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Exam 1 Abnormal Psychology TR8

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: B
set boundaries for our development
2. ANS: C
sympathetic; somatic
3. ANS: B
reciprocal gene-environment model
4. ANS: B
prevalence, incidence
5. ANS: B
polygenic
6. ANS: A
prepared learning
7. ANS: C
Anxiety; fear
8. ANS: B
EMVR
9. ANS: B
decreased startle response and chronic underarousal
10. ANS: B
psychoanalytic
11. ANS: C
agonists
12. ANS: A
testability
13. ANS: D
diagnosis
14. ANS: B
thought-action fusion
15. ANS: D
prototypical
16. ANS: D
acute; chronic
17. ANS: A
longitudinal and cross-sectional
18. ANS: C
diathesis-stress
19. ANS: C
syphilis
20. ANS: A
aggression, suicide and impulsive behavior

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21. ANS: D
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
22. ANS: A
dopamine
23. ANS: D
increased anxiety
24. ANS: A
what areas need to be more thouroughly assessed
25. ANS: C
educated guess
26. ANS: D
is expected to be changed or influenced in the study
27. ANS: B
the extent to which the results in a study can be explained by the independent variable
28. ANS: A
learned helplessness
29. ANS: C
have a brain dysfunction
30. ANS: D
hot-tempered

MATCHING

1. d Axis I Clinical Disorders

2. a Axis II Personality disorders and MR
3. c Axis III Medical Conditions
4. e Axis IV Psychosocial and environmental factors
5. b Axis V Global Assessment of Functioning (0-100)

COMPLETION

1. ANS:
Psychological dysfunction
An atypical or not culturally expected response
Personal distress or impairment
2. ANS:
Obsessions are intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that the individual
resists or attempts to eliminate
Compulsions are thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief. Can be
behavioral or mental

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3. ANS:
Areas covered by the Mental Status Exam
Appearance and Behavior
Overt Behavior
Dress
Posture and facial expression
Motor activity

Mood and Affect

Depressed mood
Inappropriate Affect
Flat
Blunted

Intellectual Functioning
Vocabulary
Abstractions
Metaphors
Memory

Sensorium
Orientation x 3

Thought Process
Speech rate and pattern
Logical continuity
Delusions (persecution, grandeur, and/or ideas of reference)
Hallucinations (most commonly auditory)

SHORT ANSWER

1. ANS:
Mice, rats, or furry creatures
2. ANS:
Prognosis
3. ANS:
Brad Pitt
4. ANS:
That somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (fictional, from a Gary Larson cartoon published in The
Far Side Gallery, 4).
5. ANS:
Marketplace
6. ANS:
Hypothyroidism