ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE EXAM Questions with
Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: (2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety?
Answer: Psychogenic Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
Question 2: (3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore?
Answer: The DSM-5 is descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds theory
Question 3: (4) What type of onset do we see in depression and anxiety?
Answer: Anxiety has a more sudden onset then depression
Question 4: (5) What is anhedonia?
Answer: the inability to experience pleasure from pleasurable things
Question 5: (6) What are depersonalization and derealization?
Answer: Depersonalize, these are dissociative responses depersonalization we experience ourselves as
unreal derealization we experience other in detached manner
Question 6: (7) What type of emotion is experienced in a manic state?
Answer: Hyper elation
Question 7: (8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder: males or females?
Answer: females
Question 8: (9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of the corticoptrophin releasing
factor (CRF) in the body?
Answer: it increases
Question 9: (10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder
and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Answer: the duration of the presence of the symptoms
Question 10: (11) Do we consider the dysthymic disorder to be unipolar or bipolar in nature?
Answer: unipolar
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, Question 11: (12) Who is more likely to suffer from the bi-polar disorder?
Answer: people from higher social economic status; people with ADD
Question 12: (13) What is rapid cycling?
Answer: a form/ variation of the bipolar disorder with 4 or more full cycles in a one year period
Question 13: (14) What is the correlation between SES and the bipolar disorder?
Answer: Positive Correlation
Question 14: (15) What is the GAD?
Answer: Generalized Anxiety Disorder; chronid low grade non-specific stat of anxiety
Question 15: (16) Who is more likely to attempt suicide?
Answer: Females 3:1
Question 16: (17) Who is more likely to die from a suicide attempt?
Answer: Males 3:1
Question 17: (18) Why do we see this in #17?
Answer: males employ a more lethal means
Question 18: (19) What are we more likely to see in hippocampus scans of people diagnosed with
PTSD?
Answer: Atropication def:The wasting away or decrease in size of an organ or tissue in the body. When a
body part is affected by paralysis, the muscles may atrophy through lack of use.
Question 19: (20) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with the Social Anxiety Disorder?
Answer: Females
Question 20: (21) What is the correlation between social anxiety and self esteem?
Answer: Negative Correlation
Question 21: (22) What type of phobia is more debilitating?
Answer: Social anxietydisorder
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Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: (2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety?
Answer: Psychogenic Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
Question 2: (3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore?
Answer: The DSM-5 is descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds theory
Question 3: (4) What type of onset do we see in depression and anxiety?
Answer: Anxiety has a more sudden onset then depression
Question 4: (5) What is anhedonia?
Answer: the inability to experience pleasure from pleasurable things
Question 5: (6) What are depersonalization and derealization?
Answer: Depersonalize, these are dissociative responses depersonalization we experience ourselves as
unreal derealization we experience other in detached manner
Question 6: (7) What type of emotion is experienced in a manic state?
Answer: Hyper elation
Question 7: (8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder: males or females?
Answer: females
Question 8: (9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of the corticoptrophin releasing
factor (CRF) in the body?
Answer: it increases
Question 9: (10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder
and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Answer: the duration of the presence of the symptoms
Question 10: (11) Do we consider the dysthymic disorder to be unipolar or bipolar in nature?
Answer: unipolar
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, Question 11: (12) Who is more likely to suffer from the bi-polar disorder?
Answer: people from higher social economic status; people with ADD
Question 12: (13) What is rapid cycling?
Answer: a form/ variation of the bipolar disorder with 4 or more full cycles in a one year period
Question 13: (14) What is the correlation between SES and the bipolar disorder?
Answer: Positive Correlation
Question 14: (15) What is the GAD?
Answer: Generalized Anxiety Disorder; chronid low grade non-specific stat of anxiety
Question 15: (16) Who is more likely to attempt suicide?
Answer: Females 3:1
Question 16: (17) Who is more likely to die from a suicide attempt?
Answer: Males 3:1
Question 17: (18) Why do we see this in #17?
Answer: males employ a more lethal means
Question 18: (19) What are we more likely to see in hippocampus scans of people diagnosed with
PTSD?
Answer: Atropication def:The wasting away or decrease in size of an organ or tissue in the body. When a
body part is affected by paralysis, the muscles may atrophy through lack of use.
Question 19: (20) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with the Social Anxiety Disorder?
Answer: Females
Question 20: (21) What is the correlation between social anxiety and self esteem?
Answer: Negative Correlation
Question 21: (22) What type of phobia is more debilitating?
Answer: Social anxietydisorder
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