PET scan studies have found ___________ in patients diagnosed with OCD.
a) enlarged ventricles
b) decreased activation in the hippocampus
c) increased activation in the frontal lobes
d) enlarged motor cortex
Question 2Heinrichs (2005 ) found that the effect sizes that link schizophrenia and neuropsychological functions showed magnitudes at least twice as large as studies that link schizophrenia with structural brain imaging. He concluded that:
a) The findings prove there is no evidence of actual illness-related brain disturbance
b) Chronic stress and distress have a strong influence on cognition in those prone to this disorder
c) Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia must be due to brain injury
d) Methodological flaws are evident in previous brain imaging studies due to use of aging equipment
Question 3When Lucy found out that she didn't get into graduate school, her response was to go out and rent a movie in order to self-soothe. What type of coping can she be said to be employing?
a) Escape/avoidance
b) Palliative coping
c) Outward-focused coping
d) Experiential coping
Question 4Consciousness is usually a unified experience. When it is disrupted, what is the result?
a) Hysteria
b) Conversion disorder
c) Dissociative disorders
d) Memory loss
Question 5A criticism in the current formulations of helplessness/hopelessness depression theories is that:
a) It uses circular reasoning to suggest that hopelessness depression is caused by hopelessness.
b) The findings may not be specific to depression.
c) The depressive attributional style tend to disappear when depression remits
d) All of the above
Question 6The obsessive thought that if I have unwanted thoughts of harming others, then I must be a latent psychopath, is an example of which type of 'faulty appraisal'?
a) Over-importance of thoughts
b) Thought-action fusion
c) Ego-dystonicity
d) Catastrophic misinterpretation of significance