ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST BANK
1. Therapist Dr. X is working with a client who is heavily involved with body-
piercing. The client enjoys it, but Dr. X thinks the amounts is so excessive she
considers it abnormal behavior. She is employing which definition of
abnormality?: culturally inappropriate or unexpected
2. Which of the following lobes of the brain and cerebral cortex is associated
with thinking and reasoning skills and memory, as well as some aspects of
emotion?: frontal lobe
3. Which of the following contains all the elements of the definition of "psycho-
logical disorder"?: Impairment or distress; culturally inappropriate or
unexpected reactions (violations of cultural or social norms); psychological
dysfunction
4. Marcus is suffering from depression for which his therapist has prescribed
medication. His therapist is most likely: a psychiatrist
5. Which of the following has been an important recent (last 50 years) devel-
opment in the field of psychopathology/psychotherapy: Adoption of scientific
methodology
6. "Presenting problem" refers to the: Reason the client first came to therapy; his
or her initial complaint(s)
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7. The number of people in the population displaying a particular disorder, or
the rate of the disorder in the population is called the: Prevalence
8. Etiology refers to: Causation
9. Who is associated with the mental hygiene movement?: Dix
10. The id is NOT associated with which of the following: secondary process
11. According to the psychoanalytic theory, the role of ego is to: Mediate
conflict between id and super ego
12. Tim owns a cat who licks his chops when she hears cellophane cat food
packets being opened. This is not a skill she or her wild ancestors learned in
the jungle. According to a classical conditioning account, the cellophane
sound is a(n): conditional stimulus
13. A common media explanation of psychological disorder is "chemical im-
balance," which is sometimes correct. In any case, this represents what model
of causality?: Biological
14. John was given a medication that increases the activity of serotonin. This
type of drug would be called: An agonist
15. In discussing the diathesis-stress model of the development of psy-
chopathology, diathesis refers to: Inherited biological or genetic tendency
Biological or genetic predisposition
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1. Therapist Dr. X is working with a client who is heavily involved with body-
piercing. The client enjoys it, but Dr. X thinks the amounts is so excessive she
considers it abnormal behavior. She is employing which definition of
abnormality?: culturally inappropriate or unexpected
2. Which of the following lobes of the brain and cerebral cortex is associated
with thinking and reasoning skills and memory, as well as some aspects of
emotion?: frontal lobe
3. Which of the following contains all the elements of the definition of "psycho-
logical disorder"?: Impairment or distress; culturally inappropriate or
unexpected reactions (violations of cultural or social norms); psychological
dysfunction
4. Marcus is suffering from depression for which his therapist has prescribed
medication. His therapist is most likely: a psychiatrist
5. Which of the following has been an important recent (last 50 years) devel-
opment in the field of psychopathology/psychotherapy: Adoption of scientific
methodology
6. "Presenting problem" refers to the: Reason the client first came to therapy; his
or her initial complaint(s)
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, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST BANK
7. The number of people in the population displaying a particular disorder, or
the rate of the disorder in the population is called the: Prevalence
8. Etiology refers to: Causation
9. Who is associated with the mental hygiene movement?: Dix
10. The id is NOT associated with which of the following: secondary process
11. According to the psychoanalytic theory, the role of ego is to: Mediate
conflict between id and super ego
12. Tim owns a cat who licks his chops when she hears cellophane cat food
packets being opened. This is not a skill she or her wild ancestors learned in
the jungle. According to a classical conditioning account, the cellophane
sound is a(n): conditional stimulus
13. A common media explanation of psychological disorder is "chemical im-
balance," which is sometimes correct. In any case, this represents what model
of causality?: Biological
14. John was given a medication that increases the activity of serotonin. This
type of drug would be called: An agonist
15. In discussing the diathesis-stress model of the development of psy-
chopathology, diathesis refers to: Inherited biological or genetic tendency
Biological or genetic predisposition
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