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ABNORMAL
for
PSYCHOLOGY
6th Canadian Edition
By Gordon L. Flett, Nancy L. Kocovski,
Gerald C. Davison, John M. Neale
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, Definition and Historical Considerations, and Canada’s Mental Health System
Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders (PTSD Moved to revised chapter 9)
Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (new chapter)
Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 8: Mood Disorders
Chapter 9: Stressor-Related Disorders and Clinical Health Psychology
Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17: Clinical Treatment Issues and Approaches
Chapter 18: Legal Issues in Psychological Intervention
, Chapter 1
Introduction: Definitional and Historical Considerations and Canada's Mental Health System
Question type: True/False
1) It is easy to remain objective when studying abnormal psychology.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Introduction
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
2) There is no single defining characteristic of abnormal behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
3) The Psy.D. approach is based on the scientist-practitioner model.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Focus on Discovery 1.1
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
4) All psychologists would like to be able to prescribe medication.
Answer: False
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
, 5) Demons thought to cause abnormal behaviour could be released by trepanning.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Early Demonology
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
6) Hippocrates believed that abnormal behaviour was the result of brain pathology.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Somatogenesis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
7) In the Middle Ages, mental illness was often mistaken for witchcraft.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Witchcraft and Mental Illness
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
8) Pinel was the first to remove chains from the mentally ill in asylums.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Moral Treatment
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Comprehension
9) Today more care is provided in psychiatric units of general hospitals than in psychiatric
hospitals.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.2
ABNORMAL
for
PSYCHOLOGY
6th Canadian Edition
By Gordon L. Flett, Nancy L. Kocovski,
Gerald C. Davison, John M. Neale
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, Definition and Historical Considerations, and Canada’s Mental Health System
Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders (PTSD Moved to revised chapter 9)
Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (new chapter)
Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 8: Mood Disorders
Chapter 9: Stressor-Related Disorders and Clinical Health Psychology
Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17: Clinical Treatment Issues and Approaches
Chapter 18: Legal Issues in Psychological Intervention
, Chapter 1
Introduction: Definitional and Historical Considerations and Canada's Mental Health System
Question type: True/False
1) It is easy to remain objective when studying abnormal psychology.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Introduction
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
2) There is no single defining characteristic of abnormal behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
3) The Psy.D. approach is based on the scientist-practitioner model.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Focus on Discovery 1.1
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
4) All psychologists would like to be able to prescribe medication.
Answer: False
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
, 5) Demons thought to cause abnormal behaviour could be released by trepanning.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Early Demonology
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
6) Hippocrates believed that abnormal behaviour was the result of brain pathology.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Somatogenesis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
7) In the Middle Ages, mental illness was often mistaken for witchcraft.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Witchcraft and Mental Illness
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
8) Pinel was the first to remove chains from the mentally ill in asylums.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Moral Treatment
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Comprehension
9) Today more care is provided in psychiatric units of general hospitals than in psychiatric
hospitals.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.2
