Exam 14: A: Psychological Disorders

Someone who believes that their thoughts and actions are being controlled by visitors from Mars would be diagnosed as having

Psychotic symptoms may be found in all of the following EXCEPT

In some North African and Middle Eastern societies,people thought to be possessed by spirits exhibit symptoms that include shouting,laughing,singing,weeping,hitting one's head against a wall,apathy or withdrawal.This culture-bound syndrome is known as

Which of the following disorders is characterized by the person being socially withdrawn,being unable to control his or her thoughts or actions,and by the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations?

A core feature of all abnormal behavior is that it is

Lewis Carroll's character of the Mad Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is modeled after the occupational disease that afflicted hatmakers who were heavily exposed to mercury used in the preparation of felt.These hatmakers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries suffered from a(n)

Koro,susto,dhat,and hikikomori are

Psychological dependence on mood- or behavior-altering drugs is classified as

According to the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale,a person who is repeatedly violent,maintains almost no personal hygiene,or has made potentially lethal suicide attempts would have a score of

If Edgar is exhibiting maladaptive behavior,we would expect this behavior to often result in

Carl,who is in his early 70s and has a history of strokes,has undergone a substantial personality shift and has been having memory difficulties.He is probably suffering from

As she sits on her front porch,Carol believes that she is receiving coded messages from the hummingbirds flying around her bird feeders.Carol is experiencing

Almost any behavior can be judged to be normal or abnormal depending on the specific circumstances present.This qualification for judging whether or not a behavior is abnormal is referred to as

Which of the following is an example of susto?

Medical and psychology students have a predictable tendency to notice in themselves the symptoms of each dreaded disease or psychopathology they study.This is known as

A flat affect in which a person responds in an emotional way that is lacking in normal facial expressions is a symptom often seen in

According to your textbook,the most common cause of dementia is

Historically,psychiatric terms have been abused by being applied to culturally disapproved behaviors that were not really disorders.Some of those that were once considered mental disorders but are not considered disorders today include which of the following?

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?

Which of the following categories of disorders would include a disorder in which a person shows a severe physical symptom,such as paralysis or blindness,but for which there is no identifiable physical cause for this condition?