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1. A prolonged or recurring problem which interferes with a person’s ability to live a satisfying life & function in society is called:

insanity
a neurosis
a diagnosis
a mental disorder

2. Which one of the following is not a way of defining abnormal behavior?

statistical frequency approach
slips of the tongue approach
maladaptive behavior approach
deviation from social norms approach

3. Which way of defining abnormal behavior is most likely to change as society changes over time?

social norms approach
statistical frequency approach
maladaptive behavior approach
cognitive-behavioral approach

4. The most commonly used method to assess abnormal behavior is the:

personality test
clinical interview
Rorschach inkblot test
neurological examination

5.  DSM-V is to psychotherapy as:

•  drugs are to depression
 •  diagnosis is to treatment
  •  free association is to psychoanalysis
   •  environmental stress is to abnormality

6. What do clinicians have that increases the reliability and validity of clinical diagnosis?

The Handbook to Clinical Diagnosis - VI
computer programs that actually make the diagnoses
Freud’s original writings that are available to review
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

7.  Which of the following is a sufficient criterion for judging behavioral abnormality?

•  The behavior is not common statistically
 •  The behavior goes against social norms.
  • The behavior causes subjective discomfort.
   •  The behavior causes an inability to function from day to day.
    •   The behavior causes emotional distress.

8.  Which type of schizophrenia is associated with frequent hallucinations, inappropriate affect, and disorganization in speech?

•  Catatonic
 •  Paranoid
  •  Disorganized
   •  Undifferentiated
    •   Residual

9. Data indicate that the most common mental disorder(s) was (were):

mood disorders
substance abuse
personality disorders
psychosexual disorders

11.  Agoraphobia is a fear of

•  snakes.
 •  heights.
  •  enclosed spaces.
   •  being in a situation where escape may be difficult or embarrassing.

12. A mental disorder that involves persistent, recurring thoughts, images, or impulses and senseless behaviors or rituals is called:

agoraphobia
organic thought disorder
somatization disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

13. Obsession is to compulsion as:

desire is to need
control is to chaos
thought is to behavior
wanted is to unwanted

14. The key feature of somatoform disorder is:

pretending to be sick to avoid school or work
real physical symptoms but no physical causes
psychological problems but no physical symptoms
imagining physical symptoms that aren’t really there

15. A neurological reason for violent impulses in adolescents is a(n):

wiring defect in the thalamus
immature prefrontal cortex
underdevelopment hypothalamus
wiring defect in the temporal lobe

16. Which of the following is not typical of cognitive-behavior programs designed to treat social phobias?

the person learns new social skills
explaining that social phobias are learned
having the person imagine being in the feared situation
focusing on how other people cope with the feared situation

17. The legal definition of insanity is:

having a diagnosed mental disorder
not knowing the difference between right and wrong
the inability to remember the crime which was perpetrated
having a problem which interferes with the ability to function in society

18. A neurological explanation for social phobia is a problem in the:

amygdala
corpus callosum
person’s cognitive processes
way the person handles stress

19. Personality tests include which two types of tests?

clinical and social
objective and clinical
objective and projective
self-report and projective

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General Psychology Robert C. Gates