Exam 15: Psychological Disorders

The typical anxiety symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder include reliving the trauma in recurrent and intrusive thoughts.

Contemporary theorists hold that people become depressed when their efforts to avoid pain or to control the environment consistently fail, leading to "learned helplessness."

One of the culture-bound syndromes is described as belief in possession by a spirit, causing shouting, laughing, head banging, weeping, and withdrawal. Which of the following is the name of this problem?

Match the symptoms with the appropriate diagnostic label. -A disorder characterized by disturbances in emotion, behaviour, cognition, and body function.

Mental-health professionals who are skeptical about multiple personality disorders provide several reasons for their position. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?

Biological research concerning the development of mood disorders suggests that many chronically depressed people have shrinkage of the hippocampus and amygdala.

Ramona has lost her interest in gardening, which brought her joy in the past. She's lost her appetite and life seems hopeless. Which disorder would Ramona be most likely to have?

People with borderline personality disorders have a pervasive history of:

Critics of the DSM argue that once a person has been given a diagnosis, other people begin to see that person primarily in terms of the label.

Why do most researchers consider schizophrenia a brain disorder? What evidence suggests that schizophrenia could begin in the womb?

Inventories are standardized objective questionnaires requiring written responses; they typically include scales on which people are asked to rate themselves.

The revised MMPI that was tested by Michael Bagby at the University of Toronto provided an accurate framework for describing personality in both clinical and nonclinical participants. In this newer version, norms were based on a sample that was more representative in terms of all but:

Obsessions involve ________; compulsions involve ________.

Mood disorders involve rigidly maladaptive traits that cause great distress or an inability to get along with others.

Dr. Samuel Cartwright's diagnosis of drapetomania, which purported to explain why slaves sought freedom, exemplifies:

Describe the function of the hippocampus (Chapter 4, The Brain: Source of Mind and Self). What implications are there if the neurons atrophy as a result of a significant trauma? Incorporate information on posttraumatic stress disorder in your essay.

Describe two conditions in which anxiety would be an ordinary and adaptive response rather than a disorder.

List the five axes that clinicians use to evaluate each client.

Panic attacks may last from a few minutes to several hours.

Some people with schizophrenia completely withdraw into a private world, sitting for hours without moving. This would be considered: