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Prelim Examination

PSYC 411
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Lecture: 10:00 1:00 P.M. / Monday / Rm. TLA
Ramos, Israel M.
Instructor
NAME: ________________________
_____________
SECTION: ______________________

DATE:

Multiple Choice (20 Items)

1. It is the scientific study of psychological disorders
a. Abnormal psychology
c. Psychopathology
b. Psychological dysfunction
d. Clinical Description
2. It is the breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning
a. Abnormal psychology
c. Psychopathology
b. Psychological dysfunction
d. Clinical description
3. It aims to distinguish clinically significant dysfunction from common human
experience
a. Abnormal psychology
c. Psychopathology
b. Psychological dysfunction
d. Clinical description
4. It is a psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress
or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally
expected
a. Abnormal psychology
c. Psychopathology
b. Psychological disorder
d. Clinical description
5. It focuses on using either reinforcement or punishment to increase or
decrease a behavior
a. Classical conditioning
c. Prepared learning
b. Operant conditioning
d. Learned helplessness
6. The therapists project some of their own personal issues and feelings, usually
positive, onto the patient
a. Countertransference
c. Classical conditioning
b. Transference
d. Operant conditioning
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7. It is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterial microorganism

entering the brain
a. Countertransference
c. Syphilis
b. Transference
d. Delusion of grandeur
8. It is the study of origins, has to do with why a disorder begins (what causes it)
and includes biological, psychological, and social dimensions
a. Countertransference
c. Transference
b. Etiology
d. Syphilis
9. The Patients come to relate to the therapist much as they did to important
figures in their childhood resentment toward a parent
a. Countertransference
c. Etiology
b. Transference
d. Syphilis
10.It emphasized how children incorporate (introject) objects
a. Psychoanalytic theory
c. Object relations theory
b. Person-centered client theory
d. Psychosexual theory
11.It is the psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions,
maladaptive behaviors & cognitive process and contents through a number of
goal-oriented, explicit and systematic approach
a. Behavior therapy
c. Unconditional positive regards
b. Cognitive behavior therapy
d. Free association
12.It is a mental state where the individual is forced to endure aversive stimuli
on painful or unpleasant stimuli, when they have no control in certain
situation
a. Learned helplessness
c. Operant conditioning
b. Prepared learning
d. Classical conditioning
13.It is the highly prepared for learning about certain types of objects or
situations over the course of evolutions
a. Learned helplessness
c. Operant conditioning
b. Prepared learning
d. Classical conditioning
14.It is the degree to w/c a measurement is consistent
a. Standardization
c. Mental status exam
b. Validity
d. Reliability
15.It is the application of certain standards to ensure consistency across
different measurements
a. Standardization
c. Mental status exam
b. Validity
d. Reliability
16.It is interdisciplinary, eclectic, and integrative & View abnormal behavior as
multiply determined
a. Polygenic
c. One-dimensional model
b. Phenotype
d. Multidimensional model
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17.It is the composite of an organisms observable traits

a. Polygenic
c. Genotype
b. Phenotype
d. Epigentic
18.The environment influences gene development
a. Polygenic
c. Genotype
b. Phenotype
d. Epigentic
19.It means suffering
a. Logos
b. Psycho

c. Pathos
d. anno

20.It is the problems that result from abuse of drugs such as alcohol, street
drugs, or medication
a. Substance abuse disorder
c. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
b. Organic mental disorder
d. PTSD
Identification (20 Items)
1. Result from deterioration of the brain (e.g., Alzheimers disease, exposure to toxic
metals, chemicals). _______________
2. Speech disorders, phobias, hyperactivity, autism, delayed development.
__________________
3. Stimulate nervous system and may have pleasurable effects. ___________________
4. Have depressive effect on the body, causing relaxation or even unconsciousness.
________________
5. Faulty perceptions about the world (e.g., misinterpreting actions of others,
paranoid, feel they are the focus of others thoughts. ________________
6. Unable to maintain logical flow of thoughts and have difficulty in repressing
irrelevant thoughts. _______________
7. Perceptual experience without sensory input and it is primarily auditory.
_______________
8. Believed to be some kind of somatogenic pathology. _________________
9. Most common clinical assessment method. _______________
10. Methods used to assess brain structure, function, and activity of the nervous
system. ________________
11. Assignment to categories based on shared attributes or relations.
___________________
12. People with a genetic predisposition for a disorder may have genetically
influential tendencies that create environmental stress. ____________________
13. It is the little brain, major role in motor control, some cognitive functions as
language & attention. __________________
14. Location of most sensory, emotional, and cognitive processing. _______________
15. Integration of endocrine and nervous system function. ______________________
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16. Reaction is outside cultural norms. _______________

17. Marked and persistent fear of an object or situation. _______________
18. Defined as two or more disorders for the same person. ______________
19. Labels that comprise the nosology (e.g., anxiety disorders). ___________________
20. Characterized by hallucinations, bizarre perceptions, and loss of touch with
reality, illogical thoughts. __________________
Enumerations (50 Items)
Five Major Axes of DSM IV
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Purposes of Clinical assessment
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Mental Status Exam
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Influences of multidimensional models of abnormal behavior

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Nature of Genes
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Components of Emotion
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Three Dominant Traditions
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MultiModal Therapy
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Classification of deviation
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Structure and Function of Mind
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Four Bodily Fluids
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Course of Disorders
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Onset of Disorders
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