Question 1

OCD means:

Accepted Answer

A)   Obsessive-compulsive disease
B)   Objective-compulsive disease
C)   Objective-compulsive disorder
D)   Obsessive-compulsive disorder D

Question 2

Prozac boosts levels of:

Accepted Answer

A)   Serotonin
B)   Dopamine
C)   Norepinephrine
D)   Cortisol A

Question 3

Which evolutionist (s) suggested abnormal patterns of lateralisation are related to the development of schizophrenia:

Accepted Answer

A)   Crow
B)   McGuire
C)   Stevens and Price
D)   Nesse and William A

Question 4

Nesse and Williams explain high levels of anxiety by the:

Accepted Answer

A)   Smoke detector principle
B)   Social competition hypothesis
C)   Sexual selection
D)   Natural selection

Question 5

The part of the immune system that is found in the blood consists of an army of specially adapted white cells called:

Accepted Answer

A)   Antipyretics
B)   Lymphocytes
C)   Rhinoviruses
D)   Human immunodeficiency

Question 6

Life on Earth has existed for well over:

Accepted Answer

A)   2 billion years
B)   3 billion years
C)   4 billion years
D)   5 billion years

Question 7

According to Nesse and Williams two aspects of our lives that increase levels of depression are:

Accepted Answer

A)   Mass communication and disintegration of communities
B)   Work related stress and disintegration of communities
C)   Work related stress and mass communication
D)   Work related stress and financial difficulties

Question 8

Stephen Ilardi et al. developed a 14-week six-step treatment regime for depression that reportedly led to a ______ success rate for those undertaking the regime compared with ______ for a control sample.

Accepted Answer

A)   55.3% and 32%
B)   55.3% and 22%
C)   75.3% and 22%
D)   75.3% and 12%

Question 9

The 4 suggested evolutionary arguments as to why modern day humans have psychiatric problems are:

Accepted Answer

A)   Pleiotropy; stress; pathogenesis; compromise
B)   Pleiotropy; time-lag; compromise; trait variation
C)   Pleiotropy; stress; time-lag; compromise
D)   Pleiotropy; sexual selection; stress; compromise

Question 10

Schizophrenia occurs in what percentage of the population:

Accepted Answer

A)   3%
B)   0.5%
C)   1.5%
D)   5%

Question 11

During the early stages of pregnancy women are most likely to become aversive to:

Accepted Answer

A)   Ginger
B)   Bananas
C)   Meat
D)   Their husbands

Question 12

Sickle-cell anaemia is kept in the population due to:

Accepted Answer

A)   Huntington's chorea
B)   Alzheimer's
C)   Heterozygous advantage
D)   Homozygous advantage

Question 13

McGuire, Raleigh and Troisi have uncovered evidence of a relationship between mood and status in vervet monkeys, which is mediated by the neurotransmitter:

Accepted Answer

A)   Serotonin
B)   Dopamine
C)   Norepinephrine
D)   Cortisol

Question 14

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that depression affects ____________ people worldwide and that it is currently the world's ______ most common cause of morbidity:

Accepted Answer

A)   250 million and forth
B)   350 million and third
C)   150 million and fifth
D)   450 million and second

Question 15

The sexual competition hypothesis suggests anorexia nervosa is driven by:

Accepted Answer

A)   High levels of male/female competition
B)   High levels of female/female competition
C)   High levels of male/male competition
D)   High levels of male/female cooperation

Question 16

The diathesis-stress model of mental illness means that it is caused:

Accepted Answer

A)   Purely by genes
B)   Purely by environmental stress
C)   By toxins
D)   By a predisposition interacting with stress

Question 17

Conventional medicine seeks to understand:

Accepted Answer

A)   The meaning of life
B)   Pathogenesis and cause
C)   Etiology and cause
D)   Etiology and pathogenesis

Question 18

Amenorrhea refers to:

Accepted Answer

A)   Substantial weight loss
B)   Intermittent periods of depression
C)   Stopping of the menstrual cycle
D)   Intermittent periods of anxiety

Question 19

Around one person in ___is diagnosed as having bipolar depression:

Accepted Answer

A)   10
B)   50
C)   75
D)   100

Question 20

The social competition hypothesis of depression was proposed by:

Accepted Answer

A)   McGuire
B)   Raleigh
C)   Troisi
D)   Price

Exam 12: Evolutionary Psychopathology and Darwinian Medicine