Exam 15: Psychological Disorders

Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorders feel a deep sense of relief if they can talk themselves into forgoing a ritual.

Compulsion involves recurrent, persistent, unwished-for images and thoughts designed to reduce anxiety.

When people are said to be insane, this means that:

When driving, Paula must constantly tap her fingers on the steering wheel and silently recite the alphabet to herself in order to divert her thoughts away from stopping the car to check and make sure she hasn't run someone over. Paula's repetitive tapping and reciting reflect the concept of a/an:

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Women who are depressed often try to mask their feelings through violent behaviour or drug abuse.

Match the symptoms with the appropriate diagnostic label. -Often set off by a panic attack, symptoms include extreme anxiety at being away from a safe place or person.

Idiosyncratic phobias, such as porphyrophobia (the fear of the colour purple), may be acquired through classical conditioning.

How might the hippocampal volume be related to posttraumatic stress disorder?

Public health professionals from the biological model and from the learning model of addiction agree that former alcoholics cannot learn to drink moderately without becoming dependent on alcohol again.

Depressive episodes are frequently set off by problems with close relationships, such as a history of insecure attachments and a series of separations and losses.

In defining a mental disorder, it is common to consider all of the following EXCEPT whether a:

Social phobia is the fear of situations in which the person will be observed by others.

Cognitive theorists would be most likely to agree that the real problem for depressed people is that they:

One of the culture-bound syndromes is described as brooding, followed by a violent outburst that is often precipitated by an insult. Which of the following is the name of this problem?

The biological and learning models of addiction differ in their explanations of drug abuse and in their proposed solutions. According to the learning model:

In 1911, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term schizophrenia to describe cases in which:

People with major depression usually have an inflated sense of self-esteem, believing that it is not necessary for them to seek help because they can cope fine on their own.

Why are many psychologists skeptical about the number of individuals who are given the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder?

People with major depression interpret any little thing that goes wrong as evidence that nothing will ever go right.