Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Pat's frequent and intense fears of open and public places are out of proportion to the actual situations and are interfering with Pat's daily life.Pat's disorder most closely conforms to:

There is no support for the claim that a key role in the development of schizophrenia is _________________.support this claim.

The disease formerly called multiple personality disorder is now known as:

Specific phobias,such as the fear of dogs or heights,are considered to be one of the three major types of phobias.

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

A psychological disorder that involves severe disturbances in thinking,speech,perception,emotion,and behaviour and is described by the text as being the most serious and puzzling disorder is called:

Windigo,koro,and anorexia nervosa were all discussed as examples of _______________ disorders.

Mrs.Jones,the second grade teacher,has been watching little Jimmy all year digress to a very disobedient little boy who has no regard for other people.He breaks most of the school rules and has been caught stealing lunch money from other children and lying in order to cause trouble.These symptoms fit the diagnosis of __________________.

People who become depressed when they expect bad things to occur and assume that there is nothing they can do to prevent them are explained by the ___________________.

In the dissociative disorder known as _____________,people develop selective memory losses after traumatic events,but other types of memories remain intact.

Viewing the future with great pessimism and hopelessness is classified as ______________ symptom of depression.

Describe three different psychological perspectives on depression.

The overactivity of which of the following neurotransmitters appears to be associated with schizophrenia?

A theorist who argues that schizophrenics have defective attentional mechanisms that are unable to filter out irrelevant internal and external stimuli is taking a ___________ perspective on this disorder.

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:

All of the following would be considered examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia except:

The term "competency" is most concerned with:

Playing a central role in schizophrenia,these false beliefs are maintained in the face of contradictory evidence:

Research studies have found significant brain atrophy in the cerebral cortex and limbic system with 20 to 35 percent of individuals with _____________.

Research studies of depressed individuals have indicated that they tend to attribute: