| 1. | | Which of the following is NOT true of autistic children? |  |
|   | A. | | They experience difficulties in using language. |   | B. | | There are no treatment programs to improve socialization and speech. | | C. | | They exhibit a poor ability to "read" people. | | D. | | They have difficulties with social interactions. |
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| 2. | | In Rosenhan's study, who recognized that the pseudopatients were in fact not mentally ill? | |
| | A. | | the psychologists | | B. | | the nurses | | C. | | the patients | | D. | | the medical doctors |
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| 3. | | It is estimated that depression costs Americans about $__ each year. | |
| | A. | | 43 billion | | B. | | 1 billion | | C. | | 50 million | | D. | | 80 million |
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| 4. | | Insanity is a ___ term. | |
|  | A. | | societal | | B. | | cultural | | C. | | psychiatric |  | D. | | legal |
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| 5. | | Which of the following is NOT a psychological model of psychopathology? | |
| | A. | | Freudian theory | | B. | | behaviorism | | C. | | cognitive psychology | | | D. | | biological psychology |
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| 6. | | A label of "depression" can be a stigma that follows a person ___. | |
| | A. | | forever | | B. | | for a few weeks | | | C. | | for several years | | D. | | for a few months |
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| 7. | | Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT | |
| | A. | | a grandiose sense of self-importance. | | B. | | a need for constant attention or admiration. | | C. | | exploiting others selfishly. | | D. | | chronic lying. |
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| 8. | | Depression seems to be related to lower brain wave activity in the ___. | |
| | A. | | frontal lobe | | B. | | occipital lobe | | | C. | | parietal lobe | | D. | | cerebellum |
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| 9. | | A person who suffers from ___ has a combination of "flight" and amnesia. | |
| | A. | | hypochondriasis | | B. | | dissociative amnesia | | | C. | | schizophrenia | | D. | | dissociative fugue |
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| 10. | | An example of a somatoform disorder is ___. | |
| | A. | | hypochondriasis | | B. | | dissociative fugue | | | C. | | obsessive-compulsive disorder | | D. | | bipolar disorder |
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| 11. | | Negative schizophrenia often looks like ___. | |
| | A. | | major depression | | B. | | a fugue | | C. | | paranoia | | D. | | OCD |
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| 12. | | What is the name of the theory that argues that genetic factors place an individual at risk for schizophrenia while environmental factors trigger the actual disorder? | |
| | A. | | observational learning theory | | B. | | diathesis-stress hypothesis | | | C. | | cognitive-behavioral model | | D. | | heritability hypothesis |
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| 13. | | DID first appears at what age? | |
| | A. | | puberty | | B. | | childhood | | C. | | birth | | D. | | the mid-20s |
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| 14. | | Which of the following statements about shyness is FALSE? | |
| | A. | | It need not be a permanent condition. | | B. | | It is a distressing pattern of avoiding or withdrawing from social contact. | | C. | | It can be learned. | | D. | | It is a DSM-IV disorder. |
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| 15. | | If Roxanne suffers from ophidiophobia, then she has a phobia of ___. | |
| | A. | | snakes | | B. | | blood | | C. | | heights | | D. | | spiders |
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| 16. | | In identical twins, the concordance rate for schizophrenia is ___%. | | | |
| 17. | | If Patty tries to lose weight through self-induced vomiting and laxative use, then she likely suffers from ___. | |
| | A. | | bulimia nervosa | | B. | | anorexia nervosa | | | C. | | DID | | D. | | OCD |
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| 18. | | Which term, used commonly by the public, was dropped from the DSM-IV? | |
| | A. | | psychosis | | B. | | neurosis | | C. | | PTSD | | D. | | ADD |
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| 19. | | The medical model assumes that medical illness is fundamentally ___. | |
| | A. | | untreatable | | B. | | imagined | | C. | | physical | | D. | | psychological |
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| 20. | | ADHD, while still a controversial diagnosis, seems to be a ___ condition. | |
| | A. | | learning-based | | B. | | brain-based | | C. | | socially-based | | | D. | | genetic |
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| 21. | | The panic disorder is linked to which brain structure? | |
| | A. | | reticular formation | | B. | | thalamus | | C. | | limbic system | | D. | | pons |
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| 22. | | Approximately what percentage of the American population suffers from bipolar disorder? | | | |
| 23. | | The common denominator for all dissociative disorders is/are ___. | |
| | A. | | fragmentation | | B. | | compulsions | | C. | | psychosis | | D. | | mania |
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| 24. | | Suppose a psychologist is considering the question: "Does the person act or talk in ways that are irrational or incomprehensible to others?" This question pertains to the issue of ___. | |
| | A. | | distress | | B. | | irrationality | | C. | | observer discomfort | | | D. | | unpredictability |
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| 25. | | Another word for emotion is ___. | |
| | A. | | hallucination | | B. | | delusion | | C. | | affect | | D. | | pshychopathology |
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