Exam 14: Psychological Disorders

Which of the following was NOT identified in the text as a risk factor that contributes to psychopathology?

Factitious disorders and conversion disorder would be classified in the DSM-5 as

In which of the following disorders is a person overwhelmed by a jumble of thoughts, sensations, images, and feelings that cannot be filtered out because of an impairment in selective attention?

Michelle feels that everything she touches is contaminated and dirty, so she cleans her house from morning to night and writes down what she cleans in a book. Once she cleans something, she avoids touching it. If she were to touch the object, it would become contaminated, and she would have to clean it again. Michelle would most likely be diagnosed with a(n)

Ellen's house is so cluttered with "things" she has collected that you can barely walk through the house. When Ellen's daughter tries to get her to discard some items, Ellen becomes very anxious. Ellen most likely has a __________ disorder.

Depression that appears to be produced from within, perhaps by chemical imbalances in the brain, rather than as a reaction to life events are said to be

Exhibitionistic, pedophilic, fetishistic, and voyeuristic disorders are classified as

A person can show extreme distress, such as grief at the death of a loved one, without having psychopathology, while a person with mania, who feels "on top of the world," does have a mental disorder. This illustrates the difficulties with classifying behavior as abnormal using the criterion of

If you heard that a person exposed himself to another person in a place of business, you would probably think that the person was abnormal until you realized the person was exposing himself to his family doctor during the course of a physical examination. This story illustrates the importance of

In Rosenhan's experiment in which he and several colleagues had themselves committed to mental hospitals with a diagnosis of "schizophrenia," the staff at the hospital never recognized these phony patients as "phony," although the real patients did see through their pretense.

Schizophrenia may be described as a

The likelihood that biological factors, especially brain chemicals, may be involved in mood disorders is suggested by

The simultaneous presence in a person of two or more mental disorders is referred to as __________.

Which of the following is NOT a recognized mental disorder and is no longer found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual because it was believed to be too imprecise?

Which of the following diagnoses had been considered a disorder in earlier editions of the DSM but was omitted as a diagnosis in 1974?

Major disturbances in emotion are among the most serious of all psychological conditions and are referred to as __________ disorders.

The rhythms of the seasons underlie the depression known as

Up to 20 percent of military veterans returning from wars develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including soldiers involved in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Which of the following was not a diagnosis in the original DSM , but, since its inclusion, has become one of the most widely diagnosed disorders among young boys and has prompted critics to decry the diagnosis as "pathologizing boyhood"?

In defining abnormality, the idea that judgments are made comparable to the values of the society in which one lives is called