Exam 14: A: Psychological Disorders

Dissociative,somatoform,mood,and sexual and gender identity are types of

Statistical approaches to abnormality define as "abnormal" those who

You feel physically sick,but your doctor says nothing is wrong with you; or you suffer from pain that has no physical basis; or you are preoccupied with thoughts about being sick.If you showed these symptoms,you would most likely be diagnosed with some form of __________ disorder.

Which of the following is NOT a warning sign of psychotic and major mood disorders?

Sexual dysfunctions involve

Martin thinks that he is John the Baptist's cousin and keeps trying to "baptize" all the other residents in the psychiatric facility.Martin is experiencing

Tanya was born with Down syndrome and has an intellectual disability.According to the textbook,Tanya is experiencing which two risk factors for a mental disorder?

The failure of hospital staff to detect the fake patients in David Rosenhan's studies can be attributed to the

Warning signs of psychotic and major mood disorders include which of the following?

To correctly identify mental disorders and select the best therapies to treat them,psychologists use the

You have panic attacks and feel like you are going to die; or you are afraid to do things that most people can do; or you spend unusual amounts of time doing things like washing your hands or counting your heartbeats.If you showed these symptoms,you would most likely be diagnosed with some form of __________ disorder.

Jeff's family is having trouble getting Jeff to eat or to even come out of his room because Jeff believes that his family is trying to poison in his food,and he also "smells a poisonous gas" in any room other than his bedroom.Jeff is experiencing

Dr.Orazzo is using an objective method of defining abnormality.However,this method will not tell her about the meanings of the deviations she obtained nor does it tell her where to draw the line between normality and abnormality.The method of defining abnormality that Dr.Orazzo is using is

Which of the following is NOT identified in the text as a risk factor for psychological disorder?

Which of the following is considered to be a nearly universal symptom of psychosis?

Aaron has had to reschedule his voice recital four times.Each time on the day before his recital,he loses his voice.Aaron's doctor CANNOT find anything that could physically cause Aaron to lose his voice.Thus,psychological factors appear to underlie Aaron's symptoms,which indicates that Aaron most likely has a(n)__________ disorder.

Which of the following is a new diagnostic classification that may appear in the DSM-V and describes a person who is left so resentful after a perceived injustice that he or she cannot let it go?

Halim lives in North Africa with his parents and grandparents.Recently his grandmother began to shout,sing,hit her head against the walls,and then became withdrawn,sat in her room all day,and refused to eat.Some of the older people in the community said that she had become possessed by spirits and had a condition known as

In practice,the judgment that a person needs help usually occurs when

Cody was accused of assaulting his neighbor,but several psychologists testified at his trial that Cody has paranoid schizophrenia and suffers from delusions and hallucinations.In addition,the day of the alleged assault,Cody had been hearing voices telling him that a space alien had inhabited the body of his neighbor and that this alien was attempting to inhabit Cody's body when his neighbor knocked on his door.The neighbor even testified that Cody called him "a space creature." The jury found that because of his schizophrenia,Cody could not appreciate that assaulting his neighbor was wrong; and therefore,the jury found Cody