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PSYC 435 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY QUIZZES 1 5 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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What is an important treatment goal for patients with TBI?
a. learning new techniques to cope with permanent losses.
b. Recovering lost memories through hypnosis
c. Using ACh inhibitors to prevent the TBI from turning into Alzheimer's
d. Returning to the football field as soon as possible


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a. learning new techniques to cope with permanent losses.




All drugs that people become dependent upon ________
a. are socially acceptable
b. act on pleasure pathways in the brain
c. provide the user with renewed energy
d. produce withdrawal symptoms when use is ceased.


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, b. act on pleasure pathways in the brain




There is debate as to the relationship between DID and abuse because
a. few of those who develop DID have a history of abuse
b. there is little evidence of a link between trauma and psychopathology.
c. other factors correlated with abuse may be the true causal factors in DID.
d. most reports of abuse are faked.


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c. other factors correlated with abuse may be the true causal factors in
DID.




Sexual variants illustrate a theme in abnormal psychology better than any other
category of disorder. Which theme?
a. The importance of stressors as the cause of disorder.
b. The impact of disorder on one's occupational and social adjustment.
c. The difficulty in defining the boundaries of normal and abnormal.
d. The role of neurotransmitters in controlling thought and behaviour.


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c. The difficulty in defining the boundaries of normal and abnormal.




In autistic children, head banging, spinning in circles, and rocking are behaviors that
a. are exceedingly rare.
b. are common forms of self-stimulation
c. are believed to be ways of communicating without language
d. are used because these children find repetitive routines very aversive

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b. are common forms of self-stimulation




Dr. Clark is making notes about a client. Which of the following best illustrates the
analysis of resistance?
a. The client is able to talk freely about their mother but not report anything about
their father.
b. On instruction, the client says whatever comes into their head, regardless of how
silly it sounds.
c. The client reports a dream about riding a wild horse in a tunnel.
d. Reminding the client, who has become insulting, that they are, after all, a helping
professional and not the client's abusive mother.


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a. The client is able to talk freely about their mother but not report anything
about their father.




After cheating on her husband, Julia accused her husband of cheating on her. Such
behavior is explained by which of the following defense mechanisms?
a. Sublimation
b. Displacement
c. Projection
d. Rationalization


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c. Projection

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