Midterm Exam

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

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

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

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

A  humanistic therapy.

B  cognitive therapy.

C  psychoanalytic therapy.

D  behavioral therapy.

A  correlational study.

B  quasi-experimental study.

C  analogue study.

D  experiment.

A  nobility.

B  clergy.

C  peasants.

D  physicians.

A  can be tested in the lab.

B  is not based on research.

C  does not have associated therapeutic techniques.

D  cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior.

A  blind methods

B  irrelevant variables

C  confounds

D  controlled variables

A  1200s.

B  1500s.

C  1800s.

D  1700s.

A  antipsychotic

B  antidepressant

C  stimulant

D  antianxiety

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  drugs should not be used unless surgery has been unsuccessful.

B  drugs cannot be combined with other forms of treatment.

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

D  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

A  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

B  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

C  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

D  They prefer more natural treatments.

A  higher for control than test questions.

B  unchanging for test and control questions.

C  evenly high for test and control questions.

D  higher for test than control questions.

A  rapprochement movement

B  uniformity myth

C  evidence-based treatment preference

D  empirically supported treatment preference

A  outpatient

B  somatogenic

C  behavioral

D  moral

A  dependent

B  experimental

C  control

D  confound

A  an affective inventory

B  the Rorschach

C  the MMPI-2

D  a cognitive inventory

A  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

B  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

C  traditional psychoanalysis.

D  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

A  Projective tests are not used anymore.

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

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

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

A  MRI.

B  PET scan.

C  EEG.

D  CAT scan.

A  couvade.

B  exorcism.

C  trephination.

D  shaman.

A  cognitive

B  behavioral

C  psychodynamic

D  humanistic-existential

A  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

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

C  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

D  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

A  scientist.

B  mentalist.

C  practitioner.

D  legalist.

A  conditioned response.

B  unconditioned response.

C  unconditioned stimulus.

D  conditioned stimulus.

A  psychocultural

B  sociocultural

C  biocultural

D  cognitive-cultural

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

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

C  choose the first 10 who enter the classroom.

D  choose the last 10 who leave the classroom.