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Package Title: Chapter 3, Testbank Course Title: Kring, Abnormal Psych 14e Chapter Number: 3 Question Type: Multiple Choice 1. Having a correct diagnosis for Aaron from the clinical case will help clinicians to a) Give Aaron an IQ test b) Describe base rates, causes and treatments. c) Identify what kind of insurance coverage Aaron has. d) Know if other members of Aaron’s family have the same psychological disorder Answer: b Section Reference: Cornerstones of Diagnosis a...

Test Bank for Abnormal Psychology An Integrative Approach 8th Edition By David H. Barlow Page 1 WWW.NURSINGTESTBANKSWORLD.COM 1. Psychological abnormality is generally defined using “the four D's.” First, explain what the four Ds are and what they mean regarding psychological abnormality. Then provide an example of a time when each aspect of abnormality would not be considered abnormal. 2. Suppose a friend says to you, “I feel really lousy today, and I don't know why. You're ...

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father of modern psychology - correct answers Wilhelm Wundt - made a campaign to make psychology an independent discipline rather than a branch of philosophy or physiology introspection - correct answers to examine contents of consciousness: observation of one's mental processes (self-observation) structuralism - correct answers task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how elements are related (Edward Titchener) functionalism - correct an...

What is psychology? - correct answers The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior What does psychology reflect the influences of? - correct answers • Biological processes • Individual differences (gender, pain) • Time and culture (we continue to learn more) What are the four goals of psychology? - correct answers • Describe how people and animals behave • Understand and explain the causes of behavior • Predict behaviors/reactions across situations • Con...

Psychology - correct answers The scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior. Multiply Determined - correct answers There is more than one influence; hard to isolate one specific factor. Individual Differences - correct answers Variations among people in their thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior. Naive Realism - correct answers The belief that we see the world exactly how it is. "Seeing is believing" Empiricism - correct answers The idea that predictions should first...

Sensation - correct answers is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Perception - correct answers is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. Bottom-up processing - correct answers analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brains's integration of sensory information. Example: putting a puzzle together...

4 goals of psychology - correct answers describe how people and animals behave, understand and explain the causes of behavior, predict behaviors/reactions across situations, control behavior through understanding its causes and consequences Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers established first psychological lab, analyzed consciousness and structuralism William James - correct answers built on the principles of introspection & the study of conscious experiences, but instead focused on the why a...

For any mental disorders, know the general symptoms and characteristics. - correct answers Cognitive Dissonance - correct answers An unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs. False Memory - correct answers When people come up with memories that never occurred at all Examples - People who create memories from childhood that never happened - When people create trauma/abuse that never happened - People remember events that didn't happ...

Who is generally considered to be the father of psychology and was responsible for defining psychology as a separate field which could be studied using scientific methods? - correct answers Wilhelm Wundt William James' movement? - correct answers Functionalism Which psychological approach suggests that a psychological phenomenon should not be broken down into smaller parts and must be understood as a whole? - correct answers Wertheimer's Gestalt psychology This psychologist actually s...

consciousness - correct answers the subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment circadian rhythm - correct answers our biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) - correct answers a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm. in response to light, the SCN causes the pineal gland to adjust melatonin production, thus modifying our feelings of sleepin...