Exam 8: Adolescent and Adult Development: Going Through Changes

Schizophrenia is ______ common in men than in women, and generally strikes men ______ than women.

Features of anxiety that include worrying, fear of the worst things happening, fear of losing control, nervousness, and an inability to relax, are called ______ features.

In many anxiety disorders, receptor sites in the brain may not be sensitive enough to ______.

If a breakup of a recent romance has led you to have trouble concentrating on your schoolwork, you may have a diagnosable psychological disorder.

Problems such as marital separation and unemployment that contribute to the development or recurrence of a mental disorder are described under _______ of the DSM-IV-TR.

Joe is a Vietnam veteran. Ever since he came back from the war he has been plagued by recurring nightmares in which he relives some of his most horrifying war experiences. He often can't sleep at all, startles very easily, and occasionally has sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of anger. His symptoms sound most like ______.

The DSM organizes personality disorders into ______ general clusters according to their behavioral features.

The Greeks believed that the way to cure a "wandering uterus" was _______.

Connie is plagued by the persistent feeling that she is not real. She feels detached from her own body, as if she were observing her own actions from the outside. Her situation is BEST described as ______.

Joyce believes that she is being sought by the CIA and the FBI. Assuming that her beliefs are unfounded, she is experiencing ______.

About ______ people commit suicide in the United States each year.

A young mother is terrorized by the recurring fear that her children have been run over by a car on their way home from school. She cannot block out this fear even though her children do not cross any streets and never had any accidents involving a car. Her irrational fear is best described as ______.

Seligman's experiments with dogs suggest that ______.

In aversive situations, exhibiting inactivity when one's responses, or attempts to escape the situation, go unreinforced, is known as ______.

Schizophrenia is a disorder that is ______.

Tendencies to attribute one's behavior to internal or external factors, stable or unstable factors, and global or specific factors are called ______.

A clinician's rating of a client's level of functioning and his or her highest level of functioning before the onset of a psychological disorder would be found in ______ of the DSM-IV-TR.

Many learning theorists suggest that depressed people lack sufficient ______ in their lives to maintain their mood and behavior.

Collecting yarn and rolling it into a 12-foot ball in your backyard, walking backward everywhere you go, or becoming the only person on your street to paint your house "Day-Glo" orange are examples of ______.

Elwood's behavior is marked by a lack of remorse or guilt, low levels of anxiety, lack of loyalty and responsibility, and indifference to social commitments and the feelings of others. He is impulsive, selfish and undeterred by punishment. He is best described as having ______ disorder.