PSYC 3140 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST VERIFIED 2024/2025 (GRADED A+)

PSYC 3140 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST VERIFIED 2024/2025 (GRADED A+) What is demonology? How does demonology stand in the way of a more complete understanding of the causes and treatment of psychological abnormality?  4 Discuss the contributions of three of the following individuals to the treatment of abnormal psychology. Include when and where each lived. Hippocrates Emil Kraepelin Dorothea Dix Philippe Pinel Friedrich Anton Mesmer Benjamin Rush William Tuke  5 Assume that Benjamin Rush and Dorothea Dix suddenly appeared in the twenty-first century, about 50 years after the U.S. policy of deinstitutionalization began. What would they think about our treatment of the “mentally ill?” What PSYC 3140 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TESTED AND VERIFIED 2024/2025 GRADED A+ suggestions might they make for changes in our policy of deinstitutionalization?  6 Define and contrast somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives regarding abnormal psychological functioning, and provide at least one example of evidence supporting each perspective.  7 According to your text, deinstitutionalization has resulted, in part, in large numbers of people with severe psychological disturbances either becoming homeless or ending up in jail or prison. Is deinstitutionalization an ethical and appropriate strategy for the treatment of mental illness that the United States should continue to follow? Back up your answer with specific examples.  8 Increasingly, people seeking treatment for mental health reasons are members of managed care programs. How are managed care programs changing how psychological services are provided? Discuss one advantage and one disadvantage of such programs.  9 The following types of mental health professionals work in the area of psychological abnormality; describe the differences in how they are educated, and in what they do. clinical psychologists psychiatrists clinical researchers  10 Create a time line on which you place five major events in the history of abnormality. Briefly describe why each event is important to our understanding of abnormality.  11 The aspect of the definition of abnormality that characterizes behavior as different from the norm is .  deviance (True Answer )  * 12 The stated and unstated rules that a society establishes to govern proper conduct are referred to as .  norms (True Answer )  * 13 Ken is so anxious that his anxiety by itself causes him to suffer. Ken's situation represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called .  distress (True Answer )  * 14 Colleen is so afraid of open spaces that she cannot leave her house to go to work. This represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called .  dysfunction (True Answer )  * 15 Heather has been feeling depressed and has begun to feel helpless and hopeless and is considering committing suicide. Killing herself represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called .  danger (True Answer )  * 16 The idea that the behaviors we label abnormal are just problems in living has been proposed by .  Thomas Szasz (True Answer )  * 17 While some clinicians will refer to the person they are treating as a patient, others will refer to the person as a(n) .  client (True Answer )  * 18 The crude early form of surgery in which a hole was made in the skull of a person, presumably to allow evil spirits to escape, was called .  trephination (True Answer )  * 19 The procedure that a priest or other powerful person might perform to drive evil spirits from a person is called .  exorcism (True Answer )  * 20 believed that abnormal behavior was caused by brain pathology that was a consequence of an imbalance in the four humors of the body.  Hippocrates (True Answer )  * 21 The “parent” of modern medicine who believed that illnesses had natural causes was .  Hippocrates (True Answer )  * 22 During the Middle Ages, a person who believed that he was possessed by wolves and other animals was said to be suffering from .  lycanthropy (True Answer )  * 23 The roots of today's community mental health programs can be traced back to the fifteenth century when people came to the Belgian town of for psychic healing.  Gheel (True Answer )  * 24 An approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized humane and respectful approaches was known as treatment.  moral (True Answer )  * 25 The physician who instituted a series of reforms at La Bicêtre asylum and “unchained” mental patients was .  Pinel (True Answer )  * 26 The treatment for mental illness espoused by French physician Philippe Pinel and English Quaker William Tuke was called treatment by their contemporaries.  moral (True Answer )  * 27 The American advocate for laws mandating the improved treatment of people with mental disorders was .  Dorothea Dix (True Answer )  * 28 The view that physical causes are at the root of mental illnesses is called the perspective.  somatogenic (True Answer )  * 29 The somatogenic view of mental illness was given a boost in the 1800s when it was discovered that general paresis was caused by .  syphilis (True Answer )  * 30 Psychological causes are at the root of mental illness, according to the perspective.  psychogenic (True Answer )  * 31 The inducement of a trancelike state in which a person becomes extremely suggestible fits into the model of treating mental illness.  psychogenic (True Answer )  * 32 Psychoanalysis's view of causes of abnormal and normal behavior fits into the model.  psychogenic (True Answer )  * 33 Psychotropic medications fit into the model of treating mental illness.  somatogenic (True Answer )  * 34 The major development utilizing drugs in the treatment of the mentally ill in the second half of the twentieth century was the development of psychiatric .  psychotropic medications (True Answer )  * 35 The reduction in the number of people housed in mental hospitals in the last 40 years can be attributed to a trend called .  deinstitutionalization (True Answer )  * 36 Moving the focus for the care of the mentally ill out of hospitals is part of the approach.  community mental health (True Answer )  * 37 The largest group of professionals who provide mental health services are .  psychiatric social workers (True Answer )  * 38 The degree that psychiatrists hold is the .  M.D. or D.O. (True Answer ) EMAIL ME:  * 39 One who systematically gathers information in order to describe, predict, and explain abnormality is a clinical:  mentalist. Incorrect  legalist. Incorrect  scientist. (True Answer )Correct  practitioner. Incorrect 40 If you wanted a career in which you focus on detecting, assessing, and treating abnormal patterns of functioning, you should look into becoming a clinical:  practitioner. (True Answer )Correct  researcher. Incorrect  historian. Incorrect  statistician. Incorrect 41 The stated and unstated rules for proper conduct that a society establishes are referred to as:  norms. (True Answer )Correct  culture. Incorrect  morality. Incorrect  conventions. Incorrect 42 Behavior that violates legal norms is:  deviant and criminal. (True Answer )Correct  distressful and criminal. Incorrect  deviant and psychopathological. Incorrect  distressful and psychopathological. Incorrect 43 The history, values, institutions, technology, and arts of a society make up that society's:  laws. Incorrect  norms. Incorrect  culture. (True Answer )Correct  conventions. Incorrect 44 Which of the following depressed people would be the LEAST  someone whose community was destroyed by a tornado (True Answer )Correct  statistical deviance is not the same thing as abnormality. (True Answer )Correct  nevertheless considered to be abnormal. (True Answer )Correct likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder—because of specific circumstances?  someone whose mother was depressed Incorrect  someone who was experiencing a chemical brain imbalance Incorrect  someone who was also an alcoholic Incorrect 45 R. D. Laing said, “Insanity—a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” This statement illustrates:  how dangerous most mentally ill people actually are. Incorrect  that abnormality is situational. (True Answer )Correct  that everyone is a little eccentric. Incorrect  that drug use causes people to become mentally ill. Incorrect 46 That 42 percent of people go to church and 39 percent snoop in their hosts' medicine cabinets demonstrates the principle that:  deviance is culturally defined. Incorrect  behavior that is not really dangerous can nevertheless be considered abnormal. Incorrect  behavior that is not distressful is not abnormal. Incorrect 47 If a person experienced anxiety or depression following a significant natural disaster, we would say that the person was:  suffering from a mental illness. Incorrect  deviant but not dangerous. Incorrect  exhibiting a typical reaction. (True Answer )Correct  statistically deviant. Incorrect 48 People who engage in frenetic, manic activity may not experience distress. They are:  not abnormal because abnormality requires distress. Incorrect EMAIL ME:  someone who goes on a hunger strike to protest social injustice (True Answer )Correct  doing something illegal, not abnormal. Incorrect  no longer considered abnormal, but were in the past. Incorrect 49 A person who is so miserable that he or she can see no reason for living BEST fits which of the following definitions of abnormality?  deviance Incorrect  distress (True Answer )Correct  dangerousness Incorrect  dysfunction Incorrect 50 An individual has a 9-to-5 job. However, this person seldom gets up early enough to be at work on time, and expresses great distress over this behavior. This individual's behavior would be considered abnormal because it is:  dysfunctional. Incorrect  deviant. Incorrect  dysfunctional and deviant. (True Answer )Correct  dangerous. Incorrect 51 Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself and work productively?  distress Incorrect  deviance Incorrect  dysfunction (True Answer )Correct  danger to self or others Incorrect 52 Which of the following would NOT be considered abnormal, despite the fact that the person's behavior is dysfunctional?  someone who is too confused to drive safely Incorrect  someone who parties so much that he or she cannot go to class Incorrect  someone who cannot stay alone for even one night Incorrect 53 A Secret Service agent steps in front of the President of the United States, prepared to be killed or injured if the President's safety is threatened. Psychologically speaking, the Secret Service EMAIL ME:  dysfunctional, but not psychologically abnormal. (True Answer )Correct agent's behavior is:  functional, but psychologically abnormal. Incorrect  functional, and not psychologically abnormal. Incorrect  dysfunctional, and psychologically abnormal. Incorrect 54 Research shows that danger to self or others is found in:  all cases of abnormal functioning. Incorrect  most cases of abnormal functioning. Incorrect  some cases of abnormal functioning. (True Answer )Correct  no cases of abnormal functioning. Incorrect 55 Despite popular misconceptions, most people with psychological problems are not:  dysfunctional. Incorrect  dangerous. (True Answer )Correct  distressing. Incorrect  deviant. Incorrect 56 According to Thomas Szasz's views, the deviations that some call mental illness are really:  mental illnesses. Incorrect  problems in living. (True Answer )Correct  caused by one's early childhood experiences. Incorrect  eccentric behaviors with a biological cause. Incorrect 57 A researcher spends 15 or more hours per day conducting experiments or doing library reading and records observations on color-coded index cards. This person lives alone in the country, but he doesn't interfere with others' lives. The BEST description of the researcher's behavior is that it is: