Abnormal Psych 3321 Quizzes 4-6

If a clinician focused on where a person placed a drawing on a page, the size of the drawing, and the parts omitted, the person MOST likely took which test?

Draw-a-Person

Which test is NOT a projective test?

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Which statement provides the MOST persuasive argument against a psychodynamic explanation for dissociative identity disorder?

Most abused children do not develop the disorder.

Imagine that you just had a "close call" while driving, but now you feel your body returning to normal. Which part of your nervous system is controlling this return to normalcy?

Parasympathetic nervous system

Avery, a 28-year-old woman, tells her therapist that she has an intense fear of snakes. She says she has been afraid of snakes since she was a child. Which additional criterion would suggest that Avery meets the diagnostic criteria for a specific phobia?

Refusal to go to certain places where she believes snakes could be present, such as the lake

Which of the following is NOT true regarding specific phobias?

Repeated exposure to the object causes a gradual fear response.

Which characteristic is MOST common to both self-hypnosis and dissociative identity disorder?

The ability to escape threatening events

Which is NOT a component of social anxiety disorder, according to research by cognitive theorists?

Underestimating how badly a social event actually went

The MOST common mental disorders in the United States are:

anxiety disorders.

Researchers believe that panic disorder is biologically different from generalized anxiety disorder, based on differences in the:

brain circuitry involved in the two disorders.

When he was 5 years old, Sunil was almost struck by lightning while walking through a forest during a rainstorm. Today, he is extremely afraid of trees. A behaviorist would say that he has acquired this fear by:

classical conditioning.

"Everyone has intrusive and unwanted thoughts. Most people ignore them. But some people blame themselves and expect terrible consequences, so they act in ways they hope will neutralize the thoughts." The type of theorist who be MOST likely to agree with this position would be a:

cognitive-behavioral theorist.

A client with autism is being simultaneously treated by a psychiatrist and a psychologist. This represents a:

combined approach.

One factor that could discourage the use of effective assessment tools today is the:

expense of administering and evaluating assessment tools.

Fear differs from anxiety in that:

fear is a response to a specific threat, whereas anxiety is more general

An interviewer who asks a client questions such as "Where are you now?", "Why do you think you're here?", or even "Who are you?" is probably conducting a(n):

mental status exam.

Drew is terrified of the snakes that his 8-year-old son brings home as pets. During his therapy, his therapist demonstrated how to handle them. This is a form of therapy based on:

modeling.

Alexis has dissociative identity disorder. When one of her personalities, Jodi, is asked about another one, Tom, she claims ignorance. Tom has never heard of Jodi, either. This is called a:

mutually amnesic relationship.

The assessment instrument MOST likely to be used to detect subtle brain abnormalities is the:

neuropsychological test.

Persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that seem to invade a person's consciousness are called:

obsessions.

Combat veterans in a therapy group express a great deal of guilt and rage. MOST likely, the veterans are in a(n):

rap group.

When someone is watching, Isabella eats fewer sweets than usual. This tendency to decrease a behavior while being observed is an example of:

reactivity.

If a clinician wanted to know more detailed information about a person's functioning in a specific area, the clinician would use a:

response inventory.

If the idea of preparedness is accurate, then:

some phobias should be acquired more easily than others.

The statement, "This is awful, but I guess I can deal with it like I do everything else," represents one person's:

stress response.

In response to a threat, we perspire, breathe more quickly, get goose bumps, and feel nauseated. These responses are controlled by the:

sympathetic nervous system.

One particular strength of the clinical interview process is:

the chance to get a general sense of the client.

When clinicians assign a diagnosis, they are saying that the pattern is basically the same as one that has been displayed by many other people. This is MOST important because it means:

the clinician can better predict which treatments will be effective.

For an antidepressant to be effective against obsessive-compulsive disorder, it must:

increase serotonin activity.

When all of the subpersonalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder are aware of one another, it is termed a:

mutually cognizant pattern.

Juanita has dissociative identity disorder. Big Tony and Smart Alice are two personalities who are aware of all of the others. None of her other personalities is aware of the others. This would be called a:

one-way amnesic relationship.

According to cognitive-behavioral theorists, why do patients engage in compulsive behaviors?

Those behaviors reduce anxiety and are thus negatively reinforced.

People with an anxiety disorder are MOST likely to experience:

a second anxiety disorder.

Just before 8 A.M. (when my first class meets), my young daughter did something that annoyed me as I was about to leave home for the short drive to campus. "Katie," I said, "what do I always say at a time like this?" She looked at the clock, and then said to me, "What you say is, 'Where are my keys?'" My daughter was apparently familiar with my:

absentmindedness.

The first step in treating people with dissociative identity disorder is to:

bond with the primary personality.

Max experienced a dissociative fugue for two weeks. Upon "waking" from this state, a common immediate reaction is:

confusion.

Carly has posttraumatic stress disorder but refuses to talk about it. She is:

experiencing avoidance.

A person wonders, "How likely am I to qualify for a DSM diagnosis in my lifetime?" Assuming this person is "typical," the MOST accurate answer (based on survey results) would be:

"Likely; almost half of all people will at some point qualify for a DSM diagnosis."

A person says, "I've been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, and my therapist wants me to use drug therapy, not psychological therapy. I don't know which to choose." Based on current research, the BEST answer would be:

"Some therapists think psychological therapy should always be used, even with drug therapy; there's less chance of relapse."

The type of clinical interviewer who would be MOST interested in stimuli that trigger abnormal responses, the resultant consequences, and the client's assumptions and interpretation would have which orientation?

Cognitive-behavioral

Which group emphasizes the beliefs and expectations that lead someone with a social anxiety disorder to overestimate how bad a social interaction went?

Cognitive-behavioral theorists

In the treatment of dissociative amnesia, sodium amobarbital and sodium pentobarbital work by:

freeing people from their inhibitions, thus allowing them to recall unpleasant events.

People with which dissociative disorder typically do not eventually recover without receiving treatment?

Dissociative identity disorder

Dylan is suffering from arachnophobia. His therapist first has him go through relaxation training, and then has him construct a fear hierarchy. Finally, the therapist has Dylan go through a phase of graded pairings of spiders and relaxation responses. This approach is called:

systematic desensitization.

A friend asks you, "What's the name of that Tom Hanks' movie where a pirate takes over his ship and says, 'I'm the captain now'?" You remember the movie and know you know the title, but you can't think of it in the moment. This is an example of:

the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.