Test Bank Psychopathology: An Integrative Approach to Mental Disorders 9th Edition Barlow
Chap 01 9e - Barlow
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. In ancient Greece, some “humoral excesses” thought to be causing psychological disorders were treated by
which of the following?
a. Changing the person's exposure to heat, dryness, moisture, or cold
b. Herbal remedies
c. Decreasing both caloric and liquid intake
d. Lowering the person’s body temperature for extended periods of time
ANSWER: a
2. Operant conditioning is most closely associated with which individual?
a. Ivan Pavlov
b. B. F. Skinner
c. Carl Rogers
d. Abraham Maslow
ANSWER: b
3. The term “hysteria” derives from the Greek hysteron, which means which of the following?
a. Vagina
b. Uterus
c. Penis
d. Libido
ANSWER: b
4. After the mid-1800s, moral therapy declined as a treatment for the mentally ill in the United States due to which
of the following factors?
a. The number of patients in mental institutions also declined.
b. Hospitals would not use moral therapy with immigrant patients.
c. The number of people available to staff mental hospitals increased.
d. New biologically based treatments became available.
ANSWER: b
5. When was DSM-5, an updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
published?
a. 1994
b. 2000
c. 2002
d. 2013
ANSWER: d
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6. Riley received a negative yearly evaluation at work. When Riley got home, their children rushed to say hello and
started talking over each other until Riley yelled at them. According to psychoanalytic theory, Riley used which
defense mechanism?
a. Displacement
b. Projection
c. Repression
d. Rationalization
ANSWER: a
7. The Scientific Method is best understood as which of the following?
a. No longer considered important
b. Useful only in the hard sciences like physics and chemistry
c. Sometimes useful but more often inhibitory
d. A subjective method for evaluating observations
ANSWER: c
8. After Philippe Pinel systematically introduced moral therapy as a treatment in mental hospitals in France, a
similar type of treatment was first established in a U.S. hospital by which individual?
a. Benjamin Rush
b. William Tuke
c. Joseph von Medina
d. Manfred Sakel
ANSWER: a
9. The continual interaction of biological, psychological, and social influences, and their effect on behavior, is which
of the following?
a. Sociocultural
b. Psychobiological/biopsychological
c. Systematic
d. Multidimensional and integrative
ANSWER: d
10. A psychological dysfunction refers to a breakdown in which of the following?
a. The individual’s internal sense of self
b. The individual’s ability to function at work
c. The individual’s important interpersonal relationships
d. The individual’s cognitive, emotional, and/or behavioral functioning
ANSWER: d
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11. In keeping with an accepted treatment for mental illness in the 14th century, a physician treating King Charles
VI of France had him moved to the countryside to do which of the following?
a. Have him closer to a hospital that treated mental illness
b. Provide him with cleaner air and the time and space to relax
c. Hide him from those who were threatening him
d. Cure him of hysteria
ANSWER: b
12. In the 1985 classic case of Anna O., neurologist Josef Breuer treated her “hysterical” symptoms by using which
of the following?
a. Psychoanalysis
b. Hypnosis
c. Faith healing
d. The placebo effect
ANSWER: b
13. Which scientist felt that that psychology should not use introspection or other unquantifiable methods and is
considered the founder of behaviorism?
a. Edward Titchener
b. B.F. Skinner
c. John Watson
d. Ivan Pavlov
ANSWER: c
14. Toward the end of the 14th century and continuing into the 15th, the causes of “madness” were attributed to
which of the following?
a. Toxins in the blood
b. Religious delusions
c. Brain disease
d. Demons and witches
ANSWER: d
15. Mentally ill people have sometimes been forced to undergo the religious ritual called exorcism. What is the
purpose of exorcism?
a. To cure the mental illness by making the individual more religious
b. To build up muscle strength and make the person healthier
c. To rid the body of evil spirits
d. To prove that the person was not a witch
ANSWER: c
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16. An employee often uses the office printer and copier for personal documents. They justify doing so because
others are also doing it and because they feel underpaid. The employee is using which defense mechanism?
a. Rationalization
b. Displacement
c. Repression
d. Projection
ANSWER: a
17. According to humanistic therapists, what is the single most positive influence in facilitating human growth?
a. Therapist interpretation of patient verbalizations
b. Relationships, including the therapeutic relationship
c. The client's self-esteem
d. Intellectual and moral development
ANSWER: b
18. The concepts of self-actualizing and the hierarchy of needs are most closely associated with whose work?
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Carl Rogers
c. Carl Jung
d. Melanie Klein
ANSWER: a
19. Which of the following defense mechanisms involves an individual unconsciously blocking disturbing desires,
thoughts, or experiences from awareness?
a. Rationalization
b. Reaction formation
c. Repression
d. Displacement
ANSWER: c
20. A 4-year-old sucks their thumb, a teenager binges on food, and an adult bites their fingernails. According to the
Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at which stage?
a. Oral
b. Anal
c. Phallic
d. Genital
ANSWER: a
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Chap 01 9e - Barlow
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. In ancient Greece, some “humoral excesses” thought to be causing psychological disorders were treated by
which of the following?
a. Changing the person's exposure to heat, dryness, moisture, or cold
b. Herbal remedies
c. Decreasing both caloric and liquid intake
d. Lowering the person’s body temperature for extended periods of time
ANSWER: a
2. Operant conditioning is most closely associated with which individual?
a. Ivan Pavlov
b. B. F. Skinner
c. Carl Rogers
d. Abraham Maslow
ANSWER: b
3. The term “hysteria” derives from the Greek hysteron, which means which of the following?
a. Vagina
b. Uterus
c. Penis
d. Libido
ANSWER: b
4. After the mid-1800s, moral therapy declined as a treatment for the mentally ill in the United States due to which
of the following factors?
a. The number of patients in mental institutions also declined.
b. Hospitals would not use moral therapy with immigrant patients.
c. The number of people available to staff mental hospitals increased.
d. New biologically based treatments became available.
ANSWER: b
5. When was DSM-5, an updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
published?
a. 1994
b. 2000
c. 2002
d. 2013
ANSWER: d
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6. Riley received a negative yearly evaluation at work. When Riley got home, their children rushed to say hello and
started talking over each other until Riley yelled at them. According to psychoanalytic theory, Riley used which
defense mechanism?
a. Displacement
b. Projection
c. Repression
d. Rationalization
ANSWER: a
7. The Scientific Method is best understood as which of the following?
a. No longer considered important
b. Useful only in the hard sciences like physics and chemistry
c. Sometimes useful but more often inhibitory
d. A subjective method for evaluating observations
ANSWER: c
8. After Philippe Pinel systematically introduced moral therapy as a treatment in mental hospitals in France, a
similar type of treatment was first established in a U.S. hospital by which individual?
a. Benjamin Rush
b. William Tuke
c. Joseph von Medina
d. Manfred Sakel
ANSWER: a
9. The continual interaction of biological, psychological, and social influences, and their effect on behavior, is which
of the following?
a. Sociocultural
b. Psychobiological/biopsychological
c. Systematic
d. Multidimensional and integrative
ANSWER: d
10. A psychological dysfunction refers to a breakdown in which of the following?
a. The individual’s internal sense of self
b. The individual’s ability to function at work
c. The individual’s important interpersonal relationships
d. The individual’s cognitive, emotional, and/or behavioral functioning
ANSWER: d
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11. In keeping with an accepted treatment for mental illness in the 14th century, a physician treating King Charles
VI of France had him moved to the countryside to do which of the following?
a. Have him closer to a hospital that treated mental illness
b. Provide him with cleaner air and the time and space to relax
c. Hide him from those who were threatening him
d. Cure him of hysteria
ANSWER: b
12. In the 1985 classic case of Anna O., neurologist Josef Breuer treated her “hysterical” symptoms by using which
of the following?
a. Psychoanalysis
b. Hypnosis
c. Faith healing
d. The placebo effect
ANSWER: b
13. Which scientist felt that that psychology should not use introspection or other unquantifiable methods and is
considered the founder of behaviorism?
a. Edward Titchener
b. B.F. Skinner
c. John Watson
d. Ivan Pavlov
ANSWER: c
14. Toward the end of the 14th century and continuing into the 15th, the causes of “madness” were attributed to
which of the following?
a. Toxins in the blood
b. Religious delusions
c. Brain disease
d. Demons and witches
ANSWER: d
15. Mentally ill people have sometimes been forced to undergo the religious ritual called exorcism. What is the
purpose of exorcism?
a. To cure the mental illness by making the individual more religious
b. To build up muscle strength and make the person healthier
c. To rid the body of evil spirits
d. To prove that the person was not a witch
ANSWER: c
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16. An employee often uses the office printer and copier for personal documents. They justify doing so because
others are also doing it and because they feel underpaid. The employee is using which defense mechanism?
a. Rationalization
b. Displacement
c. Repression
d. Projection
ANSWER: a
17. According to humanistic therapists, what is the single most positive influence in facilitating human growth?
a. Therapist interpretation of patient verbalizations
b. Relationships, including the therapeutic relationship
c. The client's self-esteem
d. Intellectual and moral development
ANSWER: b
18. The concepts of self-actualizing and the hierarchy of needs are most closely associated with whose work?
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Carl Rogers
c. Carl Jung
d. Melanie Klein
ANSWER: a
19. Which of the following defense mechanisms involves an individual unconsciously blocking disturbing desires,
thoughts, or experiences from awareness?
a. Rationalization
b. Reaction formation
c. Repression
d. Displacement
ANSWER: c
20. A 4-year-old sucks their thumb, a teenager binges on food, and an adult bites their fingernails. According to the
Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at which stage?
a. Oral
b. Anal
c. Phallic
d. Genital
ANSWER: a
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