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When is behavior considered disordered?
When it is aggressive, persistent, and intentional.
When it is biologically influenced, unconsciously motivated, and difficult to change.
When it is maladaptive, distressful, and dysfunctional.
How does the medical model describe psychological disorders?
As sicknesses that need to be diagnosed and cured.
As maladaptive responses to a troubling environment.
As learned habits that need to be extinguished.
What did the Rosenhan study illustrate?
The dangers of the medical model.
The dangers of hallucinations.
The dangers of diagnostic labels.
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Feelings of apprehension and fear without warning or explanation.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Phobia
Dissociative Disorder
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Repeated, distressing dreams and intrusive memories of a life-threatening experience.
Agoraphobia
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Alternating between states of lethargic hopelessness and wild overexcitement.
Conversion Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Schizophrenia
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Hallucinations, delusions, catatonia, and excess levels of dopamine.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
Bulimia
Schizophrenia
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Symptoms take on a bodily form without apparent physical cause.
Conversion Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Schizophrenia
Dissociative Identity Disorder
How would you best describe a compulsion?
Persistent fears
Repetitive behaviors
False beliefs
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Exhibiting two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
Schizophrenia
Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Mood Disorder
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Frequent overeating followed by vomiting in an attempt to control weight.
Bulimia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa
Obesity
Hypermetabolism
Evaluate the following symptoms and determine which disorder would most likely be diagnosed: Dishonest behavior, repeated trouble with authority figures, an absence of remorse.
Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
What does it mean for a therapist to take an eclectic approach to therapy?
They prescribe the use of drugs as part of psychotherapy.
They use a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic approaches.
They use both token economies and behavior therapies.
What type of therapy is Carl Rogers associated with?
Client-Centered
The Token Economy
Cognitive Therapy
Which of the following is a counter-conditioning technique?
Free Association
Unconditonal Positive Regard
Aversive Conditioning
Which disorder below would benefit from virtual reality exposure therapy?
Personality Disorders
Depression
Phobias
Why are Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil called SSRI's?
They speed recovery from episodes of depression.
They slow the normal reabsorption of excess serotonin from synapses.
They successfully level the emotional highs and lows of bipolar disorder.
A person with bipolar disorder experiences alternating periods of
Mild sadness and severe guilt
manic action and deep despair
A wild fantasy life and hallucinations
Amnesia and despair
A hospital patient was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia because she was having both delusions and hallucinations. What type of symptoms are these?
atypical
positive
negative
a mix of positive and negative
In which disorder does a person seem to experience at least two or more distinct personalities existing in one body?
schizophrenia
panic disorder
depersonalization
dissociative identity disorder
Any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes harm to others, or harms their ability to function in daily life is called___________.
a psychological disorder
humors
stress syndrome
adaptive behavior
The police find a man who is disheveled and in a daze wandering through the downtown area. When the police ask him for his name, he seems bewildered. A search of missing persons photographs reveals that this man was reported missing three months ago in a town more than 700 miles away. The man is most likely suffering from_________.
schizophrenia
dissociative fugue
dissociative amnesia
dissociative identity disorder
Anthony is 32 years old, well above average in intelligence, and quite charming. He has swindled several older people out of their life savings, and he seems to have little feeling for his victims, nor does he fear the consequences of getting caught. His behavior is evidence of
bipolar disorder
schizophrenia
obsessive compulsive disorder
a personality disorder
A behavioral system has been implemented in which the adolescents earn points for target behaviors like getting up on time, making beds, attending class, etc. They are allowed to exchange their earned points for privileges, activities, etc. This system is called ____ and is based on ________
time out; extinction
systematic desensitation; gradual exposure
token economy; reinforcement
primary reinforcement; non-reward
Some patients whose depression resists drugs have benefited from which experimental treatment ?
Transference
Meta-analysis
Antipsychotic drugs
Deep-brain Stimulation
Echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what a person expresses (verbally or non verbally) in a therapy session in called
active listening
virtual reality exposure therapy
systematic desensitization
family therapy
In the context of psychoanalytic theory, experiencing strong positive or negative feelings for your analyst is a sign of what?
Counterconditioning
Meta-analysis
Transference
Tardive Dyskinesia
Most antipsychotic drugs mimic a certain neurotransmitter by blocking its activity at the receptor sites. These drugs affect which of the following neurotransmitters?
Adrenaline
Epinephrine
Serotonin
Dopamine
Schizophrenia is a disorder that is MOST likely to be treated with
biomedical therapies.
psychoanalysis.
cognitive therapies.
humanistic therapies.
Which of the following techniques is derived from classical conditioning principles?
the token economy
systematic desensitization
stress inoculation training
ECT
transference
In 1924, Mary Cover Jones reported that 3-year-old Peter lost his fear of rabbits when a rabbit was repeatedly presented while Peter was eating a tasty snack. This episode best illustrated the potential usefulness of
stress inoculation training.
exposure therapies.
aversive conditioning.
free association.
the placebo effect.
Aversive conditioning involves
replacing a negative response to a harmless stimulus with a positive response.
identifying a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences.
depriving a client of access to an addictive drug.
associating unwanted behaviors with unpleasant experiences.
systematically controlling the consequences of patients' maladaptive behaviors.
Therapists practice ________ by using positive reinforcers to reward closer and closer approximations of a desired behavior.
free association
progressive relaxation
behavior modification
unconditional positive regard
insight therapy
The psychologist known for challenging people's absurd self-defeating ideas is
Sigmund Freud
Albert Ellis
Joseph Wolpe
Carl Rogers
Mary Cover Jones
The confrontational cognitive therapy in which therapists challenge people's illogical statements is known as
psychodynamic therapy
rational-emotive behavior therapy
humanistic therapy
biomedical therapy
behavior therapy
Which of the following is a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies?
factor analysis
correlational analysis
regression toward the mean
meta-analysis
rTMS
Which of the following is most likely to contribute to inflated estimates of the value of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing?
meta-analysis
stress inoculation training
therapeutic touch
the double-blind procedure
the placebo effect
Which drugs are designed to depress central nervous system activity?
antipsychotic drugs
antianxiety drugs
antidepressant drugs
mood-stabilizing drugs
dissociative drugs
SSRIs are prescribed to
reduce involuntary muscle movements.
reduce hallucinations and paranoia.
elevate arousal and mood.
decrease the availability of norepinephrine.
decrease the availability of serotonin.
Which of the following treatments is most likely to be used only with severely depressed patients?
psychoanalysis
drug therapy
systematic desensitization
electroconvulsive therapy
stress inoculation training
Which kind of drug is most closely associated with increasing the availability of norepinephrine or serotonin?
antidepressant
antipsychotic
antianxiety
mood-stabilizing
muscle relaxant
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