Midterm Exam

A  the relationship between race, poverty, and job opportunity.

B  why everyone who experiences danger doesn’t experience generalized anxiety.

C  the paradox that as poverty gets worse, generalized anxiety declines.

D  the differences in generalized anxiety in countries around the world.

A  cognitive therapy.

B  behavioral therapy.

C  humanistic therapy.

D  psychoanalytic therapy.

A  quasi-experimental study.

B  experiment.

C  analogue study.

D  correlational study.

A  physicians.

B  clergy.

C  peasants.

D  nobility.

A  does not have associated therapeutic techniques.

B  can be tested in the lab.

C  cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior.

D  is not based on research.

A  irrelevant variables

B  confounds

C  controlled variables

D  blind methods

A  1800s.

B  1200s.

C  1700s.

D  1500s.

A  antianxiety

B  antipsychotic

C  antidepressant

D  stimulant

A  Psychologists, not psychiatrists, are primarily responsible for the DSM-5.

B  The DSM-5 requires both dimensional and categorical information.

C  The DSM-5 does not require both dimensional and categorical information.

D  Psychiatrists, not psychologists, are primarily responsible for the DSM-5.

A  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

B  drugs cannot be combined with other forms of treatment.

C  drugs should not be used unless surgery has been unsuccessful.

D  drugs are not very effective in the treatment of psychological disorders.

A  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

B  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

C  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

D  They prefer more natural treatments.

A  evenly high for test and control questions.

B  unchanging for test and control questions.

C  higher for test than control questions.

D  higher for control than test questions.

A  evidence-based treatment preference

B  empirically supported treatment preference

C  uniformity myth

D  rapprochement movement

A  moral

B  outpatient

C  behavioral

D  somatogenic

A  experimental

B  control

C  dependent

D  confound

A  an affective inventory

B  the MMPI-2

C  the Rorschach

D  a cognitive inventory

A  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

B  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

C  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

D  traditional psychoanalysis.

A  Current clinicians rely on projective tests as a primary source of insight about their patients.

B  Projective tests are not used anymore.

C  Projective tests have a more prominent place in the clinician’s repertoire than they did 50 years ago.

D  Projective tests are mainly used to gain “supplementary” information these days.

A  EEG.

B  MRI.

C  CAT scan.

D  PET scan.

A  exorcism.

B  shaman.

C  couvade.

D  trephination.

A  psychodynamic

B  humanistic-existential

C  behavioral

D  cognitive

A  fewer and fewer immigrants were being sent to mental hospitals.

B  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

C  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

D  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

A  scientist.

B  practitioner.

C  mentalist.

D  legalist.

A  conditioned stimulus.

B  unconditioned response.

C  conditioned response.

D  unconditioned stimulus.

A  cognitive-cultural

B  biocultural

C  psychocultural

D  sociocultural

A  choose the last 10 who leave the classroom.

B  write each student’s name on a piece of paper, put the papers in a pile, close eyes, and pick 10 papers.

C  ask students their ethnicity, grade point average, and academic major, and then be sure the sample reflects all of these student characteristics.

D  choose the first 10 who enter the classroom.