Welcome to the Abnormal Psychology final exam disguised as tthe 18 Hole Holiday Tiger Tournament.  This is a test.  This is only a test.  If it had been an actual emergency, I would have instructed you to be more anxious that you already are.  Seriously though, there are 18 holes, aka 18 questions.   No more, no less, but you don't get more than one shot to get the ball in the hole.   Each correct answer will be recorded on your virtual golf score card as a hole in one.

Are you ready?  Let's begin.

1.  The movie, the Soloist, the skit performed by the class in the studio, and the song, Homeless 4 the Holidays, penned by your instructor and also performed yours truly (featuring your magnificantly skilled classmate, Patricia Mikel), all deal with the subject of:

a.  homelessness and/or the homeless mentally ill

b.  Tiger Wood's infidelity and his wife's alleged violent reaction

c.  depression

d.  none of the above

2.  The movie, The Karen Carpenter Story, deals with the subject of Karen's outstandingly successful musical career and her, ultimately fatal struggle with...

a.  Paranoid Schizophrenia

b.  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

c.  Anorexia Nervousa

d.  None of the above


3.  Which of the following, though also important and essential, is not one of Dr BLT's 3 E's of Education:

a.  Effort

b.  Entertainment

c.  Engagement

d.  Emancipation of the imagination

4.  Dr. BLT uses original music, drama and movies in his classes for the purpose of:

a.  confusing students and creating a choatic diversion

b.  hiding his tendency to leave lesson planning to the last minute

c.  to build a bridge between textbook content and emotionally compelling, culturally relevant phenomena
 
d.  all of the above

5.  In a skit written by students Cathy, Paul and Patricia, when Pat says:

"I'm telling you, Paul, I saw her put blood in the cake today," she is revealing...

a.  the fact that she is color blind

b. a psychotic delusion

6.  Autistic Disorders is listed in your textbook cover and in the DSM-IV-TR under which categories:

a.  Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood or adolecence; Pervasive Developmental Disoders

b.  Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and other Cognitive Disoders; Dementia

c.  none of the above

d.  some of the below

7.  One of you said this, when, in a blog, you were asked how Wade in the movie, "Afflicted," would have been approached in the Middle Ages:

"Wade’s self-destructive spiral would have been described in the Middle Ages as his being possessed by demons. Clergy would have attempted treatment by an exorcism to rid Wade of the evil that possessed him."

This answer is:

a.  True

b.  False

8.  After this one, only 10 more holes to go.  If you're not getting these golf balls in the hole, try a different club.  There's a really "happening" club just down the street from me (just kidding).  In the song, JC Therapy, these lyrics extracted below, suggest a condition:

JC Therapy
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2009

"I am anxious in this place, in a place I can't escape/when I panic/you'll see me/freakin' out/it's embarrassin', see/and my travel is restricted, or endured by marked distress..."

One of your fellow students offered this in response to hearing such lyrics and other lyrics identifying other symptomatology in the song:

"According the symptoms of the person in the song, I would give a multi diagnosis of Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia and Bipolar Disorder."

The student provided:

a.  The correct answer

b.  The incorrect answer

9.  In the skit that you all recently recorded, the final character expresses confusion over the notion of bi-directionality or multi-directionality and asked Patricia and myself to sing a song to add clarification.  The song is based on a bi-directional approach because:

a.  It shows how impoverishment, hunger and drug abuse all interact to perpetuate the problem of homelessness.

b. It contains a message of social responsibility, rather than point a finger at the homeless individual, and this suggests that the subject matter is approached in a bi-directional manner in which social factors and social sources of support are identified. 

c.  Both of the above.

10.  T or F

Scale 3 on the Clinical Scales of the MMPI-2 listed in page 122 of your textbook is Hysteria, abbreviated as (Hy).

11.  Treatment for Stress Disorders, as represented on pages 168-170 of your textbook, includes:

a.  telephone hotlines

b. escape through tabloid gossip focusing on the various alleged mistresses of Tiger Woods and their contribution to his nemesis

c.  psychological first aid

d.  psychological debriefing

e.  medication

12.  T or F

According to page 188 of your textbook "Perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability" play a role in the development of panic, anxiety and their disorders

13.  T or F
According to page 209 in your text, "like all the anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder frequently co-occurs with other mood and anxiety disorders."

14.  T or F

According to page 251 of your text, "A summary of studies using refined diagnostic procedures suggests that about 1 percent of the first-degree relatives of a person with bipolar I illness can be expected to have bipolar disorder, relative to 8 to 9 percent of the general population. 

15.  Read the case study on page 341 of your text, then answer this as T or F:

This case of Bob would qualify as involving a personality disorder (namely, Narcissistic Personality Disorder), because it involves
patterns of behavior that are "pervasive and inflexible, as well as stable and of long duration." 

16.  A hemorrhagic stroke, as depicted in Figure 14.1 on page 500 of your textbook, happens when:

a.  an artery of the brain bursts and either floods the surrounding tissue with blood or floods the surface and grooves of the brain

b.  the blood irritates brain cells, disrupting their functions and causing the brain to swell with fluid

c.  if the swelling continues, the brain is stopped by the skull and squeezed through the opening in the bottom of the skull, crushing the centers for consciousness and breathing

d.  the colon becomes inflamed and it sets off a chain reaction that eventually destroys all brain tissue

e.  a and b

f.  a, b, and c

g.  a and d

17.  In figure 16.3 on page 594 of your text demonstrates:

a.  the neurotransmission process that is triggered by antipsychotic medications which act as reuptake antagonists

b.  the neurotransmission process triggered by triclyclic antidepressants as reuptake blockers

c.  a and b

Finally, the last hole:

18.  According to the recent skit that was recorded and will be posted here tomorrow, the recent scandal involving Tiger Woods is...

a.  Irrelevant because, unlike the issue of the homeless mentally ill, it does not raise issues of importance to the field of abormal psychology.

b.  It is relevant because it brings subjects of relevance to the field such as infidelity and domestic violence

c.  none of the above

That's all, your test is done.  You can now ride back with your caddy to the golf course lounge to hang out with Tiger Woods, have a virgin drink, and listen to the band play some of your favorite Christmas songs.  But first I must say this:

FORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh, and of course  Ho Ho Ho!  Merry Christmas to one and all and a very Happy New Year!  To follow what's happening with the Sound of Bakersfield multi-artist/multi-band recording project for the homeless, visit:

Bakersfield Sound Underground

And to direct friends to the related songs, have them hit the "music' link here:

Dr BLT's Official Web Site

Visit this blog on Thursday or Friday when a new thread featuring your Homeless 4 the Holidays skit, studio pics, and the one-track soundtrack to that skit. 

Finally, one word of advice for the New Year, unless it concerns your golf game, please, don't do anything in the coming year that Tiger Woods would do.  Seriously though, since the message of Christmas is one of redemption,  I hope he doesn't have to deal with any additional "stray" women, and I hope he doesn't have to face any more "stray," swinging golf clubs in the coming year.