PSYC 435 Abnormal Psychology Final
Exam Questions and Answers
Athabasca University.
_________ is often effective in the treatment of OCD even though other
tricyclic antidepressants are generally not very effective.
✔✔clomipramine
Genetic vulnerability to panic disorder is manifested at least in part by the
important personality trait called _______________, which is in turn
related to the temperamental construct of behavioral inhibition.
✔✔neuroticism
People with _______________ are at a nearly twofold elevated risk for
developing panic disorder.
✔✔cardiac problems
In a very large study conducted by the World Health Organization of over
60,000 people across 14 countries showed the most common category of
disorder is ____________
✔✔anxiety disorder
__________ disorder is approximately twice as common in women as in
men.
✔✔generalized anxiety
Not only do people with GAD have frequent frightening thoughts, they
also process threatening information in a biased way, perhaps because
,they have prominent _________
✔✔danger schemas
People with the more general subtype of social phobia have significant
fears of most social situations and often also have a diagnosis of
_____________
✔✔avoidant personality disorder
Animal phobias usually begin in __________, as do blood-injection-injury
phobias and dental phobias.
✔✔childhood
In experiments, monkeys could learn the fear of snakes simply by
watching a videotape of a wild monkey behaving fearfully with snakes.
This is an example of _____________
✔✔vicarious conditioning
Quinton has major depressive disorder with marked psychomotor
symptoms, including rigidity and mutism. This is characteristic of major
depressive episode with ________ features
✔✔catatonic
Lana was a forgetful person generally. When Lana forgot to pay the bills,
the bank foreclosed on her house and she went into a period of
depression. What was the dependent life event?
✔✔not paying the bills
,For most moderately to seriously depressed patients, the drug treatment
of choice since the early 1960s until about 1990 was __________
✔✔monoamine oxidase inhibitors
________ therapy relies heavily on an empirical approach in that patients
are taught to treat their beliefs as hypotheses that can be tested through
the use of behavioral experiments.
✔✔cognitive
For a diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder, the condition must exist
for ____________
✔✔at least 6 months
The term conversion disorder is relatively recent. Historically this
disorder was one of several disorders that were grouped together under
the term ________
✔✔hysteria
One of the most effective tools for correctly diagnosing factitious disorder
imposed on another is __________
✔✔covert video surveillance
Dissociative identity disorder usually starts
✔✔in childhood
Surgical treatment of obesity tends to result in substantial weight loss,
averaging _____ pounds
✔✔44-88
, The most recent estimates show that ________ of all adults in the United
States are obese.
✔✔35
Bulimia nervosa is much less lethal than anorexia nervosa, although it is
still associated with a mortality rate that is approximately _______ that
found in people of comparable age in the general population.
✔✔two times more than
The Cluster A personality disorder that has been researched the most is
_________
✔✔schizotypal personality disorder
Which of the personality disorders affects an equal number of men and
women?
✔✔paranoid
Among psychological factors, ________ theorists originally attributed
great importance in the development of character disorders to an infant
getting excessive versus insufficient gratification of impulses in the first
few years of life.
✔✔psychodynamic
Brain imaging studies show that individuals with psychopathy show less
activity in the _______ not only during fear conditioning but also when
viewing sad or frightened faces.
✔✔amygdala
Exam Questions and Answers
Athabasca University.
_________ is often effective in the treatment of OCD even though other
tricyclic antidepressants are generally not very effective.
✔✔clomipramine
Genetic vulnerability to panic disorder is manifested at least in part by the
important personality trait called _______________, which is in turn
related to the temperamental construct of behavioral inhibition.
✔✔neuroticism
People with _______________ are at a nearly twofold elevated risk for
developing panic disorder.
✔✔cardiac problems
In a very large study conducted by the World Health Organization of over
60,000 people across 14 countries showed the most common category of
disorder is ____________
✔✔anxiety disorder
__________ disorder is approximately twice as common in women as in
men.
✔✔generalized anxiety
Not only do people with GAD have frequent frightening thoughts, they
also process threatening information in a biased way, perhaps because
,they have prominent _________
✔✔danger schemas
People with the more general subtype of social phobia have significant
fears of most social situations and often also have a diagnosis of
_____________
✔✔avoidant personality disorder
Animal phobias usually begin in __________, as do blood-injection-injury
phobias and dental phobias.
✔✔childhood
In experiments, monkeys could learn the fear of snakes simply by
watching a videotape of a wild monkey behaving fearfully with snakes.
This is an example of _____________
✔✔vicarious conditioning
Quinton has major depressive disorder with marked psychomotor
symptoms, including rigidity and mutism. This is characteristic of major
depressive episode with ________ features
✔✔catatonic
Lana was a forgetful person generally. When Lana forgot to pay the bills,
the bank foreclosed on her house and she went into a period of
depression. What was the dependent life event?
✔✔not paying the bills
,For most moderately to seriously depressed patients, the drug treatment
of choice since the early 1960s until about 1990 was __________
✔✔monoamine oxidase inhibitors
________ therapy relies heavily on an empirical approach in that patients
are taught to treat their beliefs as hypotheses that can be tested through
the use of behavioral experiments.
✔✔cognitive
For a diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder, the condition must exist
for ____________
✔✔at least 6 months
The term conversion disorder is relatively recent. Historically this
disorder was one of several disorders that were grouped together under
the term ________
✔✔hysteria
One of the most effective tools for correctly diagnosing factitious disorder
imposed on another is __________
✔✔covert video surveillance
Dissociative identity disorder usually starts
✔✔in childhood
Surgical treatment of obesity tends to result in substantial weight loss,
averaging _____ pounds
✔✔44-88
, The most recent estimates show that ________ of all adults in the United
States are obese.
✔✔35
Bulimia nervosa is much less lethal than anorexia nervosa, although it is
still associated with a mortality rate that is approximately _______ that
found in people of comparable age in the general population.
✔✔two times more than
The Cluster A personality disorder that has been researched the most is
_________
✔✔schizotypal personality disorder
Which of the personality disorders affects an equal number of men and
women?
✔✔paranoid
Among psychological factors, ________ theorists originally attributed
great importance in the development of character disorders to an infant
getting excessive versus insufficient gratification of impulses in the first
few years of life.
✔✔psychodynamic
Brain imaging studies show that individuals with psychopathy show less
activity in the _______ not only during fear conditioning but also when
viewing sad or frightened faces.
✔✔amygdala
