Question 1

With regard to suicide, __________ are more likely to attempt suicide and __________ are more likely to actually kill themselves.

Accepted Answer

A) women; women 
B) men; men 
C) women; men 
D) men; women

Question 2

Two siblings can grow up in identical environments and as adults, one develops a psychological disorder and the other does not. Psychologists have taken biological, psychological, and environmental factors and explored how these factors relate to each other in order to explain the above situation. This is called the

Accepted Answer

A) vulnerability-stress model 
B) predisposition-dysfunction model 
C) reliably-valid model 
D) psychodynamic model

Question 3

We label behaviour that is personally distressing, personally dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that other people judge it to be inappropriate or maladaptive as __________.

Accepted Answer

A) deviant 
B) abnormal 
C) atypical 
D) psychotic

Question 4

This area of the brain is implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adults but not in children

Accepted Answer

A) thalamus 
B) limbic system 
C) cingulated gyrus 
D) prefrontal cortex

Question 5

Karen is unfocused, her speech is pressured, and she appears to be in a state of euphoria. For the last week she has gotten no more than 2 hours of sleep a night. Yesterday, she took a second mortgage on her house, flew to Hawaii, and bought some property and a surf shop. Considering these behaviours and symptoms, a psychologist might diagnose Karen's problem as

Accepted Answer

A) mania 
B) dysthymia 
C) hypochondriasis 
D) somatic symptom disorder

Question 6

Exposure to negative experiences such as physical or sexual abuse during a person's early or middle childhood years causes the development of __________________, according to the ____________________.

Accepted Answer

A) depression; depressive attributional pattern 
B) conversion disorder; social causation hypothesis 
C) dissociative identity disorder; trauma-dissociation theory 
D) schizophrenia; social drift hypothesis

Question 7

Roughly about ___________% of Canadian students report having at least one panic attack during periods of extreme stress.

Accepted Answer

A) 10 
B) 30 
C) 60 
D) 90

Question 8

A person who exhibits glove anaesthesia should be sent to a(n) ________.

Accepted Answer

A) psychologist 
B) neurologist 
C) anaesthesiologist 
D) pediatrician

Question 9

Fear of _______ is the most common specific phobia for women, and fear of _______ is the most common specific phobia for men.

Accepted Answer

A) illness; injections 
B) water; animals 
C) heights; airplanes 
D) animals; heights

Question 10

The fact that women who had lost their mothers prior to age 11 were significantly more likely to become depressed as adults when exposed to a recent severe stressor, is most readily explained by

Accepted Answer

A) the cognitive perspective 
B) the biological perspective 
C) the psychodynamic perspective 
D) the behavioural perspective

Question 11

Tony has been feeling a little off for the past few months. Blood work indicated that he has decreased levels of serotonin. Most likely, Tony is suffering from

Accepted Answer

A) antisocial personality disorder 
B) panic disorder 
C) Type I schizophrenia 
D) major depression 
E) bipolar disorder

Question 12

Somatoform disorders involve ________.

Accepted Answer

A) anxiety reactions to bodily sensations like increased heart rate and breathlessness 
B) physical complaints with no known biological cause 
C) depressive reactions to stressful life events 
D) development of alternative personalities in response to trauma

Question 13

Describe the four classes of symptoms that characterize (a) depression and (b) mania.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Describe the four classes of symptoms that...

Question 14

You have overheard your friend's parents talking about their son's schizophrenia. He does not seem to display any positive symptoms. Which of the following symptoms is he most unlikely to show?

Accepted Answer

A) Blunted affect 
B) Loss of motivation 
C) Hallucinations 
D) Absence of normal speech 
E) Lack of emotional expression

Question 15

Moni, a refugee from Cambodia, witnessed some terrible atrocities before immigrating to California. She is now blind, though tests reveal that her eyes are fully functioning and visual stimuli are being registered in the visual cortex. Moni has symptoms of

Accepted Answer

A) phobic disorder 
B) conversion disorder 
C) pain disorder 
D) hypochondriasis

Question 16

An athlete, a skinny adolescent, limits their food intake from fear of being overweight. This has strained their heart, stopped their sexual function, and triggered bone loss. The athlete has been diagnosed with ___________.

Accepted Answer

A) anorexia nervosa 
B) bulimia nervosa 
C) binge-eating disorder 
D) food aversion disorder

Question 17

How do cognitive factors enter into anxiety disorders, particularly panic disorder? What research supports these explanations?

Accepted Answer

The answer of How do cognitive factors enter into anxiety...

Question 18

A study by Brown and Harris found that women who had lost their mothers prior to age 11 and had been exposed recently to a severe loss were more likely to develop

Accepted Answer

A) an anxiety disorder 
B) clinical depression 
C) schizophrenia 
D) dissociative identity disorder

Question 19

George cannot see. There is nothing wrong with his visual system, but he does not register any visual experience at all. George is suffering from

Accepted Answer

A) dissociative identity disorder 
B) functional neurological symptom disorder 
C) dissociative fugue 
D) schizophrenia 
E) obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 20

According to ____________________, people become depressed when they expect bad things to occur and assume that there is nothing they can do to prevent them.

Accepted Answer

A) learned helplessness theory 
B) depressive cognitive triad 
C) childhood loss/rejection theory 
D) depressive attributional pattern

Exam 16: Psychological Disorders

With regard to suicide, are more likely to attempt suicide and are more likely to actually kill themselves.