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ABNORMAL
for
PSYCHOLOGY
6th Canadian Edition
By Gordon L. Flett, Nancy L. Kocovski,
Gerald C. Davison, John M. Neale
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, Definition and Historical Considerations, and Canada’s Mental Health System
Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders (PTSD Moved to revised chapter 9)
Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (new chapter)
Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 8: Mood Disorders
Chapter 9: Stressor-Related Disorders and Clinical Health Psychology
Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17: Clinical Treatment Issues and Approaches
Chapter 18: Legal Issues in Psychological Intervention
, Chapter 1
Introduction: Definitional and Historical Considerations and Canada's Mental Health System
Question type: True/False
1) It is easy to remain objective when studying abnormal psychology.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Introduction
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
2) There is no single defining characteristic of abnormal behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
3) The Psy.D. approach is based on the scientist-practitioner model.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Focus on Discovery 1.1
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
4) All psychologists would like to be able to prescribe medication.
Answer: False
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
,5) Demons thought to cause abnormal behaviour could be released by trepanning.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Early Demonology
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
6) Hippocrates believed that abnormal behaviour was the result of brain pathology.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Somatogenesis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
7) In the Middle Ages, mental illness was often mistaken for witchcraft.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Witchcraft and Mental Illness
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
8) Pinel was the first to remove chains from the mentally ill in asylums.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Moral Treatment
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Comprehension
9) Today more care is provided in psychiatric units of general hospitals than in psychiatric
hospitals.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.2
,Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Knowledge
10) The most recent research data shows that stays in psychiatric hospitals in Canada are
typically longer than in psychiatric units of general hospitals.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.2
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Knowledge
11) Mesmer believed that one person could change another’s behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Psychogenesis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Comprehension
12) Lobotomies were never performed in Canada.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.3
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
13) Mental illness can affect anyone.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Current Attitudes Toward People with Psychological Disorders
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Knowledge
,14) Most people with psychological disorders can never be cured of their illness.
Answer: False
Section Reference: The Public Perception
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.5 Describe the issues and challenges in the delivery of psychotherapy
Bloom’s: Analysis
15) The media shapes our perception of the dangerousness of people with mental illness.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Anti-Stigma Campaigns
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.3 Describe current attitudes toward people with psychological disorders,
including how stigma and self-stigma are potential barriers to help-seeking
Bloom’s: Comprehension
16) Most Canadians see mental health issues as separate from medical problems.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Mental Health Literacy
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
17) Anxiety Disorders carry the heaviest burden.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Cost of Mental Health Problems
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
18) Psychological treatment is fully covered by Medicare.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Transformations in Canada’s Mental Health System – Romanow Report
, Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.5 Describe the issues and challenges in the delivery of psychotherapy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
19) Women seek mental health care more than men.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Help-Seeking and the Perceived Need for Help
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Knowledge
20) When mental health care is universally accessible, people with low SES seek care at equal
rates to people with high SES.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Help-Seeking and the Perceived Need for Help
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.3 Describe current attitudes toward people with psychological disorders,
including how stigma and self-stigma are potential barriers to help-seeking
Bloom’s: Comprehension
21) Focusing on prevention may help more than focusing on treatment on mental illness.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Community Psychology and Prevention
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.5 Describe the issues and challenges in the delivery of psychotherapy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
Question type: Multiple Choice
22) An illustration of abnormal behaviour would be:
a) Soiling oneself once a month at age 14.
b) Experiencing anxiety when engaged in rituals after leaving the house.
c) Losing control of oneself in anger, with no apparent provocation.
d) None of the above are examples of abnormal behaviour.
ABNORMAL
for
PSYCHOLOGY
6th Canadian Edition
By Gordon L. Flett, Nancy L. Kocovski,
Gerald C. Davison, John M. Neale
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, Definition and Historical Considerations, and Canada’s Mental Health System
Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders (PTSD Moved to revised chapter 9)
Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (new chapter)
Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 8: Mood Disorders
Chapter 9: Stressor-Related Disorders and Clinical Health Psychology
Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17: Clinical Treatment Issues and Approaches
Chapter 18: Legal Issues in Psychological Intervention
, Chapter 1
Introduction: Definitional and Historical Considerations and Canada's Mental Health System
Question type: True/False
1) It is easy to remain objective when studying abnormal psychology.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Introduction
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
2) There is no single defining characteristic of abnormal behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Comprehension
3) The Psy.D. approach is based on the scientist-practitioner model.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Focus on Discovery 1.1
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
4) All psychologists would like to be able to prescribe medication.
Answer: False
Section Reference: What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
,5) Demons thought to cause abnormal behaviour could be released by trepanning.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Early Demonology
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
6) Hippocrates believed that abnormal behaviour was the result of brain pathology.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Somatogenesis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
7) In the Middle Ages, mental illness was often mistaken for witchcraft.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Witchcraft and Mental Illness
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
8) Pinel was the first to remove chains from the mentally ill in asylums.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Moral Treatment
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Comprehension
9) Today more care is provided in psychiatric units of general hospitals than in psychiatric
hospitals.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.2
,Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Knowledge
10) The most recent research data shows that stays in psychiatric hospitals in Canada are
typically longer than in psychiatric units of general hospitals.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.2
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Knowledge
11) Mesmer believed that one person could change another’s behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Psychogenesis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Comprehension
12) Lobotomies were never performed in Canada.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Canadian Perspectives 1.3
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.2 Compare the history of psychopathology across centuries
Bloom’s: Knowledge
13) Mental illness can affect anyone.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Current Attitudes Toward People with Psychological Disorders
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.1 Understand what constitutes abnormal behaviour
Bloom’s: Knowledge
,14) Most people with psychological disorders can never be cured of their illness.
Answer: False
Section Reference: The Public Perception
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 1.5 Describe the issues and challenges in the delivery of psychotherapy
Bloom’s: Analysis
15) The media shapes our perception of the dangerousness of people with mental illness.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Anti-Stigma Campaigns
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.3 Describe current attitudes toward people with psychological disorders,
including how stigma and self-stigma are potential barriers to help-seeking
Bloom’s: Comprehension
16) Most Canadians see mental health issues as separate from medical problems.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Mental Health Literacy
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
17) Anxiety Disorders carry the heaviest burden.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Cost of Mental Health Problems
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Comprehension
18) Psychological treatment is fully covered by Medicare.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Transformations in Canada’s Mental Health System – Romanow Report
, Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.5 Describe the issues and challenges in the delivery of psychotherapy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
19) Women seek mental health care more than men.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Help-Seeking and the Perceived Need for Help
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1.4 Describe mental health problems and their treatment in Canada
Bloom’s: Knowledge
20) When mental health care is universally accessible, people with low SES seek care at equal
rates to people with high SES.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Help-Seeking and the Perceived Need for Help
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.3 Describe current attitudes toward people with psychological disorders,
including how stigma and self-stigma are potential barriers to help-seeking
Bloom’s: Comprehension
21) Focusing on prevention may help more than focusing on treatment on mental illness.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Community Psychology and Prevention
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1.5 Describe the issues and challenges in the delivery of psychotherapy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
Question type: Multiple Choice
22) An illustration of abnormal behaviour would be:
a) Soiling oneself once a month at age 14.
b) Experiencing anxiety when engaged in rituals after leaving the house.
c) Losing control of oneself in anger, with no apparent provocation.
d) None of the above are examples of abnormal behaviour.
