Exam 13: Mental Well-Being and Disorder in Adulthood

Lyubomirsky et al. (2005) have suggested three factors that determine well-being. These factors are ___, ___, and ___, and they account for ___, ___, and ___, respectively, of the variability of happiness.

Brewin, Dalgleish and Joseph (1996) have concluded that the chaotic nature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be explained in terms of two memory systems. Specifically Brewin and colleagues suggest that PTSD results when:

_____________ was/were recognized in 2004 by the World Health Organization as making the largest contribution to the burden of disease in middle- and high-income countries and it is/they are the leading cause of years lost due to a disability worldwide.

Csikszentmihalyi suggests that the state of flow, or optimal experience, can be cultivated by:

According to Kahneman and colleagues' (2006) study, if one were to compare individuals earning $50,000-$89,999 with those in the $90,000+ income bracket, what trend would be observed and how might one account for this trend?

Dermott, Dobson, and Jones (2010) found, in a longitudinal study, that within a year of an episode of depression coming to an end, women were more likely to relapse into another episode of depression if they had:

American women are more likely than American men to be afflicted by a(n) ________________.

Depression at the case level would be predicted in which of the following situations?

Chronic psychiatric and/or physical symptoms would be predicted in which of the following situations?

Disner et al. (2011) proposed a neurobiological theory of depression based on a presumed role that the amygdala plays in relation to memory. Specifically, they have argued that the amygdala:

According to Kendler and colleagues (2003), which one of the following kinds of adversity is likely to cause a depressive or anxiety breakdown?

Relationships affect whether people develop major depression in response to adversities. The general term for relationships that can protect people from disorder is social support. Typical measures of social support include all but which one of the following?

According to a study by Kessler in 2005, previously married/divorced individuals are _____________ to suffer from a(n) ______________ compared to married/cohabiting individuals.

Gruber and Keltner (2007) have shown that we can think of disorders as excesses of emotions. According to this perspective, an excess of disgust yields which of the following disorders?

The kindling mechanism is the mechanism by which people:

The category of anxiety disorders includes all but which one of the following?

Early experience affects people's susceptibility to emotional disorders in childhood. Brown and Harris (1978) reported that a person who loses a mother in childhood is more likely than a person who has not lost his or her mother to develop depression. The most likely interpretation of this finding according to the textbook is that the _______________ leaves individuals vulnerable to developing depression.

The main treatment for depression is drugs, of which the principal kinds are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The drugs function by ____________________________. Irving Kirsch's (2009) meta-analysis of SSRI drug trials suggests that, compared with placebos, SSRIs have ________________ effect on depression.