Exam 12: A: Psychological Disorders

Men are more likely than women to suffer from ________.

While doing volunteer work in a mental hospital, Mary is put on a ward for adults with severe mental disorders. One patient is very childish, laughing constantly, endlessly dancing around the room, and making bizarre gestures and facial expressions without reason. The doctors tell Mary that this patient suffers from ________ schizophrenia.

A dissociative disorder in which a person has several distinct personalities that emerge at different times is known as ________.

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 ________.

Mental illnesses with a strong biological component ________.

A personality disorder in which the person's fear of rejection by others leads to social isolation is ________ personality disorder.

Some clinicians believe that dissociative identity disorder is an elaborate form of role-playing.

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

Depressed people tend to evoke ________ in others.

Delusions are false beliefs about reality with no factual basis.

A famous theorist argues that depression often results from and is maintained by cognitive distortions that lead to feelings of worthlessness and incompetence. This view is most similar to that of ________.

Bipolar disorder is found ________.

Women are more likely than men to suffer from ________.

Conversion disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and hypochondriasis are all ________ disorders.

Pedophiles are invariably men over age 40.

Sexual arousal as a result of fantasizing about or engaging in sexual activity with children as the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement is ________.

When women display abnormal behavior, they are more likely than men to ________.

________ disorders are marked by disturbances of thoughts, communications, and emotions, including delusions and hallucinations.

Women are more likely than men to suffer from ________.

________ cases of conversion disorder cannot be explained by current medical science.