Midterm Exam

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

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

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

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

A  behavioral therapy.

B  cognitive therapy.

C  psychoanalytic therapy.

D  humanistic therapy.

A  analogue study.

B  correlational study.

C  experiment.

D  quasi-experimental study.

A  clergy.

B  physicians.

C  peasants.

D  nobility.

A  does not have associated therapeutic techniques.

B  cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior.

C  is not based on research.

D  can be tested in the lab.

A  controlled variables

B  confounds

C  blind methods

D  irrelevant variables

A  1800s.

B  1200s.

C  1500s.

D  1700s.

A  antipsychotic

B  antidepressant

C  stimulant

D  antianxiety

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

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

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

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

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

B  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

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

D  drugs cannot be combined with other forms of treatment.

A  They prefer more natural treatments.

B  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

C  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

D  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

A  unchanging for test and control questions.

B  evenly high for test and control questions.

C  higher for test than control questions.

D  higher for control than test questions.

A  uniformity myth

B  rapprochement movement

C  evidence-based treatment preference

D  empirically supported treatment preference

A  outpatient

B  behavioral

C  moral

D  somatogenic

A  confound

B  experimental

C  control

D  dependent

A  the MMPI-2

B  a cognitive inventory

C  the Rorschach

D  an affective inventory

A  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

B  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

C  traditional psychoanalysis.

D  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

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

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

C  Projective tests are not used anymore.

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

A  PET scan.

B  MRI.

C  EEG.

D  CAT scan.

A  exorcism.

B  couvade.

C  trephination.

D  shaman.

A  humanistic-existential

B  cognitive

C  behavioral

D  psychodynamic

A  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

B  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

C  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

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

A  scientist.

B  practitioner.

C  legalist.

D  mentalist.

A  conditioned stimulus.

B  conditioned response.

C  unconditioned response.

D  unconditioned stimulus.

A  psychocultural

B  cognitive-cultural

C  sociocultural

D  biocultural

A  choose the first 10 who enter 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 last 10 who leave the classroom.