Question 1

Which disorder is about equally common in men and women in the United States?

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A) depression 
B) bipolar mood disorder 
C) alcohol abuse/dependence 
D) antisocial personality disorder

Question 2

What dysfunctions are considered to be disorders?

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A) those resulting in significant harm to the person 
B) those differing in any way from the ordinary function of a biological process 
C) those eliciting abnormal behavior characteristics. 
D) those leading to the inability to occasionally misconstrue reality.

Question 3

Discuss the different types of specialized mental health professionals,their role in the treatment of people with mental disorders,and how people are most likely to receive mental health care.

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Question 4

What term describes the symptoms and signs of mental disorders,including phenomena as depressed mood,panic attacks,and bizarre beliefs?

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Question 5

According to the textbook,some disorders,such as __________,are found in virtually every culture social scientists have studied.

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A) sleep apnea 
B) alcoholism 
C) schizophrenia 
D) bulimia

Question 6

Describe the categories of behavior that are excluded from categorization as mental illness in the DSM-5,and give an example of each.

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Question 7

Why did the staff at the psychiatric hospital give Kevin Warner injections of antipsychotic medication?

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A) People with Kevin's blood type do not respond to medication in pill form. 
B) A high level of gastric juices in his digestive system destroyed the medication. 
C) He only pretended to take the pills because he believed people were trying to poison him. 
D) Antipsychotic drugs given by injection do not have the same serious side effects as those in pill form.

Question 8

The improvement in conditions of mental hospitals in the 1800s was based in part on the belief that

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A) humanistic care would help to relieve mental illness. 
B) patients,though incurable,deserved compassionate care. 
C) patients with mental disorders were not really dangerous. 
D) patients had the right to sue to gain better treatment.

Question 9

________________ refers to the total number of active cases,both old and new,of a disorder that are present in a population during a specific period of time.

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Question 10

If a person with an abnormal behavior is unable to or unwilling to appreciate the extent of their problem or the impact it had on other people,what would psychologists say that person lacked?

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A) ignorance 
B) insight 
C) logic 
D) common sense

Question 11

While searching through old records of patients at the mental hospital you come across one with a notation "Lobotomy performed on 2/3/52." Because you are not sure what this means,you ask the staff.What are they likely to tell you?

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A) The patient had to be tied to the bed to reduce violent outbursts. 
B) Repeated electroconvulsive treatments were required to reduce the patient's stupor. 
C) A surgical procedure cut nerve tracts between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain. 
D) As a last resort,the patient's stomach was pumped and his blood was purified in order to remove potentially harmful substances.

Question 12

A pharmaceutical company has asked you to design a study to evaluate the effectiveness of a new drug for treating bulimia.They have asked you specifically to do case studies.You are writing a memo in reply to this request in which you explain what case studies can do for the project,but also what they cannot do.Include a brief description of the components you would add to the study to make it more useful in testing a theory.

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Question 13

Applying the concept of harmful dysfunction to the case of Kevin Warner,we can emphasize Kevin's failures of several mental mechanisms,including

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A) perception. 
B) motivation. 
C) learning. 
D) feeling.

Question 14

Which of these is an example of something an epidemiologist would do?

Accepted Answer

A) encourage people with the flu to avoid alcohol 
B) study rates of alcoholism in urban versus rural areas 
C) investigate the effects of clothing preference on social communication 
D) study chromosomes to find abnormal genes associated with various diseases

Question 15

Samuel Woodward of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital is getting ready to write his annual report on the hospital and its patients.Which of the following titles would most accurately reflect the body of that report?

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A) "No Cure,Little Hope" 
B) "Exorcism Instead of Exercise" 
C) "The Need for Greater Restraints Is Evident" 
D) "High Rates of Successful Treatment of Insanity"

Question 16

Describe the problems that are associated with attempts to define abnormal behavior in terms of (a)personal distress and (b)statistical rarity.

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Question 17

You were asked to find the number of various professionals providing mental health services in the United States.Which group will top the list?

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A) psychiatrists 
B) family physician 
C) clinical psychologists 
D) marriage and family therapists

Question 18

Epidemiological evidence suggests that which of the following factors is an important ingredient in establishing risk for developing an eating disorder?

Accepted Answer

A) comorbidity 
B) genetics 
C) holding particular sets of values related to women's appearance 
D) early family relations

Question 19

How has research on comorbidity changed the focus of epidemiological research?

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A) shifted the focus from the psychotic disorders to milder disorders that affect more people 
B) higher than expected prevalence of mental retardation led to more emphasis on intellectual ability 
C) shifted the focus from counting the number of people with a disorder to measuring the functional impairment associated with the problems 
D) evidence for the biological etiology of more mental disorders has switched the focus to identifying the genes responsible for particular disorders

Question 20

On what does the DSM-5 place primary emphasis?

Accepted Answer

A) mechanisms that regulate emotion 
B) the ability to distinguish between real or imagined auditory sensations 
C) the consequences of certain behavioral syndromes 
D) a person's social or occupational role

Exam 1: Examples and Definitions of Abnormal Behavior