Psyc 435 Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What makes defining abnormality There is no one behavior that serves to make
difficult? someone abnormal.
3 multiple choice options
What mental disorder in adults in Anxiety disorder
the United States has the highest 3 multiple choice options
one-year prevalence rate?
Describing a disorder as acute it is a disorder that is short in duration
means that ______. 3 multiple choice options
What is the term for the statistical Meta-analysis
approach that calculates and then 2 multiple choice options
combines the effect sizes from
multiple studies?
A major scientific problem with the difficulty of generalizing to the naturally
analogue studies is ___ _. occurring phenomenon
3 multiple choice options
Who is considered the father of Hippocrates
modern medicine, and shifted the 3 multiple choice options
view of the origins of mental
disorder from supernatural forces
to problems in the human body?
,Shackling and chaining a patient to the early asylums in Europe; the hospitals run by
a wall with little food or heat would Philippe Pinel
be most typical of _____ , while 3 multiple choice options
humanitarian treatment would be
most typical of _____ _.
In the early nineteenth century, alienists
psychiatrists were referred to as 3 multiple choice options
______ and held a relatively
inconsequential role in the care of
the insane and the management of
asylums.
Which of the following is The discovery of the cause of, and later a cure
recognized as a major biomedical for, general paresis (syphilis of the brain)
breakthrough in psychopathology 3 multiple choice options
because it established the link
between mental and physical
illnesses?
Lightner Witmer is credited with being the founder of clinical psychology
__________. 3 multiple choice options
Suppose that the presence of a A person with this gene may or may not become
particular gene is a necessary schizophrenic.
cause for the occurrence of 3 multiple choice options
schizophrenia. Which of the
following statements would be
true?
, Active, happy babies and passive, Evocative
unresponsive babies tend to be
treated differently. In other words,
an infant's temperament phenotype
may alter how others respond to
him or her. What type of genotype-
environment correlation is this an
example of?
The site of communication between synapse
two neurons is the ____ _. 3 multiple choice options
Finding meaning in life, honoring Existential
uniqueness, and dealing with 3 multiple choice options
nothingness form core values of
which of the following
perspectives?
Cross-cultural research on stress responses to stress vary cross-culturally
demonstrates that ____ _. 2 multiple choice options
Down syndrome has been linked to possessing an extra chromosome in chromosome
__________ 21
3 multiple choice options
The additive model of the diathesis- people with a very high level of a diathesis may
stress theory proposes that __________ need a very large amount of stress to develop
the disorder
3 multiple choice options
CORRECT Answers
What makes defining abnormality There is no one behavior that serves to make
difficult? someone abnormal.
3 multiple choice options
What mental disorder in adults in Anxiety disorder
the United States has the highest 3 multiple choice options
one-year prevalence rate?
Describing a disorder as acute it is a disorder that is short in duration
means that ______. 3 multiple choice options
What is the term for the statistical Meta-analysis
approach that calculates and then 2 multiple choice options
combines the effect sizes from
multiple studies?
A major scientific problem with the difficulty of generalizing to the naturally
analogue studies is ___ _. occurring phenomenon
3 multiple choice options
Who is considered the father of Hippocrates
modern medicine, and shifted the 3 multiple choice options
view of the origins of mental
disorder from supernatural forces
to problems in the human body?
,Shackling and chaining a patient to the early asylums in Europe; the hospitals run by
a wall with little food or heat would Philippe Pinel
be most typical of _____ , while 3 multiple choice options
humanitarian treatment would be
most typical of _____ _.
In the early nineteenth century, alienists
psychiatrists were referred to as 3 multiple choice options
______ and held a relatively
inconsequential role in the care of
the insane and the management of
asylums.
Which of the following is The discovery of the cause of, and later a cure
recognized as a major biomedical for, general paresis (syphilis of the brain)
breakthrough in psychopathology 3 multiple choice options
because it established the link
between mental and physical
illnesses?
Lightner Witmer is credited with being the founder of clinical psychology
__________. 3 multiple choice options
Suppose that the presence of a A person with this gene may or may not become
particular gene is a necessary schizophrenic.
cause for the occurrence of 3 multiple choice options
schizophrenia. Which of the
following statements would be
true?
, Active, happy babies and passive, Evocative
unresponsive babies tend to be
treated differently. In other words,
an infant's temperament phenotype
may alter how others respond to
him or her. What type of genotype-
environment correlation is this an
example of?
The site of communication between synapse
two neurons is the ____ _. 3 multiple choice options
Finding meaning in life, honoring Existential
uniqueness, and dealing with 3 multiple choice options
nothingness form core values of
which of the following
perspectives?
Cross-cultural research on stress responses to stress vary cross-culturally
demonstrates that ____ _. 2 multiple choice options
Down syndrome has been linked to possessing an extra chromosome in chromosome
__________ 21
3 multiple choice options
The additive model of the diathesis- people with a very high level of a diathesis may
stress theory proposes that __________ need a very large amount of stress to develop
the disorder
3 multiple choice options
