Exam 1 Answers

ID: C

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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ID: C 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. 2. 3. 4. 5.

d a c e b

Axis I Clinical Disorders Axis II Personality disorders and MR Axis III Medical Conditions Axis IV Psychosocial and environmental factors 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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ID: C 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

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