology.
Answer: The field of psychology concerned with the assessment, treatment, and prevention of maladaptive
behavior.
Question 4: interns syndrome.
Answer: a tendency to diagnose one's self while studying any particular disorder
Question 5: DSM-IV-TR.
Answer: Abbrevation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text
Revision; the book published by the American Psychiatric Association that describes the specific symptoms
and diagnostic guidelines for different psychological disorders
Question 6: Neurotic disorders.
Answer: mental disorders in which a person does not have signs of brain abnormalities and does not display
grossly irrational thinking or violate basic norms but does eperience subjective distress; a category dropped
from DSM-III
Question 7: neologisms.
Answer: Made-up words that typically have only meaning to the individual who uses them. Typical of
disorganized schizophrenic person
Question 8: Psychotic Disorders.
Answer: psychological disorders of thought and perception, characterized by inability to distinguish
between real and imagined perceptions.
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, Question 9: eclectic.
Answer: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
Question 10: David Rosenhan.
Answer: A social psychologist that did a study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric
hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder, the label,
even when behavior indicates otherwise, is hard to overcome in a mental health setting
Question 11: Rosenhan Study.
Answer: study in which healthy individuals were admitted into mental hospitals after saying they were
hearing voices. Once in, they acted normally and still were not labeled as impostors.
Question 12: phobia.
Answer: an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social
situations
Question 13: generalized anxiety disorder.
Answer: an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or
sweating or trembling of light- headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
Question 14: panic disorder.
Answer: an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a
person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
Question 15: obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Answer: An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsession) and/ or actions
(compulsions).
Question 16: posttraumatic stress disorder.
Answer: an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms
as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent
thoughts and images
Question 17: agoraphobia.
Answer: a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place)
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Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Dissociative Disorders.
Answer: disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories,
thoughts, and feelings
Question 2: Anxiety.
Answer: a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined)
misfortune
Question 3: Abnormal Psychology.
Answer: The field of psychology concerned with the assessment, treatment, and prevention of maladaptive
behavior.
Question 4: interns syndrome.
Answer: a tendency to diagnose one's self while studying any particular disorder
Question 5: DSM-IV-TR.
Answer: Abbrevation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text
Revision; the book published by the American Psychiatric Association that describes the specific symptoms
and diagnostic guidelines for different psychological disorders
Question 6: Neurotic disorders.
Answer: mental disorders in which a person does not have signs of brain abnormalities and does not display
grossly irrational thinking or violate basic norms but does eperience subjective distress; a category dropped
from DSM-III
Question 7: neologisms.
Answer: Made-up words that typically have only meaning to the individual who uses them. Typical of
disorganized schizophrenic person
Question 8: Psychotic Disorders.
Answer: psychological disorders of thought and perception, characterized by inability to distinguish
between real and imagined perceptions.
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, Question 9: eclectic.
Answer: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
Question 10: David Rosenhan.
Answer: A social psychologist that did a study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric
hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder, the label,
even when behavior indicates otherwise, is hard to overcome in a mental health setting
Question 11: Rosenhan Study.
Answer: study in which healthy individuals were admitted into mental hospitals after saying they were
hearing voices. Once in, they acted normally and still were not labeled as impostors.
Question 12: phobia.
Answer: an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social
situations
Question 13: generalized anxiety disorder.
Answer: an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or
sweating or trembling of light- headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
Question 14: panic disorder.
Answer: an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a
person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
Question 15: obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Answer: An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsession) and/ or actions
(compulsions).
Question 16: posttraumatic stress disorder.
Answer: an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms
as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent
thoughts and images
Question 17: agoraphobia.
Answer: a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place)
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