Ch 14-16 (PSY 101)

Question 1

relatives of people who have schizotypal personality disorder have an increased risk of developing __ when compared to unrelated person

Answer 1

schizophrenia

Question 2

David Koresh, leader of the ill fated branch davidians in Waco, texas, believed that he was “God’s anoited one” who would bring about the end of the world. this is a ___ decision

Answer 2

grandiose

Question 3

in which socity of schizophrenia would a person be who remains motionless for long periods of time

Answer 3

catatonic

Question 4

not a typical symptom of schizo?

Answer 4

overly rational thinking

Question 5

a mood disorder that is consistently sad mood

Answer 5

major depression

Question 6

a mood disorder consists of mostly manic episodes with only a few episodes of depression

Answer 6

bipolar

Question 7

the fact that people with dissociative identity disorder have different PET scan readouts when their in their different “person” is evidence for the ___ explanation of dissociative disorders

Answer 7

biological

Question 8

dissociative amnesia is different from retrograde amnesia because

Answer 8

dissociative is caused by psychological trauma

Question 9

when a person experieces sudden attacks of intesnse fear, racing heart, dizziness, and other physical signs of stress and refuse to go away from home for a fear that these attacks will happen again is probably caused by

Answer 9

panic disorder with agoraphobia

Question 10

when anxiey is unrelated to any known, realistic factor it is called

Answer 10

free floating anxiety

Question 11

which axis of the DSM-IV-TR would a therapist used to classify a loss of a persons job

Answer 11

IV

Question 12

which of the following is a type of sexual fear

Answer 12

Koro

Question 13

which model of abnormality talks about rewards, shaping, and imitation as ways of developing normal behavior

Answer 13

behavioral

Question 14

what was the most likely reason that ancient peoples formed trepanning on others

Answer 14

to release evil spirits that were in the person’s head

Question 15

one antidepressant drug was found to be safe and most effective in treating adolescent depression when combined with

Answer 15

psychotherapy

Question 16

before the use of electricity, seizures were induced in psychotic patients by

Answer 16

camphor

Question 17

which neurotransmitter is not one of the 3 that seem to be involved in depression and the drugs that treat depression

Answer 17

epinephrine

Question 18

the use of anti anxiety drugs to treat anxiety disorders is gradually being phased out in favor of treatment with

Answer 18

antidepressant

Question 19

when a person on an antipsychotic drug develops repetitive, involuntary jerks and movements of the face lips legs and body this is called

Answer 19

tardive dyskinesia

Question 20

not one of the problems in studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy

Answer 20

all therapies take the same amount of time to be affective

Question 21

disadvantage of group therapy

Answer 21

clients share therapists time

Question 22

not one of the three goals of cognitive-behavioral therapy

Answer 22

helping client gain insight

Question 23

therapy style that can be compared to a drill sergeant private style of therapeutic relationship

Answer 23

rational emotive behavioral

Question 24

when the exposure to a feared object is rapid and intense rather that slow and gradual it is called

Answer 24

flooding

Question 25

what kind of person would probably get the least benefit from a humanistic therapy

Answer 25

one who has a hard time putting things into words in a logical manner

Question 26

Gestalt therapy differs from person centered therapy because

Answer 26

it is directive rather than non directive

Question 27

in___, a person centered therapist must show an honest and open response to the client and not hide behind the professional role of therapist

Answer 27

authenticity

Question 28

the psychoanalyst does not start interpreting what the patient has said until __ has occurred

Answer 28

negative transference

Question 29

the actual content of a dream is the __ content, according to Freud

Answer 29

manifest

Question 30

it was ___who is most credited with the “moral treatment” movement for using kindness and guidance with the mentally ill

Answer 30

Philippe Pinel

Question 31

inferential statistics are used with researchers want to know about

Answer 31

causes of differences in data

Question 32

when the goal is to compare sets of numbers or scores to see if the differences between them are greater than chance variations researchers use

Answer 32

inferential statistics

Question 33

error in data

Answer 33

come from both between and within groups

Question 34

what approximate percent of the population is said to fall between 1 standard deviation above and 1 standard deviaton below the mean on a normal curve

Answer 34

68%

Question 35

in the normal curve

Answer 35

the mean median and mode are all on the highest point of the curve

Question 36

the normal curve has a special relationship with the

Answer 36

standard deviation

Question 37

the normal curve is a special kind of

Answer 37

frequency distribution

Question 38

in a skewed distribution the scores

Answer 38

fall to one side of the distribution

Question 39

a table that shows how often different scores appear in a set of scores is called a frequency

Answer 39

distribution

Question 40

another name for a bar graph is

Answer 40

histogram

Question 41

the correlation coefficient provides all of the following types of information except

Answer 41

the cause of the relationship between the variables

Question 42

which type of psychologist is most concerned with increasing productivity of workers by increasing morale and manipulating work shifts

Answer 42

industrial/organizational