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Question #1
What percentage of people become irritated if they must depart from their routines?
A.   40 percent
B.   50 percent
C.   20 percent
D.   30 percent
Question #2
A client receiving treatment for identity disorder is progressing well through therapy; then, fusion occurs. MOST likely, the client has:
A.   experienced a significant, and long-term, setback.
B.   experienced a significant, but short-term, setback.
C.   merged the final two or more subpersonalities.
D.   merged the first two or more subpersonalities.
Question #3
A woman constantly avoids crowded streets and buildings, and she is very reluctant to leave home, even with a friend. Recently, she has started experiencing extreme, sudden fear every time she enters a crowded street. MOST likely, this woman would be diagnosed with:
A.   agoraphobia and panic disorder.
B.   panic disorder.
C.   panic attacks.
D.   agoraphobia.
Question #4
Which statement BEST describes the difference between dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue?
A.   Those with dissociative fugue change where they live.
B.   Those with dissociative fugue experience a loss of semantic, rather than episodic knowledge.
C.   Those with dissociative amnesia often develop amnesia without experiencing an upsetting event.
D.   Those with dissociative amnesia experience a loss of semantic, rather than episodic, knowledge.
Question #5
The people MOST likely to develop stress disorders lived their childhood in:
A.   poverty and had parents who divorced when the people were in their teens.
B.   well-to-do families and had parents who divorced when the people were younger than 10 years old.
C.   well-to-do families and had parents who divorced when the people were in their teens.
D.   poverty and had parents who divorced when the people were younger than 10 years old.
Question #6
According to Freud, children who are punished or threatened for expressing their id impulses may develop:
A.   neurotic anxiety.
B.   moral anxiety.
C.   existential anxiety.
D.   realistic anxiety.
Question #7
Which is the MOST common experience for a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
A.   seeing friends seriously wounded or killed
B.   being treated for a combat-related stress disorder
C.   seeing dead or gravely wounded civilians
D.   being injured or hospitalized themselves
Question #8
Research on evoked potential with people with dissociative identity disorder has revealed that:
A.   control subjects who were asked to pretend they had different personalities were able to create different brain response patterns for each subpersonality.
B.   no differences were found in brain activity between controls and individuals with dissociative identity disorder.
C.   different subpersonalities have shown different brain response patterns.
D.   people with dissociative identity disorder did not show different brain response patterns for subpersonalities.
Question #9
What characteristic is MOST common to both self-hypnosis and dissociative identity disorder?
A.   the ability to escape threatening events
B.   the inability to forget
C.   the awareness to know why you forget
D.   the awareness that something has been forgotten
Question #10
Ever since the auto accident, during which he was miraculously unhurt, Paul has not been the same. He forgets appointments, friends' names, and even things done in the last few days. His amnesia is termed:
A.   circumscribed.
B.   continuous.
C.   organic.
D.   selective.
Question #11
A phobic person is taught to imagine the feared items as part of desensitization training. This is an example of the _____ technique.
A.   in vivo
B.   modeling
C.   covert
D.   fear hierarchical flooding
Question #12
Which statement about the use of antidepressants to treat panic disorders is MOST accurate?
A.   The drugs are effective for only about 25 percent of the people who take them.
B.   The drugs must be taken "as needed" rather than on a regular schedule.
C.   Antianxiety drugs are preferred over antidepressants.
D.   It appears that all antidepressant drugs that restore norepinephrine help prevent or reduce panic symptoms.
Question #13
The MOST common mental disorders in the United States are:
A.   anxiety disorders.
B.   personality disorders.
C.   sexual disorders.
D.   mood disorders.
Question #14
The first step in treating people with dissociative identity disorder is to:
A.   provide a forum for the subpersonalities to communicate with one another.
B.   integrate the subpersonalities into a unity.
C.   bond with the primary personality.
D.   establish a contract with the subpersonalities to prevent self-harm.
Question #15
Which statement accurately describes the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal pathway of the stress response?
A.   The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release hypothalamic hormone in a feedback loop.
B.   The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce corticosteroids that cause the adrenal gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone.
C.   The hypothalamus produces corticosteroids, which stimulate the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone.
D.   The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release corticosteroids.
Question #16
When all of the subpersonalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder are aware of one another, it is termed a:
A.   mutually cognizant pattern.
B.   mutually amnesic relationship.
C.   coconscious relationship.
D.   one-way amnesic relationship.
Question #17
Based on current research, what is the relationship between personality and stress disorders?
A.   Certain personality characteristics are related to the development of stress disorders, but not to recovery from these disorders.
B.   Personality characteristics are related to neither the development of nor recovery from stress disorders.
C.   Certain personality characteristics are related to recovery from stress disorders, but not to their development.
D.   Personality characteristics are related to both the development of stress disorders and recovery from them.
Question #18
A client who is talking calmly and rationally all of a sudden begins whining and complaining like a spoiled child. If that client suffers from true dissociative identity disorder, the client just experienced:
A.   lability.
B.   switching.
C.   host transfer.
D.   mutual cognizance.
Question #19
One of the subpersonalities of a person receiving treatment for dissociative identity disorder has just become a "protector." How far along in therapy has the person probably progressed?
A.   all the way because a protector usually emerges only after successful therapy is over
B.   very far because a protector usually emerges after subpersonality integration, and before fusion
C.   moderately far because a protector usually emerges before subpersonality integration
D.   not far at all because protectors usually emerge even before the disorder is diagnosed
Question #20
When was acute stress disorder as a result of combat (called "shell shock") first recognized?
A.   during the Vietnam War
B.   during the Iraqi War
C.   during World War I
D.   after World War II

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