Exam 8: Adolescent and Adult Development: Going Through Changes

Emily is indifferent to social relationships. She is a loner who does not develop warm, tender feelings for others. Her whole emotional tone is flat. Her thinking is not impaired. She is just not interested in other people. She is best described as having ______disorder.

Most people with psychological disorders receive adequate treatment.

The avoidance of situations or cues associated with the source of anxiety is a ______ feature of anxiety.

Summarize the various theoretical views on personality disorders.

Summarize the various theoretical perspectives on schizophrenia.

Which of the following is NOT one of the axes of the DSM?

Some people have not one, but two or more distinct personalities dwelling within them.

Some people have more than one identity, and the different identities may have different allergic reactions and even eyeglass prescriptions.

Explain what anxiety disorders are and identify and describe the various anxiety disorders.

Excessive, irrational, and inappropriate fear of an object or situation, which often leads to avoidance of the feared object or situation, is ______.

Summarize the various theoretical perspectives on dissociative disorders.

Summarize research findings on the differences among men and women in rates of depression.

Shelly has intense, irrational fears of heights. She is suffering from a(n) ______.

The term for a phobia that literally means "fear of the marketplace" is ______.

Some people ride on an emotional roller coaster, with cycles of elation and depression.

Most suicides are linked to ______ disorders.

Psychological disorders affect about one in ______ adult Americans at some time in his or her life.

Conversion disorder is ______ and hypochondriasis is ______.

Belinda's behavior is marked by lack of energy, loss of self-esteem, poor appetite, difficulty concentrating, psychomotor retardation, and delusions of unworthiness. She has attempted suicide twice. She would appear to have ______.

Elwood is excessively clinging in his relationships with others. He has difficulty deciding even the most basic things for himself, such as what clothes to wear to work. He has no confidence in his abilities to control his own life and is constantly looking for someone smarter and emotionally stronger on whom he can lean. He is best described as having ______.