Abnormal Psych. Final Study Set

Which statement is MOST accurate regarding cannabis in the United States?

Cannabis was introduced into the United States about 100 years ago and was first used for medical purposes

Nations that pioneered "normalization" in the treatment of intellectual disability include:

Denmark and Sweden

A friend of yours has done some heavy drinking and asks you what to do to "sober up" as quickly as possible. Your BEST answer would be:

Stop drinking

I just received a DSM-5 diagnosis of Internet use disorder," a friend says. "What do you think?" Your MOST accurate reply would be:

That's not possible. The disorder is not in the DSM-5

What is a common reason for the hospitalization of people with borderline personality disorder?

They may attempt suicide or otherwise hurt themselves.

An individual goes to a casino two weekends every year. While there, he usually loses several thousand dollars gambling. In between casino visits, he neither gambles nor thinks much about gambling. Which statement is the MOST accurate assessment of this behavior?

This behavior is not a gambling disorder.

Which would MOST likely be treated with masturbatory satiation

a fetish

The specific symptoms associated with dyslexia include

an impairment of the ability to recognize words and to comprehend what is being read.

An antiandrogen would be MOST appropriate if a paraphilic disorder is caused by

an inappropriate sex drive.

An adult has been jailed for the third time for fraud; each time it has been for persuading investors to put money into a phony silver mine. If the adult has received a DSM-5

antisocial personality disorder or a substance-related disorder.

Which would a phrenologist MOST likely have done?

assessed personality by feeling for bumps and indentations on the head

If a pregnant woman wishes to avoid having a child with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), what should she do?

avoid drinking alcohol, since no safe level of drinking while pregnant has been established

If a person primarily fears close social relationships, one would MOST likely conclude that the person is experiencing:

avoidant personality disorder

Why is the risk of transmitting AIDS an important factor for heroin users

because heroin users often share needles that can be infected

A child awakens suddenly to the sound of a bell and heads for the bathroom. MOST likely the child is receiving

behavioral therapy for enuresis.

The purpose of an antagonist drug is to

block or change the effect of an addictive drug.

Alcoholics Anonymous supports the belief that alcoholics should:

cease drinking entirely.

"Be loyal to your family" was what the child heard all the time, along with "You shouldn't— and can't—do it on your own, so don't even try." A behaviorist would say this kind of upbringing would be MOST likely to produce which of the personality disorders in the child, when he or she reached adulthood?

dependent

Intelligence test results should not be the only things used to determine intellectual disability, because intelligence test scores:

don't indicate level of adaptive behavior

Childhood disorders for which there are no similar adult disorders are called

elimination disorders

A normal healthy man experiences

erections during REM sleep.

In males, the penis becomes erect during which phase of the sexual response cycle?

excitement

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can damage the developing embryo and fetus, resulting in:

fetal alcohol syndrome.

The LEAST effective way to deal with conduct disorder is

having children live in juvenile training centers

During his first night in the detoxification unit, Quent developed what seemed like a case of the flu. He ached all over and had diarrhea. He was probably withdrawing from:

heroin

"Beatlemania" gripped the United States in the 1960s when the British rock group The Beatles performed; adoring fans screamed, sometimes fainted, and shouted exaggerated, emotional praise at the group. These behaviors MOST closely resemble the characteristics of:

histrionic personality disorder.

Detoxification procedures may involve any of the following EXCEPT

initially increasing the substance dose to make the substance aversive.

In poor inner-city neighborhoods, children sometimes eat paint that is flaking off walls. This can sometimes lead to intellectual disability due to:

lead poisoning

Imagine that I just stubbed my toe and cried "Ouch." A child with autism spectrum disorder, when asked if I was hurt, said, "No," because she wasn't hurt. This inability to take the perspective of another is referred to as:

mind-blindness

Ty is fairly handsome but not as handsome as he thinks he is. He doesn't care about anyone but himself and is sure that everyone around him feels the same way. He is MOST likely experiencing:

narcissistic personality disorder.

A group of diagnostic clinicians can't agree with each other on appropriate personality disorder diagnoses for several clients. In fact, it is obvious that, in many cases, they have inaccurately made their diagnoses. Assuming they are competent clinicians, this situation would indicate the DSM-5 categories for personality disorder are:

neither reliable nor valid.

A child will not obey her mother. When threatened with punishment, she swears, throws things, and threatens to break everything in the house. Her outbreaks seem to be restricted to her parents, but she is almost completely unmanageable. This is an example of:

oppositional defiant disorder

That kid is pleasant enough, but will lie about practically anything, even things that don't seem to matter much." This behavior MOST closely fits which pattern of conduct disorder?

overt-nondestructive

A person who becomes sexually aroused in the presence of stimuli most people in that person's society would not think appropriate is experiencing

paraphilia

The set of uniquely expressed characteristics that influence behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and interactions that is unique to each individual is termed:

personality

The consistencies of one's characteristics are called:

personality traits.

The categorical approach to personality disorders assumes that:

problematic personality traits are either present or absent.

Group therapy is particularly useful in the treatment of avoidant personality disorder, mainly because group therapy:

provides practice in social interactions.

The technique of having a client with pedophilia identify situations in which he performs inappropriate behavior and then teaching him more appropriate coping strategies is called

relapse-prevention training

Which is NOT the name used for a cluster of personality disorders?

schizophrenic

A child does almost everything with her mother and seems extremely anxious at school, getting frequent stomachaches and wanting to go home. If the child has an anxiety disorder, it is MOST likely:

separation anxiety disorder.

From a psychological perspective, early ejaculation is usually the result of:

sexual inexperience

Cocaine and amphetamines produce:

similar behavioral effects and similar emotional effects

A woman is perfectly capable of masturbating to orgasm, yet is unable to reach orgasm with a partner, either through sexual intercourse or through the partner's manual stimulation of her. MOST likely, this type of orgasmic disorder would be called

situational

Researchers have found that substance use disorders are more common among some religious groups than others and generally are more common among some groups than among others. Together, these findings provide the MOST support for which view of substance use disorders?

sociocultural

Who is MOST likely to receive phalloplasty

someone experiencing gender dysphoria

Probably the WORST thing one who has "partied hard" with alcohol could do right after drinking would be to:

take some barbiturates to fall asleep.

Currently, the "Big-Five" approach to personality disorders is:

the recipient of recognition, with a great amount of research being done on it.

The term "sensate focus" refers to the technique in which:

the sexual relationship is rebuilt, concentrating on pleasure

The main concern over the rise in diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and, in particular, the treatment of bipolar disorder in children is:

the use of adult medications.

The strong relationship between antisocial personality disorder and substance abuse means that:

there are high rates of substance abuse among those with antisocial personality disorder.

Women tolerate alcohol LESS well than men because

they have less of a stomach enzyme that breaks down alcohol

Mendon began by taking one amphetamine a day to control his appetite. After a month or so, the one pill did not work as well but two pills did. This is an example of:

tolerance.

"Cross-dressing" is another term for

transvestic disorder

The most common of the identified chromosomal causes of Down syndrome is

trisomy 21

Which has mild intellectual disability NOT been linked to?

unstimulating environment parental divorce

Which is NOT a treatment for female orgasmic disorder

use of the squeeze technique

A woman who is inserting dilators into her vagina in a nondemand manner is probably being treated for

vaginismus

In looking for a biological cause of an erectile disorder, one would MOST productively look for a

vascular problem.

A client receives directed masturbation training and self-exploration instruction as part of the client's sex therapy. MOST likely, the client is a:

woman being treated for orgasmic disorder