QUIZ QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
“ABAB Design - CORRECT ANSWER An experimental design, often involving a single
subject, wherein a baseline period (A) is followed by a treatment (B). To confirm that the
treatment resulted in a change in behavior, the treatment is then withdrawn (A) and
reinstated (B)."
"Abnormal Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Field of psychology concerned with the
study, assessment, treatment, and prevention of abnormal behavior."
"Acute - CORRECT ANSWER Term used to describe a disorder of sudden onset, usually
with intense symptoms (short in duration)."
"Analogue Studies - CORRECT ANSWER Studies in which a researcher attempts to
emulate the conditions hypothesized as leading to abnormality."
"Bias - CORRECT ANSWER Observer bias occurs when the researcher has
preconceived ideas and expectations that influence the observations he or she makes in the
research study."
"External Validity - CORRECT ANSWER The extent to which the findings from a single
study are relevant to other populations, contexts, or times."
"Family Aggregation - CORRECT ANSWER The clustering of certain traits, behaviors, or
disorders within a given family. Family aggregation may arise because of genetic or
environmental similarities."
"Generalizability - CORRECT ANSWER The extent to which the findings from a single
study can be used to draw conclusions about other samples."
"Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER Statement or proposition, usually based on
observation, that is tested in an experiment; may be refuted or supported by experimental
results but can never be conclusively proved."
"Incidence - CORRECT ANSWER Occurrence (onset) rate of a given disorder in a given
population."
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,"Statistical Significance - CORRECT ANSWER A measure of the probability that a
research finding could have occurred by chance alone."
"Stereotyping - CORRECT ANSWER The tendency to jump to conclusions (often
negative) about what a person is like based on the beliefs about that group that exist (often
incorrectly) in the culture (e.g., French people are rude, homosexuals have good taste in
clothes, mental patients are dangerous, etc.)."
"Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER Negative labeling."
"Third Variable Problem - CORRECT ANSWER Refers to the problem of making causal
inferences in correlational research, where the correlation between two variables could be
due to their shared correlation with an unmeasured third variable."
"Asylums - CORRECT ANSWER Historically, these were institutions meant solely for
the care of the mentally ill."
"Behavioral Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER A theoretical viewpoint organized
around the theme that learning is central in determining human behavior."
"Behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER School of psychology that formerly restricted itself
primarily to the study of overt behavior."
"Catharsis - CORRECT ANSWER Discharge of emotional tension associated with
something, such as by talking about past traumas."
"Psychoanalysis - CORRECT ANSWER Methods Freud used to study and treat patients."
"Psychoanalytic Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER Theory of psychopathology, initially
developed by Freud, that emphasizes the inner dynamics of unconscious motives."
"Saint Vitus's Dance - CORRECT ANSWER Name given to the dancing mania (and mass
hysteria) that spread from Italy to Germany and the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages."
"Tarantism - CORRECT ANSWER Dancing mania that occurred in Italy in the
nineteenth century."
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,"Association Studies - CORRECT ANSWER Genetic research strategy comparing
frequency of certain genetic markers known to be located on particular chromosomes in
people with and without a particular disorder."
"Hormones - CORRECT ANSWER Chemical messengers secreted by endocrine glands
that regulate development of and activity in various parts of the body."
"Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (HPA Axis) - CORRECT ANSWER Brain
endocrine system involved in responding to stress in which the hypothalamus and
pituitary send messages to the adrenal gland which releases a stress hormone that feeds
back on the hypothalamus."
"Id - CORRECT ANSWER In psychoanalytic theory, the reservoir of instinctual drives
and the first structure to appear in infancy."
"Instrumental (Operant) Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER Reinforcement of a subject
for making a correct response that leads either to receipt of something rewarding or to
escape from something unpleasant."
"Psychosexual Stages of Development - CORRECT ANSWER According to Freudian
theory, there are five stages of psychosexual development, each characterized by a
dominant mode of achieving sexual pleasure: the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic
stage, the latency stage, and the genital stage."
"Reality Principle - CORRECT ANSWER Awareness of the demands of the environment
and adjustment of behavior to meet these demands."
"Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER The process of rewarding desired responses."
"Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to adapt successfully to even very difficult
circumstances."
"Schema - CORRECT ANSWER An underlying representation of knowledge that guides
current processing of information and often leads to distortions in attention, memory, and
comprehension."
"Secondary Process Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER Reality-oriented rational processes
of the ego for dealing with the external world and the exercise of control over id demands."
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, "Self-Schema - CORRECT ANSWER Our view of what we are, what we might become,
and what is important to us."
"Spontaneous Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER The return of a learned response at some
time after extinction has occurred."
"Stress - CORRECT ANSWER Effects created within an organism by the application of a
stressor."
"Sufficient Cause - CORRECT ANSWER A condition that guarantees the occurrence of a
disorder."
"Superego - CORRECT ANSWER Conscience; ethical or moral dimensions (attitudes) of
personality."
"Synapse - CORRECT ANSWER Site of communication from the axon of one neuron to
the dendrites or cell body of another neuron-- a tiny filled space between neurons."
"Role-Playing - CORRECT ANSWER Form of assessment in which a person is instructed
to play a part, enabling a clinician to observe a client's behavior directly."
"Rorschach Inkblot Test - CORRECT ANSWER Use of 10 inkblot pictures to which a
subject responds with associations that come to mind. Analysis of these responses enables
a clinician to infer personality characteristics."
"Self-Monitoring - CORRECT ANSWER Observing and recording one's own behavior,
thoughts, and feelings as they occur in various natural settings."
"Sentence Completion Test - CORRECT ANSWER Projective technique utilizing
incomplete sentences that a person is to complete, analysis of which enables a clinician
infer personality dynamics."
"Signs - CORRECT ANSWER Objective observations that suggest to a diagnostician a
patient's physical or mental disorder."
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