Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

What occurs in a panic disorder and how do these experiences frequently result in development of agoraphobia?

The physiological component of anxiety includes ________.

Abnormalities in which of the following brain areas have been found in people with anti-social personality disorder?

Describe four culture-bound disorders that involve anxiety.

Two important issues in diagnostic classification systems are ________.

People with schizophrenia may have hallucinations, which are ________.

How does ADHD differ from autism?

What is the central feature of dissociative disorders? Describe the three major types of dissociative disorders.

A student hit their father's car with a baseball bat, but says that they cannot remember anything about the crime. At the time of the hearing, the student was fully aware of what was going on in the courtroom and was able to understand the legal proceedings. The student is likely to be judged _______; her _______ is still questionable.

Someone who has psychologically caused problems of consciousness and self-identification, such as amnesia, would be classified as falling into which of the different major diagnostic categories?

Yan is extremely afraid of clowns. She is in a high state of arousal when a clown is around and avoids them as much as possible. Yan is suffering from

How does Seligman explain the dramatic increase in depression among people born after 1960?

Extreme elation would be an example of which of the following.

A person's state of mind at a trial or hearing is known by the legal term ______________, whereas a person's presumed mental state at the time the crime was committed is known by the term ______________.

One of the two fundamental motives for suicide appears to be to manipulate other people into doing what the suicidal person wants.

A new patient has just shown up at the clinic. Her records indicate the possibility of a deficiency in the fibre bundles from the frontal cortex and inconsistent parenting. You suspect that this patient has

The finding that women are more likely than men to attempt suicide may be due to the fact that women are more likely to be diagnosed with ___________.

Which of the following statements regarding schizophrenia is false?

A breakdown in the coherence of the personality, resulting in significant changes in memory and/or identity is a central diagnostic feature of _____________.

Which of the following is most relevant to illustrating that personal and situational factors can interact with one another?