Exam 14: Psychological Disorders

Which of the following disorders involves a person exhibiting bodily complaints, such as chronic pain that suggest illness or injury but for which there is no identifiable organic cause?

According to behavioral theory, depression is caused by repressed anger that is turned inward as self-hate.

Sharon has a friend who has been suicidal. To help her friend get through this difficult time, Sharon has been making daily contact with her friend and scheduling daily activities like meeting for coffee to talk, having lunch, and going to the movies. Sharon's commitments to her friend are

Regarding personality disintegration, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Janie is hearing imaginary voices telling her "to bang her head against the wall" or "hold her hand under scalding hot water." Janie is experiencing a(n)

Psychopathy is considered an extreme form of which personality disorder?

Lead or mercury poisoning can result in the person experiencing delusions, hallucinations, and a loss of emotional control since these poisonings cause

Timmon has been diagnosed with paranoid psychosis. The distinguishing feature of this disorder that led to Timmon's diagnosis would be the presence of

In practice, if a person accused of a crime was unable to appreciate that what he or she did was wrong because of a diagnosable psychological disorder, he or she may be found to be

Women who are independent, aggressive, and unemotional may be considered "unhealthy," while women who show the opposite traits, such as being vain, emotional, dependent, and irrational (all "feminine" traits in our culture)may be classified as having a dependent personality disorder. This example of the gender bias in judging normality

Evan is thoroughly convinced that he is the long-lost son of Elvis Presley even though his parents have for years presented him with evidence to the contrary. Evan's type of delusional disorder involves a(n)__________ delusion.

According to your textbook, the closest match for "nervous breakdown" in diagnostic terms would be

Aaron has had to reschedule his voice recital four times. Each time on the day before his recital, he loses his voice. Aaron's doctor CANNOT find anything that could physically cause Aaron to lose his voice. Thus, psychological factors appear to underlie Aaron's symptoms, which indicates that Aaron most likely has a disorder within which DSM-5 category?

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)is especially prevalent in the northern latitudes during the spring and summer months.

CT scans and MRI scans both suggest that the brains of schizophrenics have shrunk, which may be due to the schizophrenic brain

Although they do not suffer from the hallucinations, emotional excesses, or personality disintegration seen in other psychoses, people who experience deeply held false beliefs about experiences that could occur in real life would be diagnosed with

Which of the following defines actions that would be considered "strange" within a particular culture and are often the first sign that a person has a problem?

In the DSM-5 , which now-outdated term was replaced by the diagnosis of gender dysphoria?

When a person experiences delusions and\or hallucinations and loses contact with shared views of reality, the person is experiencing a

The symptoms of seasonal affective disorder have been successfully treated with