PSY 203T Wk 5 – Week 5 Exam

Which of the following statements is false regarding behavior therapy?

Multiple Choice

• It is especially effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
• It can produce actual changes in the functioning of the brain.
• It has no problem other than the maladaptive behavior itself.
• It is actually based mainly on psychoanalytic ideas.

____ is a behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety.

Multiple Choice

• Aversive conditioning
• Exposure treatment
• Manifest structuring
• Systematic desensitization

Radiation is used to destroy specific brain areas in a type of psychosurgery called _____; it is used to treat _____.

Multiple Choice

• Gamma Knife surgery; major depression
• Gamma Knife surgery; obsessive-compulsive disorder
• transcranial magnetic stimulation; obsessive-compulsive disorder
• transcranial magnetic stimulation; major depression

Atypical antipsychotics affect both _____ and _____ levels in certain parts of the brain.

Multiple Choice

• oxytocin; glycine
• serotonin; dopamine
• prolactin; histamine
• epinephrine; GABA

________ schizophrenia is characterized by the presence of disordered behavior such as hallucinations, delusions, and emotional extremes.

Multiple Choice

• Process
• Reactive
• Positive-symptom
• Negative-symptom

______ is a disorder typically marked by inattention, impulsiveness, a low tolerance for frustration, and a great deal of inappropriate activity.

Multiple Choice

• Schizophrenia
• Narcissistic personality disorder
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Bipolar disorder

Which of the following approaches to psychotherapy is ly matched with its description?

Multiple Choice

• Psychodynamic approach—Treatment aims to change maladaptive thinking patterns.
• Humanistic approach—Therapy aims to bring unconscious conflicts and impulses into the conscious.
• Behavioral approach—Classical and operant conditioning principles are used to change people’s behavior.
• Psychoanalysis approach—Treatment aims to change a patient’s dysfunctional cognitions about the world.

Intense, irrational fear of specific objects or situations is referred to as:

Multiple Choice

• specific phobia.
• mania.
• compulsion.
• obsession.

Which drug class is ly matched with a drug that represents it?

Multiple Choice

• Antipsychotics—chlorpromazine
• Mood stabilizers—Xanax
• Antianxiety drugs—Prozac
• Antidepressants—lithium

______ refers to a severe developmental disability that impairs children’s ability to communicate and relate to others.

Multiple Choice

• Autism spectrum disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar disorder
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Which of the following is a criticism of biomedical therapies?

Multiple Choice

• They merely provide relief of the symptoms of mental disorders.
• They are ineffective in curing violent patients.
• They do not solve common mental disorders such as depression or bipolar disorder.
• They do not work well in conjunction with other therapies.

Prozac is an example of a(n) _____.

Multiple Choice

• antidepressant drug
• antipsychotic drug
• antianxiety drug
• mood stabilizer

It is best to view abnormal behavior and normal behavior as:

Multiple Choice

• discrete categories.
• two well-demarcated and non-overlapping terms.
• marking two ends of a continuum.
• absolute states.

_______ is a statistical approach that observes what behaviors are rare, or occur infrequently in a specific society or culture, and labels those deviations from the norm “abnormal.”

Multiple Choice

• Abnormality as deviation from the ideal
• Abnormality as a sense of personal discomfort
• Abnormality as the inability to function effectively
• Abnormality as deviation from the average

People with ________ account for by far the largest percentage of those hospitalized for mental disorders.

Multiple Choice

• schizophrenia
• anxiety disorders
• dissociative disorders
• major depression

The goal of _____, which was developed by Freud, is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior.

Multiple Choice

• meta-analysis
• psychoanalysis
• microarray analysis
• transactional analysis

Which of the following perspectives on psychological disorders assumes that physiological causes are at the root of psychological disorders?

Multiple Choice

• Behavioral perspectiveIn
• Psychoanalytic perspective
• Medical perspective
• Humanistic perspective

The predisposition model of schizophrenia suggests that:

Multiple Choice

• expressed emotion can’t trigger schizophrenic symptoms.
• schizophrenia is not related to social rejection.
• individuals may inherit an inborn sensitivity to develop schizophrenia.
• schizophrenia has genetic causes.

How does dissociative amnesia differ from simple amnesia?

Multiple Choice

• Dissociative amnesia typically results from a physiological cause, whereas simple amnesia does not.
• Simple amnesia occurs due to stress, whereas dissociative amnesia does not.
• Simple amnesia involves an actual loss of memory, whereas dissociative amnesia does not.
• Dissociative amnesia involves an actual loss of memory, whereas simple amnesia does not.

Which of the following is true of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?

Multiple Choice

• It does not have any side effects.
• It is not as popular as it used to be.
• It is still experimental.
• It uses an electrical current.

Which of the following statements is true about major depression?

Multiple Choice

• It is abnormal to experience sadness after experiencing disappointment in life.
• For reasons unknown, the rate of depression is decreasing throughout the world.
• Major depression may have no clear trigger and is more intense than normal depression.
• People suffering from major depression have high levels of energy.

________ is an extended state of intense, wild elation.

Multiple Choice

• Insomnia
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Mania

____ approach is a treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think.

Multiple Choice

• Humanistic-behavioral
• Psychodynamic-humanistic
• Psychodynamic-cognitive
• Cognitive-behavioral

Which of the following statements best expresses the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?

Multiple Choice

• Psychoanalysis is one type of psychotherapy.
• The two are unrelated.
• Psychoanalysis is limited to only dream analysis.
• Psychotherapy is one type of psychoanalysis.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the characteristics of a personality disorder?

Multiple Choice

• People with borderline personality disorder rely on relationships to define their identity.
• People with schizoaffective personality disorder have an overly emotional and dramatic style of behavior.
• People with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society.
• People with antisocial personality disorder have an exaggerated sense of self-importance.