test 3 Flashcards
A clinician has developed a new assessment tool. Clients write stories about their problems, and then two different judges independently evaluate the stories in terms of how logically they were written. For this assessment technique to be useful, there must be:
high interrater reliability
According to Emile Durkheim, suicides by people over whom society has little or no control and who are not concerned with the norms and rules of society are called:
egoistic suicides
which is NOT a consequence of anorexia nervosa?
fever and high blood pressure
When would religious rituals and superstitious behavior (such as not stepping on cracks) be considered compulsive behaviors?
when they interfere with daily function and cause distress
Which mental disorders have been found to contribute to the greatest number of suicides?
mood disorders
The type of clinician who would be MOST likely to say, “tell me about the quality of mutual support you receive from your marriage” is a:
sociocultural clinician
Cognitive theorists have found that people who develop obsessive-compulsive disorder is also:
believe their thoughts are capable of causing harm to themselves or others
infants tend to do things that feel good. this is in accord with what freud called:
the pleasure principle
The most appropriate motto for someone with generalized anxiety disorder is:
better safe than sorry
the major advantage of a correlational study over a case study s that it:
has better external validity
An older person retires and begins experiencing health problems. Consequently, the person loses contact with old friends and becomes unpleasant to be around. A behaviorist would explain the resulting depression in terms of:
loss of positive social rewards
“I do not know why you think you are a terrible surgeon. You have not lost a patient during an operation in two years. No one else in the city has that kind of record.” which orientation is MOST likely to describe the therapist who made this statement?
Cognitive
That people with somatic symptom disorders use their symptoms to express emotions they cannot easily express otherwise reflects the:
psychodynamic view
Individuals with anorexia often show which personality characteristic?
obsessions
According to the DSM-5, all of the following are considered symptoms of a manic episode EXCEPT:
suicidal ideation
Relapse for people with bulimia and people with anorexia is MOST likely triggered by:
life stress
If a person had bulimia nervosa and engaged in frequent binges, about how many of his or her binges per week would a friend of this person expect to witness?
0
With ____, a person pays attention to the feelings, thought, and sensations that are flowing through his or her mind but do so with detachment and objectivity and, most important, without judgement.
mindfulness mediation
A group of Physical illnesses that seem to be caused or worsened by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors is called:
psychological factors affecting other medical conditions
All the treatment methods for bulimia nervosa share the immediate goal of:
assisting patients to eliminate their binge-purge patterns
A study included 60 people suffering from an ordinary headache. Twenty received aspirin, 20 received a sugar pill that looked like aspirin, and 20 got nothing at all. In 65 percent of the aspirin group, the headache disappeared. In the other two groups the “cure” rates were 35 and 5 percent, respectively. Other than the drug condition, the participants were treated identically. This study:
is an experimental study
Which is the MOST accurate biological explanation for people who gain weight after losing it?
the brain is trying to restore the person to a set weight
The first step in treating anorexia nervosa is to?
help the person start to regain the lost weight
Which is a behavioral symptom of depression?
staying in bed for hours during the day
Someone who experiences a half-dozen alterations between mild mania and major depression within a one-year time span would be classified as:
bipolar II rapid cycling
The age group MOST likely to commit suicide in the united states is:
the elderly
Lasting improvement for a person with anorexia nervosa depends on:
addressing underlying psychological problems
A women who was frequently but unpredictably beaten by her husband was finally taken to shelter by the police. While there, she did not take advantage of educational and job training opportunities. How would cognitive theorists explain her behavior?
learned helplessness
If a clinician wanted to know more detailed information about a person’s functioning in a specific area, the clinician would use:
a response inventory
People with ____ are said to be consistently angry, cynical, driven, impatient, competitive, and ambitious
type A personality style
Benzodiazepines are believed to be effective in treat generalized anxiety disorder because they mimic the effect of _____ at certain receptor sites in the brain.
serotonin
Research indicates that suicides by people with schizophrenia are in response to:
a feeling of invincibility
