Midterm Exam

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

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

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

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

A  behavioral therapy.

B  psychoanalytic therapy.

C  humanistic therapy.

D  cognitive therapy.

A  correlational study.

B  experiment.

C  analogue study.

D  quasi-experimental study.

A  physicians.

B  clergy.

C  nobility.

D  peasants.

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  controlled variables

B  blind methods

C  irrelevant variables

D  confounds

A  1200s.

B  1800s.

C  1500s.

D  1700s.

A  antidepressant

B  antianxiety

C  antipsychotic

D  stimulant

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

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

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

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

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

B  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

C  drugs cannot be combined with other forms of treatment.

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

A  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

B  They prefer more natural treatments.

C  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

D  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

A  higher for test than control questions.

B  evenly high for test and control questions.

C  unchanging for test and control questions.

D  higher for control than test questions.

A  empirically supported treatment preference

B  rapprochement movement

C  uniformity myth

D  evidence-based treatment preference

A  behavioral

B  somatogenic

C  outpatient

D  moral

A  confound

B  control

C  experimental

D  dependent

A  a cognitive inventory

B  the MMPI-2

C  the Rorschach

D  an affective inventory

A  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

B  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

C  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

D  traditional psychoanalysis.

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

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

A  PET scan.

B  EEG.

C  CAT scan.

D  MRI.

A  shaman.

B  exorcism.

C  trephination.

D  couvade.

A  humanistic-existential

B  psychodynamic

C  cognitive

D  behavioral

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

B  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

C  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

D  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

A  legalist.

B  mentalist.

C  scientist.

D  practitioner.

A  unconditioned response.

B  unconditioned stimulus.

C  conditioned stimulus.

D  conditioned response.

A  biocultural

B  psychocultural

C  sociocultural

D  cognitive-cultural

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

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

C  choose the first 10 who enter the classroom.

D  choose the last 10 who leave the classroom.