Quiz 1

Question 1

The correlation between the amount of time a college student studies and the student’s height in inches is

Answer 1

zero

Question 2

The first significant supporting evidence for a biological cause of a mental disorder was the 19th century discovery that the psychotic disorder called general paresis was caused by the same bacterial microorganism that causes

Answer 2

syphilis

Question 3

The idea that psychological disorders could be classified based on their symptoms, onset, time course, and cause is attributed to

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Emil Kraepelin

Question 4

The most accurate way to think of genes is that they

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set boundaries for our development

Question 5

Psychodynamic psychotherapy differs from classical (Freudian) psychoanalysis in that it

Answer 5

focuses on social and interpersonal issues

Question 6

Determining mood and affect is an important part of the mental status exam. Although both of these terms refer to feeling states of the individual, it would be correct to say that affect is more __________________ than mood.

Answer 6

immediate

Question 7

Functions of the limbic system include control or regulation of

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emotional experiences, expressions, impulse control, and basic drives such as aggression, sex, hunger, and thirst

Question 8

An important change in the DSM versions that followed DSM-III was

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the lack of a presumed theoretical cause for each disorder

Question 9

The criterion that a particular behavior be atypical or not culturally expected is insufficient to define abnormality because

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many people behave in ways that deviate from the average, but this doesn’t mean that they have a disorder

Question 10

Single-case experimental designs are sometimes criticized because they tend to

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have lower external validity