Abnormal Psychology 16th Edition By Butcher -
Hooley Mineka -Test Bank (Chapter 1-17)
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,Content
Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An Overview
Chapter 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior
Chapter 3: Causal Factors and Viewpoints
Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
Chapter 5: Stress and Physical and Mental Health
Chapter 6: Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions, and Their Disorders
Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
Chapter 8: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Obesity
Chapter 10: Personality Disorders
Chapter 11: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 12: Sexual Variants, Abuse, and Dysfunctions
Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 16: Therapy
Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology
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, Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An Overview
Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An OverviewDifficulty:Error! Bookmark not
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Question ID: 1.1 3
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Multiple-Choice Questions
1.1-1. Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a. Both Jane and her husband are alcoholic.
b. Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenic.
c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety
disorder.
d. Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse.
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Applied
Answer: c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety
disorder.
1.1-2. What does Monique’s case best illustrate?
a. Most individuals with mental disorders are violent.
b. Women are more likely to commit suicide than men.
c. Most individuals who experience a mental breakdown are clearly unwell long before
treatment is sought.
d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one's life.
Difficulty: 1
Question ID: 1.1- 2
Page Ref: 2
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Conceptual
Answer: d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one's life.
1.1-3. What does Monique’s case best illustrate?
a. Abnormal behavior usually produces more distress in others than the person who engages in
the abnormal behavior.
b. Abnormal behavior covers a wide range of behavioral disturbances.
c. Most people who suffer from abnormal behavior are quickly identified as deviant by other
people.
d. When people suffer from mental disorders, they are unable to work or live independently.
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Question ID: 1.1-3
Page Ref: 2
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Conceptual
Answer: b. Abnormal behavior covers a wide range of behavioral disturbances.
1.1-4. What makes defining abnormality difficult?
a. There are so many types of abnormal behavior that they can't be accurately described.
b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
c. Most of us are abnormal much of the time so that we cannot tell what is normal.
d. Criteria for abnormality have yet to be developed.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-4
Page Ref: 3
Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
Skill: Factual
Answer: b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
1.1-5. Which of the following is a sufficient element to determine abnormality? a. Suffering
b. Maladaptiveness
c. Deviancy
d. There is no single sufficient element.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-5
Page Ref: 3
Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
Skill: Factual
Answer: d. There is no single sufficient element.
1.1-6. The fact that body piercings are commonplace today while they would once have been viewed
as abnormal illustrates that
a. modern society is unlikely to change.
b. what is acceptable for men and women is no longer different.
c. American culture values independence.
d. the values of a society may change over time.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-6
Page Ref: 5
Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
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Hooley Mineka -Test Bank (Chapter 1-17)
1
Copyright © 2014, 2013, 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
,Content
Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An Overview
Chapter 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior
Chapter 3: Causal Factors and Viewpoints
Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
Chapter 5: Stress and Physical and Mental Health
Chapter 6: Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions, and Their Disorders
Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide
Chapter 8: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Obesity
Chapter 10: Personality Disorders
Chapter 11: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 12: Sexual Variants, Abuse, and Dysfunctions
Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 16: Therapy
Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology
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, Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An Overview
Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: An OverviewDifficulty:Error! Bookmark not
defined.
Question ID: 1.1 3
Page Ref: 3
Multiple-Choice Questions
1.1-1. Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a. Both Jane and her husband are alcoholic.
b. Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenic.
c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety
disorder.
d. Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse.
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Applied
Answer: c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety
disorder.
1.1-2. What does Monique’s case best illustrate?
a. Most individuals with mental disorders are violent.
b. Women are more likely to commit suicide than men.
c. Most individuals who experience a mental breakdown are clearly unwell long before
treatment is sought.
d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one's life.
Difficulty: 1
Question ID: 1.1- 2
Page Ref: 2
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Conceptual
Answer: d. Mental illness can have a significant impact on one's life.
1.1-3. What does Monique’s case best illustrate?
a. Abnormal behavior usually produces more distress in others than the person who engages in
the abnormal behavior.
b. Abnormal behavior covers a wide range of behavioral disturbances.
c. Most people who suffer from abnormal behavior are quickly identified as deviant by other
people.
d. When people suffer from mental disorders, they are unable to work or live independently.
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, Difficulty: 1
Question ID: 1.1-3
Page Ref: 2
Topic: Abnormal Psychology:An Overview
Skill: Conceptual
Answer: b. Abnormal behavior covers a wide range of behavioral disturbances.
1.1-4. What makes defining abnormality difficult?
a. There are so many types of abnormal behavior that they can't be accurately described.
b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
c. Most of us are abnormal much of the time so that we cannot tell what is normal.
d. Criteria for abnormality have yet to be developed.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-4
Page Ref: 3
Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
Skill: Factual
Answer: b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
1.1-5. Which of the following is a sufficient element to determine abnormality? a. Suffering
b. Maladaptiveness
c. Deviancy
d. There is no single sufficient element.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-5
Page Ref: 3
Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
Skill: Factual
Answer: d. There is no single sufficient element.
1.1-6. The fact that body piercings are commonplace today while they would once have been viewed
as abnormal illustrates that
a. modern society is unlikely to change.
b. what is acceptable for men and women is no longer different.
c. American culture values independence.
d. the values of a society may change over time.
Difficulty: 2
Question ID: 1.1-6
Page Ref: 5
Topic: What Do We Mean by Abnormality?
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