Abnormal Psychology Exam I

Question 1

Because people who are manic have very elevated moods, a new test for mania includes questions about how happy the person feels and how often he or she laughs. This test has:

Answers:
A.
face validity.

B. construct validity.

C. concurrent validity.

D. content validity.

Question 2

Which category of clinical tests tends to have the best standardization, reliability, and validity?

Answers:
A.
projective tests

B. response inventories

C. personality inventories

D. intelligence tests

Question 3

The single most effective treatment for schizophrenia is:

Answers:
A.
behavior therapy.

B. psychoanalysis. C. existential therapy.

D. drug therapy.

Question 4

If your friend had her brain waves recorded in order to measure electrical activity, she most likely had a(n):

Answers:
A.
EEG.

B.
PET scan.

C.
MRI.

D.
CAT scan.

Question 5

Which of the following is not a common feature of managed care programs?

Answers:
A.
limited pool of practitioners for patients to choose from

B. preapproval for treatment by the insurance company

C. patient choice in number of sessions therapy can last

D. ongoing reviews and assessments

Question 6

A response inventory that asks individuals to provide detailed information about their typical thoughts and assumptions is a(n):

Answers:
A.
cognitive inventory.

B. social skill inventory.

C. behavioral inventory.

D. affective inventory.

Question 7

A clinical interviewer says, in part, “How do you feel about yourself today? How do you feel about what's going on in your life?” Most likely, that clinical interviewer's orientation is:

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A.
humanistic.

B. behavioral. C. psychodynamic. D. biological. Question 8

If a clinician is particularly interested in a client's family medical history, that clinician is most likely from which orientation?

Answers:
A.
sociocultural

B. behavioral C. biological D. cognitive Question 9

Youssef is the kind of person who breaks laws and rules with no feeling of guilt and is emotionally shallow. He would probably score high on the MMPI-2 scale called:

Answers:
A.
psychopathic deviate.

B. paranoia. C. schizophrenia. D. psychasthenia. Question 10

If a new test for assessing anorectic tendencies produces scores comparable to those of other tests for assessing anorectic tendencies, then the new test has high:

Answers:
A.
concurrent validity.

B. predictive validity.

C. performance criteria.

D. standardization criteria.

Question 11

Behavior that violates legal norms is:

Answers:
A.
deviant and criminal.

B. deviant and psychopathological.

C. distressful and psychopathological.

D. distressful and criminal.

Question 12

One limitation of the clinical interview as an assessment tool is that:

Answers:
A.
the approach is too rigid.

B. the client may give an overly positive picture.

C. the clinician sees the client too infrequently.

D. each client is different.

Question 13

Correlations and experiments are preferred over case studies for all of the following reasons except:

Answers:
A.
they use statistical tests to analyze results.

B. they offer rich detail that make the results extremely interesting.

C. they typically observe many individuals.

D. they are more easily replicable.

Question 14

When community programs are focused on correcting social conditions that give rise to psychological problems, the approach is called:

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A.
negative psychology.

B. prevention. C. etiology. D. criminology. Question 15

When more than one research method produces similar results, we:

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A.
are suspicious of the results.

B. can have more confidence in the results.

C. suspect that experimenter bias has occurred.

D. conclude that our results are due to confounds.

Question 16

The assessment instrument most likely to be used to detect brain abnormalities is the:

Answers:

neuropsychological test.

intelligence test.

psychophysiological test.

projective test.

Question 17

If you ask the question, “What type of therapy has been shown to be the most effective for my particular disorder?” you are asking a question about:

Answers:
A.
therapy outcome studies.

B. classification syndrome studies.

C. ethics of treatment studies.

D. diagnosis reliability studies.

Question 18

Of the following, who is most at risk for misinterpreting a cultural response as pathology?

Answers:
A.
a dominant-culture assessor

B. an immigrant client

C. an ethnic-minority client

D. an ethnic-minority assessor

Question 19

A campus newspaper publishes an “Exam Anxiety” test, which was put together by the newspaper staff one evening just before their publishing deadline. Despite its hasty construction, the test most likely has:

Answers:
A.
face validity.

B. predictive validity.

C. standardization. D. a standardization sample.

Question 20

Factors other than the independent variable may also act on the dependent variable. If these factors vary systematically with the independent variable, they are called ______ variables.

Answers:
A.
irrelevant

B. confounding C. blind variables

D. controlled variables

Question 21

A clinician has developed a test that requires test takers to tell stories about a series of pictures of city skylines. Most likely, this new test is a:

Answers:
A.
projective test.

B. response inventory.

C. neuropsychological test.

D. personality inventory.

Question 22

Personality assessment using projective tests is designed to:

Answers:
A.
perform a functional analysis of the client.

B. obtain detailed information about specific dysfunctional cognitions.

C. obtain detailed information about specific dysfunctional behaviors.

D. learn about unconscious conflicts in the client.

Question 23

If you consulted a pro-anorexia site on the Internet, you would learn about:

Answers:
A.
how to eat in a healthful manner.

B. how to eliminate guilt when eating too much.

C. how to be a better anorexic.

D. effective treatments for anorexia.

Question 24

Which of the following tests is a personality inventory?

Answers:
A.
Draw-a-Person

B.
MMPI-2

C.
Rorschach Test

D.
Thematic Apperception Test

Question 25

If a clinician focused on where you placed your drawing on the page, the size of the drawing, and the parts you omitted, you most likely took which of the following tests?

Answers:
A.
Rorschach

B.
TAT

C.
Draw-a-Person

D.
MMPI

Question 26

The test with built-in items designed to detect things such as lying and carelessness is the:

Answers:
A.
Draw-a-Person Test.

B.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

C.
Thematic Apperception Test.

D.
Sentence Completion Test.

Question 27

A mental health practitioner attempts to learn about the behavior and emotional state of each client. This approach to abnormal psychology is called:

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A.
behavioral.

B. psychodynamic. C. nomothetic. D. idiographic. Question 28

Which of the following “new diagnoses” would one experiencing overwhelming concern about being bombarded with excessive information on the Internet most likely receive?

Answers:
A.
eco-anxiety

B. terrorism terror

C. crime phobia

D. cyber fear

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT an accurate assessment of the current use of projective tests?

Answers:
A.
Often projective test results do not match the views of clinicians or patients.

B.
A standardized scoring system for the Rorschach shows impressive reliability in those trained to use it.

C.
Because there are growing numbers of psychodynamic clinicians, use of projective tests is increasing.

D.
TAT-like cards with drawings of ethnic minorities have recently been developed.

Question 30

Which of the following is the best conclusion you could draw about the effectiveness of the various assessment techniques?

Answers:
A.
Clinicians have abandoned the use of assessment.

B.
Assessment is used at the beginning of therapy but not thereafter.

C. There is one standard assessment battery used by all clinicians.

D.
When all is said and done, no technique stands out as superior.

Question 31

What kind of validity is most important to clinicians in evaluating the utility of a classification system?

Answers:
A.
external validity

B. internal validity

C. predictive validity

D. face validity

Question 32

A functional analysis involves:

Answers:
A.
learning about a person's behaviors.

B. learning about unconscious conflicts in the client.

C. using projective tests.

D. obtaining information about the components of a person's personality.

Question 33

The most legitimate criticism of intelligence tests concerns they’re:

Answers:
A.
validity.

B. cultural fairness.

C. reliability. D. standardization. Question 34

An example of a reasonably reliable, valid response inventory is the:

Answers:
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

Rorschach Inkblot Test.

Beck Depression Inventory.

Draw-a-Person Test.

Question 35

The only test among the following that is not a projective test is the:

Answers:
A.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

B.
Rorschach Test.

C.
Draw-a-Person Test.

D.
Thematic Apperception Test.

Question 36

In the ABAB (reversal) design, condition “A” is a(n):

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A.
no-treatment condition.

B. independent variable application.

C. dependent variable application.

D. experimental condition.

Question 37

Hippocrates attempted to treat mental disorders by:

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A.
correcting underlying physical pathology.

B. encouraging patients to speak about past traumas.

C. chaining patients to walls.

D. hypnotizing patients.

Question 38

A clinician who is using naturalistic observation would be most likely to do which of the following?

Answers:
A.
observe parent-child interactions in an office setting

B. have a parent self-monitor family interactions in an office setting

C. observe parent-child interactions in the family's home

D. have a parent self-monitor family interactions at home

Question 39

The knowledge that the person a clinician is about to interview has already been diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder could lead to:

Answers:
A.
increased accuracy of the diagnosis.

B. observer drift.

C. reactivity. D. observer bias.

Question 40

Eugenic sterilization reflects the ______ perspective on abnormality.

Answers:
A.
managed care

B. cultural C. somatogenic D. psychoanalytic Question 41

Which of the following is not a form of neuroimaging?

Answers:
A.
CAT scan

B.
GSR

C.
PET

D.
MRI

Question 42

The existence of disorders such as koro, susto, amok, and windigo remind us that:

Answers:
A.
culture and diagnosis should be entirely independent.

B. people in other cultures experience much worse disorders than we do.

C. classifications applied in one culture may not be appropriate in another.

D. people experience the same disorders around the world, but call them different things.

Question 43

If a clinician begins by asking, “Would you tell me about yourself?” the clinician is most likely conducting a(n):

Answers:
A.
mental status exam.

B. interview schedule.

C. unstructured interview.

D. structured interview.

Question 44

Treatment for mental illness in crowded asylums tended to be:

Answers:
A.
moral therapy.

B. psychogenic therapy.

C. religiously based.

D. harsh and cruel.

Question 45

The specialty that presently has the largest number of practitioners is:

Answers:
A.
psychiatric social work.

B. counseling. C. psychiatry. D. psychology. Question 46

Drugs designed to decrease extremely confused and distorted thinking are termed:

Answers:
A.
antipsychotics.

B. antiolytics. C. antidepressants. D. antihypochondriacals. Question 47

The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in older men seen at a clinic tells you the:

Answers:
A.
risk of a man developing a sexual dysfunction.

B. number of new cases of sexual dysfunction over a period of time.

C. rate of sexual dysfunction in the community.

D. total number of older men with sexual dysfunction at the clinic.

Question 48

An 18-year-old completing a neuropsychological test has difficulty remembering and drawing some designs. This person is performing at a(n):

Answers:
A.
average level on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychology Battery.

B. poorer-than-average level on the Bender-Gestalt.

C. average level on the Bender-Gestalt.

D. poorer-than-average level on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychology Battery.

Question 49

George is consumed with concern that his house will burn down. Before he leaves, he makes sure that all his appliances are unplugged. He often has to go back home and check to make sure he did not leave any plugged in. Which MMPI-2 scale would he most likely score high on?

Answers:
A.
social introversion

B. psychopathic deviate

C. psychasthenia D. schizophrenia Question 50

One who sees abnormality as a problem in living usually refers to those seeking help with their problems in living as:

Answers:
A.
pupils.

B. patients. C. clients. D. trainees.