General Psychology, Chaps 12 & 13
According to the biological views on the origins of psychological disorders, humans are genetically predisposed to fear stimuli that may have posed a threat to their ancestors.
True
Client-centered therapists believe in viewing the world through a client's frame of reference.
True
Hippocrates suggested that psychological disorders are caused by brain abnormalities.
True
In biofeedback training, therapists attach clients to devices that measure bodily functions such as heart rate.
True
In rational emotive behavior therapy, Albert Ellis pointed out that our beliefs about events, not just the events themselves, shape our responses to them.
True
In the context of posttraumatic stress disorder, women, who are more likely than men to ruminate about stressors, were more likely than men to report difficulty falling asleep.
True
People with borderline personality disorder show instability in their relationships, self-image, and mood and a lack of control over impulses.
True
Psychotherapy is based on research in areas such as personality, learning, motivation, and emotion.
True
Sigmund Freud believed that the content of dreams is determined by unconscious processes as well as by the events of the day.
True
The most widely used classification scheme for psychological disorders is the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Mental Disorders.
True
Experimentation is the gold standard for research in psychology.
True
Adoptee studies show that adoptive parents with anxiety disorders place their children at greater risk for anxiety and related traits as compared to biological parents.
False
Client-centered therapists focus on telling clients what to do, instead of helping them arrive at their own decisions.
False
Electroconvulsive therapy has no side effects.
False
Elevated blood pressure is a psychological symptom of anxiety disorders.
False
Fraternal twins are much more likely to both have anxiety disorder than identical twins.
False
In aversive conditioning, an aversive stimulus is paired with a painful behavior in order to increase the frequency of that behavior.
False
In generalized dissociative amnesia, people forget particular traumatic instances of their lives but not their entire lives.
False
In the context of specific phobias, acrophobia is the fear of snakes.
False
Like psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy focuses on the here and now.
False
People who develop illness anxiety disorder are not sensitive to bodily sensations and tend to disregard them.
False
Psychotherapy is used to exclusively treat people with severe psychological disorders.
False
The belief that one is in control of a panic attack heightens anxiety.
False
The loss of memory in a person with dissociative amnesia can be attributed to organic problems such as a blow to the head or alcoholic intoxication.
False
Aaron Beck's methods of cognitive therapy focus on arguing clients out of beliefs that are making them miserable and exposing them to situations they avoid because of irrational fear.
True
