Exam 12: Psychological Disorders

The repeated use of nonhuman objects, such as a shoe or a belt, as the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement is known as ________.

Jack outwardly appears to be a normal, healthy, young adult male. But ever since he was a child, Jack has preferred to dress as a female and play with girls' toys. Jack says he's never felt like a male and psychologically he sees himself as a female trapped inside a male's body. Lately, he has been talking about having a "sex-change" operation so that he will finally have the female body he has always desired. Jack is apparently suffering from ________.

Which of the following people is most likely to have a mental illness?

Which of the following is not one of the three influential models for treating psychological disorders that emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

The ________ personality is that of a loner who seems withdrawn, unfeeling, and distant.

Adolescents account for ________ percent of the suicide attempts in the United States.

Explain the differences among "insanity, "competency," and "mental illness."

The most notable American pioneer in the treatment of mental illness was ________.

People with personality disorders suffer from hallucinations and/or delusions.

Mood disorders are characterized by disturbances in emotional functioning.

It seems to Joanna that every time her son Daniel eats foods containing chemical dyes or additives, he gets into trouble or acts irrationally. When Joanna mentions this to her pediatrician, he tells her that Daniel's behavior fits the ________ model of abnormality.

Depersonalization disorder is much ________ dramatic and far ________ common than dissociative identity disorder.

People who lie, cheat, steal, show little or no sense of responsibility, and no guilt or remorse for their behavior have ________ personality disorder.

An anxiety disorder characterized by prolonged vague, but intense, fears that are not attached to any particular object or circumstance is ________ disorder.

Involuntary ideas that keep recurring despite the person's efforts to stop them are called ________.

The largest number of suicides occurs among teenaged males.

A mood disorder that includes both depression and mania is known as ________ disorder.

Darcy is sitting at her desk in her office one day when she is, without warning, overcome by feelings of intense fear that she may lose control of herself. Her terror is so great that all she can do is sit at her desk shaking and crying. Nothing she was doing at the time would seem to have caused such an episode. Her symptoms most resemble ________.

The ________ model of mental illness holds that abnormal behavior is caused by physiological malfunction that is often attributable to hereditary factors.

Gena has slept with the light on ever since she was a child. Her therapist believes this was caused by a learned association Gena made in childhood between a dark room and an unpleasant experience. This is most likely a(n) ________ disorder.