Midterm Exam

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

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

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

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

A  behavioral therapy.

B  cognitive therapy.

C  psychoanalytic therapy.

D  humanistic therapy.

A  quasi-experimental study.

B  correlational study.

C  experiment.

D  analogue study.

A  clergy.

B  nobility.

C  peasants.

D  physicians.

A  cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior.

B  is not based on research.

C  does not have associated therapeutic techniques.

D  can be tested in the lab.

A  confounds

B  blind methods

C  irrelevant variables

D  controlled variables

A  1200s.

B  1500s.

C  1800s.

D  1700s.

A  antianxiety

B  antidepressant

C  stimulant

D  antipsychotic

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

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

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

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

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

B  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

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

D  drugs cannot be combined with other forms of treatment.

A  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

B  They prefer more natural treatments.

C  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

D  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

A  evenly high for test and control questions.

B  higher for control than test questions.

C  higher for test than control questions.

D  unchanging for test and control questions.

A  empirically supported treatment preference

B  evidence-based treatment preference

C  rapprochement movement

D  uniformity myth

A  somatogenic

B  outpatient

C  moral

D  behavioral

A  experimental

B  control

C  dependent

D  confound

A  the Rorschach

B  a cognitive inventory

C  an affective inventory

D  the MMPI-2

A  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

B  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

C  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

D  traditional psychoanalysis.

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

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

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

D  Projective tests are not used anymore.

A  EEG.

B  PET scan.

C  CAT scan.

D  MRI.

A  exorcism.

B  couvade.

C  shaman.

D  trephination.

A  cognitive

B  behavioral

C  psychodynamic

D  humanistic-existential

A  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

B  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

C  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

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

A  legalist.

B  practitioner.

C  mentalist.

D  scientist.

A  conditioned stimulus.

B  conditioned response.

C  unconditioned response.

D  unconditioned stimulus.

A  sociocultural

B  cognitive-cultural

C  biocultural

D  psychocultural

A  choose the last 10 who leave the classroom.

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