Question 1

A current authoritative scheme for classifying psychological disorders is known as the

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A)   DID.
B)   medical model.
C)   DSM-5.
D)   biopsychosocial approach.

Question 2

The discovery that psychologically disordered behavior could result from syphilis infections facilitated the credibility and acceptance of

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A)   psychoanalytic theory.
B)   the medical model.
C)   DSM-5.
D)   the social-cognitive perspective.

Question 3

Which of the following disorders most often coexists with a learning disorder or with defiant and temper-prone behavior?

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A)   panic disorder
B)   anorexia nervosa
C)   obsessive-compulsive disorder
D)   attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Question 4

Which of the following statements concerning the labeling of disordered behaviors is NOT true?

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A)   Labels interfere with effective treatment of psychological disorders.
B)   Labels promote research studies of psychological disorders.
C)   Labels may create preconceptions that bias people's perceptions.
D)   Labels may influence behavior by creating self-fulfilling prophecies.

Question 5

DSM-5 is most likely to be criticized for

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A)   attempting to explain behavior by simply labeling it.
B)   classifying an excessively broad range of human behaviors as psychologically disordered.
C)   failing to base diagnoses on observable behaviors.
D)   inhibiting scientific efforts to discover the underlying causes of psychological disorders.

Question 6

A newspaper editorialist argues that the use of DSM-5 diagnostic labels is destructively antidemocratic, because it enables an elite corps of mental health professionals to subtly control the values and lifestyles of the rest of society. First give reasons supporting this argument, then defend the continued use of diagnostic labels.

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Question 7

Evidence of environmental effects on psychological disorders is seen in the fact that certain disorders, such as ________, are universal, whereas others, such as ________, are culture-bound.

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A)   schizophrenia; depression
B)   depression; schizophrenia
C)   antisocial personality; neurosis
D)   depression; anorexia nervosa

Question 8

The view that all behavior arises from the interaction of heredity and environment is referred to as the ________ approach.

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A)   biopsychosocial
B)   psychodynamic
C)   medical
D)   conditioning

Question 9

The ability of mental health professionals to quickly communicate the characteristics of their patients' complex symptoms is most clearly facilitated by the use of

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A)   linkage analysis.
B)   diagnostic labels.
C)   the medical model.
D)   the biopsychosocial approach. B

Question 10

A fundamental problem with the diagnostic labeling of psychologically disordered behaviors is that the labels often

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A)   bias our perceptions of the labeled person.
B)   represent attempts by psychologists to explain behavior by simply naming it.
C)   interfere with effective research on the causes of these disorders.
D)   interfere with effective treatment of these disorders.

Question 11

The DSM-5 is most clearly designed to ________ psychological disorders.

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A)   explain
B)   classify
C)   cure
D)   prevent

Question 12

ADHD is diagnosed ________ often in girls than in boys. In the decade after 1987, a(n)  ________ proportion of American children have been treated for this disorder.

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A)   more; increasing
B)   less; decreasing
C)   more; decreasing
D)   less; increasing

Question 13

David Rosenham and his fellow researchers were admitted as patients into various hospitals after they falsely complained of auditory hallucinations. After hospital clinicians analyzed these patients' quite normal life histories, the

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A)   patients were typically discharged from the hospital in less than a day after admission.
B)   clinicians refused to prescribe any medications for these patients.
C)   patients actually began to experience auditory hallucinations.
D)   clinicians identified patient life history dynamics that contributed to a psychological disorder.

Question 14

Behavior is classified as disordered when it represents a significant dysfunction in

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A)   an individual's cognitions.
B)   an individual's emotions.
C)   an individual's behaviors.
D)   all of these aspects.

Question 15

Larry has difficulty organizing his daily schedule of work responsibilities. He often makes careless mistakes or fails to complete his work because he is easily distracted. Larry's behavior is most characteristic of

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A)   social anxiety disorder.
B)   attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
C)   generalized anxiety disorder.
D)   obsessive-compulsive disorder. B

Question 16

Most mental health workers today take the view that disordered behaviors

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A)   are usually genetically triggered.
B)   are organic diseases.
C)   arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
D)   are the product of learning.

Question 17

Ongoing patterns of behavior that interfere with normal day-to-day life are best characterized as

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A)   deviant.
B)   antisocial.
C)   dysfunctional.
D)   catatonic.

Question 18

The DSM-5's new diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

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A)   will clearly help parents who struggle with unstable children.
B)   will turn temper tantrums into a mental disorder.
C)   will lead to overmedication.
D)   is controversial because its effect is as yet unknown. C

Question 19

DSM-5 focuses on clinicians' reports of observable behavior in order to

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A)   facilitate the reliability of diagnoses.
B)   shorten the time it takes to make a diagnosis.
C)   avoid invading clients' psychological privacy.
D)   reduce the need for medical terminology in psychological assessments.

Question 20

Dysfunctional behaviors are maladaptive, which means that they

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A)   interfere with normal day-to-day life.
B)   are socially unacceptable.
C)   differ from those of most other people in your culture.
D)   can result only from genetic changes.

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