Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. When an affected person fakes the medical problems of someone in his or her care in order to gain attention, that person would be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome. b. Prader-Willi syndrome.
c. Munchausen syndrome by p...
1. When an affected person fakes the medical problems of someone in his or her care in order to gain
attention, that person would be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome.
b. Prader-Willi syndrome.
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
d. a conversion disorder.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Fact
2. When people fake their own medical problems in order to gain attention and sympathy from medical
professionals, they would be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome.
b. Prader-Willi syndrome.
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
d. a conversion disorder.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Fact
3. Trenton was diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome. This means that he
a. tends to fake his own medical problems to gain attention.
b. tends to fake the medical problems of someone in his care in order to gain attention.
c. has severe emotional conflicts that produce symptoms that resemble a physical disability.
d. has frequent episodes of depersonalization with accompanying amnesia.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Application MSC: * (New Question)
4. Halley enjoys the attention she receives when she goes to the doctor, so she has been making herself
appear sick by deliberately causing minor ankle sprains or digestion problems or by complaining of
frequent “headaches” and “heart palpitations.” Halley would most likely be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome.
b. a psychosomatic disorder.
c. Klinefelter’s syndrome.
d. a conversion disorder.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Application
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,5. Ben was usually in the hospital at least 15 times a year. He was taking 19 different medications, and his
mother said that she desperately wanted him to be healed. The doctors discovered that there was
nothing wrong with Ben. It was determined that Ben’s mother had a pathological need to seek attention
and sympathy from medical professionals by “keeping her child sick.” Ben’s mother had which of the
following disorders?
a. Munchausen syndrome by proxy
b. an obsessive-compulsive disorder
c. Prader-Willis syndrome
d. a conversion disorder
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Application
6. Justine was diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy. This means that she
a. tends to fake her own medical problems to gain attention.
b. tends to fake the medical problems of someone in her care in order to gain attention.
c. has severe emotional conflicts that produce symptoms that resemble a physical disability.
d. has frequent episodes of depersonalization with accompanying amnesia.
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Application MSC: * (New Question)
7. People with which of the following disorders are usually mothers who fabricate their children’s
illnesses and sometimes even deliberately harm their children to make them sick?
a. somatization disorder
b. Klinefelter’s syndrome
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy
d. conversion disorder
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Concept
8. Sam had been sick since he was a young child. He was rushed to the hospital by his desperately
concerned mother. Although his mother was praised by the hospital personnel for her attentiveness, the
doctors discovered that the mother had been injecting her son with 7-up to make him sick so she could
get attention and sympathy from medical personnel and be considered a “concerned, devoted” mother.
Sam’s mother would most likely be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
b. an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
c. Prader-Willis syndrome.
d. a conversion disorder.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Application
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, 9. What percentage of American adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year?
a. five percent
b. 10 percent
c. 25 percent
d. 40 percent
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Fact
10. In 2007, approximately how many Americans committed suicide?
a. 12,700
b. 23,000
c. 34,500
d. 55,600
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Fact MSC: * (New Question)
11. Of the 34,500 Americans who committed suicide in 2007, what percent had a diagnosable mental
disorder?
a. 20 percent
b. 45 percent
c. 65 percent
d. 90 percent
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
REF: At Least She Didn't Give Him Any Soda OBJ: 12.1.1
KEY: Fact MSC: * (New Question)
12. The scientific study of the origins, symptoms, and development of mental, emotional, and behavioral
disorders, and the disorders themselves, are called
a. psychosis.
b. neurosis.
c. psychopathology.
d. neuropathology.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: Normality-What's Normal?
OBJ: 12.1.1 KEY: Fact
13. The term psychopathology includes which of the following?
a. the scientific study of psychological disorders
b. behavior patterns that make people unhappy and impair personal growth
c. mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia
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, d. all of these
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: Normality-What's Normal?
OBJ: 12.1.1 KEY: Fact
14. Statistical approaches to abnormality define as “abnormal” those who
a. show evidence of a loss of contact with reality.
b. are unhappy, withdrawn, and depressed.
c. deviate from typical or average patterns of behavior.
d. are disabled by anxiety.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: Normality-What's Normal?
OBJ: 12.1.2 KEY: Fact
15. Which of the following refers to scoring very high or low on some dimension, such as intelligence,
anxiety, or depression?
a. subjective relativity
b. statistical abnormality
c. mental non-conformity
d. maladaptive deviations
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: Normality-What's Normal?
OBJ: 12.1.2 KEY: Fact
16. What is one advantage of using statistics to define normality?
a. Statistics show a clear distinction between what is normal and what is not.
b. Statistics avoid the stigmas associated with labels.
c. Mental disorders are best defined by deviations from an average.
d. Statistical descriptions of disorders permit more objective definitions.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: Normality-What's Normal?
OBJ: 12.1.2 KEY: Concept
17. On which of the following do most people score near the middle of the score range with very few
having extremely high or low scores?
a. normal or bell-shaped curve
b. skewed deviation curve
c. U-shaped curve
d. scatter plot
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: Normality-What's Normal?
OBJ: 12.1.2 KEY: Fact MSC: * (New Question)
18. A psychologist devises a test to measure anxiety. He administers this test to over 1,000 persons and
learns how many people show low, medium, or high levels of anxiety. Usually the results of such tests
tend to form a(n)
a. normal or bell-shaped curve.
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