Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

Maladaptive and self-defeating thought patterns are most central to the ____________ perspective of psychological disorders.

Differentiate between the following anxiety disorders: phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder.

The drug company you work for is developing a new treatment for a mental disorder. The target neurotransmitter is dopamine and you want to decrease the level. Most likely, you are working on a treatment for

If left untreated, the typical depressive episode lasts for approximately ______________.

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

Impulsiveness, a lack of guilt, and a lack of emotional attachment to people are all aspects of

Difficulty concentrating and making decisions are motivational symptoms of depression.

Pat's frequent and intense fears of open and public places are out of proportions to the actual situations and are interfering with Pat's daily life. Pat's disorder most closely conforms to

Cite the "three Ds" that typically underlie judgments that behaviour is abnormal.

Which of the following is not recognized as an eating disorder by the DSM-5?

Effective antipsychotic drugs that are used to treat schizophrenia appear to do so by ____________ the activity of the neurotransmitter _____________.

A professor cleans the whiteboard before every class. He goes over the board at least three times before he considers it to be clean enough. Recently he has been late starting class because he is cleaning the whiteboard more and more. He is preoccupied with thoughts that previous markings are dirty and will contaminate his notes. A psychotherapist would say that this professor's _________ are compulsive.

According to Aaron Beck, depressed people tend to have a cognitive triad of negative beliefs about the past, present, and future.

Attributing the higher prevalence of schizophrenia in lower socioeconomic groups to the higher levels of stress that low-income people experience is characteristic of the _______________ hypothesis.

Professor Paragon spends at least half an hour before each class cleaning the whiteboard. Even streaks from the cleaning spray create an overwhelming tension for him, and he is preoccupied by the idea that previous markings are dirty and will contaminate his notes. Over the past month, his inability to stop washing the board has led to increasingly delayed class start times. Professor Paragon's anxious thoughts are _____________ and his repetitive behaviours are _______________.

An individual shows up at a clinic. She seems very tense and fearful. Blood work indicates lower levels of GABA and to a certain extent, serotonin. You suspect

According to learned helplessness theory, attributions for failures that are _____________ combine to produce the worst form of depression.

Samara is a university student who thinks that there is nothing she can do to get out of her depression. She thinks that her situation is all her fault and that things will always be this way. Samara is demonstrating

During a therapy session, your therapist notes that you seem to have an intense negative view of yourself and the external world. Most likely, you are suffering from

A person develops a dog phobia because he associates dogs with the fear that he experienced when he was bitten by a dog in the past. This example best demonstrates how anxiety disorders can be accounted for by