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Harry wants to lose 50 pounds. Most experts would recommend that he should |
decrease his food intake and increase his exercise, both in moderate ways.
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Which of the following is NOT good advice for devising an exercise program?
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You should try to “exercise through” any minor injuries.
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When a person must continue to take a drug in order to avoid withdrawal illness, the person has developed
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physical dependence.
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Which of the following characteristics is most closely associated with the Type B personality?
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Easy-going
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Studies of the immune system in humans have found that stress
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is related to decreased levels of immune activity.
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Health risks after quitting smoking decline until they reach a normal level after about
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15 years.
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The _____ model proposes it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.
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medical
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The medical model has been criticized because it posits that abnormal behavior
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involves deviation from social norms rather than an illness.
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The judgment of the normality of an individual’s behavior can be based on whether
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he or she experiences personal distress. the behavior deviates from accepted social norms. his or her everyday adaptive functioning is impaired.
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Which of the following statements is true?
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It is usually not easy to divide people into distinct normal and abnormal groups.
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Comorbidity is
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the coexistence of two or more disorders.
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Estimates of lifetime prevalence suggest that psychological disorders are
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more common than most people realize.
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The class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety is called
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anxiety disorders.
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Compulsion is to “action” as obsession is to
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thought.
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Jerry is terrified of snakes and refuses to read nature books to his son if there are pictures of snakes. He is probably suffering from
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phobic disorder.
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The famous industrialist Howard Hughes devised extraordinary rituals to minimize the possibility of being contaminated by germs. For example, he would sometimes spend hours methodically cleaning a telephone. Hughes’s behavior exemplifies which of the following disorders?
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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People who lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory and experience disruptions in their sense of identity would most likely be considered as having which of the following types of disorders?
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Dissociative disorders
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According to your textbook, Abraham Lincoln, Ted Turner, and Kurt Cobain all suffered from
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severe mood disorders.
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In ______ disorders, people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure.
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depressive
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Bipolar disorder was formerly known as _____ disorder.
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manic-depressive
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Phil has been talking to Bill about contemplating suicide. Bill can help Phil most by
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taking Phil’s talk seriously.
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Interpersonal roots of depression include all of the following EXCEPT
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attracting a supportive social network.
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Which disorder is characterized by profound impairment of social interaction and communication and by severely restricted interest and activities, apparent by the age of 3 years?
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Autistic spectrum disorder
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______ involves intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight.
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Anorexia nervosa
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The Type A behavior pattern of anger and hostility is most closely linked to which of the following physical ailments?
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Coronary heart disease
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One accepted definition of stress is
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any circumstance that threatens well-being and taxes coping abilities.
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Whether or not an event is stressful is most likely to depend on
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how one appraises and adapts to the event.
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The notion that “stress lies in the eye of the beholder“ suggests that
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people’s appraisals of stressful events are highly subjective.
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Acute stressors
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are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and clear endpoint.
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Research has concluded that change is stressful
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whether it is undesirable or desirable.
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The fight-or-flight response is a reaction that begins in response to a threat. This is a(n) _________ reaction.
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involuntary
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In humans, the fight-or-flight response is less adaptive than it was in ancestral humans because
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most modern human stresses can’t be managed with these strategies.
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Mounting evidence from research indicates that stress may ______ the functioning of the immune system.
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suppress
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Bart coped with flunking his midterm by telling everyone he was positive his professor’s poor teaching was the reason Bart got such a bad grade. This is an example of
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an unhealthy coping response.
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Research reveals that stress often contributes to the onset of which of the following?
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Depression Schizophrenia Eating disorders
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Which of the following is NOT a beneficial effect that may result from stress?
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Increases optimism
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A behavior pattern marked by commitment, challenge, and control that appears to be related to stress resistance is called
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hardiness.
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Which of the following is NOT true about positive psychology?
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Scientists often refer to it as the study of “Happy-ology”
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Depression is often confused with:
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sadness grief happiness
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According to the TED talk by Andrew Solomon we watched in class, the opposite of depression is vitality.
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TRUE
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Stress is the process of appraising and responding to a threatening or challenging event
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TRUE
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Homeostasis is:
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A physiological process that aims to maintain stability of the system
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Stress researchers often refer to a person’s allostatic load. They are referring to:
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The build-up of stress activation that causes wear-and-tear
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Stress is a function of an individual’s appraisal of a situation. Primary appraisal involves:
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Determining the importance of a situation Determining whether the outcomes will be positive or negative Determining how demanding a situation will be
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Secondary appraisals of situations basically come down to the question, “ is this controllable?”
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TRUE
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Health psychologists understand health to be a product of:
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biological processes psychological thoughts and beliefs behavior social processes
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Even brief periods of stress can trigger acute cardiac symptoms such as angina (chest pain).
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TRUE
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Unhealthy habits such as smoking, risky sexual behavior, and drug use account for only a small number of actual deaths.
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FALSE
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Clinical Psychology is different from other fields of psychology because it is more if an applied science
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TRUE
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A determination of “abnormal” ALWAYS involves social judgments and are based on the values and expectations of society.
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TRUE |