Abnormal Psychology
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Your score: 100% (20 points out of 20)
Question #1 (1 point)
According to Scheff some psychologist argue that cultural or societal norms are the the only criterion for
labeling a behavior as abnormal, this perspective is known as:
Your answer:
cultural relativism criterion
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Question #2 (1 point)
It is also referred to as the study of psychological disorder or abnormal psychology
Your answer:
psychopathology
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Question #3 (1 point)
A criteria that defines abnormality characterized by a dysfunctional behavior that causes people both emotional
and physical harm interfering to their optimal functioning and growth. The criteria applies to people who have
lost touch with reality or said to deviate from accepted and defined norms.
Your answer:
maladaptiveness criterion
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Question #4 (1 point)
It is an ancient form of brain surgery found among cave dwellers used for people who are acting bizarre and
having hallucination and other forms of mental disorders. The practice is called ­
Your answer:
trephining or trephination
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Question #5 (1 point)
A form of complex neurosis characterized by emotional instability, repression, dissociation and suggestibility.
The physiological symptoms are believed to be the result of psychological processes. This condition observed
to occur only among women is described in papyrus of Egypt and Mesopotamia known as the"wandering
uterus".
Your answer:
hysteria
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Question #6 (1 point)
Hippocrates believed that abnormal behavior was caused by:
Your answer:
imbalance in bodily fluids or humors
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Question #7 (1 point)
Bedlam refers to chaos and madness. It is also one of the famous examples of a mental hospital that treated
poorly its patients. The hospital is also called
Your answer:
Bethlehem Royal Hospital
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Question #8 (1 point)
It is a mental disorder where people believed they are turning into wolves and acting out wolverine behaviors,
such condition is called
Your answer:
lycantrophy
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Question #9 (1 point)
She is an American crusader for the moral treatment of mental patients in the United States and helped in the
establishment of more than 30 mental institutions in the US, Canada and Scotland, her name is
Your answer:
Dorothea Dix
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Question #10 (1 point)
A Mind that Found Itself is the title of the book that contained the personal account of the author while being
treated in a mental hospital. The book is important in changing the view of physicians and the public about
mental institutions and patients. The book was written by
Your answer:
Clifford Beers
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Question #11 (1 point)
He published the book The Pathology and Therapy of Psychic Disorders in 1845. The book explains that all
mental disorders are caused by brain pathology. The author of the book is
Your answer:
Wilhelm Griesinger
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Question #12 (1 point)
His fundamental theories on the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders form the basis of the major diagnostic
systems in use today. He is also credited with the classification of what was previously considered to be a
unitary concept of psychosis, into two distinct forms (dichotomy): manic depression (now seen as comprising a
range of mood disorders such as recurrent major depression and bipolar disorder), and dementia praecox. His
name is
Your answer:
Emil Kraepelin
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Question #13 (1 point)
This theory of psychopathology maintains that psychological symptoms and disorders are caused by faulty
genes, disordered biochemistry, abnormalities in the brain and defective nervous system. The theory being
referred to is called
Your answer:
biological theory of abnormality
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Question #14 (1 point)
Now on its 5th Edition the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) serves as the manual for
diagnosing psychological disorders in the the US and it is being adapted worldwide. The American Psychiatric
Association published the first edition of DSM in which year?
Your answer:
1952
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Question #15 (1 point)
It is a somatoform disorder that involves many physical sign of pregnancy and a woman's belief of being
pregnant but actually she is not. This condition is called
Your answer:
pseudocyesis
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Question #16 (1 point)
Of the classic psychosomatic disorder such as asthma, migraine, headaches, peptic ulcer, anorexia nervosa,
hypertension, which one among the choices below should be included in the list
Your answer:
heart attack
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Question #17 (1 point)
This disorder occurs more frequently in women than men. The individual suffers from pain but there is no
observable physical basis for such complaints. The disorder impairs significantly the functioning of an individual.
This somatoform disorder is called
Your answer:
somatoform pain disorder
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Question #18 (1 point)
A form of deception where an individual exaggerate illness to avoid an unpleasant situation (ex. military duties)
or faking illness for financial gain from medical insurance. It is not an illness or mental disorder but in some
cases these individuals may show signs of having an antisocial personality disorder. This syndrome is called
Your answer:
Malingering
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Question #19 (1 point)
This therapy is directed at challenging, correcting, and changing an individual's maladaptive interpretations of
events, thought patterns, perceptual biases and unrecognized assumptions. This therapy is called
Your answer:
cognitive therapy
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Question #20 (1 point)
Phenothiazines and butyrophenone are drugs that help reduce the symptoms of ­
Your answer:
psychosis
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