AQA PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Psychoanalysis may be most helpful for people experiencing...? - ✔✔Anxiety
✔✔Which of the following do all states require of psychologists? - ✔✔License
✔✔From what did the psychoanalytic technique of free association develop? -
✔✔Freud's use of hypnosis
✔✔Which of the following types of therapy generally involves the longest treatment
time? - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
✔✔What psychoanalytic technique does this drawing represent? - ✔✔Dream analysis
✔✔Which of the following is a benefit of traditional psychoanalysis? - ✔✔A supportive
long term relationship
✔✔Rachel suffered from major depression and has been taking antidepressants for
several months, but she is concerned because she is ganing weight and her doctor has
had to prescribe other medication to bring down her heart rate. She would like to find a
nonbiological therapy that might help her. What do you think her doctor will suggest? -
✔✔Cognitive therapy
✔✔List at least three physical signs and symptoms of anxiety. - ✔✔Sweating, rapid
heartrate, and short of breath
✔✔Define the term psychological disorders. - ✔✔Behavior patterns or mental processes
that interfer with everyday life
✔✔Describe maladaptive behavior, and give one example of it. - ✔✔Impairs an
individuals ability to function adaquitly in every day life. Ex.- Alcohol abuse
✔✔Describe the physical symptoms of a panic attack. - ✔✔Short periods of fear,
diziness and sweating
✔✔List at least four symptoms that someone who suffers from post-traumatic stress
disorder might exhibit? - ✔✔Flashbacks, rapid heartrate, depression, and sweating
✔✔List three symptoms of schizophrenia. - ✔✔Auditory hallucination, delusions, and
social withdraw
, ✔✔Explain why the cultural context of a behavior must be taken into account before
deciding that a behavior is socially unacceptable. - ✔✔What is considered normal in
one cultural may be abnormal in another
✔✔Describe when and how schizophrenia usually develops. - ✔✔Young adulthood
✔✔Contrast OCPD and OCD. - ✔✔OCPD- inflexiblity and fixation on rules, procedure,
and orderliness and anxious about time, relationships, money, and cleanliness. OCD-
preforming constant meaningless rituals.
✔✔During an.........................., a person may experience intense fear and become short
of breathe nd dizzy. - ✔✔Panic attack
✔✔..................... are unwanted thoughts, ideas, or mental images that occur over and
over again. - ✔✔Obsessions
✔✔.................. is a mood disorder that involves feelings of sadness, helplessness,
worthlessness, and guilt. - ✔✔Depression
✔✔Periods of.....................involve extreme excitement characterized by hyperactivity
and chaotic behavior. - ✔✔Mania
✔✔.....................is the fear of being in crowded places in which escape may be difficult
or impossible. - ✔✔Agoraphobia
✔✔People with.....................may have delusions of grandeur, believing they are
superior to other people. - ✔✔schizophrenia
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an example of a/an............... - ✔✔Self-help group
✔✔Techniques that pair the stimulus that causes an unwanted behavior with a new,
more desirable behavior are called...................... - ✔✔Counterconditioning
✔✔The general term for brain surgery preformed to treat psychological disorders
is..................... - ✔✔psychosurgery
✔✔Expression pf psychological distress through physical symptoms - ✔✔Somatization
✔✔Psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality -
✔✔Schizophrenia
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Psychoanalysis may be most helpful for people experiencing...? - ✔✔Anxiety
✔✔Which of the following do all states require of psychologists? - ✔✔License
✔✔From what did the psychoanalytic technique of free association develop? -
✔✔Freud's use of hypnosis
✔✔Which of the following types of therapy generally involves the longest treatment
time? - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
✔✔What psychoanalytic technique does this drawing represent? - ✔✔Dream analysis
✔✔Which of the following is a benefit of traditional psychoanalysis? - ✔✔A supportive
long term relationship
✔✔Rachel suffered from major depression and has been taking antidepressants for
several months, but she is concerned because she is ganing weight and her doctor has
had to prescribe other medication to bring down her heart rate. She would like to find a
nonbiological therapy that might help her. What do you think her doctor will suggest? -
✔✔Cognitive therapy
✔✔List at least three physical signs and symptoms of anxiety. - ✔✔Sweating, rapid
heartrate, and short of breath
✔✔Define the term psychological disorders. - ✔✔Behavior patterns or mental processes
that interfer with everyday life
✔✔Describe maladaptive behavior, and give one example of it. - ✔✔Impairs an
individuals ability to function adaquitly in every day life. Ex.- Alcohol abuse
✔✔Describe the physical symptoms of a panic attack. - ✔✔Short periods of fear,
diziness and sweating
✔✔List at least four symptoms that someone who suffers from post-traumatic stress
disorder might exhibit? - ✔✔Flashbacks, rapid heartrate, depression, and sweating
✔✔List three symptoms of schizophrenia. - ✔✔Auditory hallucination, delusions, and
social withdraw
, ✔✔Explain why the cultural context of a behavior must be taken into account before
deciding that a behavior is socially unacceptable. - ✔✔What is considered normal in
one cultural may be abnormal in another
✔✔Describe when and how schizophrenia usually develops. - ✔✔Young adulthood
✔✔Contrast OCPD and OCD. - ✔✔OCPD- inflexiblity and fixation on rules, procedure,
and orderliness and anxious about time, relationships, money, and cleanliness. OCD-
preforming constant meaningless rituals.
✔✔During an.........................., a person may experience intense fear and become short
of breathe nd dizzy. - ✔✔Panic attack
✔✔..................... are unwanted thoughts, ideas, or mental images that occur over and
over again. - ✔✔Obsessions
✔✔.................. is a mood disorder that involves feelings of sadness, helplessness,
worthlessness, and guilt. - ✔✔Depression
✔✔Periods of.....................involve extreme excitement characterized by hyperactivity
and chaotic behavior. - ✔✔Mania
✔✔.....................is the fear of being in crowded places in which escape may be difficult
or impossible. - ✔✔Agoraphobia
✔✔People with.....................may have delusions of grandeur, believing they are
superior to other people. - ✔✔schizophrenia
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an example of a/an............... - ✔✔Self-help group
✔✔Techniques that pair the stimulus that causes an unwanted behavior with a new,
more desirable behavior are called...................... - ✔✔Counterconditioning
✔✔The general term for brain surgery preformed to treat psychological disorders
is..................... - ✔✔psychosurgery
✔✔Expression pf psychological distress through physical symptoms - ✔✔Somatization
✔✔Psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality -
✔✔Schizophrenia
