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 relationship between race, poverty, and job opportunity.

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

A  psychoanalytic therapy.

B  humanistic therapy.

C  behavioral therapy.

D  cognitive therapy.

A  experiment.

B  correlational study.

C  analogue study.

D  quasi-experimental study.

A  clergy.

B  nobility.

C  peasants.

D  physicians.

A  can be tested in the lab.

B  cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior.

C  is not based on research.

D  does not have associated therapeutic techniques.

A  irrelevant variables

B  blind methods

C  confounds

D  controlled variables

A  1500s.

B  1200s.

C  1700s.

D  1800s.

A  antianxiety

B  antidepressant

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 are not very effective in the treatment of psychological disorders.

C  drugs cannot be combined with other forms of treatment.

D  some people do not benefit from drug treatments.

A  They developed major side effects to antidepressant drugs.

B  They are not helped by conventional treatments.

C  They can easily afford conventional treatments.

D  They prefer more natural treatments.

A  unchanging for test and control questions.

B  higher for control than test questions.

C  higher for test than control questions.

D  evenly high for test and control questions.

A  evidence-based treatment preference

B  uniformity myth

C  rapprochement movement

D  empirically supported treatment preference

A  outpatient

B  moral

C  behavioral

D  somatogenic

A  dependent

B  experimental

C  control

D  confound

A  a cognitive inventory

B  the Rorschach

C  the MMPI-2

D  an affective inventory

A  extended psychoanalytic therapy.

B  short-term psychodynamic therapy.

C  traditional psychoanalysis.

D  relational psychoanalytic therapy.

A  Projective tests are not used anymore.

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

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

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

A  CAT scan.

B  EEG.

C  PET scan.

D  MRI.

A  couvade.

B  shaman.

C  trephination.

D  exorcism.

A  humanistic-existential

B  cognitive

C  psychodynamic

D  behavioral

A  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

B  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

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

D  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

A  legalist.

B  mentalist.

C  scientist.

D  practitioner.

A  unconditioned response.

B  conditioned stimulus.

C  conditioned response.

D  unconditioned stimulus.

A  biocultural

B  psychocultural

C  cognitive-cultural

D  sociocultural

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.