Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

You are a defence attorney and your client is on trial for murder. You plan to argue that he is not in his right state of mind at the time of the trial. Your argument is trying to establish

Viewing the future with great pessimism and hopelessness is classified as ______________ symptom of depression.

The David Rosenhan study in which healthy individuals got themselves admitted to psychiatric wards by pretending to hear strange voices is most relevant to which of the following?

Contrast the DSM-IV-TR method of diagnosing psychological disorders to the dimensional method. How compatible are the two approaches to one another?

Having difficulty concentrating and making decisions, believing they are inferior, and feelings of incompetence are examples of _______ symptoms of depression.

Paulo is pretty sure that he has a mental disorder so he goes to see his family doctor. Among other symptoms, blood work indicates low levels of GABA. Most likely, Paulo is suffering from

List and describe two different types of somatic symptom disorders. According to Sigmund Freud, how do these disorders occur?

The drug company you work for is developing a new treatment for a mental disorder. The target neurotransmitter is GABA. Most likely, you are working on a treatment for

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the psychodynamic perspective of depression?

Compulsions are often behavioural responses to cognitive obsessions and function to reduce the anxiety associated with ____________.

Research studies of depressed individuals have indicated that they tend to attribute

A worker suffers from anxiety. Which of these components will NOT be present in the worker's behaviour?

What effects do psychiatric labelling have on social and self-perceptions?

Of all the major psychological disorders; ______________ disorders are the most prevalent in North America, affecting 18.6 percent of the population throughout their lifetime.

All of the following are different types of somatic symptom disorders EXCEPT

Define and distinguish between the disorders of major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder. Discuss the possible neurological differences that may account for depression and bipolar disorder. Which of these two disorders appears to have the stronger genetic basis?

Due to unfortunate circumstances, Sally experienced many negative events growing up and was unable to control or change most of them. Because of her past, Sally presently expects bad things to happen, and even though she is capable of making a difference, she assumes that there is nothing she can do to change her life for the better. This example best demonstrates the assumed cognitive mechanisms involved in

Anderson has schizophrenia. After a series of treatments he was discharged and went home. His schizophrenia was in remission. Which of the following would you be most concerned about as a factor that could cause a possible relapse for Anderson?

How does the trauma-dissociation theory account for the development of DID?

Which of the following is not considered to be a somatic symptom of depression?