Test Bank for Understanding Psychological Disorders Enhanced, 12th Edition by David Sue
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Psychological Disorders
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Psychological Disorders
Test Bank for Understanding Psychological Disorders Enhanced, 12e 12th Edition by David Sue, Derald Sue, Diane M. Sue, Stanley Sue. Full chapters (Chap 1 to 17) test bank are included with answers.
1. Understanding Psychopathology.
2. Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders.
3. Assessment ...
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Exorcism involves ____________________.
a. increasing one’s activity level so that their body can recover from a physical or mental illness
b. chipping a hole in the skull of a person believed to be possessed by demons
c. praying and chanting over or flogging and starving a person to cast evil spirits out of the body
d. curing the body of physical illness
ANSWER: c
2. During a diagnostic interview, a psychiatrist asks the client how they have been functioning in normal social
interactions. These questions are designed to assess levels of ____________________.
a. disorientation
b. dangerousness
c. distress
d. dysfunction
ANSWER: c
3. Henry is a highly respected teacher and poet whose works have been published in three languages. Yet he has
bipolar disorder that has never been treated. This case ____________________.
a. supports the claim that mental disorders are usually the result of bad parenting and past traumatic
experiences
b. contradicts the claim that people with mental disorders cannot contribute until they are cured
c. contradicts the claim that mentally disturbed people are recognizable
d. supports the idea that mentally disturbed people can never function normally or hold down jobs
ANSWER: b
4. Yusef has a severe mental illness and is unable to recognize his own mental confusion. This problem is known
as ____________________.
a. amnesia
b. anosognosia
c. depersonalization
d. apotemnophilia
ANSWER: b
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5. The description, “A behavior pattern in an individual that is associated with distress or disability, and is not
merely an expectable response to common stressors or losses” is most consistent with what definition of
psychopathology?
a. that of humanistic psychologists
b. the one in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
c. that of cultural relativists
d. that of the National Institute of Mental Health
ANSWER: b
6. One way to assess dysfunction is in terms of the discrepancy between ____________________.
a. thoughts and feelings
b. expectations and attitudes
c. cultural norms and actual behavior
d. role requirements and actual performance
ANSWER: d
7. Who ordered the chains to be removed from inmates at a mental asylum and is considered a founder of the
moral treatment movement?
a. Benjamin Rush
b. Johann Weyer
c. Philippe Pinel
d. Dorothea Dix
ANSWER: c
8. The humanistic movement of the Renaissance ____________________.
a. emphasized the value of the cathartic method
b. presented the first biogenic theory of abnormal behavior
c. challenged the notion of demonic possession
d. led to the institutionalization of mentally disordered individuals
ANSWER: c
9. This individual practiced medicine in Rome and related mental illness in the brain and central nervous system.
His greatest contribution may have been compiling all medical knowledge from Hippocrates’s time to his own.
Who is he?
a. Pinel
b. Mesmer
c. Weyer
d. Galen
ANSWER: d
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10. Dr. Harwell is a psychoanalyst, Dr. Soo is a humanistic therapist, Dr. Coggins is a cognitive behavioral therapist,
and Dr. Patel is a Gestalt therapist. On which of the following factors are they most likely to differ in terms of
how they describe a client’s mental distress?
a. time of onset
b. etiology
c. diagnosis
d. prognosis
ANSWER: b
11. Early psychological research, such as that done by Emil Kraepelin, supported which viewpoint of the origins of
abnormal behavior?
a. social
b. biological
c. psychological
d. etiological
ANSWER: b
12. Lidia, Janessa, and Rebecca all are called “doctors.” All are mental health professionals. However, Lidia has a
PsyD, Janessa has an MD, and Rebecca has a DSW. We can assume that ____________________.
a. Rebecca is a psychiatrist
b. Lidia is a social worker
c. Lidia is a clinical psychologist
d. Janessa is a clinical psychologist
ANSWER: c
13. College administrators suspended shooter Jared Lee Loughner after they became concerned about his potential
to exhibit dangerous behaviors. Why didn’t the authorities arrest him?
a. His therapist did not feel he posed a danger to others.
b. None of the local mental health facilities had space to house him.
c. He did not make any overt threats against anyone.
d. His behavior was not considered odd in comparison to his peer group.
ANSWER: c
14. Which statement about the burden of mental disorders is accurate?
a. Incidence is associated with negative attitudes about mental illness.
b. Mental health symptoms that do not meet criteria for a mental disorder could be as equally debilitating as
a diagnosable mental health disorder.
c. At least half of the people who experience a diagnosable mental disorder are neither seeking nor
receiving mental health services.
d. Spending on mental health services has increased exponentially.
ANSWER: b
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15. Which statement regarding the causes of mental disorders is accurate?
a. Mental health disorders are caused by weaknesses in an individual.
b. Heredity is the primary cause of mental disorders.
c. Heredity has little influence on mental disorders.
d. Mental illnesses have biological causes, but many people blame the person for the illness.
ANSWER: d
16. A researcher who investigates the specific periods of time when individuals have a particular disorder is
studying the ____________________ of the disorder.
a. incidence
b. prevalence
c. course
d. criteria
ANSWER: b
17. Which statement concerning witchcraft is accurate?
a. At first, the church made no distinctions between types of demonic possession.
b. According to the church, Satan himself fostered protests and attacks on church practices, so witches
were to be killed.
c. The church tried to stop people from accusing deviant people of being witches.
d. The treatment for witchcraft typically involved prayers, gentle persuasion, and sympathy.
ANSWER: b
18. Dr. Christopher conducts an epidemiological study to assess the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia in the
United States. Dr. Christopher is assessing the ____________________.
a. percentage of people in the United States who have never had schizophrenia
b. number of people in the United States who have had schizophrenia within a certain period of time
c. total proportion of people in the United States who have ever suffered from schizophrenia
d. age of onset for people in the United States who have schizophrenia
ANSWER: c
19. Frenchman Philippe Pinel and American Benjamin Rush were both concerned with ____________________.
a. the development of private, profitable “madhouses”
b. the moral treatment of patients in hospitals
c. helping patients gain easy access to medications
d. instituting the use of shamans in the treatment of mentally disturbed individuals to be culturally sensitive
ANSWER: b
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