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1
As claimed in "Carl Rogers's Life and Work: An Assessment on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth," one of Rogers' insights into counseling was that:
A)the client is the one who knows what hurts.
B)clients have no special insight into what their own problems are.
C)expert theories are particularly reliable guides in counseling.
D)even counselors of average ability are able to manipulate their clients.
2
As discussed in "Carl Rogers's Life and Work: An Assessment on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth," the conditions of the client-centered relationship that Rogers believed necessary include:
A)realizing that clients seeking counseling are often incapable of appreciating or understanding their own situation.
B)congruence in the therapist-client relationship and an understanding by the therapist that clients are incapable of behaving as a normal person would.
C)maintaining complete objectivity and a professional relationship with clients.
D)accepting the client as is and being empathetic.
3
As stated in "Carl Rogers's Life and Work: An Assessment on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth," Rogers' motivation for enrolling in the Union Theological Seminary was his deeply felt theological conviction.
A)True
B)False
4
According to "Freud in Our Midst," the power of Freud's ideas for the treatment of psychiatric disorders can be seen today in the proliferation of:
A)prayer as a means of healing.
B)pharmacological interventions.
C)various talk therapies.
D)electroshock and surgical treatments.
5
As explained in "Freud in Our Midst," Freud's theory of human character development is based on:
A)racial and ethnic characteristics.
B)childhood experience.
C)genetics.
D)religion and morality.
6
As suggested in "Freud in Our Midst," some of Freud's most unpopular theories have dealt with the sexuality of children.
A)True
B)False
7
As cited in "Skepticism of Caricatures: B.F. Skinner Turns 100," Skinner held that the role of genetics in human learning was:
A)non-existent.
B)most dramatic during the evolution of the species.
C)the only factor worth scientific study.
D)significant, but that it was probably impossible to determine how much of the strength of behavior was due to it rather than the environment.
8
As explained in "Skepticism of Caricatures: B.F. Skinner Turns 100," Skinner believed that the human brain has evolved into an organ that is:
A)so well-adapted that it cannot be shaped by experience.
B)capable of being altered by experience.
C)pre-programmed with all the information needed about the world.
D)sensitive to its environment, but incapable of allowing us to understand how it itself works.
9
As noted in "Skepticism of Caricatures: B.F. Skinner Turns 100," Skinner rejected Locke's and Watson's claims about learning, holding instead that learning was solely a matter of environment.
A)True
B)False
10
As cited in "Psychology of Safety: The "Big Five" and You: How Personality Traits Can Affect Behavior," personality characteristics are relevant to:
A)neither injury proneness nor injury prevention.
B)injury proneness, but not injury prevention.
C)injury prevention, but not injury proneness.
D)both injury proneness and injury prevention.
11
As discussed in "Psychology of Safety: The "Big Five" and You: How Personality Traits Can Affect Behavior," the "Big Five" personality traits include:
A)conscientiousness and introversion.
B)aggressiveness and narcissism.
C)openness to experience and agreeableness.
D)neuroticism and eroticism.
12
As stated in "Psychology of Safety: The "Big Five" and You: How Personality Traits Can Affect Behavior," recent research has found that genetics account for about half of individual differences in personality.
A)True
B)False
13
According to "Nature Versus Nurture: How Is Child Psychopathology Developed?" recent studies in the area of gene-environment interaction have found that:
A)personality disorders are inherited and cannot be mitigated.
B)an unhealthy childhood environment is the primary cause of psychiatric problems.
C)the interaction of genetics and environment determines personality and behavior.
D)there is no provable link between genetic and environmental influences.
14
As presented in "Nature Versus Nurture: How Is Child Psychopathology Developed?" a New Zealand study involving childhood maltreatment and the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene found that antisocial behavior in males was the result of:
A)low MAOA activity, regardless of childhood environment.
B)high MAOA activity combined with an adverse childhood environment.
C)low MAOA activity combined with an adverse childhood environment.
D)maltreatment in childhood, regardless of MAOA activity.
15
As noted in "Nature Versus Nurture: How Is Child Psychopathology Developed?" environmental influences during childhood can literally alter the expression of certain behavioral genes.
A)True
B)False
16
As presented in "Empirical Science for the Spotless Mind," the idea that the human mind is blank at birth and is molded throughout life by experience reflects the:
A)"tabula rasa" theory advanced by John Locke.
B)"noble savage" theory advanced by Jean Jacques Rousseau.
C)"cognitive understanding" theory advanced by Steven Pinker.
D)"ghost in the machine" theory advanced by Rene Descartes.
17
According to "Empirical Science for the Spotless Mind," Steven Pinker's primary argument against the "tabula rasa" theory is that:
A)it is impossible to prove whether or not people are born with certain innate characteristics.
B)primitive societies have been shown to be more violent than civilized societies.
C)there has to be some innate mechanisms that allow learning to take place.
D)it has been proven that experiences do not influence behavior.
18
As noted in "Empirical Science for the Spotless Mind," certain brain surgeries can disprove the existence of the body and the soul as separate entities.
A)True
B)True
19
According to "Nature vs. Nurture: Two Brothers With Schizophrenia," the Kraepelinian thinking suggested that the cause at the root of mental illness was:
A)the family.
B)controlled research.
C)organic.
D)upbringing.
20
As noted in "Nature vs. Nurture: Two Brothers With Schizophrenia," disruptive influences can be divided into all of the following causative categories except:
A)political affiliation.
B)genetic.
C)shared environmental.
D)individual-specific environmental.
21
As suggested in "Nature vs. Nurture: Two Brothers With Schizophrenia," there is much to learn regarding the disease process of schizophrenia and its causes.
A)True
B)False
22
The studies on heritabilities for psychological interests, as described in "Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits":
A)gathered data over many years.
B)exclusively involved twins.
C)showed wide variation in heritability across the scales.
D)showed no shared environmental influence.
23
As noted in "Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits," an area in which there are sex differences in heritability is:
A)intelligence.
B)depression.
C)antisocial behavior.
D)religiousness.
24
As stated in "Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits," the genes that influence personality traits differ in the two sexes.
A)True
B)False
25
As reported in "The Amazing Brain: Is Neuroscience the Key to What Makes Us Human?" Ramachandran asserts that knowing how the various brain structures perform their individual operations actually allows one to know:
A)very little about human consciousness.
B)the human soul.
C)what it means to be a conscious human being.
D)the tip of the mind's iceberg.
26
According to "The Amazing Brain: Is Neuroscience the Key to What Makes Us Human?" Ramachandran believes that mental illness:
A)cannot be cured.
B)should be treated by psychiatrists, not neurologists.
C)can be treated and cured only through increased knowledge about the brain.
D)often has an imaginary rather than a neurological cause.
27
As noted in "The Amazing Brain: Is Neuroscience the Key to What Makes Us Human?" Ramachandran believes that the mind can be explained totally in terms of the brain.
A)True
B)False
28
As reported in "His Brain, Her Brain," in comparing relative sizes of brain structures in men and women, researchers have found that a structure that is larger in women is the:
A)parietal cortex.
B)hippocampus.
C)amygdala.
D)left hemisphere.
29
In a study noted in "His Brain, Her Brain," the drug propanolol:
A)made it impossible for men and women to remember anything about the target event.
B)increased the activity of adrenaline.
C)weakened recall of emotionally arousing memories.
D)affected memory the same way in men and women.
30
According to "His Brain, Her Brain," evidence suggests that women possess a greater density of neurons in parts of the temporal lobe cortex associated with language processing and comprehension than men.
A)True
B)False
31
As claimed in "Cultural Psychology: Studying the Exotic Other," cultural psychology focuses on the study of:
A)techniques by which cultural analyses can be used to replace individual-based models of human behavior.
B)ways that culture affects the way professional psychologists approach the study of human behavior.
C)how cultural meanings, practices, and institutions influence and reflect individual human psychologies.
D)the effects of individual human psychologies on cultural practices.
32
As discussed in "Cultural Psychology: Studying the Exotic Other," cultural differences can inform mainstream psychological theorizing in the same way that:
A)reinforcement schedules are used in behavioral psychology.
B)organ transplants are employed in medicine.
C)contradictions are used in formal logic and mathematics.
D)brain injuries inform neuroscience.
33
As noted in "Cultural Psychology: Studying the Exotic Other," cultural psychologists are not interested in discovering psychological universals.
A)True
B)False
34
As suggested in "Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed," successful ambition requires:
A)positive genetic influences.
B)both energy and goals.
C)a desire for money.
D)early parental pressure to succeed.
35
As claimed in "Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed," researchers have found that activity in the limbic region of the brain correlates with:
A)persistence.
B)success.
C)stress.
D)intelligence.
36
As noted in "Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed," studies show that the highest-achieving high-school students have the fewest physical and psychological problems.
A)True
B)False
37
According to "How to Keep Those New Year's Resolutions," making a New Year's resolution can be considered:
A)wishful thinking.
B)goal setting.
C)self delusion.
D)self absorption.
38
As presented in "How to Keep Those New Year's Resolutions," the most popular New Year's resolutions involve actions related to:
A)physical health.
B)mental health.
C)education.
D)money.
39
As set forth in "How to Keep Those New Year's Resolutions," a New Year's resolution without a strategy for achieving it is likely to fail.
A)True
B)False
40
As observed in "Stand and Deliver," Neil Fiore identifies the main reason for procrastination as:
A)poor time management.
B)fear.
C)laziness.
D)attention deficit disorder.
41
According to "Stand and Deliver," compared to other people, procrastinators have higher levels of all of the following except:
A)drinking.
B)insomnia.
C)aggression.
D)flu.
42
As noted in "Stand and Deliver," there is no correlation between procrastination and physical well-being.
A)True
B)False
43
Conclusions about aging reached in "The Biology of Aging" include that:
A)the potential human life span has changed significantly.
B)infertile people tend to die young.
C)the surest way to increase life span is to cut back on calories.
D)nutrition bears no correlation to aging.
44
As reported in "The Biology of Aging," what ultimately does us in is:
A)declining ability to resist disease.
B)wear and tear of movement on tissues.
C)diseases such as cancer.
D)hormones.
45
As noted in "The Biology of Aging," under natural conditions, virtually no creature lives long enough to experience decrepitude.
A)True
B)False
46
The author of "Childhood Is for Children" argues that parents:
A)should compare their children to others to see the good in their own.
B)of difficult children should be pitied.
C)should be grateful for their more challenging children.
D)get the kind of children they deserve.
47
As noted in "Childhood Is for Children," raising a good child:
A)is more accidental than deliberate.
B)is a dubious goal.
C)is seen as the responsibility of citizens in a democracy.
D)should be every parent's objective.
48
As pointed out in "Childhood Is for Children," much of what is diagnosed as attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder is nothing more than a defense against over-structuring.
A)True
B)False
49
As noted in "The Importance of Resilience," the factor that seems to set the tone for the rest of our days is:
A)nutrition in the early years.
B)overall physical health from birth to age three.
C)quality of education in the preschool years.
D)the strength of the parental bond established in the first three years.
50
As reported in "The Importance of Resilience," the skill that Quashone Perry developed that contributed to his resilience was in:
A)mathematics.
B)football.
C)ballet.
D)woodworking.
51
As suggested in "The Importance of Resilience," the quality of parenting appears to have very little to do with a child's level of resilience.
A)True
B)False
52
As maintained in "Kaleidoscope of Parenting Cultures," most non-Western cultures:
A)focus on the empowerment of individualism and autonomy in the child.
B)place little value on early-childhood education.
C)believe in imposing absolute standards on their children.
D)have the same attitudes toward their children as Western cultures.
53
As reported in "What American Schools Can Learn from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," Lev Vygotsky postulated that learning is best accomplished when:
A)children compete against one another.
B)peers work together to solve a problem.
C)academic needs are more important than social needs.
D)rigorous testing is done at term's end.
54
As noted in "What American Schools Can Learn from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," Grace contends that Professor McGonagall is a good teacher because the professor:
A)is lenient in her grading.
B)is not concerned about students' behavior.
C)makes sure her students take no risks.
D)allows students to experiment.
55
As observed in "What American Schools Can Learn from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," teachers in England historically have enjoyed a greater degree of pedagogical freedom in the classroom than have their European counterparts.
A)True
B)False
56
As presented in "The Divided Self," the "fundamental psychological shift" that separates the experiences of today's children from previous generations is the:
A)psychological sophistication of modern-day parenting strategies.
B)increased involvement of parents in their children's day-to-day activities.
C)absence of parental influence on children's inner lives.
D)constant presence of a parent in a child's mind.
57
As defined in "The Divided Self," the "divided-self" experience of today's teens refers to the:
A)presentation of a cool exterior that masks healthy internal passions.
B)need to divide time between many different activities.
C)various technological devices that teens use to stay connected.
D)separation between teens and their parents.
58
As noted in "The Divided Self," a teen's "second family" consists of a step-parent and step- or half-siblings.
A)True
B)False
59
The author of "Staving Off Middle-Age Spread Requires Portion Control and Plenty of Exercise" contends that components of good nutrition include all of the following except:
A)eat a wide variety of foods in moderation.
B)avoid all carbohydrates.
C)avoid high-fat foods.
D)avoid high-sodium foods.
60
According to "Staving Off Middle-Age Spread Requires Portion Control and Plenty of Exercise," trends seen in diet in recent years include:
A)fewer meals eaten in restaurants.
B)smaller portion sizes.
C)more accurate assessments of recommended portion sizes.
D)increase in food dollars spent on meals prepared outside the home.
61
As noted in "Staving Off Middle-Age Spread Requires Portion Control and Plenty of Exercise," all foods that contain fat contribute to health problems.
A)True
B)False
62
According to "Lost & Found," new research with Alzheimer's patients indicates that:
A)the brain-cell death that causes Alzheimer's can be reversed.
B)institutionalization with restraint is the safest situation for Alzheimer's sufferers.
C)Alzheimer's patients can be cured with the right therapies.
D)intellectual stimulation can help mitigate some of the cognitive destruction of Alzheimer's.
63
As claimed in "Lost & Found," most research into Alzheimer's has historically focused on:
A)prevention and delay.
B)treating the later stages.
C)finding a cure.
D)designing appropriate institutions.
64
As profiled in "Lost & Found," Cameron Camp's work with Alzheimer's patients is based on the Montessori method of teaching children.
A)True
B)False
65
As presented in "Good Life, Good Death," the most common reaction humans have to the knowledge of their own mortality is to:
A)deny it.
B)hasten it.
C)welcome it.
D)accept it.
66
As defined in "Good Life, Good Death," "mortality salience" refers to:
A)a person's acceptance of his or her own death.
B)a person's ability to ignore the reality of death.
C)those times when an individual fully realizes that he or she will someday die.
D)a person's feelings of personal immortality.
67
As claimed in "Good Life, Good Death," studies have shown that reminders of an individual's eventual death can lead to rigid, judgmental, and defensive behaviors.
A)True
B)False
68
According to "Mirror, Mirror: Seeing Yourself As Others See You," social anxiety is really just an innate response to:
A)the threat of exclusion.
B)traumatic experiences in childhood.
C)poor parenting.
D)fear of other people.
69
As discussed in "Mirror, Mirror: Seeing Yourself As Others See You," people who handle feedback well are usually:
A)not very curious about the world around them.
B)open to new experiences.
C)narcissists.
D)extremely shy.
70
As noted in "Mirror, Mirror: Seeing Yourself As Others See You," most people have a very unstable view of themselves.
A)True
B)False
71
According to "Feeling Smart: The Science of Emotional Intelligence," emotional intelligence (EQ) has been a controversial concept because:
A)there have been disagreements about how to define and measure it.
B)IQ has been found to be the definitive predictor of life success.
C)research has found that it is better to suppress emotions than use them in life.
D)the concepts of EQ and IQ are at odds with each other.
72
As presented in "Feeling Smart: The Science of Emotional Intelligence," when studying the concepts of emotion and reason in decision-making, researchers have found that:
A)emotion and reason are two distinct, unrelated concepts.
B)the best decisions are made using reason and logic, weighing the pros and cons.
C)lack of emotion can cause decisions that are not in a person's best interests.
D)a person should rely on feelings, not logic, to make decisions.
73
As asserted in "Feeling Smart: The Science of Emotional Intelligence," the most reliable method for measuring a person's EQ is self-reporting.
A)True
B)False
74
According to "What's Your Emotional IQ?" people's emotional intelligence (EI) affects all of the following except:
A)biology.
B)educational choices.
C)health.
D)disease experiences.
75
As cited in "What's Your Emotional IQ?" nearly all the premature deaths in the United States are attributable to:
A)controllable behaviors.
B)psychological perspectives.
C)biomedical interventions.
D)religious tenets.
76
As claimed in "What's Your Emotional IQ?" EI is an important factor in many global and personal issues.
A)True
B)False
77
According to "Us vs. Them," the key to well-being is:
A)allowing ourselves to hate those who have wronged us.
B)spending time with those like ourselves.
C)cultivating compassion.
D)refusing to judge others.
78
As suggested in "Us vs. Them," a person who is in a "contracted" state of being would be more likely to:
A)separate him- or herself from the person or situation at hand.
B)be aware of and remain in the present moment.
C)come up with a creative solution to a problem.
D)accept others as they are.
79
As claimed in "Us vs. Them," the primary reason why we group people who are different from us into a category of "other" or "them" is to feel superior.
A)True
B)False
80
According to "Relationships, Human Behavior, and Psychological Science," the associations between human relationships and biological processes, such as mortality rates, immune system function, and life satisfaction, reflect the influence of:
A)behavior and lifestyle.
B)personality and temperament.
C)evolutionary adaptations.
D)relationship events.
81
As claimed in "Relationships, Human Behavior, and Psychological Science," the most informative factor in a relationship is the partners':
A)degree of closeness.
B)interdependence.
C)length of acquaintance.
D)frequency of contact.
82
As noted in "Relationships, Human Behavior, and Psychological Science," behavioral processes related to the regulation of social relationships manifest only in human beings.
A)True
B)False
83
As claimed in "Budding Friendships Fill Out the Family Tree," for many people in the United States today, relationships with friends are:
A)replacing relationships with family members.
B)causing increased family contact.
C)complementing relationships with family members.
D)weakening family ties.
84
As profiled in "Budding Friendships Fill Out the Family Tree," John Perry's "conventional unconventional family" consists of:
A)a large network of very close friends.
B)his partner and their adopted son.
C)an extended family that he visits often.
D)his partner or his parents, depending on the situation, because each has rejected the other.
85
As noted in "Budding Friendships Fill Out the Family Tree," studies show that having good friends, rather than close family ties, may result in better health and a longer life.
A)True
B)False
86
According to "Nurturing Empathy," a baby who starts to wail when another infant cries is exhibiting:
A)ultra-sensitive hearing.
B)an emotional reflex called copycat grief.
C)extrasensory perception (ESP).
D)sibling rivalry.
87
As noted in "Nurturing Empathy," the most fundamental principle of civilized society is that:
A)infants have extrasensory perception (ESP).
B)children are revered.
C)each person is a separate being with individual proclivities and feelings.
D)each of us can comprehend the feelings of another person.
88
As stated in "Nurturing Empathy," children should never be asked to apologize.
A)True
B)False
89
As suggested in "Contagious Behavior," an example of "contagious behavior" might be:
A)catching pneumonia from a sick coworker.
B)responding with anger to an insult or offensive act.
C)feeling depressed while talking to a friend who is depressed.
D)laughing at a joke that others do not think is funny.
90
As presented in "Contagious Behavior," research shows that people are most likely to internalize the emotion that another person is:
A)describing.
B)displaying.
C)covering up.
D)thinking about.
91
As claimed in "Contagious Behavior," the phenomenon of contagious behavior can be used to cheer up a depressed person or make a sick person feel better.
A)True
B)False
92
Comparing married and single men, the author of "The Emperor's New Woes" notes that married men:
A)work shorter hours.
B)earn more money.
C)give more to charity.
D)work up the career ladder more slowly.
93
As reported in "The Emperor's New Woes," changes that occur when men get married include that they:
A)become more conventional.
B)become less religious.
C)become more liberal.
D)are more likely to engage in risky behavior.
94
As stated in "The Emperor's New Woes," the fathers of today consider themselves an upgrade over the previous generation.
A)True
B)False
95
According to "50th Anniversary: Brown v. Board of Education," among the consequences of the Brown v. Board decision was:
A)more jobs for black teachers.
B)closure of white public schools.
C)more resources for black-community schools.
D)mass departure of whites from schools and communities.
96
As reported in "50th Anniversary: Brown v. Board of Education," the race riots in Beaumont, Texas, were ignited by:
A)a false accusation of rape by a white woman.
B)housing and food shortages.
C)segregated workplaces.
D)the death of a black jail inmate.
97
As noted in "50th Anniversary: Brown v. Board of Education," African American males are assigned the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia more than any other group.
A)True
B)False
98
As presented in "Sick of Poverty," the "socioeconomic status (SES) gradient" refers to the:
A)income spectrum in a society, from the wealthiest individuals to the poorest.
B)correlation between income and health.
C)difference between white male health in a society and that of everyone else.
D)difference between U.S. income and that of other nations.
99
As noted in "Sick of Poverty," a study of British civil-service employees with relation to position, income, and health found that:
A)health conditions were similar, regardless of income, due to universal health insurance.
B)those who made use of available medical care were healthier than those who did not.
C)those in lower-paying jobs had higher mortality rates, regardless of healthcare access.
D)lifestyle choices, such as smoking and drinking, determined illness and mortality rates.
100
As claimed in "Sick of Poverty," there is a significant relationship between the wealth of a country and the health of its citizens.
A)True
B)False
101
As reported in "Work-life: Organizations in Denial," studies of dual earners and single parents indicate that since 1977:
A)people are working fewer hours.
B)job satisfaction has increased.
C)absenteeism at work has declined.
D)there is more conflict between jobs and family life.
102
In looking at work-life initiatives, the author of "Work-life: Organizations in Denial" suggests that the basic problem is that:
A)there are not enough of them.
B)they do not solve the root cause of work-life imbalance.
C)employees are penalized for using them.
D)they interfere too much in employees' private lives.
103
As pointed out in "Work-life: Organizations in Denial," work-family conflict is associated with greater alcohol consumption and substance abuse.
A)True
B)False
104
According to "Life-Saving Communication," one of the biggest problems for the United States in planning for a possible avian flu pandemic is that:
A)the government does not take the avian flu threat seriously.
B)there has not been a sufficient vaccine developed to slow its spread.
C)people do not take threats to their health seriously.
D)the flu is not harmful enough to warrant serious intervention.
105
As claimed in "Life-Saving Communication," if an avian flu outbreak occurs in the United States, containing it will depend on:
A)getting appropriate drugs to all citizens as quickly as possible.
B)keeping people away from birds.
C)enlisting the public's cooperation in controlling its spread.
D)shutting down the basic functions of society.
106
As noted in "Life-Saving Communication," in order to craft safety messages that the public will understand, there must be a knowledge of how people respond to threats and risk.
A)True
B)False
107
According to "Soldier Support," one of the major causes of psychological problems for soldiers in Iraq is the:
A)fear that comes from seeing their fellow soldiers die.
B)frustration they have at being forced to take extended breaks from duty.
C)disenchantment they feel with their government.
D)distrust they have in their military leadership.
108
As claimed in "Soldier Support," one of the primary goals of therapeutic intervention with soldiers in Iraq is to:
A)find loopholes that will allow them to go home.
B)help them to kill without remorse.
C)keep them focused so that they can remain safe.
D)eliminate their fear.
109
As presented in "Soldier Support," military psychologists are not allowed to experience firsthand what the soldiers are experiencing every day.
A)True
B)False
110
According to "Brain Imaging Struggles for Psychiatric Respect," the ultimate goal of brain imaging technology for psychiatrists and neurologists is to:
A)lower suicide rates in patients with psychiatric disorders.
B)determine the link between brain changes and therapeutic effects.
C)predict which specific treatment will best suit each individual patient.
D)improve the accuracy with which certain psychiatric disorders are diagnosed.
111
As presented in "Brain Imaging Struggles for Psychiatric Respect," when compared to the brain images of those with major depressive disorder, the brain images of those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) reveal:
A)consistent and well-defined abnormalities.
B)an array of varying abnormalities.
C)normal function in all areas of the brain.
D)decreased blood flow and neuronal activity in the brain.
112
As claimed in "Brain Imaging Struggles for Psychiatric Respect," the current means of deciding on effective treatments for mentally ill patients is trial and error.
A)True
B)False
113
Conclusions about depression reached in "Are We Becoming a Nation of Depressives?" include that it:
A)may be caused in part by mundane jobs.
B)is decreasing in prevalence in modern society.
C)does not go away if not treated.
D)is not genuinely helped by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
114
As noted in "Are We Becoming a Nation of Depressives?" the newer medications prescribed for depression:
A)are less expensive than the old ones.
B)have fewer side effects than the old ones.
C)are more effective than any that have been used in the past.
D)are less widely prescribed than older medications because of cost.
115
According to "Are We Becoming a Nation of Depressives?" a variety of physical ailments have been linked to the onset of depression is some individuals.
A)True
B)False
116
As addressed in "Drugs vs. Talk Therapy," a survey of more than 3,000 people suffering from depression or anxiety and seeking treatment found that:
A)virtually none of them experienced a long-term improvement in their conditions.
B)about 25 percent were helped by the treatment.
C)60 percent claimed to be cured of their mental disorder.
D)more than 80 percent said they found treatment that helped.
117
As defined in "Drugs vs. Talk Therapy," in the decade from 1994 the percentage of respondents who received drug treatments for mental illness:
A)decreased from 25 percent to less than 5 percent.
B)dropped from 73 percent to 22 percent.
C)increased from 66 percent to 80 percent.
D)rose from 40 percent to 68 percent.
118
As disclosed in "Drugs vs. Talk Therapy," a combination of talk and drug therapy was superior to talk or drug therapy alone.
A)True
B)False
119
As presented in "Body of Emotion," the new field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) studies the link between:
A)disease and immune-system function.
B)emotions and stress.
C)genetics and disease.
D)emotions and physical illness.
120
As described in "Body of Emotion," peptides and peptide receptors in the body allow for the:
A)mind to block out traumatic or emotionally upsetting experiences.
B)storage of emotional memories in physical body tissue.
C)migration of a disease throughout the body.
D)brain to react to outside stimuli.
121
As claimed in "Body of Emotion," if a person's immune system is strong and healthy, he or she does not have to worry about emotional imbalance.
A)True
B)False
122
As presented in "20 Weeks to Happiness," the primary difference between the new Positive Psychology and more traditional approaches to therapeutic intervention is that Positive Psychology:
A)draws from newly discovered approaches to happiness.
B)focuses on mental health rather than mental illness.
C)involves talking out a problem rather than covering it up with medication.
D)deals with correcting or eliminating weaknesses.
123
According to "20 Weeks to Happiness," the "new vision" of practitioners of Positive Psychology involves seeing psychology as a:
A)cure for disease.
B)method of study and research.
C)quest for effortless personal transformation.
D)way of life.
124
As claimed in "20 Weeks to Happiness," one of the issues that the Positive Psychology class resolved for the author was his feeling of loneliness.
A)True
B)False





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