SparkNotes: Psychological Disorders: Sample Quiz Questions

1. A person’s tendency to become addicted to a drug depends not only on the properties of the drug but also on the reason the person uses the drug. What does this observation suggest?

(A) There is a genetic predisposition to drug addiction

(B) Psychological factors influence drug addiction

(C) Drug addiction depends on the biochemistry of a drug

(D) None of the above

2. Which is likely true about people with somatoform disorders?

(A) They intentionally produce their symptoms

(B) They have symptoms that are caused by a medical condition

(C) They may pay too much attention to bodily symptoms

(D) They do not experience real symptoms

3. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder often do which of the following?

(A) Experience anxiety-producing thoughts, impulses, or images

(B) Have panic attacks

(C) Have false beliefs that they hold despite contradictory evidence

(D) Have sensory or perceptual experiences that occur without an external stimulus

4. Which disorder is characterized by an inability to remember a traumatic incident?

(A) Post–traumatic stress disorder

(B) Conversion disorder

(C) Schizophrenia

(D) Dissociative amnesia

5. Which of the following might contribute to the onset of antisocial personality disorder?

(A) Abnormal physiological arousal

(B) An inability to control impulses

(C) Brain damage

(D) All of the above

6. Which subtype of schizophrenia often involves relatively normal cognitive functioning?

(A) The paranoid type

(B) The disorganized type

(C) The catatonic type

(D) The undifferentiated type

7. Which is likely true about people with anorexia nervosa?

(A) They do not binge eat

(B) They tend to be relatively physically healthy

(C) They tend to be rigidly confident that they won’t gain weight

(D) They do not have normal body weight

8. Which of the following is likely to be implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia?

(A) A histrionic personality type

(B) Learned helplessness

(C) Dopamine

(D) All of the above

9. What is a culture-bound disorder?

(A) A disorder that is bound to occur in most cultures

(B) A disorder specific to a particular cultural context

(C) A disorder not included in one of the DSM’s diagnostic categories

(D) Any disorder whose onset is highly influenced by cultural factors

10. Insanity refers to which of the following?

(A) The inability to take responsibility for one’s actions

(B) The existence of a psychological disorder

(C) A defense available to someone who committed a crime and who has a psychological disorder

(D) A specific diagnostic category in the DSM