Deck 15: A: Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Any unusual behavior should be considered maladaptive.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Generalized anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder marked by repeated episodes of sudden,very intense fear.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Psychologists all agree that dissociative identity disorder is not a true disorder.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Major depression occurs twice as often among women as among men.

Question 5

Children with one parent with schizophrenia have a lifetime risk of developing schizophrenia of about 80%.

Question 6

Suicide rates are higher among the elderly than they are for adolescents.

Question 7

Any maladaptive symptom of schizophrenia is,by definition,a negative symptom.