Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

A psychologist has several clients who are depressed and most of them report physical symptoms such as fatigue,loss of appetite,and difficulty sleeping.Given what is known about the cultural relativity of depression,which of the following statements is most accurate?

Discuss some of the disadvantages of classifying and labelling abnormal behaviours.Give concrete examples to support your argument where necessary.Can you think of any advantages of such an approach? Do you feel that the use of such classification systems is worth the potential risks?

Jason is sitting in class listening to a lecture when suddenly,for no apparent reason,he starts to become very anxious and tense.His heart begins pounding,his breathing becomes short,and he starts to sweat profusely.After a few minutes,his mind begins racing with thoughts that he might be dying.Jason randomly suffers from an attack like this about three times a month.Assuming that there is no physical abnormality that is responsible for these symptoms,Jason would most likely be diagnosed as having:

Flashbacks in dreams and personal guilt about surviving fatal catastrophes are both common features of:

Freidlander and Desrocher argue that modulatory control is to obsessions as ______ is to compulsions.

According to Freud,schizophrenia represented an extreme example of the defense mechanism of regression,while more modern psychodynamic theorists assert that the disorder is produced in response to _______________.

The characteristic called "waxy flexibility," in which people place and maintain their limbs in unusual and grotesque positions for hours at a time,is most frequently associated with which type of schizophrenia?

Lucas is accused of a particularly violent murder.His attorney is arguing to the judge that Lucas cannot be tried for the crime because he cannot understand the nature of the charges against him as he is currently _______________ .

Research by Lewinsohn revealed that after controlling for 11 different psychosocial factors,there was still a substantial sex difference in the prevalence of anxiety disorders in men and women,indicating the possible role that _____________ factors may play with this disorder.

Elizabeth is noticing that her eighty year-old grandfather has been very forgetful the last few weeks.When he took her to the park the other day,he forgot where the car was parked when it was time to leave.He also talks more and more about his time in the war when he was a young man.Elizabeth thinks it is quite remarkable that he can remember things from fifty years ago and he can't even remember where he parks the car an hour earlier.What Elizabeth is detecting may be:

Attributing the higher prevalence of schizophrenia in lower socioeconomic groups to the higher levels of stress that low-income people experience is characteristic of the _______________ hypothesis.

List and describe the three different types of somatoform disorders.According to Sigmund Freud,how do these disorders occur?

Impulsiveness,a lack of guilt,and a lack of emotional attachment to people are all aspects of:

Insanity is both a psychological diagnostic category and a legal term that refers to a defendant's presumed state of mind at the time a crime was committed.

Jim lost his job two months ago and has been feeling down ever since.He no longer enjoys doing things with his friends like he used to and in fact,he's had little motivation to do anything.He has lost his appetite and has lost a few pounds in the past few weeks.Though usually a positive person,he has been very self-critical lately and feels that he is worthless.It is most likely that Jim is suffering from:

_________________ is characterized by a relatively constant state of "free-floating" anxiety that has no identifiable cause,while a ______________ is an irrational and strong fear of a particular stimulus or situation.

The text defines abnormal behaviour as containing all of the following elements EXCEPT:

Explanations of anti-social personality disorder that concentrate on the apparent inability of these individuals to learn a fear response when punished are drawing on the ideas of:

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the humanistic perspective of psychological disorders?

According to Aaron Beck,depressed people tend to have a cognitive triad of negative beliefs about the past,present,and future.