LSU PSYC 4176 Exam 3 Matson UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Intellectual disability - CORRECT ANSWER - What does ID stand for?
Dual Diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER - What does DD stand for?
Diagnostic overshadowing - CORRECT ANSWER - attributing symptoms of
psychopathology to ID
Sam Kirk - CORRECT ANSWER - He coined the term learning disability
Project Head Start - CORRECT ANSWER - an attempt to provide a national agenda to
assist at risk children
Pica - CORRECT ANSWER - eating non-nutritive items
Dual diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER - When a person is diagnosed with ID and mental
health problems, it is called what?
ID - CORRECT ANSWER - People with _________ have much higher rates of mental
health problems than the general population
Psychodynamic methods - CORRECT ANSWER - What held back the dual diagnosis
movement?
True - CORRECT ANSWER - T/F: During the dual diagnosis movement, the view was
that people with ID did not have proper ego strength to have MH problems
, Traditional talk therapies - CORRECT ANSWER - What did not work well with the ID
population due to limits in verbal behavior and cognition?
Low - CORRECT ANSWER - Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists considered Dual
Diagnosis a ________ (low/high) prestige field
False; no methods existed - CORRECT ANSWER - T/F: During the dual diagnosis
movement, many methods existed to assess DD.
Challenging behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - These often occur at high rates with DD-
they should not be treated with medication but often are
Challenging behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - This is often confused and viewed as
symptoms of psychopathology
b/c of communication and cognitive deficits - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the
diagnosis of Dual Diagnosis complicated by?
Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults (PIMRA) - CORRECT
ANSWER - What was the first scale for aiding in the diagnosis of DD?
Normalization - CORRECT ANSWER - philosophy that persons with disabilities have the
right to experiences that are as normal as possible
Normalization - CORRECT ANSWER - began in Sweden during WWII to hide loved ones
from Nazis
Learning disabilities - CORRECT ANSWER - A disorder of one or more basic
psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language in which the disorder
may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Intellectual disability - CORRECT ANSWER - What does ID stand for?
Dual Diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER - What does DD stand for?
Diagnostic overshadowing - CORRECT ANSWER - attributing symptoms of
psychopathology to ID
Sam Kirk - CORRECT ANSWER - He coined the term learning disability
Project Head Start - CORRECT ANSWER - an attempt to provide a national agenda to
assist at risk children
Pica - CORRECT ANSWER - eating non-nutritive items
Dual diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER - When a person is diagnosed with ID and mental
health problems, it is called what?
ID - CORRECT ANSWER - People with _________ have much higher rates of mental
health problems than the general population
Psychodynamic methods - CORRECT ANSWER - What held back the dual diagnosis
movement?
True - CORRECT ANSWER - T/F: During the dual diagnosis movement, the view was
that people with ID did not have proper ego strength to have MH problems
, Traditional talk therapies - CORRECT ANSWER - What did not work well with the ID
population due to limits in verbal behavior and cognition?
Low - CORRECT ANSWER - Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists considered Dual
Diagnosis a ________ (low/high) prestige field
False; no methods existed - CORRECT ANSWER - T/F: During the dual diagnosis
movement, many methods existed to assess DD.
Challenging behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - These often occur at high rates with DD-
they should not be treated with medication but often are
Challenging behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - This is often confused and viewed as
symptoms of psychopathology
b/c of communication and cognitive deficits - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the
diagnosis of Dual Diagnosis complicated by?
Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults (PIMRA) - CORRECT
ANSWER - What was the first scale for aiding in the diagnosis of DD?
Normalization - CORRECT ANSWER - philosophy that persons with disabilities have the
right to experiences that are as normal as possible
Normalization - CORRECT ANSWER - began in Sweden during WWII to hide loved ones
from Nazis
Learning disabilities - CORRECT ANSWER - A disorder of one or more basic
psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language in which the disorder
may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math
