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  humanistic therapy.

C  behavioral therapy.

D  psychoanalytic therapy.

A  correlational study.

B  quasi-experimental study.

C  experiment.

D  analogue study.

A  peasants.

B  physicians.

C  nobility.

D  clergy.

A  cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior.

B  is not based on research.

C  can be tested in the lab.

D  does not have associated therapeutic techniques.

A  blind methods

B  irrelevant variables

C  confounds

D  controlled variables

A  1500s.

B  1700s.

C  1200s.

D  1800s.

A  antidepressant

B  antianxiety

C  stimulant

D  antipsychotic

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

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

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

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  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

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

A  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

B  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

C  They prefer more natural treatments.

D  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

A  higher for test than control questions.

B  evenly high for test and control questions.

C  higher for control than test questions.

D  unchanging for test and control questions.

A  evidence-based treatment preference

B  uniformity myth

C  empirically supported treatment preference

D  rapprochement movement

A  behavioral

B  somatogenic

C  moral

D  outpatient

A  experimental

B  control

C  dependent

D  confound

A  the Rorschach

B  the MMPI-2

C  a cognitive inventory

D  an affective inventory

A  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

B  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

C  traditional psychoanalysis.

D  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

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  PET scan.

B  MRI.

C  CAT scan.

D  EEG.

A  shaman.

B  trephination.

C  exorcism.

D  couvade.

A  behavioral

B  cognitive

C  psychodynamic

D  humanistic-existential

A  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

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

C  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

D  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

A  scientist.

B  mentalist.

C  legalist.

D  practitioner.

A  conditioned response.

B  unconditioned stimulus.

C  conditioned stimulus.

D  unconditioned response.

A  biocultural

B  psychocultural

C  cognitive-cultural

D  sociocultural

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

B  choose the first 10 who enter the classroom.

C  choose the last 10 who leave the classroom.

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