Question 1

A student loses all sense of personal identity and wanders into a new faraway town where they establish a new identity. The student has been diagnosed with ___________.

Accepted Answer

A) dissociative fugue 
B) dissociative identity disorder 
C) dissociative personality disorder 
D) multiple personality disorder

Question 2

Which of the following is not an example of a personality disorder as stated in the DSM-5?

Accepted Answer

A) Narcissistic 
B) Schizophrenia 
C) Antisocial 
D) Borderline

Question 3

A new patient has just shown up at the clinic. His medical records indicate abnormal development of the cerebellum and that there was an accelerated pruning of neural connections. You suspect that this patient has

Accepted Answer

A) schizophrenia 
B) attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADH
D)  
C) dementia 
D) autistic spectrum disorder 
E) somatic symptom disorder

Question 4

___________ is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly.

Accepted Answer

A) Alzheimer's disease 
B) Old age 
C) Parkinson's disease 
D) Huntington's disease

Question 5

Though his theory is controversial, research results have provided support for the vast majority of Freud's ideas about the causes of anxiety.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

An individual who has intense and unstable relationships, momentary losses of personal identity, and experiences chronic feelings of extreme anger, loneliness, and emptiness would likely be diagnosed with

Accepted Answer

A) dissociative identity disorder 
B) antisocial personality disorder 
C) schizophrenia 
D) borderline personality disorder

Question 7

One of the factors that typically underlie people's judgments of abnormality is how distressing a given behaviour is.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

A student who is a schizophrenic, is not motivated to do anything. The student lacks emotion, and the ability to express themselves in normal speech. The student has ___________ that accompany Type II schizophrenia.

Accepted Answer

A) negative symptoms 
B) positive symptoms 
C) transient symptoms 
D) residual symptoms

Question 9

If your roommate acts in a way that is unusual (i.e., deviant) and interferes with her schoolwork (i.e., dysfunctional), what would you need to know before deciding whether the behaviour is abnormal?

Accepted Answer

A) Her vulnerability factors 
B) Her current stressors 
C) Whether she finds the behaviour distressing 
D) The religious meaning of her behaviour

Question 10

What was the historical importance of discovering the cause of general paresis?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

What biochemical processes might underlie depression Mania?

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

Joanne has just shown up at the hospital emergency ward. She has a psychological issue. Her previous medical records indicate high activity in the behavioural activation system and she scores high on extroversion. You suspect that Joanne is suffering from

Accepted Answer

A) unipolar depression 
B) bipolar disorder 
C) schizophrenia 
D) dissociation 
E) high anxiety

Question 13

According to the DSM-5, in order to qualify for a diagnosis of panic disorder, people must experience panic attacks and a fear of ________.

Accepted Answer

A) closed spaces 
B) future attacks 
C) public places 
D) spiders

Question 14

What evidence is there for a genetic predisposition to anxiety disorders? What form might the vulnerability factor take?

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

A good friend of your parents seems to be suffering from a psychological disorder. Your parents were not sure if the diagnosis was schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder. Which of the following would help to determine which disorder we are talking about?

Accepted Answer

A) If the level of GABA is extremely low 
B) If the individual's cerebellum is enlarged 
C) If the level of dopamine is extremely low 
D) The individual's past history of sexual or physical abuse 
E) If the individual had recently experienced an important loss in their life

Question 16

Anxiety disorders ________.

Accepted Answer

A) occur more frequently in males than females 
B) occur more frequently in females than males 
C) are not very prevalent in the United States 
D) are not usually severe enough to interfere with a person's life

Question 17

Studies of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder suggest that ______________ to show aggressive or impulsive behaviours whereas ______________ to show more symptoms of inattention and concentration difficulty.

Accepted Answer

A) girls are more likely; boys or girls are equally likely 
B) boys are more likely; boys or girls are equally likely 
C) girls are more likely; boys are more likely 
D) boys are more likely; girls are more likely

Question 18

A chronic state of diffuse or "free-floating" anxiety is most central to the psychological disorder called

Accepted Answer

A) generalized anxiety disorder 
B) panic disorder 
C) social phobia 
D) agoraphobia

Question 19

Research on the causes of anxiety has demonstrated that

Accepted Answer

A) genetic factors may create a vulnerability to anxiety disorders 
B) patients with a history of panic attacks show a lower concentration of GABA than controls without a history of panic disorder 
C) women exhibit anxiety disorders more often than men do 
D) both patients with a history of panic attacks show a lower concentration of GABA than controls without a history of panic disorder AND women exhibit anxiety disorders more often than men do 
E) all these answers are correct

Question 20

Panic disorder is different from generalized anxiety disorder in that with panic disorder, the feelings of anxiety are ______________ and are usually __________ intense.

Accepted Answer

A) quite predictable; less 
B) quite predictable; more 
C) unpredictable; less 
D) unpredictable; more

Exam 16: Psychological Disorders