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Take a Diagnostic Exam ❮ 25- The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-
IV-TR)
(A) is meant to be used by psychiatrists, but not
psychologists
(B) describes the causes of a variety of mental
disorders
(C) explains why homosexuality should be con-
sidered a mental disorder
(D) contains case illustrations to help diagnosti-
cians identify a client’s disorder
(E) defines categories of mental disorders in
terms of symptoms - Which is a behavioral therapy that has proven
successful in treating phobias?
(A) electroconvulsive shock treatment
(B) group therapy
(C) psychosurgery
(D) systematic desensitization
(E) rational emotive therapy - Psychoanalytic therapy and humanistic therapy
differ in that psychoanalytic therapy focuses on
(A) the present and humanistic therapy focuses
on the future
(B) subconscious and preconscious thoughts and
humanistic therapy focuses on conscious
thoughts
(C) curing illness and humanistic therapy focuses
on preventing illness
(D) fixations and humanistic therapy focuses on
insight
(E) probing past feelings and humanistic therapy
focuses on exploring feelings as they occur - Clients who drink too much alcohol are some-
times treated with a drug that causes nausea if the
client consumes alcohol. This type of therapy is
known as
(A) systematic desensitization
(B) progressive relaxation
(C) client centered therapy
(D) aversive conditioning
(E) psychodynamic therapy
63. Light therapy, consisting of exposure to bright
light in the morning, has been successful in
relieving symptoms of
(A) bipolar disorder
(B) seasonal affective disorder
(C) disorganized schizophrenia
(D) obsessive-compulsive disorder
(E) Alzheimer’s disease
64. Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil help elevate mood by
(A) increasing the availability of serotonin to post
synaptic neurons
(B) decreasing the availability of norepinephrine
to post synaptic neurons
(C) facilitating reuptake of serotonin
(D) acting as agonists of dopamine
(E) preventing reuptake of dopamine
65. A college professor asked a biology teacher to let
a college student observe her teaching for one
period. After the student observed the teacher,
the professor asked the teacher to accept the stu-
dent as a student teacher for 10 weeks. She
agreed. The strategy the professor used to get the
teacher to agree is called
(A) cognitive dissonance
(B) foot-in-the-door phenomenon
(C) obedience to authority
(D) normative social influence
(E) conformity
66. As part of each lab, Ms. Geraci requires her stu-
dents to wash their glassware so it is clean for the
next class. She has found that the glassware is
cleaner when students wash it in full view of their
classmates. This is best explained by
(A) deindividuation
(B) the mere exposure effect
(C) social facilitation
(D) social loafing
(E) superordinate goals
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