Abnormal Psychology Exam #1
Which term is NOT used to describe behavior that is psychologically abnormal?
a. mental instability
b. psychopathology
c. mental illness
d. emotional disturbance -
✅a
The role of a clinical practitioner in abnormal psychology is to:
a. detect, assess, and treat abnormal patterns of functioning.
b. research, detect, and assess abnormal functioning.
c. research, assess, treat, and speak about abnormal functioning.
d. research about abnormal functioning. -
✅a
Which term was the earliest used to describe those who we now refer to as "mentally ill"?
a. "crazy"
b. madness
c. unstable
d. unbalanced -
✅c
Which statement is true about the "four Ds" of abnormality?
a. None of the "four Ds" is, by itself, an adequate gauge of psychological abnormality.
b. An individual can only be diagnosed with a mental illness if (s)he has all "four Ds."
c. Most clinicians agree on what qualifies under each of "the four Ds."
d. Every culture has generally identical criteria of what constitutes abnormality. -
✅a
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,Judgments of abnormality depend on _____ as well as on cultural norms.
a. specific circumstances
b. geography
c. politics
d. our health care system -
✅a
_____ argues that societies invent the concept of mental illness so that they can control people
whose unusual patterns of functioning upset or threaten the social order.
a. Dick Gregory
b. Jerome Frank
c. Thomas Szasz
d. Carl Rogers -
✅c
Which three essential features are included in all forms of therapy?
a. a patient, a physician, and an insurance company
b. a sufferer, a healer, and managed care
c. a client, an insurance company, and treatment goals
d. a sufferer, a healer, and a series of contacts between healer and sufferer -
✅d
A trephine is:
a. an instrument used to remove blood from the veins.
b. a trick used in hypnosis.
c. an instrument used in a twentieth-century lobotomy.
d. a stone instrument used to cut away a circular section of the skull. -
✅d
Which was one of the different mental disorders described by ancient Greeks and Romans?
a. dyspareunia
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,b. melancholia
c. anorexia
d. bulimia -
✅b
According to ancient views of abnormality, if a standard exorcism failed to rid a person of abnormal
behaviors, which step would be taken?
a. The person would be burned alive because they were believed to be "beyond saving."
b. The person would be accepted by society as being a marked child of "God," and the abnormal
behavior would be celebrated.
c. The person would be cast out of the society with no means for survival.
d. The shaman would perform a more extreme exorcism, such as whipping or starving the person. -
✅d
Those who suffered from the form of mass madness called lycanthropy may have believed
themselves to be possessed by:
a. tigers.
b. spiders.
c. wolves.
d. bats. -
✅c
Which term has come to mean "a chaotic uproar" and derived its name from a London hospital
where mentally ill patients were treated in horrendous ways?
a. Bedlam
b. Hysteria
c. Furor
d. Turmoil -
✅a
The Boston schoolteacher who made humane care a public and political concern in nineteenth-
century America was:
a. Dorothea Dix.
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, b. Margaret Meade.
c. Mary Baker Eddy.
d. Carrie Nation. -
✅a
General paresis, an irreversible disorder that causes physical and mental symptoms that include
paralysis and delusions of grandeur, was found to be caused by:
a. syphilis.
b. gonorrhea.
c. the HIV virus.
d. tuberculosis. -
✅a
The term "eugenics" refers to:
a. a private policy of linking mental illness to religion for the purpose of promoting a different
religion.
b. a public policy of providing free medication to those who suffer from mental illness.
c. a political policy of preventing those who suffer from mental illness from reproducing.
d. the practice of diagnosing all patients with the same illness, regardless of symptoms, so that
insurance companies will provide payment for services. -
✅c
The treatment mechanism associated with touching a troubled area of a patient's body with a special
rod was:
a. hypnotism.
b. mesmerism.
c. trephination.
d. exorcism. -
✅b
The policy of releasing patients from public mental hospitals was known as:
a. the community mental health model.
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Which term is NOT used to describe behavior that is psychologically abnormal?
a. mental instability
b. psychopathology
c. mental illness
d. emotional disturbance -
✅a
The role of a clinical practitioner in abnormal psychology is to:
a. detect, assess, and treat abnormal patterns of functioning.
b. research, detect, and assess abnormal functioning.
c. research, assess, treat, and speak about abnormal functioning.
d. research about abnormal functioning. -
✅a
Which term was the earliest used to describe those who we now refer to as "mentally ill"?
a. "crazy"
b. madness
c. unstable
d. unbalanced -
✅c
Which statement is true about the "four Ds" of abnormality?
a. None of the "four Ds" is, by itself, an adequate gauge of psychological abnormality.
b. An individual can only be diagnosed with a mental illness if (s)he has all "four Ds."
c. Most clinicians agree on what qualifies under each of "the four Ds."
d. Every culture has generally identical criteria of what constitutes abnormality. -
✅a
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,Judgments of abnormality depend on _____ as well as on cultural norms.
a. specific circumstances
b. geography
c. politics
d. our health care system -
✅a
_____ argues that societies invent the concept of mental illness so that they can control people
whose unusual patterns of functioning upset or threaten the social order.
a. Dick Gregory
b. Jerome Frank
c. Thomas Szasz
d. Carl Rogers -
✅c
Which three essential features are included in all forms of therapy?
a. a patient, a physician, and an insurance company
b. a sufferer, a healer, and managed care
c. a client, an insurance company, and treatment goals
d. a sufferer, a healer, and a series of contacts between healer and sufferer -
✅d
A trephine is:
a. an instrument used to remove blood from the veins.
b. a trick used in hypnosis.
c. an instrument used in a twentieth-century lobotomy.
d. a stone instrument used to cut away a circular section of the skull. -
✅d
Which was one of the different mental disorders described by ancient Greeks and Romans?
a. dyspareunia
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,b. melancholia
c. anorexia
d. bulimia -
✅b
According to ancient views of abnormality, if a standard exorcism failed to rid a person of abnormal
behaviors, which step would be taken?
a. The person would be burned alive because they were believed to be "beyond saving."
b. The person would be accepted by society as being a marked child of "God," and the abnormal
behavior would be celebrated.
c. The person would be cast out of the society with no means for survival.
d. The shaman would perform a more extreme exorcism, such as whipping or starving the person. -
✅d
Those who suffered from the form of mass madness called lycanthropy may have believed
themselves to be possessed by:
a. tigers.
b. spiders.
c. wolves.
d. bats. -
✅c
Which term has come to mean "a chaotic uproar" and derived its name from a London hospital
where mentally ill patients were treated in horrendous ways?
a. Bedlam
b. Hysteria
c. Furor
d. Turmoil -
✅a
The Boston schoolteacher who made humane care a public and political concern in nineteenth-
century America was:
a. Dorothea Dix.
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, b. Margaret Meade.
c. Mary Baker Eddy.
d. Carrie Nation. -
✅a
General paresis, an irreversible disorder that causes physical and mental symptoms that include
paralysis and delusions of grandeur, was found to be caused by:
a. syphilis.
b. gonorrhea.
c. the HIV virus.
d. tuberculosis. -
✅a
The term "eugenics" refers to:
a. a private policy of linking mental illness to religion for the purpose of promoting a different
religion.
b. a public policy of providing free medication to those who suffer from mental illness.
c. a political policy of preventing those who suffer from mental illness from reproducing.
d. the practice of diagnosing all patients with the same illness, regardless of symptoms, so that
insurance companies will provide payment for services. -
✅c
The treatment mechanism associated with touching a troubled area of a patient's body with a special
rod was:
a. hypnotism.
b. mesmerism.
c. trephination.
d. exorcism. -
✅b
The policy of releasing patients from public mental hospitals was known as:
a. the community mental health model.
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