Question 1

In anxiety disorders, apprehension to emotion is like worry to ______.

Accepted Answer

A) emotion 
B) cognitive 
C) physiologic 
D) behavioural

Question 2

Which of the following psychological disorders involves severe disturbances in thinking, speech, perception, emotion, and behaviour, and is described by the text as being the most serious and puzzling psychological disorder?

Accepted Answer

A) schizophrenia 
B) dissociative identity disorder 
C) conversion disorder 
D) clinical depression

Question 3

According to the social causation hypothesis

Accepted Answer

A) schizophrenia is more common in the lower classes because of the higher levels of stress that low-income people experience 
B) individuals first develop schizophrenia then begin to move down the socioeconomic ladder because of their decrease in functioning 
C) schizophrenia is produced by dysfunctional attentional processing mechanisms 
D) schizophrenia is caused by dysfunctional family dynamics that interact with a genetic vulnerability for the disorder

Question 4

Effective antipsychotic drugs that are used to treat schizophrenia appear to do so by decreasing the activity of the neurotransmitter ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) gama-aminobutyric acid (GAB
A)  
B) serotonin 
C) norepinephrine 
D) dopamine

Question 5

Individuals with schizophrenia often display disordered attention and perception. These symptoms can be partially explained by the ___________ hypothesis which can affect the thalamus.

Accepted Answer

A) neurodegenerative 
B) regression 
C) genetic 
D) trauma 
E) delusional

Question 6

Which of the following best demonstrates how observational learning may account for the creation of an anxiety disorder?

Accepted Answer

A) A phobic's fear of dogs is maintained because he avoids dogs. 
B) A person with panic disorder misinterprets her increased heart rate as a signal that she is about to have a heart attack. 
C) A person with a genetic predisposition develops a phobia of natural weather phenomenon after seeing graphic pictures of people traumatized by a tornado. 
D) A person has a bad fall from a tree as a child and learns to associate the fear evoked from this incident with all heights.

Question 7

Joan does not have major depression. However, she does feel down quite a lot and feels miserable most of the time. Quite likely, Joan suffers from

Accepted Answer

A) bipolar disorder 
B) schizophrenia 
C) narcissistic personality disorder 
D) chronic depressive disorder 
E) SAD

Question 8

A student is returning home to their adoptive family after spending several months in the hospital for treatment of schizophrenia. Research studies indicate that the student would have the highest likelihood of relapse if ________.

Accepted Answer

A) she displayed the positive symptoms of schizophrenia 
B) she developed the disorder after age 20 
C) one of her biological parents is also schizophrenic 
D) her home environment is high in expressed emotion

Question 9

Describe the demonological perspective on abnormal behaviour and its implications for dealing with deviant behaviour.

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

One beneficial consequence of the proposed DSM-V approach to the diagnosis of personality disorders is that it helps to link the __________.

Accepted Answer

A) symptom presence and severity 
B) Axis I and Axis II disorders 
C) normal and abnormal personality functioning 
D) comorbidity

Question 11

Parasuicidal behaviour is most likely to involve which of the following motives?

Accepted Answer

A) The desire to end one's life 
B) The manipulation of others 
C) Altruism 
D) The desire to be aggressive

Question 12

Current estimates on the prevalence of depression indicate that the proportion of North Americans currently suffering from this disorder is

Accepted Answer

A) 1 in 5 
B) 1 in 10 
C) 1 in 20 
D) 1 in 50

Question 13

A friend of yours suffers from panic disorder. You are concerned that he may also develop

Accepted Answer

A) schizophrenia 
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder 
C) agoraphobia 
D) post-traumatic stress disorder 
E) dissociation

Question 14

In North American and European countries, depression is usually characterized by ______________, and in Latin, Chinese, and African cultures, depression typically consists of ______________.

Accepted Answer

A) symptoms of guilt and personal inadequacy; these same symptoms 
B) physical symptoms; these same symptoms 
C) symptoms of guilt and personal inadequacy; physical symptoms 
D) physical symptoms; symptoms of guilt and personal inadequacy

Question 15

On what grounds have critics questioned the validity of DID and what explanations do they offer instead?

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

For a behaviour to be abnormal, it must affect the personal and/or the cultural aspects.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Define dementia in old age and discuss the symptoms that accompany dementia.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

You are a researcher for a major drug company working on anxiety disorders. Most likely, any new drug you develop will target

Accepted Answer

A) serotonin 
B) dopamine 
C) norepinephrine 
D) ACh 
E) GABA

Question 19

Weight loss is a defining characteristic of clinical depression.

Accepted Answer