Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

The discovery of the cause of the disease general paresis was significant because it represented the first time that a psychological disorder had an identifiable physical cause.

All of the following are current personality disorders listed in the DSM-IV EXCEPT:

Someone who is afraid to leave their house because they are afraid of being in public places would most likely be diagnosed as having:

All of the following were mentioned as one of the three Ds that typically influence judgments regarding abnormal behaviour EXCEPT:

According to learned helplessness theory,which of the following thoughts trigger depression?

Pain disorder and hypochondriasis are both classified as _____________ disorders.

Difficulty concentrating and making decisions is a motivational symptom of depression.

The dopamine hypothesis asserts that the symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the underactivity of this neurotransmitter.

Which of the following disorders was mentioned as an example of a culture-bound disorder?

The legal term "competency" refers to a person's state of mind at a trial or hearing,while the term ______________ is concerned with a person's mental state at the time a crime was committed.

Which of the following was mentioned as basis for criticizing the validity of dissociative identity disorder?

Which of the following statements regarding cultural differences in depression is true?

In the DSM-IV classification system,the intensity of recent environmental stressors that a person is experiencing is rated on Axis III.

Which of the following would be classified as part of the physiological component of anxiety?

When a defendant is on trial for murder and they plead insanity as a defense,this means

According to Sigmund Freud,when the ego is threatened by unacceptable and potentially overwhelming impulses from the id,then ______________ anxiety occurs.

Maladaptive and self-defeating thought patterns are most central to the ____________ perspective of psychological disorders.

The psychodynamic perspective would most likely emphasize which of the following causal factors of depression?

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

The neurotransmitters responsible for the symptoms of mania appear to be different from those responsible for clinical depression.