Exam 12: Psychological Disorders

The legal term for someone who is so mentally disturbed that he or she is not considered responsible for his or her criminal actions is ________.

The primary feature of ________ schizophrenia is severe disturbance of motor activity.

Anxiety disorders tend to ________.

A World Health Organization study found that the highest prevalence of psychological disorders was in ________.

The American Psychiatric Association has issued an official manual describing and classifying the various kinds of abnormal behavior for nearly ________ years.

Women are more likely than men to suffer from ________.

The psychoanalytic model holds that behavior problems can be traced to ________.

Describe the symptoms and causes of psychosomatic disorders.

Soon after Anne has her first child, she returns to work. Her mother objects, saying that putting a child in a day-care center is immoral. After two weeks at work, Anne develops tingling and numbness in her hands that, within days, progress to total anesthesia in both hands from the wrists down. Anne's physician cannot find a physical cause for her problem. He suggests that she is suffering from ________.

Barney loves sex, but the only way he can achieve sexual arousal is to stop his car at bus stops and expose his genitals to women waiting for a bus. His disorder is ________.

The delusions schizophrenic individuals experience are usually ________.

Depressed people tend to evoke ________ in others.

False beliefs about reality with no factual basis are known as ________.

Lately, Caroline has been plagued with the recurring thought that her mother has died. Even though she has called her mother several times each day, the minute she isn't focused on a specific task, the fear that her mother is dead nearly overwhelms her. Caroline is suffering from a(n) ________.

Psychological experience can alter biological functioning.

A dissociative disorder characterized by a loss of memory for past events without organic cause is ________.

Describe the general symptoms of anxiety disorder. Also, identify and define four types of anxiety disorders.

Causing humiliation or physical harm to their sexual partners is characteristic of ________.

When John went to the laundromat, he saw a woman laughing out loud, talking to herself, and ritualistically washing her clothes in a very strange manner. The woman would start the machine, but when it filled with water she would stop it in mid-cycle and wash her clothes by hand, using the water and detergent from the washing machine. When John stared at her in disbelief, she became very hostile, shouting, "What's the matter with you? You young people just can't leave me alone, can you? Well, you're not going to get me because I know about things that you don't! Now leave me alone!" The woman is most probably suffering from ________.

Thousands of years ago, mental illness was seen in a supernatural context.