Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

With regard to suicide, __________ are more likely to attempt suicide and __________ are more likely to actually kill themselves.

Two siblings can grow up in identical environments and as adults, one develops a psychological disorder and the other does not. Psychologists have taken biological, psychological, and environmental factors and explored how these factors relate to each other in order to explain the above situation. This is called the

We label behaviour that is personally distressing, personally dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that other people judge it to be inappropriate or maladaptive as __________.

This area of the brain is implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adults but not in children

Karen is unfocused, her speech is pressured, and she appears to be in a state of euphoria. For the last week she has gotten no more than 2 hours of sleep a night. Yesterday, she took a second mortgage on her house, flew to Hawaii, and bought some property and a surf shop. Considering these behaviours and symptoms, a psychologist might diagnose Karen's problem as

Exposure to negative experiences such as physical or sexual abuse during a person's early or middle childhood years causes the development of __________________, according to the ____________________.

Roughly about ___________% of Canadian students report having at least one panic attack during periods of extreme stress.

A person who exhibits glove anaesthesia should be sent to a(n) ________.

Fear of _______ is the most common specific phobia for women, and fear of _______ is the most common specific phobia for men.

The fact that women who had lost their mothers prior to age 11 were significantly more likely to become depressed as adults when exposed to a recent severe stressor, is most readily explained by

Tony has been feeling a little off for the past few months. Blood work indicated that he has decreased levels of serotonin. Most likely, Tony is suffering from

Somatoform disorders involve ________.

Describe the four classes of symptoms that characterize (a) depression and (b) mania.

You have overheard your friend's parents talking about their son's schizophrenia. He does not seem to display any positive symptoms. Which of the following symptoms is he most unlikely to show?

Moni, a refugee from Cambodia, witnessed some terrible atrocities before immigrating to California. She is now blind, though tests reveal that her eyes are fully functioning and visual stimuli are being registered in the visual cortex. Moni has symptoms of

An athlete, a skinny adolescent, limits their food intake from fear of being overweight. This has strained their heart, stopped their sexual function, and triggered bone loss. The athlete has been diagnosed with ___________.

How do cognitive factors enter into anxiety disorders, particularly panic disorder? What research supports these explanations?

A study by Brown and Harris found that women who had lost their mothers prior to age 11 and had been exposed recently to a severe loss were more likely to develop

George cannot see. There is nothing wrong with his visual system, but he does not register any visual experience at all. George is suffering from

According to ____________________, people become depressed when they expect bad things to occur and assume that there is nothing they can do to prevent them.