1. Mr. Foxworth was a patient in an inpatient mental hospital for 4 years in the 1950s. In 1959, he and several other patients were released from the hospital and they began receiving outpatient services. This movement of patients from inpatient mental hospitals to outpatient care was called
A) doinstitutionalization
B) involuntary psychotherapy
C) psychotherapeutic transference
D) tardivc dyskcnesia
2. Scan is five and has a strong attachment to his mother. According to Freud, Scan has a(n)
A) Electra complex.
B) Oedipus complex.
C) anal complex.
D) genital complex.
3. Mrs. Brown wants to gossip about her neighbor's affair, but she thinks gossiping is wrong. Instead, she accuses other women of talking too much and spreading rumors.
A) egoism
B) reaction formation
C) projection
D) repression
3. Your friend suffers from an extreme phobia of insects. In order to get the most effective help for this problem, you would advise your friend to seek help from a
A) psychoanalyst.
B) behavior therapist.
C) humanistic therapist.
D) rational-emotive therapist.
4. Which of the following is not one of the big five factors of personality?
A) agility
B) extraversion
C) agreeableness
D) openness
5. Which of the following is a main advantage of group therapy?
A) more attention from the therapist
B) less focus on irrational thinking
C) longer sessions
D) more cost effective
6. Jack exited the train downtown when all of a sudden he felt he was "losing his mind?' His heart beat faster, and he began to sweat and tremble. He was most likely experiencing a(n)
A) specific anxiety disorder.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) panic disorder.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.
7. Social identity theory states that
A) we join groups in order to get a sense of belonging on the way to self-actualization..
B) when individuals are assigned to a group, they invariably think of the group as an for them.
C) we join groups because they provide evolutionary advantages for us.
D) individuals form groups based upon what they want their social identity to be. m group
8. When Cameron was asked if he liked animated movies, he said yes. According to the self;
perception theory, which of the following statements is the best explanation for Cameron answer?
A) Cameron likes animated movies, because his friends like them.
B) Cameron has a positive attitude toward animated movies, so he likes them.
C) Cameron likes animated movies because he has watched and enjoyed all of them.
D) Cameron has been told that he likes animated movies so he believes it to be true.
9. Mr. Dodge engages in very rigid and structured behavior. He is preoccupied with cleanliness. He washes his hands more than 20 times per day and brings two changes of underwear to work with him. He would probably be diagnosed as suffering from a(n)
A) generalized anxiety disorder.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) phobia.
D) conversion disorder.
10. Abnormal levels of which neurotransmitter are suspected to be involved in schizophrenia?
A) epinephrine
B) norepinephrine
C) dopamine
D) serotonin
11. The advertising committee for a politician is going door-to-door and asking people to place a big, unattractive election sign on their lawns. Assuming that most people will refuse at first, the advertising committee is prepared to ask them to place a small sign on their lawns, which is the actual plan. Which strategy for successful persuasion is the advertising committee using in this scenario?
A) The foot-in-the-door strategy
B) The door-in-the-face strategy
C) The inoculation technique
D) The negative appeal approach
12. Which of the following places the most emphasis on cognition in personality?
A) inferiority complex
B) operant conditioning
C) reciprocal determinism
D) collective unconscious
13. All of the following have been linked to mood disorders except
A) dopamine.
B) norepinephrine.
C) acetylcholine.
D) serotonin.
14. Rose and Martha were classmates. Rose idolized Martha and believed that she was the best night before a test, friend a person could have. However, when Martha Rose felt intensely hurt and dejected. The next inferred that Rose and accused her of being a terrible friend. In the context of personadlaityy,refused Rose's offer to study together on Marthanic personality disorder disorders, it out at mart
A) histrioy is e 1 1 mg the symptoms of
C) schizo typal
B) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder it can be
personality disorder
D) borderline personality disorder
15. If Eileen has a predisposition for developing schizophrenia, the diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia states that Eileen
A) has excess serotonin in her frontal lobes.
B) will have symptoms of the disease by age 20.
C) has schizophrenic siblings.
D) is most likely to develop the disease during periods of stress.
16. An individual who engages in stealing and vandalism, who cannot uphold financial obligations, and who shows no remorse after harming someone may be considered to have a(n)
A) bipolar disorder.
B) somatoform disorder.
C) antisocial personality disorder.
D) anxiety disorder.
17. Which of the following represents the correct order of Freud's stages of personality development?
A) oral, anal, phallic, genital, latency
B) anal, oral, latency, phallic, genital
C) anal, oral, phallic, latency, genital
D) oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
18. If you decide that your roommate broke your favorite CD because she is a careless person, you
are making , whereas, if you decide that your roommate broke your favorite CD
because she could not see it on the floor underneath some papers, you are making
A) a social comparison, an implicit impression
B) an external attribution, an internal attribution
C) an implicit impression, a social comparison
D) an internal attribution, an external attribution
19. If one identical twin has schizophrenia, the probability that the other twin will develop it is about
A) 35%
B) 65%
20. Mr. Foxworth was a patient in an inpatient mental hospital for 4 years in the 1950s. In 1959, he and several other patients were released from the hospital and they called began receiving outpatient services. This movement of patients from inpatient mental hospitals to outpatient care was
A) deinstitutionalization
B) involuntary psychotherapy
C) psychotherapeutic transference
D) tardivc dyskencsia
21. Sean is five and hits a strong attachment to his mother. According to Freud, Scan has a(n)
A) Electra complex.
B) Oedipus complex.
C) anal complex.
D) genital complex.
22. Mrs. Brown wants to gossip about her neighbor's affair, but she thinks gossiping is wrong. Instead, she accuses other women of talking too much and spreading rumors.
A) egoismreaction
B) torination
C) projection
D) repression
23. Your friend suffers from an extreme phobia of insects. In order to get the most effective help for this problem, you would advise your friend to seek help from a
A) psychoanalyst.
B) behavior therapist.
C) humanistic therapist.
D) rational-emotive therapist.
24. Which of the following is not one of the big five factors of personality?
A) agility
B) extraversion
C) agreeableness
D) openness
25. Which of the following is a main advantage of group therapy?
A) more attention from the therapist
B) less focus on irrational thinking
C) longer sessions
D) more cost effective
26. Jack exited the train downtown when all of a sudden he felt he was "losing his mind." His heart beat faster, and he began to sweat and tremble. He was most likely experiencing a(n)
A) specific anxiety disorder.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) panic disorder.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.