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1.	The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) studyrevealed that psychological disorders are:
	rampant in Asian countries. more prevalent than people believe. virtually nonexistent. less prevalent than many people believe.

2.	Many factors contribute to why people in need of mental healthtreatment do not receive it. Of the following, which is NOT one ofthese factors?
	lack of insurance living in a city living in a rural area fear of being stigmatized

3.	Which of the following was classified as a psychologicaldisorder in earlier editions of the DSM but has since beenremoved?
	attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder homosexuality conduct disorder autism spectrum disorder

4.	Your sister, who has recently suffered from anxiety, now tellsyou that she is afraid of having a panic attack when she is out inpublic. As a result, she is having trouble leaving her apartment.She is likely suffering from:
	anemophobia. amathophobia. bibliophobia. agoraphobia.

5.	A person who feels uncomfortable around dogs can be consideredto have a _____, whereas a person who suffers a panic attack in thepresence of a dog can be said to have a _____.
	phobia; specific phobia specific phobia; social anxiety disorder specific phobia; phobia agoraphobia; phobia

6.

Your friend Tom knows that you are taking a psychology class,so over lunch one day he tells you of a \"bad habit\" he has that haspersisted for a couple of years. He says that when he gets dressedin the morning he puts on and takes off his pants at least ahundred times, because each time he puts one leg into the pants,the other leg needs to be \"evened out.\" This behavior pattern hascaused him to be late for classes and work, as well as to cause himoverall distress. You suspect Tom is suffering from _____disorder.

obsessive-compulsive rechecking generalized anxiety posttraumatic stress

7.	Two _____ symptoms of major depressive disorder arehelplessness and worthlessness.
	cognitive physical emotional behavioral

8.	One of the best predictors of the onset of an episode of majordepressive disorder is exposure to:
	a stressful event. an intensely happy event. poor television programming. a seizure.

9.	Miley is 5'9\" and weighs 120 pounds, way under the weight sheshould be for her height. Few of her clothes fit her because shehas lost so much weight recently. But, when she looks in themirror, she sees an overweight person. Of the four key featuresinvolved in anorexia nervosa, Miley is experiencing:
	the fear of having a panic attack if she eats. a fear of purging any consumed food. acceptance of her weight loss. a distorted perception about the size of her body.

10.	As compared to women, men are _____ likely to suffer from aneating disorder.
	much more slightly less equally much less

11.	Physiologically, the effects of anorexia are similar to theeffects of starvation: basal metabolic rates _____, and bloodlevels of glucose, insulin, and leptin _____.
	decrease; increase increase; increase increase; decrease decrease; decrease

12.

You incidentally notice a lot of chocolate bar wrappers hiddenin the wastebasket in your dorm room. You also notice that yourroommate has been spending a lot of time in the bathroom lately.The sound of her vomiting a lot makes you concerned that she mightbe sick. When you ask the school nurse about your roommate'sbehavior, the nurse recommends that you ask her to come in andspeak with her (the nurse) because she may be suffering from:

anorexia nervosa. bipolar disorder. bulimia anorexia. bulimia nervosa.

13.	Inflexible and maladaptive personality traits consistent acrossa broad range of situations characterize a(n) _____ disorder.
	personality mood anxiety eating

14.	The pattern of behavior typically associated with antisocialpersonality disorder is often found in children in the formof:
	hyper-intelligence. conduct disorder. attention-deficit disorder. shyness.

15.	One of the features MOST commonly found in borderlinepersonality disorder is:
	pathological jealousy. angry, intense outbursts. extreme social inhibition. harming animals.

16.	A dissociative disorder is differentiated from a dissociativeexperience in that dissociative disorder experiences are:
	offer greater clarity about the person's spirituality. more extreme and disrupt functioning. less extreme but still disrupt functioning. more extreme but do not disrupt functioning.

17.	A person with dissociative identity disorder oftenexhibits:
	periods of compulsive hand-washing. a sudden and unexpected urge to travel away from home. visual hallucinations. two or more distinct identities.

18.	Now known as dissociative identity disorder, this disorder usedto be called:
	dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue. dissociative amnesia. multiple personality disorder. generalized anxiety disorder.

19.	The MOST common type of hallucination in schizophrenia is:
	tactile. smell/taste. auditory. visual.

20.	Based on research on aging men and the risks of their fatheringchildren who might develop schizophrenia, it has been estimatedthat new fathers in the 45 to 49 age group are _____ likely to haveoffspring susceptible to schizophrenia as other men.
	twice as three times as no more ten times as

21.	A friend of yours has been on Haldol since the age of 20 tocontrol symptoms of schizophrenia. Given what you have learned ofthis disorder from your Introductory Psychology class you suspectthat this medication is regulating the neurotransmitter _____ inher brain.
	norepinephrine GABA serotonin dopamine