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| 1. Our awareness of various mental processes such as making decisions, daydreaming, reflecting, and concentrating is called: |
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| 2. Vivid visual and auditory experiences that our minds create primarily during REM periods of sleep are called: |
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| 3. A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The therapist suggests that the “terminal” in the dream suggests an unconscious desire by the client |
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| 4. What does recent research seem to indicate about why we dream? |
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| 5. A sleep disorder characterized by breathing difficulty at night and feelings of exhaustion during the day is: |
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| 6. A sleep disorder characterized by sudden nodding off during the day and loss of muscle tone following moments of emotional excitement is: |
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| 7. When people deprived of REM sleep are finally allowed to sleep undisturbed, the amount of time they spend in REM sleep: |
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| amount of REM sleep doubles (rebound |
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| 8. The strong physical need for a substance, such as some drug, in order to avoid withdrawal is called: |
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| addiction / substance dependence |
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| 9. The phenomenon whereby higher doses of a drug are required to produce its original effects is: |
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| 10. Unpleasant physical or psychological effects that follow the discontinuance of a dependence-producing substance is: |
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| 11. Alcohol is implicated in two-thirds of what occurrences? |
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| automobile / accidents / domestic child abuse / murder |
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| 12. Addictive drugs, such as heroin, that dull the senses and induce feelings of euphoria, well-being, and relaxation are: |
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| 13. Recent research has found that the neurochemical properties of nicotine are similar to those of: |
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| 14. Reed has undergone profound behavior changes recently. He has been aggressive and violent, eats very little, and has acted paranoid. These marked changes in his behavior are probably the result of _________ abuse. |
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| 15. Some of the most common reasons that people drink are: |
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| social interaction, relaxation, coping, pressure, religious observerance |
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| 16. What are characteristics of the Crucial Phase of Alcoholism? |
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| control when and where to drink. once start to drink, they can't stop. black out. engage in regretful behavior |
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| 17. Society’s main standard for judging abnormal behavior is: |
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| 18. What does recent evidence suggest about the role of genetics in mental illness? |
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| causes problems, orderly world in which people assume responsibility for their assigned roles. EG parents, conform to prevailing mores and meet situational requirement |
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| 19. The view that people may be biologically predisposed to a mental disorder and will then tend to exhibit that disorder when particularly affected by stress is know as the _____ model of abnormal behavior. |
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| 20. A criticism of the DSM-IV is that it: |
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| reflects on political idea |
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| 21. About one in every_____ Americans suffers from some form of serious mental disorder during her or his lifetime. |
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| 22. The most common mental health problem in the United States is: |
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| substance abuse including alcohol |
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| 23. The term “affect” is used by psychologists to refer to: |
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| outward expression of emotional state |
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| 24. A disorder involving mild to moderate, and highly persistent sadness (and related symptoms), that may linger with little relief for up to two years is called: |
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| 25. A disorder in which people are sometimes inappropriately excited, hyperactive, with unlimited hopes and dreams, and are sometimes aggressive, hostile, and violent is: |
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| 26. An intense, paralyzing fear of a specific situation, object, person, or thing in the absence of any real danger is a ___________. |
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| 27. An anxiety disorder that involves multiple, intense fear of crowds, public places, and other situations that require a separation from a source of security, such as home, is _________. |
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| 28. Darcy is sitting at her desk in her office one day when she is, without warning, overcome by feelings of intense fear that she may lose control of herself. Her terror is so great that all she can do is sit at her desk shaking and crying. Nothing she w |
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| panic disorder / panic attack |
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| 29. An anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts and/or to perform senseless rituals is ___________ disorder. |
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| 30. Lynn has not slept well since the plane crash she survived three years ago. Lately she has experienced chronic anxiety and insomnia. When she does sleep, the nightmares are so frightening she usually wakes up in a cold sweat with her heart racing. Her |
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| Post traumatic stress disorder |
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| 31. If patients report blindness, deafness, paralysis, or seizures, but physicians cannot find any evidence of a physical problem or cause, they are likely to suspect ________ disorder. |
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| 32. A somatoform disorder in which a person becomes so preoccupied with his or her imagined ugliness that normal life is impossible is called _________. |
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| 33. A dissociative disorder that involves flight from home and the assumption of a new identity, with amnesia for past identity and events is called __________. |
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| 34. A dissociative disorder in which a person has several distinct personalities that emerge at different times is known as __________. |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| 35. People with _______ disorders develop inflexible and maladaptive ways of thinking and acting that are so exaggerated and rigid that they cause serious distress and social problems. |
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| 36. Amy does not have any close friends. In class she always seems lost in her own little world. She often has trouble answering questions in class, giving vague or confusing answers. She claims that she does not need any friends and prefers being alone. |
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| schizoid personality disorder |
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| 37. People who are suspicious, mistrustful, and hypersensitive to possible threats, or tricks, without any reason to be, have _________ personality disorder. |
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| 38. A personality disorder in which the person is unable to make choices on his or her own or do things independently, has deep underlying fears of being rejected, and cannot tolerate being alone is _______ personality disorder. |
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| 39. Marty is timid, anxious, and fearful of rejection. He wants to have close relationships with others but is unable to because of his fears. So, he ends up isolated and lonely. He is suffering from ____________personality disorder. |
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| 40. A male graduate student in psychology brags that his doctoral dissertation will revolutionize psychology and make him famous, but he has not been able to write it yet. He blames his academic advisor for his problems and claims that other students are |
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| 41. Heidi experiences sharp fluctuations in her self-image, her moods, and her interpersonal relationships. She acts impulsively, is promiscuous, and uses drugs. She feels uncomfortable about being alone and often manipulates people around her to control |
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| borderline personality disorder |
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| 42. John has made a career of stealing older people’s retirement money by taking advantage of their trust and selling them phony retirement investments. John explains that he has done nothing wrong; that if these people were not so greedy, they would not |
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| 43. _________ Disorders are marked by disordered communication and thoughts, inappropriate emotions and bizarre behaviors. |
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| 44. Nick was admitted to a mental institution because he claimed to be the king of an alien race that would soon return to earth to dominate humankind. He claimed to be in constant communication with these aliens and helping to plan for their return. His |
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| 45. Laurie, a 30-year-old housewife, shows a childlike disregard for the normal conventions surrounding motherhood and, although she tries very hard not to, she interacts with her husband’s friends in irrational ways. She has delusions, hallucinations, an |
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| 46. If an identical twin becomes schizophrenic, there is about a _________ percent chance that the other twin will also become schizophrenic. |
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| 47. Jason is highly distractible, often fidgety and impulsive, and constantly in motion. While Jason has been this way since infancy, it is only now that he is in school that it has become a problem. Jason’s behavior is typical of someone suffering from _ |
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| 48. Danny is a child who has always had trouble forming normal attachments to people. He never seemed to interact normally with his own parents and siblings. He cried when he was picked up, and as he grew older he did not develop normal speech. The only t |
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| 49. Therapies designed to give people better self-understanding of their feelings, motives, expectations, and actions are called _________ therapies. |
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| 50. Bringing repressed feelings to consciousness is the goal of _______ therapy. |
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| psychoanalysis / psychodynamics |
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| 51. Rogers felt that it was most important for clients to gain insight about _________. |
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| 52. Rogers felt therapists must express true acceptance for clients, no matter what they may say or do. He called this process of acceptance __________. |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| 53. Hank’s therapist asks him to engage in an imaginary conversation with is dead mother in order to resolve his feelings of sadness about her death. Hank’s therapist is probably a _________ therapist. |
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| 54. Therapeutic approaches that are based on the belief that all normal and abnormal behavior is learned, and that the objective of therapy is to teach people new, more satisfying ways of behaving are ________ therapies. |
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| 55. The method that gradually reduces a client’s fears by training the client to remain relaxed and calm in the presence of a fear-producing stimulus is _______. |
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| 56. Every time Jeanie opens here cigarette case or uses her lighter, she gets a painful electric shock. Jeanie’s friends and family have been asked no to give here any cigarettes or light any cigarettes for her, so she must use her own lighter is she want |
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| 57. Eileen goes to a therapist for help in losing weight. She and her therapist develop a contract spelling out weekly step-by-step methods to reach Eileen’s ultimate weight goal. The plan specifies rewards for reaching weekly goals and penalties for no |
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| 58. Psychotherapies that emphasize changing client’s perceptions of their life situations as a way of modifying their behavior are called: |
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| 59. A therapist challenges what she sees as her client’s irrational and self-defeating beliefs. She uses persuasion, confrontation, challenge, demands, theoretical arguments, and even homework assignments to challenge those beliefs. She is probably a ___ |
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| 60. What are the advantages of group therapy? |
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| 61. Most couple therapist concentrate on improving: |
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| 62. Bergin and Lambert’s (1978) study found that about one out of every ____ people with mental health problems improves without treatment. |
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| 63. A recent review of a Consumer Reports survey by Seligman found that: |
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| 64. Drugs that combat depression work by: |
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| 65. Electroconvulsive therapy is most often used to alleviate: |
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| 66. Perhaps the largest single obstacle to rehabilitating former mental health patients is the: |
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| social stigma attached to the mental illness |
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| 67. Estimates of the percentage of homeless people who are mentally ill range from: |
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| 68. Reducing the incidence of emotional disturbance by eliminating the conditions that cause or contribute to mental disorders and substituting conditions that foster mental well-being is called: |
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| 69. Ultimately, the best solution to providing psychotherapy to a multicultural population is to: |
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