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Abnormal Psychology DX EXAM

BS Psychology (University of San Carlos)

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ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Prof. Marc Clint A. Maceda, MA-CP, RPm
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I. Encircle the letter of the BEST answer. Trust your own abilities. Kaya mo yan! ☺

1. The following are true for the traditional medical 7. Which goal in psychology refers to the clinician’s
model of abnormality EXCEPT? ability to provide interventions for a diagnosed
mental disorder?
A. Maintains a strict dichotomy between normal and A. Describe C. Predict
abnormal mental states B. Explain D. Control
B. The person (not the diagnosis) is the focus
C. That biological factors are primary in the
development of mental health problems 8. During the supernatural tradition, the disorders of
D. Assumes that individuals having the same set of anxiety and depression were once associated with the
problems receive the same diagnosis sin of:
A. Lust C. Greed
2. Biological vs psychological explanations of B. Sloth D. Anger
behavior:
9. Early Egyptians once thought that hysteria was
A. Are always contradictory due to:
B. Are always opposite each other
A. lack of prayer to the gods
C. May be supplementary
B. intra-psychic conflicts
D. Are not helpful by itself
C. penis envy
D. wandering uterus
3. Elmer appears odd to others. He dresses
differently from others and does behaviors which 10. Which of the following arguments comparing
you don’t normally observe in day to day life. This psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy is TRUE?
is an example of:
A. Psychotherapy may cause changes at the
A. Psychological Dysfunction biochemical level
B. Extreme Distress B. Pharmacotherapy only affects biological processes
C. Alienating mechanisms C. To be effective, both treatments should be used
D. Cultural Deviance for all disorders
D. Drug therapy addresses the root issue for most, if
not all, disorders
4. People with psychological disorders…
11. Because Laika is poor, she could not afford to
A. Have the same etiologies come to the support group across town. This situation
B. Are always dangerous to themselves and others is a good example for the:
C. May respond to stressors differently
D. Are always those with rough childhood A. Social drift model C. Role strain
experiences model
B. Lack of resource model D. Confound with social
5. Which of the ff. is a major issue in determining
class
abnormal behavior?
12. Jerry has been experiencing depressive episodes
A. Global differences in standards for abnormality
for the last couple of months. Because of this, he had
B. Little to no standardized tool for diagnosis
more days absent at work and is at a high risk for
C. Lack of licensing programs and trainings
getting involuntarily terminated. This can be
D. All of the above explained through:

6. All behaviors which meet the four D’s of A. Role strain model C. Social drift
psychopathology are: model
B. Social stress model D. Confound with
A. Diagnosable for a mental disorder social class
B. Urgently considered for intervention
C. Those demonstrated only by inpatients of mental 13. Which of the following is Freud’s explanation for
hospitals bed-wetting?
D. None of the Above
A. Organ jargon C. Symbolic copulation

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B. Symbolic masturbation D. Unconscious power C. You should not modify the assessment process in
fantasy anyway when dealing with special disabilities
D. You may collaborate with your client in the
14. As an explanation for acquisition and maintenance assessment process
of phobias, Mowrer’s two-factor theory is considered.
This is a combination of: 23. A syndrome found in Japan characterized by
excessive fear of embarrassing or offending other
A. Conscious and unconscious conflicts people:
B. Classical and operant conditioning
A. Amok C. Taijin Kyufusho
C. Psychogenic and viscerogenic needs
B. Dhat Syndrome D. Koro
D. Humanistic and existential perspective
24. Guilt for masturbating, promiscuity, and
15. The technique of “flooding” is based on the unsatisfactory intercourse are all associated with the
principle of:
culture-bound syndrome of:
A. Successive approximations
A. Dhat Syndrome C. Koro
B. Gradual exposure
B. Taijin Kyufusho D. Amok
C. Habituation
D. Learned helplessness 25. The DSM-V uses a prototypical approach. Which of
the following describes this?

A. You need to fit all symptoms of the disorder to get a

diagnosis
B. You need to fit the minimum criteria plus determine
16. Aaron Beck identified these as levels of cognition: severities
C. You need to emphasize on the severity of the
A. Conscious & unconscious symptoms
B. Activating event, Belief, Consequences D. You need to fit the bio-psycho-social model
C. Accommodation and Assimilation
D. Surface cognitions and Schemata 26. To generalize findings from animal studies to
humans, we use experiments called:
17. A cognitive technique where asking questions
about a person’s concern, its implication, A. Analogue studies C. Withdrawal
consequences, and ultimate consequences are studies
discovered and a core belief is challenged: B. ABAB designs D. Multiple baseline
designs
A. Self-instruction training C. Downward arrow
B. Stress inoculation D. Cognitive
challenge

18. “You’ve done this before, I know you can do it…

just breathe”, you say to disrupt “stressogenic” 27. In a family study, the family member with the
thoughts. This cognitive technique is: characteristic singled out for analysis is called the:

A. Self-instruction training C. Upward arrow A. Endophenotype C.

B. Logotherapy D. Cognitive challenge Analogue
B. Proband D. Cross-
19. This was termed as the “emotional computer” of characteristic
the brain:
28. A cross-sectional design uses cohorts to determine
A. Amygdala C. Hippocampus changes over time for a group of individuals. Cohorts
B. Hypothalamus D. Mesolimbic dopamine are _____
system
A. Participants across compared age groups
20. Even though you instructed the patient to stop B. Participants who are not included in the study
drawing the line, he appears to persevere with it. C. Participants under the control condition
Examining the cortexes of the brain, this may lead you D. Participants who are monitored over a long time
to think that the ____ lobe has damage:
29. A cross-generational effect is something that you
A. Occipital C. Frontal want to avoid in a/an:
B. Parietal D. Temporal
A. Longitudinal study C.
21. Damage in the ____ lobe may result to memory Adoption study
difficulties: B. Cross-sectional study D. None of the
above
A. Occipital C. Frontal
B. Parietal D. Temporal 30. In doing cross-cultural research, which of the
following is a great difficulty?
22. As an assessor, you know that…
A. You are able to diagnose a patient using only the A. Differences in thresholds of abnormality
results of the thematic apperception test B. Differences in reporting of symptoms
B. You are responsible for helping patients score C. Differences in treatment and outcomes
average on diagnostic exams
D. All of the above

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31. The most common cause of dementia is: A. Cortical dementias primarily affects the inner
areas of the brain
A. Vascular dementia C. B. Aphasia is common among subcortical dementia
Huntington’s disease C. Both have severe depression and anxiety
B. Alzheimer’s D. Parkinson’s D. Both have impaired visuospatial skills

41. The two major features of Autism Spectrum

32. Dementia is/has _____ while Delirium is/has ____ Disorder include:
A. Fast : Slow A. Deficits in social situations and restricted,
B. Reduced awareness: unchanged awareness repetitive patterns of behavior
C. Impoverished thoughts: Disorganized thoughts B. Intellectual disability and deficits in social
D. Hours to week duration: Months to years duration situations
C. Deficits in social communication and inability to
33. Which of the following are the 4As of Alzheimer’s?
identify proper emotional responses
A. Amnesia, Apraxia, Avolition, Aphasia D. Intellectual disability and stereotypical
B. Amnesia, Affective flattening, Apraxia, Anergia movements
C. Apraxia, Aphasia, Anhedonia, Avolition
42. Recent researches (Jones & Klin, 2014) suggest
D. Apraxia, Amnesia, Agnosia, Aphasia
that problems in social communication may be
detected as early as:
34. At what part of the day may a person with
Alzheimer’s be the most disoriented? A. 10 months C. 6 months
B. 1 year D. 8 months
A. Night C. Afternoon
B. Morning D. Noon
43. The relationship children with autism have with
inanimate objects may be described as:
35. Which of the following starts with choreiform
movements which gradually become severe with A. Weak attachments C. Same level with
dementia presenting itself later on?
their parents
A. Alzheimer’s C. Huntington’s B. Strong attachments D. Absent
B. Vascular dementia D. Parkinson’s attachments

36. Which of the following is a characteristic of punch- 44. Studies on children with autism have found that
drunk syndrome? the area of the brain called ______ is activated when
they process people’s faces:
A. Emotional lability C. Impulsivity
A. Fusiform gyrus C. Inferior temporal gyrus
B. Dysarthria D. All of the above
B. Amygdala D. Ventral tegmental area
37. This theory suggests that mental activity related
to education throughout the years serve as a buffer to 45. Some children with ASD often engage in self-
the development of dementia: injurious behaviors as a way to:

A. Cognitive reserve hypothesis A. Self-stimulate

B. Social stress model B. Express suicidal tendencies
C. Cognitive maximization C. Increase social motivation
D. Social drift hypothesis D. Feel something

46. In the 1950s, ADHD was once called:

A. Hyperkinesis
38. Which of the following increases the risk for B. Briquet Syndrome
traumatic brain injury leading to neurocognitive C. Savants
disorder? D. Hypokinesia

A. Being a child
B. Alcohol intoxication 47. A child who meets criteria for inattention but not
C. Deposits of protein in the brain for hyperactivity may be diagnosed with:
D. Having a lower SES
A. ADHD-HI
B. ADHD-PI
39. People with Parkinson’s disease experience C. ADHD-C
inability to control muscle movements. This is due to D. None of the above
damage in the _____ pathways
48. A deficit in _____ leads to Gabriel, a child with
A. Serotonin C. ADHD, to have poor performance on the activity given
Acetylcholine to him by his teacher. His teacher tells you that
B. Dopamine D. GABA Gabriel always answers too quickly in situations that
he should have been more careful. What is this
deficit?
40. Which of the ff. is true when comparing cortical vs.
subcortical dementias? A. Alerting C.
Attentional capacity

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B. Fight-flight response D.
Intelligence

49. Which of the following is the best predictor for

rule-breaking behavior among children with ADHD?

A. Cognitive impulsivity C.
Behavioral impulsivity
B. Emotional impulsivity D. All of
the above

50. When diagnosing a child with ADHD, you consider

the ff. EXCEPT FOR?

A. Presence of illness or any stressful life events

B. Equal importance of parent-teacher reports
C. ADHD Rating scales being the single most valid
indicator
D. Having ADHD symptoms but still being functional

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