Exam 15: Psychological Disorders

In 1960, only eight cases of dissociative identity disorder had been reported, but by 1995, ________ cases had been reported in North America alone.

The MMPI is often misused in all but this setting:

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

Carlin has recurring periods of intense fear during which he thinks that he is having a heart attack. He trembles and shakes, and his heart palpitates. This kind of problem is called:

Most victims of violence and most impoverished individuals become depressed.

Learning theorists suggest that alcoholism depends on learning and culture. What four arguments explain this view? Analyze each argument.

A patient reports that her first panic attack was frightening and embarrassing. She was in the mall and people gathered around her. Over the next few months, the attacks started occurring more frequently, almost always in public places. Now she is afraid to leave the safety of her house. It appears that this individual has developed:

Cases of schizophrenia:

Discuss the stressful circumstances of people's lives that theorists have linked to the development of depression. Include the risk factors that increase the chances that a person will develop a clinical depression.

One of the advantages of the MMPI over other assessment instruments is that it reflects differences among cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups when organizing disorders.

Psychological tests used to infer motives, conflicts, and unconscious dynamics on the basis of a person's interpretations of ambiguous stimuli are called:

Bipolar disorder occurs twice as much in women as it does in men.

Vulnerability-stress models are approaches that emphasize how individual vulnerabilities interact with external circumstances to produce mental disorders.

________, the fear of dirt and germs, is a common phobia.

Match the symptoms with the appropriate diagnostic label. -A disorder in which episodes of both depression and mania occur.

Having a negative view of events and believing that one has little or no personal control over events both contribute to depression according to the ________ approach.

Early psychodynamic theorists suggested that schizophrenia resulted from being raised by an erratic, cold, rejecting mother.

Most sufferers of OCD do not enjoy the repetitive rituals that they engage in and realize that the behaviour is senseless.

One of the culture-bound syndromes is described as a short episode of mental symptoms after engaging in the folk practice of "exercise of vital energy." Which of the following is the name of this problem?

In many circumstances, such as encountering an aggressive dog, it is sensible to feel a state of apprehension and physical tension.