Question 1

What is the major difference between the medical and psychoanalytic models?

Accepted Answer

A)   The medical model focuses on treatment of mental disorders and the psychoanalytic model focuses on explaining mental disorders.
B)   The medical model relies on drugs and the psychoanalytic model relies of therapy.
C)   The medical model approaches mental disorders as biochemical conditions and the psychoanalytic model approaches mental disorders as psychic conditions.
D)   The medical model is practiced in the United States and the psychoanalytic approach is practiced in Europe. C

Question 2

What does research suggest about the effectiveness of psychotropic drugs in controlling mental disorders?

Accepted Answer

A)   Research has not considered the effectiveness of drugs in controlling mental disorders.
B)   Research is skeptical at best about the effectiveness of drugs in controlling mental disorders.
C)   Research suggests little effectiveness of drugs in controlling mental disorders.
D)   Research supports the effectiveness of drugs in controlling mental disorders. D

Question 3

Which of the following is not one of the shortcomings of the medical model?

Accepted Answer

A)   The medical model assumes a medical cause of mental disorder.
B)   The medical model controls symptoms rather than curing disorders.
C)   The medical model focuses on treating mental disorders, but is not able to explain them.
D)   The medical model ignores social and psychological factors related to mental disorders. C

Question 4

For Freud, the __________ is the most important component of personality.

Accepted Answer

A)   ego
B)   id
C)   instinct
D)   superego

Question 5

Discuss the criticisms of the medical model.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

What is the difference between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy?

Accepted Answer

A)   In psychoanalysis, the patient uses free association. In psychoanalytic therapy, the patient uses hypnosis.
B)   Psychoanalysis focuses on the ego and psychoanalytic therapy focuses on the id.
C)   Psychoanalytic therapy is a version of psychoanalysis that focuses on current issues.
D)   Psychoanalysis requires intensive and long term treatment and psychoanalytic therapy is less intensive and short term.

Question 7

In Lauer's research on the "future shock" hypothesis, he found __________ changes were the most stressful.

Accepted Answer

A)   slow and desirable
B)   rapid and desirable
C)   slow and undesirable
D)   rapid and undesirable

Question 8

Why has the medical model been dominant in a search for solutions to mental disorder?

Accepted Answer

A)   Psychiatrists are trained as medical doctors and adopt a medical perspective.
B)   Much more funding has been available for research based on the medical model.
C)   The medical model is more effective across multiple domains of well-being.
D)   The medical model has persisted for several centuries.

Question 9

What did Freud mean by "the child is psychologically father to the adult"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Children have power over their parents.
B)   The events experienced as a child persist through adulthood.
C)   Children have psychological needs to love their father more than their mother.
D)   Infancy and childhood are the most important stages of life.

Question 10

Extreme situations differ from negative ordinary events because __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   negative ordinary events are uncontrollable
B)   extreme situations are life threatening
C)   extreme situations are uncontrollable and life threatening
D)   negative ordinary events are life threatening and uncontrollable

Question 11

The __________ model views mental disorder as a disease that can be treated through medical means.

Accepted Answer

A)   antipsychiatric
B)   behavior modification
C)   medical
D)   psychoanalytic

Question 12

Compare any two theories of mental illness.

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

What major event will significantly improve the capability of researchers to answer questions of genetics and mental disorder?

Accepted Answer

A)   the completion of the Human Genome Project
B)   a longitudinal study of families and mental disorder
C)   appropriate tests of the effectiveness of electroshock therapy
D)   a long term study of the effects of behavior modification techniques

Question 14

Describe and provide an example of any three common ego defense mechanisms described by psychoanalysts.

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Question 15

According to research, most stress is a result of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   abnormalities
B)   social interaction
C)   genetics
D)   behavior modification

Question 16

Behavior modification is based on the __________ model, developed by Pavlov and Thorndike.

Accepted Answer

A)   social learning
B)   conditioning
C)   psychoanalytic
D)   social stress

Question 17

What are the major strengths and limitations of behavior modification?

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

The __________ model rejects the notion that mental disorders are medical illnesses.

Accepted Answer

A)   antimedical
B)   anytipsychatric
C)   political
D)   social learning

Question 19

Which of the following is not one of the limitations of behavior modification?

Accepted Answer

A)   The long-term nature of behavior modification is doubtful.
B)   Behavior modification is only effective in clinical settings.
C)   Behavior modification assumes a willingness to learn new behavior.
D)   Whether or not human behavior can be modified is questionable.

Question 20

When an individual returns to an earlier psychosexual stage of development, this is referred to as __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   reaction formation
B)   introjection
C)   regression
D)   displacement

Exam 3: Mental Disorder: Concepts of Causes and Cures