Exam 15: A: Psychological Disorders

When the dogs in Seligman and Maier's study of learned helplessness appeared rigid,listless,and distressed,what type of deficits were being expressed?

Joe is well known at the police station.Although only in his twenties,Joe has been arrested many times for a variety of unlawful behaviours.He usually denies any involvement,but eventually says that his victims are losers and that their loss is his gain.Which diagnosis best captures Joe's behaviour?

According to Freud,what is the primary cause of psychological disorders?

Which statement about the criteria used to label behaviour as "abnormal" is accurate?

Repetitive and ritualistic behaviour is often a part of __________,which,along with related disorders,is estimated to afflict 1 out of every 150 children.

A therapist believes that the cause of her client's depression is anger directed inwardly against himself.Which psychological perspective is most likely being characterized?

Friends are joking about "being crazy"; the newspaper labels a mentally ill person as potentially dangerous; the couple next door denies that their son has autism.Each is an instance of a(n)__________,a set of negative attitudes that place people apart as unacceptable.

A defendant on trial says that although he knows he pulled the trigger that killed the victim,he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.Under the guidelines of the M'Naghten rule,could the man claim insanity?

To reduce the diagnostic difficulties caused by variability in approaches to psychological disorders,what does the DSM-IV-TR emphasize?

"There is no question that what we call psychopathology is caused by unconscious conflicts that trigger anxiety and malfunctioning." Which approach to psychopathology is consistent with this view?

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.Which diagnosis is most appropriate?

Which statement about mental disorders is generally true?

A relative responds to someone she observes on TV by saying he must have schizophrenia.She does not seem to have a clear idea of what it means to have this disorder.Sensing an opportunity to educate her,describe the general symptoms of schizophrenia,the ways in which these symptoms manifest themselves in each of the five most commonly recognized subtypes of schizophrenia,and the causal factors that have been linked to this disorder.

Which explanation for a client's lingering state of depression would most likely be given by a behavioural therapist?

Characterized by thoughts,images,or impulses that recur or persist despite efforts to suppress them,and repetitive,purposeful acts performed according to certain rules or in a ritualized manner,__________ is a mental disorder that affects an estimated 1.8 percent of adults in Canada each year.

Genetic predispositions make an individual vulnerable to a psychological disorder,but psychological stress is necessary for the disorder to develop fully.Which term best characterizes this view?

There is no accepted clinical definition of insanity.

When researcher Irving Gottesman pooled data from many studies on schizophrenia,what did he discover?

What do obsessions and compulsions involve,respectively?

The consequences of being labeled as suffering from a mental illness are real.As outlined in the textbook,what were the results of the study conducted on 84 men who had been hospitalized for mental illness?