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Question 28

Women attempting suicide tend to use:

Select one:

a. choking.

b. stabbing.

c. firearms.

d. drug overdose.

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Which of the following therapies assume that maladaptive behavior can result from irrational thoughts, beliefs, and ideas?

Select one:

a. Biological therapy

b. Person-centered therapy

c. Cognitive therapy

d. Behavior therapy

Question 30

Which of the following is an example of a maladaptive behavior?

Select one:

a. Washing hands upon leaving bathrooms in public places.

b. Washing hands after being in a public place.

c. Washing hands 100 times a day causing one to miss work.

d. Washing hands before eating each meal.

Question 31

What is an example of a POSITIVE symptom of schizophrenia?

Select one:

a. Loss of motivation.

b. Hallucinations.

c. Social withdrawal.

d. Flat affect.

Question 32

_________ therapy focuses on changing faulty, irrational and/or negative thinking.

Select one:

a. Cognitive

b. Biomedical

c. Behavior

d. Person-centered

Question 33

Which group has the highest suicide rate?

Select one:

a. White females between the age of 25-35

b. Hispanic males between the age of 25-35

c. White males over the age of 75

d. Hispanic females under the age of 15

Question 34

An irrational act that a person feels driven to perform repeatedly is called:

Select one:

a. a delusion.

b. an hallucination.

c. an obsession.

d. a compulsion.

Question 35

An inventory is:

Select one:

a. an observational technique called behavioral assessment.

b. used to record data from interviews or observations.

c. a paper-and-pencil test with questions about thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

d. used to probe the unconscious.

Question 36

The id is BEST described as:

Select one:

a. operates according to the reality principle.

b. practical and operates according to the reality principle.

c. operates according to the pleasure principle.

d. practical and rational.

Question 37

Joe periodically experiences brief but intense periods of anxiety and physical symptoms such as a pounding heart, dizziness, and trembling. Joe is probably suffering from:

Select one:

a. Panic disorder

b. Personality disorder.

c. Schizophrenia.

d. Frustration.

Question 38

Whenever Sherry is away from home she worries about whether she has locked her doors. She can hardly think of anything else. This is an example of:

Select one:

a. a delusion.

b. a compulsion.

c. an hallucination.

d. an obsession.

Question 39

In the last three days, Doug has become progressively more energetic and euphoric. He has been sleeping no more than an hour or two per night, but he seems to have unlimited energy. Doug is inappropriately self-confident as he veers from one grandiose idea to another in his plans to become rich and famous. Doug appears to be experiencing:

Select one:

a. rapid cycling.

b. double depression.

c. a manic episode.

d. dissociative identity disorder.

Question 40

When someone suffering from schizophrenia has a loss or deficiency in thought or behavior that are characteristic of normal functioning, these symptoms are known as:

Select one:

a. positive symptoms.

b. negative symptoms.

c. inappropriate affect.

d. hallucinations.

Question 41

Personality is defined as:

Select one:

a. unpredictable deviations that form an individuals usual pattern of behavior.

b. the common characteristics that all individuals share regardless of superficial differences.

c. a person's characterisitc patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling.

d. the degree of popularity or social approval accorded an individual.

Question 42

Mary is pessimistic, always sees the negative aspects of situations, and tends to overract to the kinds of daily annoyances that most people take in stride. According to five-factor theory, Mary is high on:

Select one:

a. agreeableness.

b. extraversion.

c. openness.

d. neuroticism

Question 43

Which of the following is an example of a social phobia?

Select one:

a. Melanie only leaves her house if one of her sisters is willing to go with her.

b. Brad has been unable to graduate from college because he is terrified of taking a required speech class.

c. Selma is so afraid of spiders that she refuses to go on picnics in the park.

d. Ellie faints whenever a doctor needs to give her an injection.

Question 44

Question text

Which of the following theorists developed the Hierarcy of Needs?

Select one:

a. Freud.

b. Maslow.

c. Bandura.

d. McCrae and Costa.

Question 45

Maria has an exaggerated sense of self importance and entitlement. She is self centered and arrogant. These symptoms indicate that Maria has _______ personality disorder.

Select one:

a. antisocial

b. paranoid

c. borderline

d. narcissistic

Question 46

The id operates according to the _______.

Select one:

a. reality principle.

b. pleasure principle.

c. superego.

d. preconscious.

Question 47

Which therapy perceives the cause of a psychological disorder to have underlying physical issues caused by structural or biochemical abnormality in the brain, genetic, or inheritance?

Select one:

a. Biomedical

b. cognitive

c. Psychoanalysis

d. behavior

Question 48

Freud believed that the few people who reach the genital stage of psychosexual development without having fixations at earlier stages can achieve the state of psychological health that he equated with the ability to:

Select one:

a. love and work.

b. work and play.

c. party and play.

d. party and love.

Question 49

Men attempting suicide tend to use ______.

Select one:

a. drug overdose.

b. jumping from high places.

c. choking.

d. firearms.

Question 50

The basic function of the DSM V is to:

Select one:

a. suggest effective treatments for various mental disorders.

b. provide a set of diagnostic categories for classifying and diagnosing mental disorders.

c. provide a clear distinction between neurosis and psychosis.

d. describe internal personality factors that are involved in mental disorders

Explanation / Answer

28) drugoverdose

29) cognitive theory

30)washing hand 10 times

31)hallucination

32 chognitive

33 A

34 obssesion

35 c

36 b is the right answer

37 oanic disorder

38 obsession

39 manic episode

40 negative symptoms

41 c

42 d

43 b

44 maslow

45 narcissistic

46 reality principle

47 c

48 d

49 b

50 b

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