Abnormal Psychology Final

If someone asked you about the effectiveness of treatment for Alzheimer's you would have to say:

"Even the best treatments have only limited success."

All of the following are suspected causes of Alzheimer's except: 1.abnormal neurotransmitter activity. 2.bacterial infection. 3.immune system dysfunction. 4.genetic factors.

2

One study found that the risk of experiencing another manic episode in the future is about ______ times greater if a patient stops taking lithium.

28

Identical twins of persons with a bipolar disorder have approximately a _____% chance of developing bipolar disorder.

40

What does the most recent research tell us about genetic factors involved in the development of bipolar disorder?

A number of genetic abnormalities probably combine to help bring about bipolar disorder.

Your elderly grandfather is deteriorating. At first he seemed only mildly forgetful, but lately he has had trouble recalling the names of close relatives and cannot remember where he is. He used to be very loving and patient, but now he is irascible and very unpleasant at odd moments. This condition is getting worse. He is probably experiencing:

Alzheimer's disease.

Which theoretical orientation would support the finding that there is a significant relationship between positive life events and feelings of life satisfaction and happiness?

Behavioral

The form of bipolar disorder characterized by episodes of hypomania alternating with major depressive episodes is:

Bipolar II disorder

Which is a correct statement about effective treatment for bipolar disorder?

Both "psychotherapy alone is rarely helpful" and "lithium therapy alone is not always sufficient" are correct statements.

Which does NOT describe a person experiencing mania? A.getting little sleep B.seeking constant excitement C.feeling pessimistic D. euphoric joy

C

If your therapist concentrated on helping you recognize and change negative thoughts and thus improved your mood, your therapist would be using:

Cognitive Therapy

Which of the following would be at greatest risk for depression? A.an older man living alone B.an older woman living alone C.an older man in a nursing home D.an older woman in a nursing home

D

Rosa has difficulty remembering even where she is going. Maintaining friendships is difficult, and she loses her temper because she cannot remember things. Her health has been deteriorating and she is clumsier than she was three years ago. She appears to be suffering from:

Dementia

Which of these research findings provides the most direct support for Beck's cognitive theory of depression?

Depressed women make even more errors in logic when interpreting a paragraph than do nondepressed women.

______ is the most widely used biological treatment for bipolar disorder.

Lithium

An individual suffering from a neurological disorder shows no evidence of infection or poisoning, but experiences tremors, rigidity, and unsteadiness. The most probable diagnosis is:

Parkinsons

How would those who support the Alcoholics Anonymous approach to treating alcoholism respond to the cognitive-behavioral procedure called relapse-prevention training?

They would oppose relapse-prevention training because it does not require sobriety.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of substance use disorders? A.excessive reliance on a drug B. smaller doses are needed to achieve earlier effects C.excessive and chronic use of a drug D.the possibility of damage to family and social relationships

b

"Drug dependence may develop because one finds drug use rewarding when it reduces tension." Which view of substance abuse would MOST agree with this statement?

behavioral

A therapist treating a client for depression first finds out what activities the client once found pleasurable. These activities are then reintroduced into the client's daily schedule. Which type of therapy is this therapist using?

behavioral therapy

A therapist describes a client who believes her personal worth is tied to each task she performs. She draws negative conclusions from very little evidence, amplifies minor mistakes into major character flaws, and suffers from repetitive thoughts that remind her of her flaws. You conclude that the therapist holds which theoretical orientation?

cognitive

According to research studies, the success rate for interpersonal therapy is about the same as that for:

cognitive therapy

Which of the following is not an example of a biological treatment for depression?

contingency management

When a person experiences numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms and mild depressive symptoms, DSM-IV-TR assigns a diagnosis of:

cyclothymic disorder.

If you walked in on Oliver Sachs working with elderly people, you wouldn't be surprised to see them:

dancing

How long does it take to fully sober up, that is, to get all the alcohol out of your system.

depends on the metabolism of the individual

If a young person is taking a health-maintenance approach to aging, the person would be:

doing things that promote physical and mental health.

Which of the following are associated with the action of cocaine?

dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin

An individual seeking help from a geropsychologist is most likely:

elderly

Tom thinks that his poor performance in math was due to a bad teacher, but he believes that he is good in language-based subjects. He is sure that he will do better next year. This is an example of what kind of attribution.

external, specific, and unstable.

To date, research shows that anxiety among the elderly is related to:

health

If you do things during your life that promote physical and psychological well-being, you are engaging in a ________ approach to aging.

health-maintenance

A young woman believes that everything negative that happens to her is her own fault, that she ruins everything, and always will. The therapist diagnoses her as suffering from a learned helplessness-induced depression because she attirubutes negative events in her life to:

internal, global, stable factors.

If your therapist encouraged you to explore your roles in life -- how they might be changing, or how your expectations might be different from someone else's -- your therapist would mostly likely be using:

interpersonal therapy

which of the following is true about the research on the effectiveness of cognitive therapy in treating unipolar depression

it nearly eliminates depressive symptoms in 50 to 60% of the cases

A woman who was frequently but unpredictably beaten by her husband was finally taken to a shelter by the police. While there she did not take advantage of educational and job training opportunites. How would cognitive theorists explain her behavior?

learned helplessness.

There are a number of different theories which attempt to explain why there is a higher rate of depression among women than among men. According to some psychological theorists, depression is more common in women because women experience more taxing life situations, such as poverty and menial jobs, than men. This is the:

life stress theory

Which of the following symptom pairs denotes a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder?

mania and major depression

Research on the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy for substance use disorders has found it to be

not particularly effective

A therapist using free association and dream interpretation discovers that as a small child her patient had been left alone by her mother on several occasions and concludes that the patient is experiencing unipolar depression. The therapist is mostly likely from which orientation?

psychodynamic

The best evidence we have to date suggests that Alzheimer's is transmitted genetically in families that:

transmit mutations of certain protein producing genes.

What do psychodynammic therapists believe is the cause of unipolar depression?

unconcious grieving over real or imagined loss.