Exam 16: Psychopathology

Research indicates that, as a woman, Meredith will be at greater risk for __________ than her brother will be.

Which of the following is NOT one of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder?

A patient believes that TV newscasters are speaking exclusively to him and that if he does not watch at the correct time, the news will not air. This patient is experiencing __________.

Now that Maureen has been diagnosed with __________, she will likely have episodes in which she remains virtually motionless for long periods of time.

Which of the following terms has been dropped from the most current version of the DSM?

Joanie has normal intelligence and has a diagnosis that was coded on Axis II of the DSM. This means that Joanie has __________.

Ralph is from an impoverished area of the inner city and has been poor all of his life. Chad has grown up in a wealthy, educated environment his whole life. Research indicates that Ralph will be how many times more likely than Chad to develop schizophrenia?

Kara is a 16-year-old girl who is concerned about her weight and is dissatisfied with her appearance. Both her mother and sister have struggled with anorexia. Justin is a 16-year-old boy with no history of anorexia in his family. Given the different contributing risk factors associated with these two individuals, how much more likely is Kara than Justin to develop anorexia?

Dr. Morris has met an interesting patient who had been reported missing by his family three weeks earlier. Dr. Morris diagnosed him with dissociative fugue, which means that the individual __________.

Researchers generally believe that problems with neurotransmitter activity are associated with depression, and several lines of evidence support this belief. At the same time, chemical models of depression are inadequate because __________.

With respect to the genetic components of mood disorders, it has been shown that __________.

Ruth's psychiatrist noticed that Ruth was having more negative symptoms than positive symptoms of schizophrenia. The negative symptoms would be __________.

Heidi is viewed by her friends as extremely thin, yet she sees herself as needing to lose at least 10 more pounds. This disturbance in self-perception is most consistent with __________.

The chances that a sibling of a schizophrenic individual will also be schizophrenic are fairly high, about 8 in 100. This does not show that schizophrenia is inherited because __________.

Doug has been diagnosed with unipolar depression for the first time. If he is like most patients diagnosed with unipolar depression, he will __________.

In the earlier days of psychology, some success was achieved in identifying physical ailments that explained symptoms of mental disorders. However, early researchers needed to widen their focus to include psychological factors because of a lack of evidence linking physical factors with which of the following?

If you notice that your friend has begun to wash her hands every 15 minutes, you might suspect she has developed a(n) __________.

Why is it clearly the case that merely labeling a disorder is not the same thing as explaining a disorder?

Depression often includes various physical manifestations, such as __________.

Henry has worked as a proofreader for a publishing company. Now that Henry has developed schizophrenia, we can expect that __________.