more practice psych 1-3

Which statement is true about the four Ds of abnormality?

B. None of the four Ds is, by itself, an adequate gauge of psychological abnormality.

The basis for moral treatment of asylum patients was the belief that:

C. mental illness should be treated humanely and with respect.

In a _____ design, research participants are unaware as to whether they are assigned to the experimental group or the control group

D. Masked or blind

The ABAB design is a type of:

single-case experiment.

The tiny space between the nerve ending of one neuron and the dendrite of the other is the:

D. Synapse

Which model of abnormality focuses on learning and the thinking that underlies behavior?

D. cognitive-behavioral

Cognitive-behavioral approaches used to treat social anxiety disorder aim to:

B. alter illogical thinking patterns and reduce avoidance behaviors.

A _____ test is one that has been set up with common steps to be followed whenever it is administered.

B. standardized

A test is constructed to identify people who will develop schizophrenia. Of the 100 people the test identifies, 93 show signs that they will develop schizophrenia within five years. The test may be said to have high:

A. predictive validity.

The _____ movement has tried to identify a set of common strategies that are present in the work of all effective therapists, regardless of the clinician's particular orientation.

A. rapprochement

Compared with projective tests, personality inventories generally have:

D. greater reliability and greater validity.

Fiona's therapist has asked her to keep a log where she records every occasion where she feels an urge to engage in self-harm. What Fiona has been asked to do is called:

C. self-monitoring.