Pysch 5

When Jolene immigrated from rural Idaho to Taipei, Taiwan because of a job change, she experienced a lot of sleepless nights, hostility of her life circumstances, anxiety attacks, and sense of feeling alone. These are all possible “symptoms” of _____ .

• cognitive dissonance

• homesickness

• acculturative stress

• imposter effect

Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of responses that are triggered by stress?

• bodily effects

• stress inoculation

• upsetting thoughts

• ineffective behavior

Greg has had a frustrating day. First, he bumped his head when he woke up on the bed post. Then he realized that he was out of coffee. During breakfast, he spilled milk on his new rug. When he went out to his car, he saw that  birds had defecated on his new car windshield. After this last straw, he broke down and cried, then started jumping up and down in anger, then decided to call in sick and just ate a big tub of ice-cream in his bathtub.  

Which defense mechanism did Greg exhibit at the end of his frustrating morning?

• denial

• regression

• repression

• projection

Which of the following is the study of links among behavior, stress, disease, and the immune system?

• psychosomatology

• somatic immunology

• immunobiology

• psychoneuroimmunology

Aversion therapy has been used to successfully treat all of the following EXCEPT _____ .

• hiccups, sneezing, and vomiting

• smoking, gambling, and alcoholism

• acute stress and PTSD

• stuttering, nail-biting, and bed-wetting

Despite their best efforts, psychotherapy usually do not work for the majority of clients and could be explained away by confirmation bias and the placebo effect.

• True

• False

Depression in humans is similar to learned helplessness observed in animal experiments.

• True

• False

A person diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (e.g., like various renditions of The Joker in DC Comics) is characterized by lack of remorse, disregard for social conventions, callousness, and could impulsive and aggressive.

• True

• False

In which psychiatric disorder do the victims have occasional, unexpected anxiety attacks in which they believe that they are having a heart attack, are going insane, or are about to die?

• specific phobia

• conversion reaction

• clinical depression

• panic disorder

According to cognitive therapists, which of the following underlies depression?

• unrealistic goals given a person's potential

• unconscious motives from childhood

• negative, self-defeating thoughts

• irrational fears learned from the past