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Chapter 03 Test Bank
1. According to the research evidence, the most effective treatment for

obsessive-compulsive disorder is:
2. medication.
1. cognitive behaviour therapy.
1. psychosurgery.
1. behavioural macros.
1. skills training.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 3.3 Describe the essential elements of contemporary
treatment approaches to OCD.
Topic: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Related Disorders

2. Which obsessive-compulsive disorder is reported to be associated with

a substantial risk to health and safety?
3. excessive concern about the appearance
1. compulsive checking
1. hoarding
1. hand washing
1. obsessional thoughts

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 3.4 Describe the nature and diagnostic criteria for
hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania and excoriation
disorder.

3. Obsessive-compulsive disorder has a prevalence rate of about:

4. 2–3 per cent.

1. 1 per cent.
1. 0.2 per cent.
1. 0.1 per cent.
1. 0.3 per cent

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 3.2 Describe the epidemiology and aetiological accounts
of OCD.

4. If John spends eight hours a day checking that electrical appliances in

his house are switched off, he is:
5. showing poor insight into his behaviour.
1. being obsessive.
1. being overly cautious.
1. distracting himself from unwanted impulses.

1. being compulsive.

Blooms: Application
Difficulty: Easy
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

5. In the DSM-5, OCD is now grouped with related disorders. Which of the

following is not a related disorder?
6. body dysmorphic disorder
1. hoarding disorder
1. generalised anxiety and worry disorder
1. trichotillomania
1. excoriation (skin picking)

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy

6. Research supports the view that obsessional thoughts experienced by
OCD sufferers are no different from those experienced by the general
population. However, in OCD sufferers:
7. the obsessional thoughts are very negative.
1. the obsessional thoughts are very aggressive and/or sexual in nature.
1. the obsessional thoughts are awarded a special significance.
1. the obsessional thoughts arise ‘out of the blue’.
1. None of the options listed is correct.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Hard

7. The main reason for the removal of OCD from the anxiety chapter in
the DSM-5 was:
8. to reflect that OCD, hair pulling, hoarding and skin picking are related in
diagnosis and treatment.
1. to provide more space in the DSM for the diagnosis of hair pulling,

hoarding and skin picking.
1. to reflect that OCD is not related to anxiety disorders.

1. to more accurately reflect the distinction between OCD and psychotic

disorders.
1. None of the options listed is correct

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Hard

8. According to the DSM-5, the presence of OCD is diagnosed using which

criteria?
9. Obsessions and compulsions that cause distress and interfere with
social and occupational functioning.
1. Obsessions or compulsions that cause distress and interfere with social

and occupational functioning.
1. Obsessions and/or compulsions that are not a product of the person’s

own mind and that cause distress and interfere with social and
occupational functioning.
1. Obsessions, compulsions, poor insight, history of a tic disorder and

distress that interfere with social and occupational functioning.

1. Obsessions and/or compulsions that cause distress, are time-
consuming, interfere with social and occupational functioning and are
not attributed to a substance, medical condition or other disorder.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium

9. According to Australian research, what is a common element of

obsession in individuals with OCD in the Australian population?
10. Being contaminated by germs.
1. Fire, robbery or being assaulted.
1. Losing one’s mind.
1. Acting on an impulse such as stabbing a friend.
1. All of the listed options are correct.

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium

10. There are two models that attempt to explain the aetiology of
OCD—the neuropsychological model and the cognitive model. Which of
the following is not recognised as a possible trigger of OCD?
11. Misinterpretation of intrusive thoughts.
1. Differences in the caudate nucleus and the basal ganglia.
1. Failure to inhibit ‘behavioural macros’ triggered by internal or external

stimuli.
1. Fearful, obsessive or intrusive thoughts that are ignored and left

untreated.
1. Behavioural responses driven by the desire to reduce threat.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Hard
of OCD.

11. OCD is regarded as a particularly serious condition because:

12. anyone can develop it.
1. treatment is not generally effective.
1. it is associated with early onset and lifetime prevalence.

1. it can lead to hoarding or hair pulling.
1. most people do not seek treatment.

Blooms: Comprehension
Difficulty: Medium
of OCD.

12. Which of these is not a common task in cognitive-behavioural

treatment of OCD?
13. exposure
1. behavioural experiments
1. confronting patients with germs and disease
1. challenging irrational beliefs
1. psychoeducation

Difficulty: Medium

13. What percentage of OCD sufferers benefit from pharmacological

therapy such as clomipramine?
14. 2–3 per cent
1. 40–60 per cent
1. 95 per cent
1. 10–20 per cent
1. 80–90 per cent

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium

14. Diana is concerned about her physical appearance. She

constantly thinks that her body is the wrong shape and size, despite
having had cosmetic surgery. Diana is displaying signs of:
15. anorexia nervosa.
1. generalised anxiety.

1. body dysmorphic disorder.
1. obsessions.
1. bulimia.

Blooms: Application
Difficulty: Easy
disorder.

15. Trichotillomania is:

16. obsession with what others are thinking.
1. recurrent pulling out of one’s own hair.
1. shoplifting.
1. repeated waxing or plucking of facial hair.
1. intrusive thoughts about death.

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
disorder.

Chapter 03 Test Bank Summary
Category
Blooms: Analysis
Blooms: Application
Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
Difficulty: Hard
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 3.1 Describe the nature and diagnostic criteria for obsessive-compulsi
Learning Objective: 3.2 Describe the epidemiology and aetiological accounts of OCD.
Learning Objective: 3.3 Describe the essential elements of contemporary treatment approa
Learning Objective: 3.4 Describe the nature and diagnostic criteria for hoarding disorder, b
nia and excoriation disorder.

Chapter 05 Test Bank
1. The suicide rate in Australia has _______ since the late 1990s.
2. declined
1. increased
1. stayed the same
1. doubled
1. None of the given options is correct.

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 5.2 Understand the prevalence of depression in various
groups and its associated features.
Topic: Suicide

2. Unipolar depression is different from normal unhappiness in that:

3. it is precipitated by psychosocial stressors.
1. it is precipitated by negative life events.
1. the depressed mood is more intense and/or lasts longer.

1. it involves manic episodes.
1. it is accompanied by physical symptoms.

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Disorders Involving Alterations in Mood

3. Postnatal depression is a:
4. brief period of depression after childbirth, occurring in 70 per cent of
women.
1. less common but serious disorder after childbirth.
1. mild long-term condition, involving low mood, which does not meet the
criteria for depression.
1. type of depression that does not respond to medication.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium

4. After a first episode of depression, most people will:

5. seek professional treatment as soon as possible.
1. recover within one week.
1. make a suicide attempt.
1. never have another depressive episode (recovery).
1. have another depressive episode (relapse).

Difficulty: Hard
Topic: Unipolar Depression/Depressive Disorders

5. A major depressive disorder is characterised by the following

symptoms except:
6. grandiosity.
1. weight loss.
1. sleep disturbance.
1. psychomotor agitation or retardation.

1. excessive guilt feelings.

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 5.1 Describe the diagnostic criteria for depressive
disorders.

6. Which of the following is not a specifier to major depressive disorder?

7. elevated mood (mixed features)
1. onset of depression during season changes
1. onset due to grief
1. movement disturbances
1. inability to experience any positive feeling

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium
disorders.

7. Among adolescents in developed countries, depressive disorders:

8. are more common in boys than in girls.

1. are more common in girls than in boys.
1. are equally common in boys and girls.
1. are more common in urban than in rural young people.
1. have been decreasing in prevalence in the past 10–15 years.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium

8. The association between depression and physical/medical illness

is not explained by:
9. better immune functioning in people with depression.
1. ongoing stressors of dealing with a medical illness.
1. physical/hormonal changes due to medical illness.
1. unhealthy lifestyle choices by people with depression.

1. increased rates of death following a cardiac event.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Hard

9. Which of the following does current research evidence not support as

an effective treatment for depression?
10. interpersonal psychotherapy
1. medication
1. cognitive behaviour therapy
1. bright light therapy
1. All of the given options are effective treatments for depression.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 5.4 Understand the effective treatments for depressive
disorders and approaches to reducing relapse and preventing the onset of
depression.
Topic: Treatment of Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

10. Within six months following treatment, approximately what
percentage of people with major depression will experience recovery?
11. 5 per cent
1. 15 per cent
1. 35 per cent
1. 50 per cent
1. 80 per cent

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy

11. Neuroendocrine (hormonal) theories of depression suggest that

one cause of depression may be:
12. an underactive HPA axis producing too few stress hormones.
1. an overactive HPA axis producing too many stress hormones.
1. reduced availability of monoamine neurotransmitters.

1. structural or functional abnormalities of brain structures.
1. decreased availability of dopamine within the brain.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 5.3 Understand the current biological, psychological and
social theories of the causes of major depressive disorder.

12. Seligman’s learned helplessness theory suggests that depressive

disorders may develop when individuals interpret negative life events as
being due to:
13. external events that they cannot control.
1. magnification and minimisation.
1. negative events in childhood.
1. high levels of expressed emotion.
1. internal, global and stable factors.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium

13. Aaron Beck’s definition of the ‘negative cognitive triad’

does not include a negative view of the:
14. past.
1. future.
1. self.
1. world.

Difficulty: Medium

14. Aaron Beck’s cognitive theory of depression suggests that in

individuals with depression:
15. dysfunctional negative cognitions result in depressive symptoms.
1. depressive symptoms lead to negative cognitions.
1. dysfunctional negative cognitions result in depressive

symptoms and depressive symptoms lead to negative cognitions.

1. neither do dysfunctional negative cognitions result in depressive

symptoms nor do depressive symptoms lead to negative cognitions.
1. depressive symptoms result in negative cognitions.

Difficulty: Medium

15. A new specifier—major depressive disorder with anxious distress-

has been incorporated into the DSM-5 for all of the following
reasons except:
16. the strong comorbidity between depression and anxiety problems.
1. the increased risk of suicide associated with mixed anxiety and

depression.
1. the longer length of the depressive episode when depression is mixed

with anxiety.
1. to enable clinicians to identify people at risk of a full-blown major

depressive disorder or a significant anxiety disorder.
1. All of the given options are correct.

Difficulty: Hard
disorders.

16. An Australian research team has argued for a subtyping model

with three broad classes of depressive disorders: psychotic, melancholic
and non-melancholic. Which of the following are theorised to be
primarily biologically based?
17. melancholic and non-melancholic depression
1. psychotic and melancholic depression
1. psychotic and non-melancholic depression
1. psychotic and non-psychotic depression
1. melancholic, non-melancholic and psychotic depression

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Hard
disorders.

17. Behavioural theories of depression focus on the environmental

conditions and contingencies and suggest that depression is maintained
because of:
18. negative beliefs about the self and others.

1. reduced opportunity for positive reinforcers.
1. reduced serotonin.
1. dysfunctional parent–child relationships.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium

18. The family communication style known as high expressed

emotion (EE) entails high levels of all of the following except:
19. support.
1. criticism.
1. hostility.
1. over-involvement.


Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy

19. Which of the following are considered protective factors that

reduce an individual’s chance of depression?
20. good interpersonal skills and positive relationships with others
1. high levels of family cohesion
1. a temperament characterised by optimism and low anxiety
1. an openness to the possibility of exploring new experiences

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy

20. A major depressive disorder with melancholy has all of the

following features except:
21. inability to experience pleasure.
1. early-morning wakening.
1. excessive guilt.
1. weight loss.
1. catatonic symptoms.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Medium
disorders.

21. What percentage of people with a major depressive disorder also

experience significant anxiety symptoms?
22. 5 per cent
1. 10 per cent
1. 25 per cent
1. 50 per cent

1. 70 per cent

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
disorders.

22. In the DSM-5, dysthymic disorder has been renamed as:

23. depressive personality disorder.
1. low-level chronic depressive disorder.
1. persistent depressive disorder.
1. mood dysregulation disorder.
1. endogenous depression.

Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
disorders.

23. The shorter form of the 5-HTTLPT gene sequence is associated

with:
24. greater efficiency in serotonin reuptake at brain synapses.
1. lower efficiency in serotonin reuptake at brain synapses.
1. greater efficiency in dopamine reuptake at brain synapses.
1. lower efficiency in dopamine reuptake at brain synapses.

Blooms: Analysis
Difficulty: Hard

24. Risk factors associated with the development of a depressive

disorder in young people include all of the following except:
25. previous history of depression.
1. cigarette smoking.
1. history of abuse.
1. family conflict.

1. None of the options given is correct.

Difficulty: Easy

25. According to Aaron Beck, the negative cognitive triad is

maintained by the following cognitive distortions, except:
26. pessimism.
1. arbitrary inference.
1. magnification.
1. personalisation.
1. over-generalisation.

Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 5.4 Understand the effective treatments for depressive
disorders and approaches to reducing relapse and preventing the onset of
depression.

Chapter 05 Test Bank Summary
Category
Blooms: Analysis
Blooms: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
Difficulty: Hard
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 5.1 Describe the diagnostic criteria for depressive disorders.
Learning Objective: 5.2 Understand the prevalence of depression in various groups and its
Learning Objective: 5.3 Understand the current biological, psychological and social theorie
sorder.
Learning Objective: 5.4 Understand the effective treatments for depressive disorders and a
eventing the onset of depression.
Topic: Suicide

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1. According to the research evidence, the most effective treatment for

1. cognitive behaviour therapy.

2. Which obsessive-compulsive disorder is reported to be associated with

3. Obsessive-compulsive disorder has a prevalence rate of about:

1. 0.2 per cent.

1. 0.1 per cent.

1. 0.3 per cent

4. If John spends eight hours a day checking that electrical appliances in

1. being overly cautious.

1. distracting himself from unwanted impulses.

5. In the DSM-5, OCD is now grouped with related disorders. Which of the

1. generalised anxiety and worry disorder

1. excoriation (skin picking)

1. the obsessional thoughts are very aggressive and/or sexual in nature.

1. the obsessional thoughts are awarded a special significance.

1. the obsessional thoughts arise ‘out of the blue’.

1. None of the options listed is correct.

1. to provide more space in the DSM for the diagnosis of hair pulling,

1. to reflect that OCD is not related to anxiety disorders.

1. to more accurately reflect the distinction between OCD and psychotic

1. None of the options listed is correct

8. According to the DSM-5, the presence of OCD is diagnosed using which

1. Obsessions or compulsions that cause distress and interfere with social

1. Obsessions and/or compulsions that are not a product of the person’s

1. Obsessions, compulsions, poor insight, history of a tic disorder and

9. According to Australian research, what is a common element of

1. Fire, robbery or being assaulted.

1. Losing one’s mind.

1. Acting on an impulse such as stabbing a friend.

1. All of the listed options are correct.

1. Differences in the caudate nucleus and the basal ganglia.

1. Failure to inhibit ‘behavioural macros’ triggered by internal or external

1. Fearful, obsessive or intrusive thoughts that are ignored and left

1. Behavioural responses driven by the desire to reduce threat.

11. OCD is regarded as a particularly serious condition because:

1. treatment is not generally effective.

1. it is associated with early onset and lifetime prevalence.

1. it can lead to hoarding or hair pulling.

1. most people do not seek treatment.

12. Which of these is not a common task in cognitive-behavioural

1. confronting patients with germs and disease

1. challenging irrational beliefs

13. What percentage of OCD sufferers benefit from pharmacological

1. 40–60 per cent

1. 10–20 per cent

1. 80–90 per cent

14. Diana is concerned about her physical appearance. She

1. body dysmorphic disorder.

15. Trichotillomania is:

1. recurrent pulling out of one’s own hair.

1. repeated waxing or plucking of facial hair.

1. intrusive thoughts about death.

1. stayed the same

1. None of the given options is correct.

2. Unipolar depression is different from normal unhappiness in that:

1. it is precipitated by negative life events.

1. the depressed mood is more intense and/or lasts longer.

1. it is accompanied by physical symptoms.

1. less common but serious disorder after childbirth.