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Question 11 pts Your textbook author defines abnormal behavior…
Question 11 pts
Your textbook author defines abnormal behavior as pattern of pathological behaviors, thoughts, or emotions for one of three different reasons: deviance, dysfunction, and distress.
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Flag question: Question 2Question 21 pts
Sheila’s alcohol use causes her to be late to work or to call out sick due to a hangover at least three times a week. Her boss is seriously considering firing her for these reasons. The criterion for deviancy can be used for diagnosing her psychological disorder.
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Flag question: Question 3Question 31 pts
According to the cognitive perspective, anxiety is a result of faulty thinking.
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Flag question: Question 4Question 41 pts
A psychologist evaluating a new client would most likely use in diagnosing the client’s psychological disorder the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Flag question: Question 5Question 51 pts
Monica always seems to feel on edge and worried that something in her life will go wrong, but she cannot pinpoint the causes of her anxiety. She can verbalize that there is nothing for her to worry about, but that doesn’t stop her from having these concerns. These symptoms are most consistent with
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panic disorder
major depressive disorder
generalized anxiety disorder
phobia
Flag question: Question 6Question 61 pts
Leroy refuses to dance in public because of an intense, irrational fear of being negatively evaluated by others. Leroy has symptoms consistent with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Flag question: Question 7Question 71 pts
Someone who experiences episodes of mania and cycles between manic and depressive periods has symptoms that are consistent with major depressive disorder.
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Flag question: Question 8Question 81 pts
The risk for bipolar disorder in the general population is between 0.5 and 1.6 percent.
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Flag question: Question 9Question 91 pts
Our fast-paced lives, increased mobility, decreased job security, and reduced family support are believed to be important in the increase in in anxiety over the past fifty years.
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Flag question: Question 10Question 101 pts
Morris is having trouble sleeping, has lost his appetite, is too tired to go to work, and cannot concentrate on simple television shows. Morris is experiencing symptoms consistent with depression.
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Flag question: Question 11Question 111 pts
A group of severe disorders that is characterized by severely disturbed perception, language, thought, affect (emotions), and behavior is ______?
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schizophrenia
social phobia
dissociative identity disorder
somatic symptom disorder
Flag question: Question 12Question 121 pts
Schizophrenia is associated with delusions and hallucinations.
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Flag question: Question 13Question 131 pts
Which of the following is an example of a hallucination?
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walking into a tree because you didn’t see it
smelling a flower and having an unusually intense emotional response to the scent
hearing voices that aren’t really there
none of the above
Flag question: Question 14Question 141 pts
Someone with schizophrenia that is socially withdrawn and produces limited or toneless speech is displaying negative symptoms.
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Flag question: Question 15Question 151 pts
Drugs that block the effects of dopamine in the brain reduce or eliminate symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Flag question: Question 16Question 161 pts
Brady has difficulty sitting still in class. He fidgets a lot, is easily distracted, and often draws the attention of his teacher when she’s trying to teach a lesson. He is not intentionally problematic, but the issue has required the teacher to contact his parents on several occasions. Brady is experiencing symptoms consistent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Flag question: Question 17Question 171 pts
Compulsions refer to exaggerated thoughts whereas obsessions refer to repeated ritualistic behaviors.
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Flag question: Question 18Question 181 pts
Using therapeutic techniques to improve psychological functioning and promote adjustment to life is known as life coaching.
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Flag question: Question 19Question 191 pts
The system of psychotherapy developed by Freud that seeks to bring unconscious thoughts and conflicts into conscious awareness is known as behaviorism.
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Flag question: Question 20Question 201 pts
Blanche yells at her psychoanalyst, “You have never listened to me or understood anything I have said. You don’t care at all what happens to me. I hate you!” Assuming this is not really true, it is most likely that Blanche is experiencing transference.
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Flag question: Question 21Question 211 pts
Humanistic therapy helps clients to maximize their capacity for self-actualization and focuses on obstacles that block personal growth and potential.
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Flag question: Question 22Question 221 pts
The non-judgmental attitude and caring that a therapist expresses toward a client is called unconditional positive regard.
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Flag question: Question 23Question 231 pts
Cognitive therapists assume that problem behaviors and emotions are caused by bad behavior.
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Flag question: Question 24Question 241 pts
Albert Ellis’s approach to cognitive therapy attempts to eliminate self-defeating beliefs through logic, confrontation, and examination. He named his approach REBT, or recognition-exchange behavior therapy.
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Flag question: Question 25Question 251 pts
Aaron Beck’s approach to therapy, which attempts to change not only destructive thoughts and beliefs, but the associated behaviors as well, is called cognitive behavior therapy.
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Flag question: Question 26Question 261 pts
Research suggests that Beck’s and Ellis’s cognitive therapies work for schizophrenia.
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Flag question: Question 27Question 271 pts
The use of techniques based on learning principles to change maladaptive actions are the foundation of which type of therapy?
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insight-oriented
family
gestalt
behavior
Flag question: Question 28Question 281 pts
The use of a token economy in an inpatient treatment facility involves giving people tokens that can be exchanged for primary rewards.
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Flag question: Question 29Question 291 pts
Stimulant drugs might be used to treat panic disorder.
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Flag question: Question 30Question 301 pts
Medications that are used to diminish or eliminate hallucinations or delusions in schizophrenics are called antipsychotic drugs.
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Flag question: Question 31Question 311 pts
A biomedical treatment that is based on passing an electrical current through the brain is called ECT.
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Flag question: Question 32Question 321 pts
A rarely used and outdated brain operation in which nerve pathways between the frontal lobe and the thalamus and hypothalamus are cut in hopes of treating psychological disorders is called a thalalectomy.
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Flag question: Question 33Question 331 pts
Explanations that we provide for the causes of behaviors or events are referred to as attributions.
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Flag question: Question 34Question 341 pts
We misjudge the causes of another person’s behavior because we overestimate internal, personal factors and underestimate external, situational influences. This is called fundamental attribution error.
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Flag question: Question 35Question 351 pts
According to the textbook, people experiencing cognitive dissonance would most likely change their attitude.
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Flag question: Question 36Question 361 pts
Mr. Bundy believes that women make poor shoe salespersons, but hires a woman to sell his shoes anyway. From this information, which of the following is true regarding Mr. Bundy?
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He probably only hired a woman because she was a family member.
He holds a prejudice and discriminates against women.
He discriminates, but does not hold a prejudice against women.
He holds a prejudice, but has not discriminated against women.
Flag question: Question 37Question 371 pts
Ingroup favoritism is a cognitive process in which members of one’s own group are viewed more positively than those who are not members of that group.
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Flag question: Question 38Question 381 pts
In the classic Asch study of conformity, more than one third of the subjects conformed and agreed with obviously incorrect choices made by other group members.
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Flag question: Question 39Question 391 pts
A compliance technique in which a first, small request is used as a set-up for later requests is known as a door-in-the-face technique.
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Flag question: Question 40Question 401 pts
Assuring “teachers” that the experimenter was responsible for the “learner’s” well-being was one of the factors in Milgram’s experiment that decreased obedience.
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Flag question: Question 41Question 411 pts
A group’s movement toward either riskier or more conservative behavior, depending on members’ initial dominant tendency, is called group polarization.
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Flag question: Question 42Question 421 pts
A strong and lasting attraction characterized by deep trust, caring, tolerance, and friendship is called discriminate love.
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Flag question: Question 43Question 431 pts
The major cementing factor(s) in maintaining a long-term relationship is similarity.
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Flag question: Question 44Question 441 pts
Suggesting that group leaders remain silent on important issues, encouraging and supporting those with dissenting opinions as they share their position, and seeking input from outside experts are all strategies to help reduce groupthink.
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Flag question: Question 45Question 451 pts
In Sternberg’s study, a healthy degree of all three essential components in both partners characterizes consummate love.
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Flag question: Question 46Question 461 pts
According to John Gottman, the most destructive “Horseman of the Apocalypse” in a relationship is contempt.
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Flag question: Question 47Question 471 pts
Prosocial behavior designed to help or benefit others is known as egotism.
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Flag question: Question 48Question 481 pts
Aggression is intended to inflict physical or psychological harm on another individual?
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Flag question: Question 49Question 491 pts
Physical attractiveness is important in attraction across cultures because it indicates good health, sound genes, and high fertility.
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Flag question: Question 50Question 501 pts
The study of how other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions is called social psychology.
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