Abnormal Psychology: True or False 1. In some cultures, depression and schizophrenia are nonexistent. 2. The more contact people have with individuals with disorders, the less accepting their attitudes are. 3. About 30 percent of psychologically disordered people are dangerous; that is, they are more likely than other people to commit a crime. 4. Research indicates that in the United States there are more prison inmates with severe mental disorders than there are psychiatric inpatients in all the country’s hospitals. 5. Identical twins who have been raised separately sometimes develop similar phobias. 6. Dissociative identity disorder is a type of schizophrenia. 7. In North America, today’s young adults are three times more likely than their grandparents to report having suffered depression. 8. White Americans commit suicide nearly twice as often as Black Americans do. 9. There is strong evidence for a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia. 10. Twenty-six percent of adult Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.

Answers 1. False 2. False 3. False 4. True 5. True 6. False 7. True 8. True 9. True 10. True

In scoring, students should reverse their responses to items 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, and 20 (1 = 4, 2 = 3, 3 = 2, 4 = 1). They should then add all the numbers to obtain a total score, which can range from 20 to 80. Scores from 50 to 59 suggest mild to moderate depression, from 60 to 69 indicate moderate to severe depression, and 70 and above indicate severe

Scores from 50 to 59 suggest mild to moderate depression, from 60 to 69 indicate moderate to severe depression, and 70 and above indicate severe depression.