Exam 47: Introduction to Psychological Disorders

Larry has difficulty organizing his daily schedule of work responsibilities. He often makes careless mistakes or fails to complete his work because he is easily distracted. Larry's behavior is most characteristic of

The DSM-5's new diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

The ability of mental health professionals to quickly communicate the characteristics of their patients' complex symptoms is most clearly facilitated by the use of

The DSM-5 is most clearly designed to ________ psychological disorders.

Ongoing patterns of behavior that interfere with normal day-to-day life are best characterized as

A current authoritative scheme for classifying psychological disorders is known as the

Which of the following statements concerning the labeling of disordered behaviors is NOT true?

Dysfunctional behaviors are maladaptive, which means that they

The view that all behavior arises from the interaction of heredity and environment is referred to as the ________ approach.

Which of the following disorders most often coexists with a learning disorder or with defiant and temper-prone behavior?

Most mental health workers today take the view that disordered behaviors

A newspaper editorialist argues that the use of DSM-5 diagnostic labels is destructively antidemocratic, because it enables an elite corps of mental health professionals to subtly control the values and lifestyles of the rest of society. First give reasons supporting this argument, then defend the continued use of diagnostic labels.

David Rosenham and his fellow researchers were admitted as patients into various hospitals after they falsely complained of auditory hallucinations. After hospital clinicians analyzed these patients' quite normal life histories, the

A fundamental problem with the diagnostic labeling of psychologically disordered behaviors is that the labels often

ADHD is diagnosed ________ often in girls than in boys. In the decade after 1987, a(n) ________ proportion of American children have been treated for this disorder.

DSM-5 is most likely to be criticized for

Evidence of environmental effects on psychological disorders is seen in the fact that certain disorders, such as ________, are universal, whereas others, such as ________, are culture-bound.

The discovery that psychologically disordered behavior could result from syphilis infections facilitated the credibility and acceptance of

DSM-5 focuses on clinicians' reports of observable behavior in order to

Behavior is classified as disordered when it represents a significant dysfunction in