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1. Which of the following are some of the biological factors…
1. Which of the following are some of the biological factors attributing to obesity?
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Dopamine deficiencies
Serotonin deficiencies
High metabolism
Smaller fat cells
2. Which eating disorder is characterized by a relentless pursuit of thinness and underweight sufferers?
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Bulimia
Anorexia
Binge Eating Disorder
Obesity
3. _____________ is characterized by binge eating followed with a compensatory behavior (eg. vomiting, intense exercise, etc.), whereas ____________________ is a similar disorder without the compensatory behaviors?
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Anorexia/Bulimia
Binge Eating Disorder/Bulimia
Bulimia/Anorexia
Bulimia/Binge Eating Disorders
4. What is similar between the brains of individuals with substance use disorder and obese individuals?
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Increased number of D2 dopamine receptors
Decreased number of D2 dopamine receptors
Increased number of GABA receptors
Decreased number of GABA receptors
5. What are games with intense audio and visual compliments where millions of people worldwide can be on at the same time?
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Massively many-player online rule-playing games
Massively multi-player online role-playing games
Massively multi-popular online role-playing games
Massively many-players online rule-playing games
6. Research has shown that most online gamers are
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Adults
Children
Teenagers
Elderly
7. Internet abuse and addiction is a main concern in what environments?
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Work places
Colleges
High schools
All choices are correct
8. Street prostitutes tend to have all of the following EXCEPT _________, as opposed to “high-end” prostitutes
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More violence in work or home
Polydrug using habits
Control over selection of customers
Under the control of a pimp or partner
9. Which of the following is NOT one of the three phases of addiction treatment using Cognitive Behavioral approaches?
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Mental Preparation
Skill development
Exploration
Rehearsal
10. Which of the following is NOT true about psychoanalysis?
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It understands that mental illness falls on a spectrum
It understands mental illness as maladaptive learned behaviors
It focuses on early life events
It was developed by Sigmund Freud
11. Which of the following is true?
Group of answer choices
All answer choices are correct
In depressed patients, amygdala is over activated in response to sad faces.
In depressed patients, amygdala volume is reduced.
In non-depressed patients with the short allele for the serotonin transporter gene, the amygdala is over activated in response to sad faces.
12. Which of the following is a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)?
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fluoxetine
venlafaxine
tianeptine
bupropion
13. Which of the following is MOST associated with increased risk for depression?
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Decreased levels of tryptophan
Post-menopausal women
Decreased hippocampus volume
Long allele for 5-HTT
14. Rebecca, a member of the U.S. military, was deployed to Iraq. Rebecca had an MRI when she was a teenager and revealed that she has a smaller sized hippocampus, in volume, than most women her age. How would you assess Rebecca’s risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder after a traumatic event during her deployment compared to other soldiers with normal hippocampal volume? (Assume that Rebecca has no difference in the function or size of any other brain region compared to the average soldier.)
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No answer text provided.
High
Low
About the same
15. What environmental factors contribute to addiction?
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All choices are correct
Witnessing violence
Co-morbid (co-occurring) mental illness
Stress
16. All of the following are anxiety disorders EXCEPT:
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Panic Disorder
Phobia Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
17. What is the major advantage of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) over monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and the tricyclic antidepressants?
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They produce different and less dangerous side effects than these older medications
They are less selective in their action; hence they can be used for a number of conditions
They are more effective in treating depression
They work faster than these older classes of drugs
18. Which of the following is not a symptom of mania?
Group of answer choices
Distractability
Racing thoughts
Decrease in goal-directed activity
Elation (intense happiness)
19. Which of the following is associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Group of answer choices
Overactive prefrontal cortex
Both extreme trauma and an oversized hippocampus
Oversized hippocampus
Extreme trauma
20. Which of the following is TRUE of barbiturates?
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Margin of safety decreases with tolerance
Low risk of overdose
Shows no physical dependency
Enhanced alertness
21. What is the critical difference between the Physical Dependence Model of addiction and the Positive Reinforcement Model of addiction?
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The positive reinforcement model suggests that relapse occurs due to desire to re-experience a high
The positive reinforcement model does not consider the users attempts at abstinence
The positive reinforcement model doesn’t account for relapse
The physical dependence model does not consider biological dependence to the drug
22. Indicate the correct order of events as described by Gary Wilson in “The Great Porn Experiment”
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Cravings ? ?FosB accumulation ? Excess chronic consumption ? Dopamine surge
Cravings ? ?FosB accumulation ? Dopamine surge ? Excess chronic consumption
Dopamine surge ? Bingeing ? ?FosB accumulation ? Structural brain changes
Excess chronic consumption ? ?FosB accumulation ? Cravings ? Dopamine surge
23. Drugs of abuse are characterized by sharing which common final pathway?
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Tuberoinfundibular Pathway
Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Pathway
Mesocortical Dopaminergic Pathway
Mesolimbic Dopaminergic Pathway
24. In “The Frozen Addicts,” symptoms experienced by the patients were relieved by surgically injecting stem cells into which area of the brain?
Group of answer choices
Substantia Nigra
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
Anterior Cingulate Cortex
25. As shown in “The Frozen Addicts,” injecting the drug _____ resulted in _____ type symptoms.
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MPPP/Alzheimer’s
MPTP/Alzheimer’s
MPTP/Parkinson’s
MPPP/Parkinson’s
