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1. Kate celebrated her anniversary in the
school as teacher. However, she had
difficulty maintaining her sleep because she
keeps working on school papers at night.
But when vacation comes, she enjoys
longer hours of sound sleep. What is your
insight about her behavior?
a. She has narcolepsy
b. She was deprived of sleep
c. She has hypersomnolence
d. It's normal cycle of sleep deprivation
or regain.
2. After his first month in Grade 1, Charisse
avoided speaking when in class. Because of
this her grades were affected because she
was low in participation. But at home, she
speaks when she is talking to her mother.
Charisse is manifesting diagnostic criteria
for...?
a. Selective mutism
b. Conversion deafness
c. Autism spectrum disorder
d. Social communication disorder
3. Low serotonin may be associated with
the following disorders except..
a. Anxiety Disorder
b. Major Depressive Disorder
c. Antisocial Personality Disorder
d. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
4. What is the difference between Reactive
Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social
Engagement Disorder?
a. The minimum developmental age
required for diagnosis
b. The rearing patterns of the child
c. The behaviors regarding the
interaction with others
d. Causes of the symptoms
5. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Anxiety Disorders may be diagnosed
once an individual's anxiety is present.
b. Anxiety Disorders may be diagnosed
once the anxiety is present in a neutral
situation
c. Anxiety Disorders cannot be
diagnosed if the anxiety is within what is
expected of the situation
d. Anxiety Disorders cannot be diagnosed if
the anxiety is expected, even if the anxiety
is more than what the situation cause
6. Brandon is always worried. Sometimes
he would feel anxiety even when there is no
reason for him to feel that way. If we were to
explain his condition biologically, we may
attribute Brandon's worries as caused by an
imbalance of which neurotransmiter?
a. Serotonin
b. Dopamine
c. GABA
d. Glutamate
7. Jeffrey has fears of speaking in front of
the class. When asked where his fears
come from, he just mentioned that he does
not like being in front of people. He said he
is not afraid of being humiliated or
embarrassed, nor is he afraid of having a
panic attack. Jeffrey may show signs of:
a. Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
b. Specific Phobia
c. Agoraphobia
d. Panic Disorder
8. Mel is 64 years old. Although
continuously faced with considerable stress
and difficulty in his life, he always displays
an optimistic, upbeat attitude. According to
research, Mel should
a. probably live longer than those
without such positive attitudes
b. live about the same length of time as
those without such positive attitudes
c. be less likely to have heart disease than
those without such positive attitudes
d. be more likely to be involved with positive
community activities than those without
such positive attitudes
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9. A psychological disorder in children
characterized by unrealistic and persistent
worry that something will happen to their
parents which may result in refusal to leave
home is called
a. globushystericus
b. school phobia
c. situational phobia
d. separation anxiety disorder
10. In Japan, the anxiety syndrome termed
tajinkyofusho involves a fear of
a. performing onstage
b. personally offending others
c. embarassing oneself
d. speaking to females
11. Which of the following would not be
considered an example of social phobia?
a. A student who is reluctant to speak up in
a classroom due to fear of embarrassing
herself
b. A male who has difficulty urinating in a
public restroom when others are present
c. A person who can only eat comfortably
when he is alone
d. An individual who cannot travel on
public transportation without a family
member present
12. An unusually high concern with
nocturnal emissions has been reported in
_______ where there is a strong culturally
held belief that loss of semen causes
depletion of physical and mental energy.
a. Ireland
b. Indonesia
c. India
d. Iceland
13. A child raised by depressed parents is
likely to
a. struggle with depression as well
b. learn how to avoid depression
c. be inoculated against depression
d. deny stress symptoms
14. A common characteristic of depression
in boys is
a. aggression
b. passiveness
c. shyness
d. coping behavior
15. The physical symptoms of a major
depressive disorder include
a. changes in appetite or weight
b. decreased ability to concentrate
c. increased energy
d. decreased self-esteem
16. The theory of Martin Seligman that
people become anxious and depressed
because they believe that they have no
control over the stress in their lives is called
a. the learned helplessness theory
b. cognitive-behavioral theory
c. humanistic/existential theory
d. the control theory of depression
17. A 35 year old individual named Manuel
has recently formulated an elaborate plan to
cure AIDS with vitamin therapy. To provide
funding for this cause, he has withdrawn all
the money from his bank account and
purchased thousands of jars of vitamins and
small boxes in which to put them. When he
appeared at a hospital emergency room
loudly demanding names of patients with
AIDS, he himself was hospitalized for
psychiatric observation. What is your
diagnosis of Manuel?
a. Major Depressive Episode
b. Hypomanic Episode
c. Manic Episode
d. Postpartum psychosis
18. Adrian is currently completing a
chemical formula that he knows will cure
cancer. Shortly before, he had submitted a
book to a publisher and was sure that it
would become a bestseller. For several
weeks prior to this, he was bedridden, had
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no energy, and lacked any spontaneity. He
never left his bed and had to be cared for by
his family. Adrian's diagnosis is
a. Major Depressive Disorder
b. Persistent Depressive Disorder
c. Bipolar I Disorder
d. Bipolar II Disorder
19. With regard to social support,
a. having one close friend did not affect
depression rates
b. having social support helped speed
recovery from depressive episodes
c. having social support had no effect in
China
d. having social support helped speed
recovery from manic episodes
20. Although glorifying and romanticizing
suicide in the media contributes to copycat
suicides, it is more likely that the person
copying the suicide is
a. just doing it for attention
b. vulnerable due to an existing
psychological disorder
c. not really serious about the suicide
attempt
d. trying to impress others
21. A goal of treatment for patients who
have experienced major depressive
disorders is delaying or preventing the next
episode. In which of the following situations
would this goal be LEAST important?
a. Patients who have recovered from a
major depressive episode but still have
some residual symptoms
b. Patients with a past history of dysthymia
c. Patients with a past history of multiple
episodes of major depressive disorder
d. Patients who have had a single. brief
episode of major depressive disorder
and recovered without treatment
22. Normal, ordinary people who have
occasional intrusive thoughts with bizarre,
sexual, or aggressive content would not be
considered to have OCD unless they find
the thoughts unacceptable or even
dangerous and also
a. use alcohol or other drugs to reduce
anxiety
b. develop insomnia and nightmares as well
as dissociation symptoms and on occasion,
psychosis
c. become horrified by such thoughts
and consider them signs of some alien,
intrusive, evil force
d. suffer from either posttraumatic stress
disorder or social phobia
23. Which type of compulsion has the
highest prevalence rate?
a. Symmetry
b. Cleaning and contamination
c. Hoarding
d. Forbidden thoughts or actions
24, For months, as Richard drives to work,
he has been plagued by worries that he
forgot to lock the door, close the windows,
or turn off the stove in his house. Several
times he has even had to return home and
double-check the house before he could get
rid of these troubling fears. Richard's
worries represent ______.
a. Delusions
b. Hallucinations
c. Obsessions
d. Compulsions
25. One difference between panic disorders
and PTSD is
a. in a panic attack, the alarm is false,
while in PTSD, the initial alarm is true
b. in panic disorder, the alarm is true, while
in PTSD, the alarm is false.
c. panic disorder but not PTSD has a
biological vulnerability
d. PTSD but not panic disorder has
biological vulnerability
26. Dissociative trance disorder is
diagnosed
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a. only when the trance is unpredictable in
terms of when it appears i.e., individual
goes into a trance without prior religious
ritual
b. only when the trance is undesirable
and considered pathological in the
culture of the individual
c. only when the trance causes harm to the
individual or others.
d. whenever an individual repeatedly enters
a trance state
27. Sia has DID. It is extremely likely that
she also has
a. at least one other psychological
disorder
b. a problem with her weight
c. a history of problems with the law
d. no desire to get better
28. The common feature in almost every
case of DID is
a. hallucinations and delusions
b. unrelenting substance abuse
c. a history a body dysmorphic disorder
d. a history of severe child abuse
29. Vien, who is 40, apparently believes that
she is a 20 year old woman. Suddenly, she
starts to speak and behave very differently,
and says she no longer thinks of herself as
Vien. Instead, she claim to be Ela, a 10 year
old child. It is likely that Vien has just
experienced a __________.
a. Switch
b. Dissociative trance disorder
c. Conversion reaction
d. Alter
30. In dissociative fugue, the term fugue
relates to _______.
a. confusion
b. flight or travel
c. loss of consciousness
d. hallucination
31. Gregor has completely lost his sight
during the past year, but medical experts
can find no physical reason for his
blindness. This could be an example of
_________.
a. somatization disorder
b. hypochondriasis
c. conversion disorder
d. dissociative disorder
32. Jackie suddenly notices that the world
looks weird to him. Some objects look
bigger than normal and other look smaller.
Cars passing by seem oddly shaped and
people appear dead or mechanical. Jackie
is experiencing _________.
a. Derealization
b. Depersonalization
c. Classic early psychosis syndrome
d. Mania
33. Which of the following is accurate in
regard to the long-term outlook for
schizophrenic patients?
a. About 50% of people diagnosed with the
disorder eventually recover
b. Recovery is possible only if the person
stays on medication
c. Recovery is possible only if the patient
receives psychotherapy
d. Complete recovery from
schizophrenia is rare
34. Bleuler described the underlying
behaviors of schizophrenia as the
destruction of the forces that connect one
function to the next. He called this
underlying foundation of the disorder
a. a fugue state
b. split personality
c. associative splitting
d. folie a deux
35. Which of the following is the best
description of schizophrenia?
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a. Schizophrenia is characterized by
symptoms shared by everyone with the
diagnosis
b. Schizophrenia is characterized by
multiple personalities
c. Schizophrenia is characterized by
behavior and symptoms that aren't
necessarily common to everyone with
the diagnosis
d. The course of schizophrenia is always
predictable
36. Which of the following is the persecution
type of psychotic delusion?
a. A familiar person is actually a double
b. One is a famous or important person
c. People are out to get you
d. A body part has changed in some
impossible way
37. Which of the following is the most
accurate definition of flat affect?
a. An inability to initiate and persist in
activities
b. The inability to experience pleasure
c. A lack of emotional response, blank
facial expression
d. A lack of speech content and/or slowed
speech response
38. Juan is a security guard at the mall who
seems lost in his own world. Often, he feels
the presence of his dead mother nearby. He
knows it is an illusion and that she is not
real. Her presence does give him comfort.
Juan probably would be diagnosed with
a. schizoaffective disorder
b. schizotypal disorder
c. schizoid disorder
d. brief psychotic disorder
39. Research studies focusing on genetic
factors in schizophrenia have found that
a. An individual with a schizophrenic
identical twin has the highest risk factor
(almost 50%) of developing
schizophrenia
b. In family studies of schizophrenia, the
genetic influence can be separated from the
environmental impact
c. If one person in a family has a particular
subtype of schizophrenia, eg., paranoid, the
other family member inherit a predisposition
for the subtype only
d. The more severe a parent's
schizophrenic disorder, the less likely
children were to develop it
40. The positive symptoms of schizophrenia
are most closely associated with ________
activity.
a. serotonin
b. dopamine
c. norepinephrine
d. acetylcholine
41. In regard to the family interactions
among schizophrenic patients, the word
"schizophrenogenic" (no longer used), was
first proposed in the 1940s to describe
a. an abusive and alcoholic father whose
child became schizophrenic
b. an emotionally distant mother whose
child became schizophrenic
c. divorced parents who had several
psychotic children
d. a family in which relatives on both sides
were psychotic
42. People with this personality disorder
show pattern of detachment from social
relationships and a limited range of
emotions in interpersonal situations seen as
aloof, cold and indifferent
a. Paranoid
b. Schizoid
c. Avoidant
d. Schizotypal
43. Schizotypal personality disorder belongs
in what cluster of personality?
a. Cluster A
b. Cluster B
c. Cluster C
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d. Cluster D c. anxiety disorders and general feelings of

nervousness
44. If a child diagnosed with conduct d. mania
disorder did not improve and instead
continued into adult as he is, he could 49. The major reason that developmental
develop disorders are considered to be so serious in
terms of their capacity to disrupt later
a. Antisocial PD functioning is ...
b. Psychopathology
c. Narcissistic PD a. the fact that medications used in children
d. Dependent PD can have long-term effects.
b. the impact that they have on family
45. Personality Disorder that experience functioning
great difficulty in delaying gratification c. that the purely biological nature of
developmental disorders leads to
a. Histrionic PD subsequent developmental failures
b. Narcissistic PD d. that failure to develop at one level is
c. Obsessive-Compulsive PD thought to inhibit later stages of
d. Antisocial PD development

46. Personality disorder linked with mood 50. Which of the following is a characteristic
disorders. of a child with Down Syndrome?

a. Narcissistic PD a. Babinski reflex

b. Schizoid PD b. Word salad
c. Borderline PD c. Flat affect
d. Histrionic PD d. Simian crease

47. Rico is a 9 year old boy recently 51. The kind of suicide that occurs when
diagnosed with ADHD. His parents have there is excessive individualism and low
chosen a combined approach to treatment. social integration
If their approach is based on what research
suggests is most effective, it will most likely a. Fatalistic
involve b. Altruistic
c. Egoistic
a. new experimental medications and d. Anomic
behavior therapy
b. no medication but a combination of 52. Prescribed to people with narcolepsy
behavioral therapy and parent training and ADHD.
c. medication such as Ritalin and
behavior therapy a. Caffeine
d. medication such as Ritalin and b. Cocaine
psychoanalysis c. Amphetamines
d. Lithium
48. Extremely low activity levels of serotonin
are associated with 53. In a counselling session, Mariko
discussed her current situation and how
a. aggression, suicide and impulsive hard it is to get away from her problem. She
behavior began to talk about seriously committing
b. schizophrenia suicide, and the burden she would be
relieved of when she dies. Mariko has
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59. In which of the following situations

a. Suicidal attempts would risk of developing Schizophrenia be
b. Suicidal plans the lowest for a child?
c. Suicidal Ideation
d. All of the above a. A child's schizophrenic parent has a non-
schizophrenic identical twin
54. Refers to relative absence of speech b. A child's non-schizophrenic parent has a
schizophrenic identical twin
a. Anhedonia c. A child's schizophrenic parent has a non-
b. Flat affect schizophrenic fraternal twin
c. Alogia d. A child's non-schizophrenic parent
d. Derailment has a non-schizophrenic fraternal twin

55. Mimicking other person's movements is 60. A patient's overall level of functioning in
called life is recorded on DSM-IV-TR Axis ______.

a. Echopraxia a. I
b. Echolalia b. IV
c. Stupor c. II
d. Waxy flexibility d. V

56. The following is true about ADHD
except
a. Characterized by inattention,
hyperactivity and impulsivity
b. ADHD can continue into adulthood
c. Onset should be before age 12
d. None of the above
61. In the giving psychological services, we
must first ensure _______ to the minors and
________ to their legal guardian/s.
a. informed consent; informed consent
b. informed assent; informed consent
c. no required form; informed consent
d. informed consent; required form

57. A mood-stabilizing drug often used to 62. In religious context, people don't go to
treat patients with bipolar disorder. mental health professions because:

a. Cocaine a. they accept suffering

b. Hallucinogenic
c. Lithium
d. Amphetamine
58. This is a policy of shifting the burden of
care from state hospitals to community-
based treatment setting, which led to a
wholesale exodus from state mental
hospitals.
b. it is the product of original sin
c. they believe that it was a punishment
to them because of their sins
d. it is part of human suffering in order to
enter heaven
63. Victims of incest tend to be _______
and victims of paedophilia (who are not also
incest victims) tend to be __________.

a. Humanization a. young children; girls who are beginning to

b. Deinstitutionalization mature physically
c. Institutionalization b. female; male
d. Psychosocial Rehabilitation c. girls who are beginning to mature
physically; young children
d. male; female
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64. Scientists are unlikely to discover any
particular gene that causes any psychiatric
disorder.
a. False. Psychological disorders can be
explained by defects or variations on a
single gene
b. True. Scientists believe that many
genes contribute to the complex
behavior patterns associated with
psychiatric disorders, not any one gene
c. False. The contemporary view of the
nature-nurture debate is best expressed in
terms of nature versus nurture
d. True. The contemporary view of the
nature-nurture debate is best expressed in
terms of nature versus nurture.
64. A researcher wants to know how many
cases of Major Neurocognitive Disorder are
diagnosed each year. This figure is referred
to as the ________ of the disorder.
a. Recurrence
b. Incidence
c. Ratio
d. Prevalence
65. Many factors could cause
neurodevelopmental disorder in a child,
when a mother experience difficulties during
labor of delivery, it is considered to be:
a. Environmental
b. Perinatal
c. Prenatal
d. Postnatal
66. The most serious medical consequence
of bulimia nervosa is potential __________.
a. electrolyte imbalance
b. salivary gland damage
c. starvation
d. tooth erosion
67. The most common reason that anorexic
individuals generally do not seek treatment
on their own is that they
a. are ashamed of their disorder
b. fear that they will be hospitalized
c. do not truly believe that they are too
thin
d. have little desire for food
68. Judy sometimes eats more than just
about any other girl that you know. You
wonder if her eating sometimes could be
considered bingeing. In order to determine
this, you would have know
a. the caloric intake of the foods
b. whether she is eating junk foods
c. whether eating gets to be out of
control
d. the situations under which she eats a
great deal
69. Kim often has problems with premature
ejaculation. As he becomes more anxious
about his problem, the amount of time
between initiating intercourse and
ejaculation will most likely ____________.
a. increase
b. decrease
c. remain the same
d. depend upon what is making him anxious
70. Charlie get very sexually excited by
women's shoes. While he used to fantasize
about women wearing particlar shoes, he
now focuses almost exclusively on the
shoes themselves. Charlie has a(n)
___________.
a. sexual dysfunction
b. unusual interest ut does not have
diagnosable disorder
c. fetishistic disorder
d. frotteuristic disorder
71. All of the following are true statements
regarding transvestic disorder except
a. all people with transvestic disorder are
either homosexual or transsexual
b. a significant percentage of individuals
with this disorder are married or have been
married at some time
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c. there are cross-dressing clubs and
newsletters for individuals with this fetish
d. some transvestic fetishists compensate
by joining macho or paramilitary
organizations
72. Of the following, the individual who
should be diagnosed with gender dysphoria
is
a. Jose, who gets sexually aroused by
wearing women's bras.
b. Linda, who is gay and has many
traditional masculine traits
c. Moore, who feels like a woman
trapped in a man's body
d. Xian, who can only become sexually
aroused while dressed like a woman
73. A person who is physiologically
dependent on a drug will experience
a. tolerance to the effects of the drug
b. withdrawal symptoms if the drug is
withdrawn
c. both tolerance and withdrawal
d. neither tolerance nor withdrawal
74. Angelica had difficulty falling asleep for
some time. She started taking a prescribed
sleeping pill every night for her insomnia.
Now, she needs the pill to fall asleep.
Without it, she will toss and turn all night,
getting little sleep. Angelica is
a. dependent and drug abusive
b. dependent and not drug abusive
c. dependent but not physiologically
addicted
d. dependent and tolerant
75. Alcohol can initially appear to cause
stimulation because it
a. makes vision and hearing more acute
b. has an excitatory affect on the brain
c. depresses inhibitory centers in the
brain
d. alters motor coordination
76. The condition called delirium tremens,
also known as the "DTs," involves
hallucinations and body tremors during
withdrawal from ________.
a. heroin
b. cocaine
c. alcohol
d. marijuana
77. Blackout appear to be related to the
interaction of alcohol with the _______
system.
a. glutamate
b. serotonin
c. GABA
d. dopamine
78. You have just heard about a situation in
which someone who has drunk vandalized a
building and assaulted a security guard.
From your knowledge of abnormal
psychology, you are aware that although
alcohol does not cause aggressive
behavior, it may
a. stimulate the inhibitory center of the
brain, causing aggressive behavior
b. activate the aggressive genes in the
person's DNA
c. impair the ability to consider the
consequences of acting impulsively
d. increase the anxiety associated with
being punished for one's actions
79. Which of the following is an accurate
statement concerning marijuana use and
abuse?
a. Paranoia and hallucinations can occur
b. Tolerance develops rapidly
c. Psychological dependence can occur with
even occasional use
d. Marijuana is free of carcinogens
80. The common factor among
psychoactive drugs may be
a. their ability to activate the "pleasure
pathways" of the brain
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b. the ease of obtaining them and the
relatively inexpensive cost
c. the similar way in which they are
metabolized in the body
d. their identical effect of neurotransmitters
at the synapse
81. Ferb has been having a great deal or
trouble initiating and maintaining sleep. He
guesses that he is sleeping for an average
of about 3 hours each night and complains
that he feels terrible during the day. In
addition, Ferb has always experienced
some anxiety but has recently felt a
tremendous increase in his overall anxiety
level. The existence of both a sleep disorder
and anxiety
a. makes the diagnosis of primary insomnia
incorrect
b. increases our confidence that primary
insomnia is the correct diagnosis
c. indicates that the insomnia is a result of
the anxiety rather than a cause of the
anxiety
d. is extremely common since sleep
problems can be both a cause and a
result of anxiety
82. While suddenly and unexpectedly falling
asleep during normal waking hours, Hera
experiences vivid hallucinations of being in
a horrible car crash. The experience is so
realistic that she actually feels physical
sensations as if the hallucination were real.
Sera's most likely diagnosis is _________.
a. sleep apnea
b. hypersomnia
c. schizophrenia
d. narcolepsy
83. Of the following, the correct paring is
a. dyssomnia and sleep walking
b. dyssomnia and inability to fall asleep
c. parasomnia and waking up after 3 or 4
hours of sleep and then being unable to fall
back to sleep
d. parasomnia and lack of REM sleep
84. Pyromania
a. is fairly common among arsonists.
b. is a disorder where an individual is
preoccupied with setting fires and the
associated equipment involved in
putting out those fires
c. is fairly common among people who were
bedwetters as children
d. all of these
85. Mr. Estancia (age 72) is brought to the
hospital emergency room. His son explains
that his father woke up this morning and
was "not himself". Mr. Estancia appears
confused, agitated, and a bit frightened. He
does not know his own name and cannot
recognize his son. Mr. Estancia's son
rep[orts that his father had been completely
fine with no symptoms prior to that morning.
Mr. Estancia appears to be suffering from
_______.
a. neurocognitive disorder due to Lewy
Body disease
b. neurocognitive disorder due to
Alzheimer's disease
c. delirium
d. amnestic disorder
86. Francis et al. (1999) in his research of
cross-fostering finding the extent of genetic
influences, took some newly born rat pups
of fearful and easily stressed mothers and
placed them for rearing with cal mothers.
Other young rats remained with their easily
stressed mothers. The result of the study
was:
a. rats born to easily stressed mothers
but reared by calm mothers grew up
more calm and supportive
b. rats born to easily stressed mothers but
reared by calm mothers grew also to
become easily stressed just like their
biological mothers
c. rats born to easily stressed mothers but
reared by calm mothers grew up neither
more calm and supportive nor easily
stressed.
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d. no significant results was produced iut of
this study
87. ________ is characterized by poor
language comprehension and impaired
ability to remember the names of objects
known as fluent aphasia because the
person can still speak smoothly where the
damage part is in left temporal cortex. While
_________ is characterized by language
impairment or expressive language difficulty
with impairment found in the left frontal
cortex of the brain.
a. Broca's area; frontal lobe
b. Wernicke's area; Broca's area
c. Broca's area; Wernicke's area
d. Wernicke's area; Cortical area
88. Cultural identity of the individual is one
of several categories in the DSM-5 Outline
for Cultural Formulation. Which of the
following is not a feature of cultural identity
of the individual?
a. Self-defined racial or ethnic reference
group
b. For immigrants or minorities, the degree
of involvement with both culture of origin
and host culture
c. language abilities and preferences
d. political party affiliation
e. sexual orientation
89. This viewpoint holds that people from
lower socioeconomic groups are at greater
risk of severe behavior problems because
living in poverty subjects them to a greater
level of social stress than that faced by
more well-to-do people.
a. Social causation model
b. Downward drift hypothesis
c. Social economic status theory
d. Marginalized model
90. A depressed patient reports that he
experiences no pleasure from his normally
enjoyable activities. Which of the following
additional symptoms would be required for
this patient to qualify for a diagnosis of
major depressive disorder with melancholic
features?
a. Despondency, depression that is worse in
the morning and inability to fall asleep
b. Depression that is worse in the evening,
psychomotor agitation, and significant
weight loss
c. Inappropriate guilt, depression that is
worse in the morning and early morning
awakening
d. Significant weight gain, depression that is
worse in the evening, and excessive guilt
91. In the study of Suomi (1999), if the
emotionally reactive mokeys (their biological
mother was easily stressed) were raised by
"calm, supportive" parents most probably
will become:
a. easily stressed when raising their own
children
b. calm and supportive when raising
their own children
c. most of the time easily stressed and
sometimes calm
d. most of the time calm and sometimes
easily stressed
92. It is a legal term that reflects the
fundamental doctrine that people cannot be
held full responsible for their acts if they
were so mentally incapacitated at the time
of the acts that they could not conform to
the rules of society.
a. Insanity defense
b. Incompetent to stand the trial
c. Both A and B
d. NOTA
93. In using dialectal behavior therapy in
helping people cope with stressors that
seem to trigger suicidal behaviors, the
priority treatment is _______.
a. those that interfere with the patient's
quality of life
b. those behaviors that interfere with
therapy
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c. those behaviors that may result in
harm
d. those behavior that led to the present
condition
94. The patient who believes the treatment
is going to be effective has much better
chance of showing improvement than does
the patient who is neutral or pessimistic
even when the treatment is subsequently
shown to have no physiological effects. This
has become known as the ____________.
a. Halo effect
b. Flushing effect
c. Antagonistic effect
d. Placebo effect
95. The central nervous system is the
body's master control unit responsible for
controlling bodily functioning and performing
higher mental functions, such as sensation,
perception, thinking, and problem solving
which consists of:
a. autonomic and somatic
b. sympathetic and parasympathetic
c. medulla and pons
d. brain and spinal cord
96. The last half of middle ages saw a
peculiar trend in abnormal behavior
involving the widespread occurrence of
group of mental disorders that were
apparently cause of hysteria. During the
height if the summer heat, many people,
asleep or awake, would suddenly jump up,
feeling an acute pain like the sting of the
bee. From Italy, the dancing mania later
spread to Germany and the rest of Europe
where it was named as "St. Vitus' dance" or
known as:
a. lycanthropy
b. trephining
c. tarantism
d. rave
97. Last full moon, your friend Cassiopeia
experienced some strange sensations. She
was emotionally exhausted, feeling of stress
and no appetite for eating. Before the last
full moon, she appears to have low energy
and very tired. During the 14th century,
Cassiopeia may be labeled as:
a. lycan
b. melancholic
c. lunatic
d. acedia or sloth
98. Heavy use of alcohol among pregnant
women can produce a disorder in their
children called fetal alcohol syndrome
(FAS). Fetal alcohol syndrome affects about
one third of all infants born to alcoholic
women. The syndrome is characterized by
growth retardation of prenatal origin (height,
weight) and a history of delayed
development. This condition can lead to
__________.
a. mild learning disabilities
b. moderate learning disabilities
c. severe learning disabilities
d. normal fetal cognitive growth
99. In 1989, Abramson and his colleagues
revised Seligman's theory of learned
helplessness. According to Abramson and
colleagues, the crucial factor among people
with depression would be:
a. lack of control
b. a sense of hopelessness
c. repressed anger
d. a feeling of failure
100. Mariel is a 23 year old recent graduate
if the psychology program. In the last 3
weeks, her mood has been low, and at
times, her friends have noticed that she
easily gets irritable. During those weeks she
has slept for up to 12 hours, at times
skipping dinner or breakfast because she
either overslept or she has little to no
appetite. She has difficulty concentrating for
the board exam, which she will take in about
a month, although she reports being able to
study sufficiently for her needs. She feels
tired most of the time, nearly every day. She
describes feeling worthless, although she
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does not endorse thoughts of death or

suicide. She has lost interest in some
hobbies. She reports being able to go to
part-time work at the local coffee shop and
to volunteer at a local crisis center for street
children. She continues to see friends on
occasion, and she regularly keeps in touch
via phone with her family in Cebu. However,
overall she describes her mood as sad most
of the time. Is Mariel experiencing a clinical
disorder?

a. No, because it did not cause her a

clinically significant distress or
impairment in social, occupational or
other important areas of functioning.
b. Yes, probably she is experiencing major
depressive episode given the criteria such
as loss in appetite and abnormal sleep
pattern
c. No, because her behavior is a normal
response to a possible stressful future or
what we call apprehension, in her case it is
the board exam.
d. Yes, because it resemble symptoms of
anxiety disorder that include difficulty
concentrating, sleep disturbance, worrying
and being easily fatigued.