Psych Study Guide Questions

A(n) _______________ is a persistent, unwanted thought.

Select one:
a. obsession
b. compulsion
c. hallucination
d. delusion

13. Match each method or concept with the therapy associatedwith it: (behavioral, Existential, Humanistic, or CognitiveTherapy)

a. systematic desensitization

b. facing the fear of death

c. reappraisal of thoughts

d. exposure to feared situation

e. unconditional positive regard

f. avoidance of “catastrophizing”

14. Which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia would NOTbe relieved by antipsychotic drugs?

Select one:
a. emotional flatness
b. delusions
c. agitation
d. the duration of schizophrenic episodes

15. The _______________ school of therapy has, as one of itsprimary goals, modification of irrational or invalidatedbeliefs.

  

Select one:
a. behavioral
b. humanist
c. cognitive
d. psychoanalytic

16. Since the early 1900s, the mental-health world hasalternated between viewing mental disorders as diseases that can betreated medically and as emotional problems that can be treatedpsychologically

Select one:
True
False

18. Rational-emotive behavior therapy emphasizes the client’sfree will to change.

Select one:
True
False

19. If a person is prescribed lithium carbonate, it is mostlikely that she has been diagnosed as suffering fromobsessive-compulsive disorder.

Select one:
True
False

20. A psychodynamic therapist would terminate therapy if aclient reported that she had fallen in love with him.

Select one:
True
False

21. Sheldon is asked to report what he sees in an ambiguouspicture. It is evident that Sheldon is being given:

Select one:
a. the MMPI
b. the Beck Depression Inventory.
c. the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale.
d. the Rorschach Inkblot Test

25. The narcissistic personality disorder received its name dueto its similarity to the Greek myth of Narcissus, a young man:

  

Select one:
a. who trembled with an irrational fear at the sound ofthunder
b. who experienced half-insane tempests of emotion.
c. who felt pervasive and irrational jealousy
d. who fell in love with his own reflection

26. Psychologists consider the terms “abnormal behavior” and“mental disorder” to be synonyms.

Select one:
True
False

28. Insanity is a legal term that is used neither bypsychologists nor by psychiatrists in research or diagnosis.

Select one:
True
False

29. Episodes of posttraumatic stress disorder may recur formonths, years, or even decades.

Select one:
True
False

30. Although panic attacks seem to occur out of nowhere, they infact usually occur in the aftermath of stress, prolonged emotion,specific worries, or frightening experiences

Select one:
True
False

31. Most suicides occur during an acute crisis, on impulse;after the person gets through the crisis, the desire to livereturns.

Select one:
True
False

32. The biological model of drug/alcohol addiction emphasizesthat addiction is due primarily to a person’s biochemistry,metabolism, and genetic predisposition.

Select one:
True
False