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TABLE OF CONTENTS X# X# X#




1. Abnormal Behavior.
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2. Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders.
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3. Assessment and Classification of Mental Disorders.
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4. Research Methods for Studying Mental Disorders.
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5. Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.
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6. Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders.
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7. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders.
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8. Depressive and Bipolar Disorders.
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9. Suicide.
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10. Eating Disorders.
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11. Substance-Related and Other Addictive Disorders.
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12. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
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13. Neurocognitive and Sleep-Wake Disorders.
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14. Sexual Dysfunctions, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders.
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15. Personality Psychopathology.
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16. Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence.
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17. Law and Ethics in Abnormal Psychology.
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,Chapter 1: Abnormal Behavior
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1. Which statement about abnormal psychology is accurat
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e? a. Abnormal psychology seeks to describe, explain, predict, and modify unusual behavi
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b. Although abnormal psychology has made several gains in the past 20 years, it is not
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c. The subject matter of abnormal psychology is restricted to extremely bizarre behavio
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ANS:
r. A REF: The Concerns of Abnormal Psychology
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2. Psychopathology, or abnormal behavior, results primarily from ___
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_.
a.
b. genetic factors factors
environmental
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c. sociocultural factors
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d. an interaction of many facto
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3. Dr. Thompson collects information in order to describe and draw inferences about an
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a. therapy
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b. predicting dangerousness
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c. psychodiagnosis
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d. research
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ANS: X # C REF: The Concerns of Abnormal Psychology
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OBJ: X # 1 MSC: Applied X #




4.X # Dr. Kohn is a psychoanalyst, Dr. Edwards is a humanistic therapist, Dr. Peterson is a cognitive
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behavioral therapist, and Dr. James is a Gestalt therapist. Each of them would likely have a differ
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ent
____ for a client's abnormality.
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c.
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5. A psychologist says, “Juan's abnormal behavior is likely due to a combination of biology
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and
inadequate interpersonal skills.” The psychologist is ____.
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a.
b. predicting
giving
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c. offering an explanation for Juan's proble
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d. describing how to control Juan's sympto
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b. Psychologists are not interested in predicting clients' future behavior.
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c. Prediction is unrelated to understanding the cause of abnormality.
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d. Psychologists tend to underpredict future violence.
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ANS: A REF: The Concerns of Abnormal Psychology
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OBJ: 1 MSC: Conceptual
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7. One of Seung-
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Hui Cho's professors reported Cho's frightening behavior to many campus authorities.
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What reason did those authorities give her to explain why they could do nothing?
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c. Cho did not make any overt threats against anyone.
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d. When compared with that of his peer group, Cho's behavior was not considere
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ANS: C REF: The Concerns of Abnormal Psychology
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8. When psychologists talk about modifying abnormal behavior, they mean they are _
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___.
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d. using therapy to improve client behavior
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ANS: D REF: The Concerns of Abnormal Psychology
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OBJ: 1 MSC: Factual
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9. Which of the following defines therapy most accuratel
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y? a. A program of systematic intervention designed to alter behavior, emotion, or th
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ought
b. The scientific study of abnormal behavior.
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c. A system of observing abnormal behavior in an attempt to classify it
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d. The application of a theoretical model to explain the cause of abnormal behavio
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rANS: A REF: 1
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10.
X # A psychologist develops several activities for clients aimed at helping them become more
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self-
disciplined and feel more confident about trying new behaviors. This example illustrates ____.
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a.
b. epidemiological
how therapy
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c. the function of providing an explanation for abnormal beha
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