PSYC 435 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
FINAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
VERIFIED
●● Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a) Both Jane and her husband are alcoholics
b) Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenics
c) Karen, her mother, and her grandmother have all been diagnosed with
generalized anxiety disorder
d) Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse
Answer: Karen, her mother, and grandmother have all been diagnosed
with generalized anxiety disorder
●● Understanding the causes of mental disorders is important
because________
Answer: such knowlege might make both the prevention and cure of
mental disorders possible
●● Benjamin Rush, who encouraged more humane treatment of the
mentally ill in the United States, used as his prinicpal remedies________
Answer: bloodletting and the tranquilizer chair
,●● Which variable is manipulated in an experiment?
Answer: independent
●● What does the case of JGH, a Native American elder illustrate?
Answer: a person may focus on somatic symptoms rather than mood
when depressed
●● Which of the following factors has a significant effect on the rates of
severe mental illness among Americans?
a) family size
b) gender
c) geographic region of the country
d) political affiliation
Answer: gender
●● If fraternal (or dizygotic) twins are more likely to be concordant for a
trait than other siblings, can it be concluded that the higher concordance
rate is due to the greater degree of genetic relatedness?
Answer: No, because fraternal twins are no more genetically alike than
other siblinings
, ●● Archaeology and early writings indicate the first people to think of
the brain as the site of mental functions were the ________
Answer: ancient Egyptians
●● The effects of early social deprivation _______
Answer: are explained differently by the various psychosocial
perspectives.
●● Behaviourism was_________
Answer: a reaction to what the behaviorist perceived as a lack of
scientific rigour in psychoanalysis
●● Which of the following most accurately describes the notion of
different viewpoints of abnormal behaviour?
Answer: each viewpoint offers its own explanation of abnormal behavior
●● In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she looked at the academic
histories of girls with an eating disorer and girls who didn't have such
problems. In this example, the girls with eating disorders are the
____group
Answer: criterion
●● Medications for psychological disorders _________
Answer: were first used centuries ago
FINAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
VERIFIED
●● Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a) Both Jane and her husband are alcoholics
b) Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenics
c) Karen, her mother, and her grandmother have all been diagnosed with
generalized anxiety disorder
d) Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse
Answer: Karen, her mother, and grandmother have all been diagnosed
with generalized anxiety disorder
●● Understanding the causes of mental disorders is important
because________
Answer: such knowlege might make both the prevention and cure of
mental disorders possible
●● Benjamin Rush, who encouraged more humane treatment of the
mentally ill in the United States, used as his prinicpal remedies________
Answer: bloodletting and the tranquilizer chair
,●● Which variable is manipulated in an experiment?
Answer: independent
●● What does the case of JGH, a Native American elder illustrate?
Answer: a person may focus on somatic symptoms rather than mood
when depressed
●● Which of the following factors has a significant effect on the rates of
severe mental illness among Americans?
a) family size
b) gender
c) geographic region of the country
d) political affiliation
Answer: gender
●● If fraternal (or dizygotic) twins are more likely to be concordant for a
trait than other siblings, can it be concluded that the higher concordance
rate is due to the greater degree of genetic relatedness?
Answer: No, because fraternal twins are no more genetically alike than
other siblinings
, ●● Archaeology and early writings indicate the first people to think of
the brain as the site of mental functions were the ________
Answer: ancient Egyptians
●● The effects of early social deprivation _______
Answer: are explained differently by the various psychosocial
perspectives.
●● Behaviourism was_________
Answer: a reaction to what the behaviorist perceived as a lack of
scientific rigour in psychoanalysis
●● Which of the following most accurately describes the notion of
different viewpoints of abnormal behaviour?
Answer: each viewpoint offers its own explanation of abnormal behavior
●● In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she looked at the academic
histories of girls with an eating disorer and girls who didn't have such
problems. In this example, the girls with eating disorders are the
____group
Answer: criterion
●● Medications for psychological disorders _________
Answer: were first used centuries ago
