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What was one of the major findings in the Rosenhan study?

• Abnormal behavior does not actually exist
• Context is important to how people describe and explain abnormal

behavior

• psychology is a unified discipline with one theoretical perspective
• Abnormal behavior is relatively easy to modify - Correct Answer - B.

Context is important to how people describe and explain abnormal behavior

Describe the systematic search for facts through careful observation and experimentation.

• Research
• Therapeutic interventions
• Therapy
• clinical practice - Correct Answer - A. Research

In defining abnormal behavior, ____ refers to the interference with activities of daily living or functioning. 1 / 4

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• Deviance
• Danger
• Dysfunction
• Distress - Correct Answer - C. Dysfunction

Psychotherapy outcome research generally uses which of the following types of research methods?

• case study
• correlational study
• experiment
• analogue study - Correct Answer - c. experiment

Converting the cost of a gallon of gasoline in different countries into dollar terms and then computing the average cost of gasoline throughout

the world is a lot like the logic of:

• Reliability
• validity
• dependent variables
• meta-analysis - Correct Answer - d. meta-analysis

What term best captures the concept that the same disorder can have multiple causes?

• Etiology
• Equifinality 2 / 4

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• Reductionism
• Systems theory - Correct Answer - b. Equifinality

If everyone experienced the exact same environment, all differences between people would be due to;

• Genes
• Gene-environment interactions
• Gene-environment correlations
• the environment - Correct Answer - a. Genes

Does the diagnosis tell me anything about the cause, course, or best

treatment of this disorder? This question is a concern about:

• reliability
• validity
• coverage
• thresholds - Correct Answer - b. validity

Some experts argue that multiple personalities are produced by

iatrogenesis. The means that multiple personalities are caused by:

• Treatment
• overly literal interpretation of religious teachings
• self-hypnosis
• unknown, individualized causes - Correct Answer - a. Treatment 3 / 4

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pg. 4 In lecture, I suggested that an entirely new way to classify anxiety disorders might involve an evolutionary approach, for example, freeze- flight-fight-fright. What organization currently is also searching for an entirely new way of classifying and studying mental disorders?

• The DSM
• The NIMH
• The WHO
• The APA - Correct Answer - b. The NIMH

What research area focuses specifically on how psychological stress influences the immune system?

• infectious disease
• psychophysiology
• psychoneuroimmunology
• behavioral medicine - Correct Answer - c. psychoneuroimmunology

Which of the following is NOT an observable dimension of behavior?

• Duration
• Latency
• Amount of humor
• Rate - Correct Answer - C. Amount of humor

Which of the following is important in considering abnormal function?

• The context in which it occurs
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