Test Bank For Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology 8th Edition By Comer
| 1. | Fear differs from anxiety in that: | |
| A) | fear is a response to a specific threat and anxiety is more general. | |
| B) | anxiety is more likely to lead to aggression than is fear. | |
| C) | anxiety is a response to an interpersonal threat and fear is to an inanimate threat. | |
| D) | anxiety is an immediate response; fear is more vague. | |
| 2. | The MOST common mental disorders in the United States are: | |
| A) | mood disorders. | |
| B) | anxiety disorders. | |
| C) | personality disorders. | |
| D) | sexual disorders. | |
| 3. | Which is an anxiety disorder? | |
| A) | schizophrenia | |
| B) | bipolar disorder | |
| C) | major depression | |
| D) | obsessive-compulsive disorder | |
| 4. | Leila always feels threatened and anxious—imagining something awful is about to happen. She is able to work and care for her family, although not as well as she would like. Leila is probably experiencing: | |
| A) | a generalized anxiety disorder. | |
| B) | a hormonal imbalance. | |
| C) | no specific problem; she just likes to worry. | |
| D) | a specific fear response. | |
| 5. | A person who is restless, keyed up, and on edge for no apparent reason is experiencing: | |
| A) | free-floating anxiety. | |
| B) | specific anxiety. | |
| C) | fearful anxiety. | |
| D) | obsessions. | |
| 6. | According to DSM-5, one must demonstrate symptoms of edginess, sleep changes, distress, and excessive worry for ______ to be diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. | |
| A) | two months | |
| B) | six months | |
| C) | four months | |
| D) | five months | |
| 7. | Someone interested in the effects of social change, poverty, and race on the risk for generalized anxiety disorders probably represents the _____ perspective. | |
| A) | sociocultural | |
| B) | psychodynamic | |
| C) | humanistic-existential | |
| D) | cognitive | |
| 8. | “Who wouldn’t be afraid all the time? We have the bomb, overpopulation, AIDS, and violent crime everywhere. It is difficult to get a good job unless you understand all that complicated computer junk.” This complaint is consistent with a _____ explanation of generalized anxiety disorder. | |
| A) | behavioral | |
| B) | humanistic | |
| C) | sociocultural | |
| D) | psychodynamic | |
| 9. | Generalized anxiety disorder is MORE common: | |
| A) | in African Americans than in white Americans. | |
| B) | in men than in women. | |
| C) | years after traumatic events, rather than immediately after those events. | |
| D) | in wealthy people than in poor people. | |
| 10. | One limitation of the sociocultural approach to understanding generalized anxiety disorders is that it cannot explain: | |
| A) | the paradox that as poverty gets worse, generalized anxiety declines. | |
| B) | the relationship between race, poverty, and job opportunity. | |
| C) | why everyone who experiences danger doesn’t experience generalized anxiety. | |
| D) | the differences in generalized anxiety in countries around the world. | |
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.