Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

A student loses all sense of personal identity and wanders into a new faraway town where they establish a new identity. The student has been diagnosed with ___________.

Which of the following is not an example of a personality disorder as stated in the DSM-5?

A new patient has just shown up at the clinic. His medical records indicate abnormal development of the cerebellum and that there was an accelerated pruning of neural connections. You suspect that this patient has

___________ is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly.

Though his theory is controversial, research results have provided support for the vast majority of Freud's ideas about the causes of anxiety.

An individual who has intense and unstable relationships, momentary losses of personal identity, and experiences chronic feelings of extreme anger, loneliness, and emptiness would likely be diagnosed with

One of the factors that typically underlie people's judgments of abnormality is how distressing a given behaviour is.

A student who is a schizophrenic, is not motivated to do anything. The student lacks emotion, and the ability to express themselves in normal speech. The student has ___________ that accompany Type II schizophrenia.

If your roommate acts in a way that is unusual (i.e., deviant) and interferes with her schoolwork (i.e., dysfunctional), what would you need to know before deciding whether the behaviour is abnormal?

What was the historical importance of discovering the cause of general paresis?

What biochemical processes might underlie depression Mania?

Joanne has just shown up at the hospital emergency ward. She has a psychological issue. Her previous medical records indicate high activity in the behavioural activation system and she scores high on extroversion. You suspect that Joanne is suffering from

According to the DSM-5, in order to qualify for a diagnosis of panic disorder, people must experience panic attacks and a fear of ________.

What evidence is there for a genetic predisposition to anxiety disorders? What form might the vulnerability factor take?

A good friend of your parents seems to be suffering from a psychological disorder. Your parents were not sure if the diagnosis was schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder. Which of the following would help to determine which disorder we are talking about?

Anxiety disorders ________.

Studies of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder suggest that ______________ to show aggressive or impulsive behaviours whereas ______________ to show more symptoms of inattention and concentration difficulty.

A chronic state of diffuse or "free-floating" anxiety is most central to the psychological disorder called

Research on the causes of anxiety has demonstrated that

Panic disorder is different from generalized anxiety disorder in that with panic disorder, the feelings of anxiety are ______________ and are usually __________ intense.