Exam 1: Abnormal Behaviour in Historical Context

Mustafa was bitten by a dog when he was five years old.Now he is afraid of any dog he sees.His fear of dogs is a(n)

Amy quickly becomes the center of attention when she enters a room.She is a tall and attractive young woman who generally wears something striking.Amy is known as a flirt and acts in a seductive manner around men.When Amy speaks, she uses very exaggerated terms, even when describing relatively ordinary situations.Amy's diagnosis is most likely ________ personality disorder.

In an attempt to rid the body of the excessive humours thought to be causing psychological disorders, physicians throughout history have used treatments such as

Anton Mesmer, an early eighteenth-century physician, purported to be affecting cures in patients by unblocking their flow of a bodily fluid he called 'animal magnetism.' In fact, any effectiveness of his methods was actually due to

A four-year-old girl sucks her thumb, a teenager binges on food and an adult woman bites her fingernails.According to the Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at the ________ stage.

In ancient Greece, some 'humoral excesses' thought to be causing psychological disorders were treated by

According to psychoanalytic theory, the id operates on the 'pleasure principle', which means that it

The traditional tendency to stigmatise women as 'hysterical' derived from Hippocrates' concept of

One unusual finding discussed in your text is that ________ personality disorder may have played a role in the behavior of several serial killers.

A male college student begins feeling sad and lonely.Although still able to go to classes and work at his studies, he finds himself feeling down much of the time and worries about what is happening to him.Which part of the definition of abnormality applies to his situation?

Patients diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder

Which scientist felt that that psychology should not use introspection or other unquantifiable methods and is considered the founder of behaviourism?

The data regarding treatment outcome for individuals with paranoid personality disorder

In the late nineteenth century, John P.Grey and his colleagues

According to psychoanalytic theory, the conflicts between the id and the superego often lead to feelings of

A classmate in your psychology course is worried about the selfish and sometimes dangerous drives of his id and wonders if it will make him commit crimes.You respond by saying that

In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, it is important for patients to

Describe the three clusters of DSM-5 personality disorders and provide an explanation of each personality disorder that belongs to each cluster.What adjectives are generally used to describe each cluster?

When presented with words projected on a computer screen, individuals with borderline personality disorder are more likely than individuals without the disorder to remember the word

Which of the following prevention strategies looks promising for children who are at risk for later antisocial personality disorder?