Midterm Review: Chapters 1-3

Operant Conditioning explains behaviour through?

Family history studies reveal that the heritability of panic disorder is ________ percent.

Clinicians from ______ perspectives value projective test as tools for assessing the underlying conflicts and concerns.

Which of the following represents a perfect correlation?

Darin was a subject in a double-blind experimental study. In this study:

Primary prevention includes which of the following?

What differentiates flooding from systematic desensitization?

Preventing a person from engaging in compulsive behavior with exposure and response prevention therapy:

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of PTSD?

________ are used to identify brain abnormalities such as tumors and strokes.

Psychologist may use paper-and-pencil ________ tests to detect specific cognitive deficits.

________ refer to a set of physical and psychological responses that help us fight threats or flee from them.

Who developed an early classification system of mental disorders based on patterns of symptoms?

Which of the following hormones is often used as a measure of stress?

Ivan Pavlov's training of dogs is an example of operant conditioning.

Abnormal Trivia: What is NOT one of the 4 D's?

According to Carl Jung, experiential memories we are born with from evolutionary development are called

Which clinician must go to medical school and is able to prescribe medication?

With his BoBo doll experiment, this psychologist studied observational learning.

Trephining treated insanity, epilepsy & headaches by 

In Watson's experiment with Little Albert, the unconditioned stimulus was

The study of the frequency and distribution of a disorder, or a group of disorders in a population is known as

What was the importance of the discovery of the link between general paresis and syphilis?

In which closed community was Janice Egeland's study of psychological disorders conducted?

Almost ________ % of people with a specific phobia never seek treatment.

Which of the following is a desired outcome of exposure therapy for treating a phobia?

The art of mesmerism involves

Which of the following is a heritable risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

One of the first classification systems for psychological symptoms was developed by

PTSD is common among adults over age 65.

________ disorders last for long periods, while ________ disorders have a recent and abrupt onset of severe symptoms.

Which treatments is most effective in preventing relapse in clients with panic disorders?

Current guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders use ________ to make diagnoses.

Blood-injection-injury type phobias are likely to run in families

This perspective of abnormal behavior might relieve blame placed on an individuals with mental illness.

Which of the following statements is true about the Rorschach Inkblot Test?

In a study on the impact of religious environments on child discipline problems, which is the independent variable?

To qualify as abnormal, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings must be

An important advantage of direct behavioral observation is that:

Which of the following statements is true about the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)?

________ are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels he or she must perform.

In Japan, the term ________ describes an intense fear of interpersonal relations.

Virginia is very aware of her bodily cues that signal a panic attack. This heightened awareness is known as

In Latino cultures, chronic anxiety-like symptoms are referred to as

Which of the following is not an example of the context in which trauma might lead to PTSD?

Cross-sectional studies observe:

Case studies are an ineffective method for capturing the uniqueness of an individual's perspective and experiences.

In a mental status exam a clinician observes how coherently and quickly a client speaks primarily to assess the client's

Which of the following is a limitation of computerized tomography?

Ruth is afraid of being in large open spaces and worried she won’t be able to leave if she panics. Ruth is experiencing

___ validity is the extent to which a test yields the same results as other, established measures of the same phenomenon

Name a problem with the earlier editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?

Most Greeks and Romans saw madness as:

What is the oedipus complex?

Freud believed that psychological problems were caused by

Which of the following statements characterize people with GAD?

The author of the textbook states that psychotropic medication is one of the three elements of effective treatment.