Final Exam Psych Interactives

Systematic desensitization pairs

anxiety-inducing stimuli with relaxation activities.

The video listed a number of mental illnesses that soccer therapy appears to currently be helping. Which of the following was NOT included?

Autism

Which social psychologist performed the famous experiment on conformity and used confederates to intentionally give the wrong answer to see if the participant would in fact, change his answer to agree with the group?

Asch

Who may benefit the most from electroconvulsive therapy?

Brad, who is contemplating suicide

Systematic desensitization is based on what theory of learning?

Classical conditioning

Which of the following would be classified as a negative symptom of schizophrenia?

Flat affect.

How are generalized anxiety disorder and phobic disorder different?

Generalized anxiety disorder involves anxiety about a large variety of things, whereas phobic disorder involves anxiety about a specific thing.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin lived in the same neighborhood.

_____ occurs when racial attitudes exist on a deeper, unconscious level.

Implicit racism

Your roommate becomes depressed after he learns that his significant other has been cheating on him. He skips class for the next week. His behavior would fall under which category of abnormal behavior?

Interferes with ability to function

Which of the following is a stereotype?

Megan believes that Tiffany (an African-American female) must be a good athlete.

Which of the following statements about Patricia (Patty) Quig's experiences with virtual therapy are false?

Patty's treatment experience consisted of going into Second Life and looking around by herself.

Which of the following conclusions was drawn from the Stanford prison experiment conducted by Zimbardo?

People are more likely to be evil when personal responsibility is removed.

____ is a negative attitude towards an individual on the basis of the individual's membership to a group, while ____ is a harmful or destructive behavior toward an individual of a group simply because he belongs to that group.

Prejudice; discrimination

Which of the following statements concerning psychiatric medications in children is FALSE?

Prescribing psychiatric medications to small children is extremely rare.

Characteristics of Anxiety Disorders

Presence of uncontrollable fears or worry Fears are disproportionate to the actual danger Fears that are disruptive to everyday life

Which therapy would be most focused on exploring childhood relationships?

Psychodynamic therapy

Thirty-year-old Samantha is married with a son and lives in Chicago. One day she wakes up in strange room with no recollection of getting there. She walks outside and sees many palm trees and has no idea what city she is in. Try as she might, she can't remember how she got there or when. Which of the following best explains what happened to Samantha?

She is suffering from dissociative amnesia.

According to Dr. Smoller, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, anxiety disorder is due to ______ systems that have kind of gone awry in the brain.

Threat- and harm-avoiding

In the animation, Carl was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Which of the following symptoms did Carl NOT exhibit?

Tics

What does social psychological research have to say about decreasing within-group prejudice?

When groups work together to achieve common goals, prejudice is decreased.

Of the following, which is the BEST example of psychotherapy?

You say aloud to a therapist everything that comes to mind

People are most likely to apply the fundamental attribution error to:

a celebrity.

A typical anxiety hierarchy for a person afraid of flying might consist of

a first step of looking at pictures of a plane in a book.

Mireille began having brief episodes of overwhelming anxiety about a year ago. She doesn't know what causes them, but she has had them in the grocery store, at busy restaurants, and once while driving. Her heart pounds, she has difficulty breathing, and sometimes she feels like her body no longer belongs to her. She is afraid she will go crazy and embarrass herself in front of other people. Based on this information, Mireille may have:

a panic disorder.

benzodiazepines

antianxiety drugs that work by binding to the receptor sites of neurotransmitters that become overactive during anxiety

Mike takes lithium to regulate his mood. This drug is most commonly used to treat:

bipolar disorder.

Which of the following is NOT true about major depression?

can include disturbances in thought, perception, affect, behavior, and communication.

Identifying irrational thoughts and challenging these thoughts is one goal of _________ therapists.

cognitive

Tyrone is supportive of same-sex marriage. However, the political candidate for whom he plans to vote opposes same-sex marriage. Tyrone is likely experiencing

cognitive dissonance.

Researchers propose that sometimes children cope with intense trauma by dissociating from the experience and developing alternative selves as protectors. This is one explanation to the cause of:

dissociative identity disorder.

antipsychotic drugs

drugs that diminish agitated behavior, reduce tension, decrease hallucinations, improve social behavior, and produce better sleep patterns

antianxiety drugs

drugs that reduce anxiety by making the individual calmer and less excitable

antidepressant drugs

drugs that regulate mood

The favoring of your own ethnic group while asserting that ethnic out-groups are worse than your own is:

ethnocentrism

You believe that your roommate didn't clean up the dirty dishes in the kitchen last night because he was exhausted after an unusually busy day at work. You are making a(n) _____ attribution.

external

Marla hears voices inside of her head that tell her do certain things (like burn down her house or drive her car into oncoming traffic). These voices are an example of

hallucinations

One of the soccer players on the video said that before he started the therapy, the world "terrified him," but playing soccer

makes you stay with the other person.

Neuroleptics

most frequently used class of antipsychotic drugs

A soldier who commits acts of violence against others because his or her superior instructed him or her to do so is an example of:

obedience

tricyclics

one of the 4 classes of antidepressant drugs that works by increasing the level of certain neurotransmitters, especially norepinephrine and serotonin

tetracyclics

one of the four classes of antidepressant drugs that enhances the levels of norepinephrine and serotonin

MAO inhibitors

one of the four classes of antidepressant drugs that works by blocking the enzyme monoamine oxidase, which breaks down norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain

SSRIs

one of the four classes of antidepressant drugs that works by interfering with the reabsorption of serotonin in the brain

Investigators for the state attorney believe that George Zimmerman ______ Trayvon Martin.

profiled

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), is most effectively used to treat:

severe depression.

Lithium

substance widely used to treat bipolar disorder

A stranger goes straight to the front of a long line waiting to speak with a customer service representative at a department store. In applying the fundamental attribution error, you would most likely think:

that stranger is a rude person.

Tom is surprised to find that not all of his friends think about affirmative action in the same way he does. Tom's surprise can be explained by:

the false consensus effect.

A danger of using stereotypes is that

they often oversimplify the world and they cause us to view people as typically group members.

For several days, Joe has been crying periodically and has had difficulty sleeping and eating. His behavior

would be difficult to categorize as normal or abnormal without knowing the cause of his behavior.