Exam 12: Defining Psychological Disorders

Addai has been exhausted, tense, and anxious for the last year now. He worries about work when he is at home. He worries about what is going on at home while he is at work. Even when he is out with his friends, he worries. In fact, his friends have stopped asking him to go out because all he does is worry. Additionally, Addai suffers dizziness and nausea most of the time. Although Addai expects the worst most of the time, his fears appear greatly exaggerated. What disorder best seems to fit Addai's symptoms?

One theory holds that DID is a pattern of behaviors resulting from the influence of _____ and _____

An advantage of using one diagnostic manual is that _____

Extreme sadness, despair, a feeling of "slowing down," and problems eating and sleeping characterize which of the following disorders?

When people experience dissociative _____, they not only forget who they are, but travel away from home.

Why would a forensic psychologist testify in court?

The lifetime prevalence rate of psychological disorders is _____ percent in the United States.

Define personality disorders as a category, and describe the main characteristics of borderline personality.

_____ is a severe psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate or flat affect, some disturbance in thinking, social withdrawal, and/or other bizarre behaviors.

_____ is characterized by chronic and excessive worry for 6 months or more.

Which of the following is FALSE of suicide in the United States?

Maria has a 6-year-old son who attends school near their house. She has terrible thoughts that he will be abducted while at school. Though she tries not to think about these images, she cannot seem to control it. She has found that if she drives around the school three times in a row, the disturbing thoughts and images of her son being abducted seem to go away. Unfortunately, she finds herself doing this for about three hours every school day. Which of the following would we call her behavior of driving around the school?

Which of the following statements about personality disorders is correct?

The _____ perspective views abnormal behavior as arising from faulty thinking or distorted perceptions.

_____ are defined as psychological disorders characterized by frequent fearful thoughts about what might happen in the future.

Individuals who show high traits of _____ in the Big Five model of personality may be disposed to depression.

Genetics, prenatal events, and postnatal events are usually discussed when examining the risk factors of schizophrenia. These risk factors are often summarized as the individual's _____ to developing the disorder.

We know that there is a _____ component to the risk of developing schizophrenia.

A persistent, irresistible, and irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly characterizes a(n)_____

_____ is characterized by episodes of manic behavior and episodes of depression typically with episodes of normal moods in between.