Unit 6 Study questions – Flashcards
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Lithium has been found to be especially effective in the treatment of
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Bipolar Disorder
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An antisocial personality disorder is most likely to be characterized by
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a lack of guilt feelings.
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Which of the following is most likely to contribute to inflated estimates of the value of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing?
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the placebo effect
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Researchers have found low levels of ________ in 13-year-old boys who were later convicted of a crime as 18- to 26-year-olds.
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adrenaline
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Most self-help and support groups focus on ______ illnesses.
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stigmatized
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The dramatic increase in reported cases of dissociative identity disorder during the past 40 or so years most strongly suggests that symptoms of this disorder involve
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role-playing.
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The least used biomedical intervention for changing behavior is
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psychosurgery.
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The study of the effect of drugs on mind and behavior is called:
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psychopharmacology.
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Although the brain maturation of children diagnosed with ADHD is normal, it lags behind that of their peers by about
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3 years.
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The psychologist known for challenging people's absurd self-defeating ideas is
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Albert Ellis
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Systematic desensitization is based on the idea that ________ facilitates the elimination of fear
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relaxation
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Psychodynamic therapies try to understand patients' current symptoms by focusing on recurring patterns in their
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interpersonal relationships.
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Which form of therapy is most likely to be criticized for offering interpretations that cannot be proven or disproven?
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psychoanalysis
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By earning a client's trust, empathic and caring therapists promote
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a therapeutic alliance.
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Freud suggested that for those suffering a generalized anxiety disorder, the anxiety is
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free-floating
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who is most likely to benefit from therapeutic drugs that block receptor sites for dopamine?
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who hears imaginary voices telling her she will soon be killed
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Dual-action antidepressant drugs work by increasing the availability of
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norepinephrine and serotonin.
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Which of the following is most likely to contribute to inflated perceptions of the effectiveness of psychotherapy?
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regression toward the mean
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People are more likely to recover from ________ schizophrenia than from ________ schizophrenia.
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reactive; process
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Using DSM-5 guidelines, two different clinicians are likely to give a specific patient the same diagnosis. This indicates that the DSM-5 is
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reliable.
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The experience of depression ________ risk taking and ________ aggression.
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inhibits; inhibits
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Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are most likely to be treated with
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psychotherapy.
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Although originally trained in Freudian techniques, Aaron Beck developed a ________ therapy for depression.
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cognitive
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Dr. Volz is a researcher who wants to distinguish between the direct effects of a new antianxiety medication and effects arising from expectations of the drug's effectiveness. Dr. Volz is most likely to use
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the double-blind procedure.
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The approach that has helped children with autism learn to function successfully in school involves
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operant conditioning.
