Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Psychoanalytic theorists assumed the schizophrenia represented an extreme example of the defense mechanism of _____________.

The DSM-IV uses Axis _____ to note relevant physical conditions.

During a psychological assessment,a client shares that she just lost her job and recently ended a long-term romantic relationship.Such information would be recorded on Axis ____ by a psychologist using the DSM-IV.

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

One of the primary motives for suicide appears to be to manipulate other people into doing what the suicidal person wants.

If left untreated,depression typically lasts between 5 and 10 months.

Every month Julie suffers from severe menstrual cramps.Julie is convinced she has a rare disease and has had many medical tests,none of which has found any disease.When a specialist tells Julie that she is physically normal,she seeks another specialist for an opinion.Julie has symptoms of:

Alice has been recently diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.Alice was recently reunited with her identical twin who was adopted at birth and raised in a different environment.Alice is relieved that her sister at least will NOT be susceptible to this disorder.Alice is:

The trauma-dissociation theory is used to account for the development of schizophrenia.

Sarah has an upcoming exam that may determine the direction her career will take.Her anxiety level has never been as high as it has been the last few weeks.In this case,Sarah is NOT diagnosed with an anxiety disorder because________________.

One of the significant criticisms of the DSM-IV is that there is considerable overlap between disorders assessed on Axis I and disorders assessed on Axis _____.

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:

Jane's speech has become very incoherent and confusing.She appears to not have taken a bath or brushed her hair in quite sometime,and it is unclear whether she is eating at all now.She believes that aliens are trying to abduct her and are watching her through her television.It is likely that Jane is suffering from which type of schizophrenia?

Accounting for the poorer prognosis of some schizophrenics,is the fact that some have been found to have brain abnormalities,especially those with ______________ symptoms.

Though they have had trouble identifying the family variables that are initially responsible for the disorder,researchers have consistently found that schizophrenics are more likely to relapse if there are high levels of ______________ in a family.

Negative perceptions in both the people being diagnosed and in others can be generated as one of the detrimental effects of ______________ .

Steve has just done poorly on an algebra exam.He has been feeling depressed for several weeks and he attributes his poor performance to the fact that he is a lousy math student.Characteristic of the depressive cognitive triad,Steve is specifically displaying negative views of __________ .

A breakdown in the coherence of the personality,resulting in significant changes in memory and/or identity is a central diagnostic feature of ______________.

All but one of the following areas of the brain has been implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD):

Regarding potential biological processes associated with anxiety disorders,some researchers believe that some people have highly reactive nervous systems that quickly produce anxiety responses to environmental stressors.The people may have abnormally low levels of the ____________transmitter gama-aminobutyric acid (GABA)activity in the amygdala.