Exam 14: D: Psychological Disorders

A friend of yours mistakenly thinks that a person with multiple personalities and a person with schizophrenia have the same condition.Explain to your friend why these two conditions are different.

Tanya has been mildly to moderately depressed for most of the time for over two years and has experienced no psychotic episodes and no mania.Tanya would most likely be diagnosed with the moderate mood disorder called __________ disorder.

Failure to match one's behavior to widely accepted norms or to the unusual minimum rules for social conduct describes the definition of normality referred to as __________.

Discuss the different ways of defining abnormality and the shortcomings of each; describe the core feature of all abnormal behavior; and explain in what setting the term insanity is used.

Discuss the major features of psychotic disorders,including a description of the six types of delusions.

Imaginary sensations,such as seeing,hearing,or smelling things that do not exist in the real world are known as __________.

MRI scans indicate that persons with schizophrenia tend to have enlarged ventricles,which suggest that the surrounding brain tissue has shrunk.

A history of childhood trauma,especially sexual abuse,is found in a high percentage of persons whose personalities split into multiple identities.

Many researchers believe that schizophrenia is related to the overactivity of the neurotransmitters of glutamate and __________.

A psychologist who treats phobic disorders by focusing on the client's distorted patterns of thinking is using the __________ approach.