Exam 12: A: Psychological Disorders

Thinking can contribute to feelings of depression.

Describe the general symptoms and causes of dissociative disorders. Also, identify and define three different types of dissociative disorders.

Marty is timid, anxious, and fearful of rejection. He wants to have close relationships with others but is unable to because of his fears. So, he ends up alone and lonely. He is suffering from ________ personality disorder.

There is no evidence of a genetic link in the development of depression.

False sensory perceptions that often take the form of hearing voices that are not really there are called ________.

People who have several characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia but no symptoms of a single subtype have disorganized schizophrenia.

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

John is a pathological liar. He takes things from others, takes advantage of them and never exhibits any remorse after he is done. John has ________ personality disorder.

Insanity is ________.

Early asylums were ________.

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.

Which of the following statements is true?

A peculiar speech pattern in which children repeat the words said to them is ________.

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

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

Men are more likely than women to suffer from ________.

If patients report blindness, deafness, paralysis, or seizures, but physicians cannot find any evidence of a physical problem or cause, physicians are likely to suspect a ________ disorder.

The loss or impairment of the ordinary physical responses of sexual ability for at least six months is called ________.

The most frequent treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is ________.

The psychoanalytic model of mental illness was developed during the ________.