Exam 12: Psychological Disorders

The view that heart disease results from a combination of genetic predisposition, stress, characteristic personality styles, poor health behaviors, and competitive pressures is typical of the ________ approach to abnormal behavior.

George is suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. If he tries to stop his obsessive thoughts or compulsive behaviors he is likely to experience ________.

Harry has an intense, irrational fear of being in public places. He is probably suffering from ________.

In most cases, fetishes begin in ________.

An athlete who blames herself for her team's loss, even though the whole team played badly, or a man who hasn't had a traffic accident in 20 years who still thinks he is a bad driver because of a dent he put in his car 21 years ago, is engaging in ________.

Public and private asylums for the insane first appeared in the late Middle Ages.

Thousands of years ago, mental illness was nearly always attributed to ________.

Two types of depression distinguished by the DSM-IV are ________.

Echolalia is a speech pattern in which people ________.

Ned seeks therapy after having recurrent episodes of feeling "outside himself" for several months. He reports chronically feeling groggy, dizzy, and preoccupied, and his friends have recently labeled him "space cadet, first class." He notes that his interactions with others seem mechanical and dreamlike. He is most likely suffering from ________.

Research suggests that a biological vulnerability to schizophrenia may lie in problems with the neurotransmitter ________.

The difference between somatoform and psychosomatic disorders is that people with ________.

DSM-IV-TR was designed to provide a complete list of mental health facilities.

Fetishism involves secretly watching other people have sex or spying on people who are nude in order to achieve arousal.

Pedophiles are invariably men over age 40.

Jacob generally feels out of control. He also has fainting spells and episodes of trembling, uncontrollable screaming and crying, and outbursts of verbal and physical aggressiveness. His symptoms sound most like those of ________.

High functioning children with Asperger syndrome typically have ________ with speech or intellectual development, and have ________ interacting with other people.

Sexual desire disorders play a part in ________ percent of all sexual dysfunctions.

More women than men are treated for mental disorders.

Disorders characterized by disturbances in a person's emotional state are known as ________ disorders.