Unit 5: Mental & Physical Health
Psychology · Unit 5 · Paper 1

Mental & Physical Health unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 22 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 5, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 32 min 29 points0/17 attempted
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Social support and health

2

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

3

Biomedical therapies

4

Diathesis-stress model

5

Schizophrenia

6

Stress and the general adaptation syndrome

7

Panic disorder

8

Client-centered therapy

9

Major depressive disorder

10

Biopsychosocial model

11

Token economy

12

Phobia

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Problem-focused vs emotion-focused coping

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Dissociative disorders

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Bipolar disorder

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Criteria for abnormality

3 pts

Free response

5 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

A psychologist studies whether background music affects memory. Participants are randomly assigned to study a word list in silence or with music, then take a recall test.

Identify the independent and dependent variables.

Explain how random assignment strengthens the study.

State an operational definition for the dependent variable.

Explain how the placebo effect and a confounding variable could apply.