psych mock - psycho.

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    • What are social norms influenced by?
      Culture, time, context
    • Individuals who break the norms of their society are considered socially deviant
    • Tolerance to homosexuality varies across cultures.
      True
    • Diagnosing someone moving to a new culture as abnormal based on the new cultural norms can be inappropriate
    • Why is diagnosing abnormality using social norms considered non-ethnocentric?
      Avoids Western cultural bias
    • Failure to function adequately includes the inability to cope with daily challenges.
      True
    • Which group is seven times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the UK?
      Afro-Caribbean
    • Failure to function adequately respects the individual's personal experience
    • What are Rosenal and Seligman's features of failure to function adequately?
      Maladaptive behavior, irrational actions, personal anguish, observer discomfort
    • Why do psychopaths often function in society despite low empathy?
      Empathy is not required
    • Statistical infrequency judges abnormality using objective statistics.
      True
    • What is the upper threshold for intellectual disability disorder in the DSM 5?
      70 IQ points
    • Individuals with IQs of 130 are statistically as rare as those with IQs of 70
    • What percentage of people surveyed met the criteria for a common mental health disorder according to the NHS?
      17%
    • Statistical infrequency considers all statistically rare traits as negative.
      False
    • Joda's six features of ideal mental health include environmental mastery and accurate perception of reality
    • What does deviation from ideal mental health focus on?
      Features of mental health
    • Deviation from ideal mental health suggests how problems can be overcome.
      True
    • Phobias involve behavioral avoidance, panic, and failure to function
    • Why is deviation from ideal mental health considered too strict as a definition of mental health?
      It's challenging to achieve all criteria
    • Irrational thoughts and exaggerated beliefs are cognitive characteristics of phobias.
      True
    • What is the emotional response associated with phobias?
      Fear
    • What are two behavioral changes associated with depression?
      Reduced activity level, change in eating behavior
    • Compulsions in OCD are behaviors performed to reduce anxiety.
      True
    • What is a key emotional symptom of depression?
      Sadness
    • Hypervigilance in OCD involves a permanent state of alertness
    • The two-process model of phobias includes classical and operant conditioning.
      True
    • What is the behavioral approach to explaining phobias?
      Phobias are learned by experience
    • In the two-process model, generalization occurs when fear responses extend to similar stimuli
    • What did Watson and Rayner's study with Little Albert demonstrate?
      Phobias can be acquired through association
    • Evolutionary theory may explain why phobias of snakes are more common than phobias of knives.
      True
    • In flooding, the client remains exposed to the phobic stimulus until their anxiety subsides
    • What is the goal of systematic desensitization in treating phobias?
      Replace fear with relaxation
    • What did Garcia-Palacios find regarding VR exposure for spider phobias?
      83% improvement
    • Systematic desensitization is more effective for specific phobias than social phobias.
      True
    • What does Beck's negative triad refer to?
      Negative views of self, world, future
    • In Ellis's ABC model, rational beliefs lead to positive consequences, while irrational beliefs lead to negative consequences
    • Negative thinking styles during pregnancy increase the likelihood of postpartum depression.
      True
    • What did March's study on CBT and drug therapy for depression find?
      Effectiveness rate of 81%
    • CBT is equally effective as drug therapy for treating depression.
      True
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