Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

Antisocial personality disorder is a collection of symptoms characterized by serious instability in behaviour, emotion, identity, and interpersonal relationships.

Alice has been recently diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. Alice was recently reunited with her identical twin that was adopted at birth and raised in a different environment. Alice is relieved that her sister at least will NOT be susceptible to this disorder. Alice is

P.H. suffers from OCD. He has an intense fear of germs and washes his hands 500 times a day. The hand washing would be considered

Research studies suggest that there is a genetic predisposition for anxiety disorders, and it has been suggested that this vulnerability may take the form of

A is strong and intense fear that is evoked in response to a particular situation is called _____________.

The trauma-dissociation theory is used to account for the development of schizophrenia.

Astrid told her coworkers that she regularly seeks advice from her dead relatives. If she fasts and meditates for three days and nights, they appear and she talks with them. Astrid's coworkers tell her that sounds strange to them, but Astrid explains that many people in her culture believe these things. Based on this information, we can say that Astrid

Ursula has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to a psychotherapist. Like Freud, this psychoanalytic thinker felt that Ursula developed schizophrenia as a result of

David Rosenhan (1973) conducted a study in which he and several colleagues got themselves admitted to mental institutions and once they were in the hospitals, they acted normally. The results from this study revealed that ________.

Obsessions are to compulsions as

The text defines abnormal behaviour as containing all of the following elements EXCEPT

In current cognitive explanations of panic attacks, one's exaggerated misinterpretations of normal anxiety symptoms trigger the panic attacks.

When attempting to understand the causes of anxiety disorders, the perspective that emphasizes the tendency to catastrophize about situational demands, and magnify them into significant threats is the _________________ perspective.

Twin studies found that identical twins have a concordance rate of about ________ for clinical depression.

Sara lost both of her parents when she was a young child. Primarily because of this historical event, she develops an anxiety disorder when she learns that the life of her best friend is threatened by cancer. This example provides the best illustration of

According to Freud, schizophrenia represented an extreme example of the defence mechanism of regression, while more modern psychodynamic theorists assert that the disorder is produced in response to ______________.

Every day Jillian is late for work. She leaves the house in plenty of time but a half-mile away from her home she thinks that she has left the garage door open and must drive back to close it. Jillian cannot stop thinking that the garage door is open and makes an average of three trips back to her house every morning in order to check. Jillian may be diagnosed with

The example that homosexuality was officially considered a form of mental illness until 1973 demonstrates the role that ___________ play(s) in defining abnormality.

Research has indicated that schizophrenics who display primarily positive symptoms show a history of _________ functioning prior to hospitalization and show a ____________ prognosis for eventual recovery than individuals with predominantly negative symptoms.

After surviving a particularly violent tornado, Dean experiences a selective memory loss for specific traumatic events that occurred just before and during the disaster. Other than these specific memory losses, Dean's personality and subjective sense of identity are essentially unchanged. Dean would most likely be diagnosed with ________.