Exam 17: Psychological Disorders

Which model of psychopathology represents the greatest combination of theoretical backgrounds?

Which physical change to the brain has been noted in those suffering from schizophrenia?

__________ disorders are characterized by physical symptoms that do not have an identifiable cause.

Gene is being trained in the ability to give a psychological __________,which means to assign a label for a person's mental disorder assigned by identifying and classifying patterns of behavior.

Psychologist Stewart Page had an associate who called 180 people who had advertised __________,but when they found out that the person calling was "about to be released from a mental health facility," they were suddenly quick to become distant.This study demonstrated the pervasiveness of stigma attached to mental illness in the 1970s.

The fifth axis of as DSM-IV-TR diagnosis calls for a global assessment of a client's functioning.

Cultural __________ refers to the need to consider the individual characteristics of a culture in which a person with a disorder was raised in order to diagnose and treat the disorder.

What does the term "schizophrenia" mean?

A culture-bound syndrome that is found primarily in Japan is called Tajin Kyofusho.Which diagnosis found in the DSM-IV-TR is this most similar to?

How many different personality disorders are currently listed in the DSM-IV-TR?

Schizophrenia is the most commonly diagnosed of all of the psychiatric disorders in the DSM-IV-TR.

Which of the following environmental influences have not been shown to initiate the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Which of the following subtypes of schizophrenia is marked by delusions of grandeur and persecution,often accompanied by hallucinations?

The DSM-IV-TR calls for information in a psychiatric diagnosis to be listed on 8 different axes.

Steve is constantly nervous and worried.He cannot identify what it is that makes him upset,and he has difficulty sleeping and occasional stomach problems.The best diagnosis for Steve would be __________.

A clinician using the __________ approach looks for physical problems as a root cause of psychological disorders,including brain abnormalities,biochemical processes,or hereditary factors.

A __________ is a persistent false belief.

__________ disorder is an anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts or to perform senseless rituals.

The general population in the United States of America has a ___% chance of developing schizophrenia at some point in their lives.

The memory loss of dissociative amnesia is caused by a psychological,rather than a physical, trauma.