Exam 16: Specific Disorders and Treatments

Nearly all drugs that commonly produce addictions stimulate

In John B. Watson's attempt to produce a phobia through classical conditioning, the unconditioned response was

Smokers who switch from regular cigarettes to low-nicotine cigarettes tend to

In North America, which of these disorders is more common in females than in males?

Type II alcoholism

Which class of drugs has been found to help some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder?

A young man who is more likely than others to become an alcoholic tends to

People get very sick if they use __________ after taking __________ pills.

A compulsion is

One major benefit of atypical antipsychotics is that they do not cause tardive dyskinesia. Compared to traditional antipsychotics, another important benefit of atypical antipsychotics is they

Antabuse is effective in combating alcoholism, in part because it changes the

People who have schizophrenia exhibit a deterioration of daily activities and show at least two of the following:

The main advantage of serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac over tricyclic drugs is that

According to the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, schizophrenia results mainly from abnormalities of brain development at what age?

In which of the following disorders are people likely to have a large number of self-imposed rituals?

One disadvantage to the use of lithium in the treatment of bipolar disorder is that

Suppose you are an experimenter, and you have trained someone to press a lever to avoid shocks. Now you disconnect the shock generator. Other than telling the person what you have done, what procedure would be most successful in facilitating extinction of the lever pressing?

One way you can relieve your own mild depression, without drugs or psychotherapy, is to

For most people who suffer from depression:

Psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (1990) has suggested that one of the main reasons depression occurs more frequently in women than in men is that when women start to feel depressed they are more likely than men to