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A. Tricyclics
B. Structural change
C. Scaling
D. Decatastrophize
A. Intelligence
B. Personality
C. Rhythm
D. None of these
A. It does not interfere with the daily functioning of an individual
B. An individual will go to any length to avoid the situation that he fears
C. An individual is not aware of what triggers his fear
D. It is not associated with a specific object or situation
A. Major depressive disorder.
B. Severity of the trauma.
C. Avoiding eye contact.
D. Different personalities
A. Memory
B. Learning
C. Dissociative disorder.
D. Dissociative
A. Amount of alcohol consumed
B. Cultural expectations
C. Physical surroundings
D. Group norms
A. Smokeless tobacco users rarely have dental problem
B. Smokeless tobacco contains more nicotine than cigarettes
C. Many smokeless tobacco users are young males
D. Smokeless tobacco is just as addictive as smokinG
A. Women
B. Man
C. Both
D. None of these
A. 90 percent
B. 80 percent
C. 60 percent
D. 700 percent
A. Operant conditioning
B. Sxs last less than 1 month
C. Past: institutionalization (could make worse)
D. Sxs of both schizophrenia and a mood disorder
A. Classical
B. Operant
C. Pair
D. Modeling
A. Depressive Bipolar
B. Norepinephrine Serotonin Dopamine
C. Unhappiness (dysphoria) loss of interest (anhedonia)
D. Prozac(can increase suicidal thoughts)
A. Lead to significant distress and impairment in one's life
B. Generalized anxiety disorder
C. Periods of extreme elation and euphoria
D. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
E. Physical complaints that cannot be explained medically
A. Obsession; antisocial
B. Panic disorder; action
C. Action; obsession
D. Bipolar II; obsession
A. Anxiety disorders
B. Somatoform disorders
C. Mental disorders
D. Bipolar disorder
A. Fetal alcohol syndrome
B. Catatonic excitement
C. Reference delusions
D. Thoughts, perceptions
E. Bizarre delusion
A. Refers to oneself: refers to the external world
B. Refers to the external world; refers to oneself
C. Schizotypal personality disorder; refers to the external world
D. Hippocampus; refers to the external world
A. Difficulty relating to others
B. Different personalities
C. Memory loss following stress
D. Severity of the trauma
E. Avoiding eye contact
A. Panic
B. Id
C. Anxiety disorders
D. Ego
A. Increased activity in the amygdala
B. Produce anxiety; reduce it
C. Grossly disorganized behavior.
D. The complexity of causation
A. Single
B. Recurring
C. Discontinuous
D. Unrelated
A. Borderline personality disorder
B. In DID, one identity dominates at one time; another takes over at another time.
C. They are far removed from reality
D. A less voluminous hippocampus and amygdala.
A. Person’s temperament and their predisposition to respond to their environment
B. An individual’s personality type
C. An individual’s rating on his or her sociometric scale
D. Income and occupational status in adulthood
A. Adolescent-type
B. Late-onset-type
C. Substance abuse-type
D. Purging-type
A. Less effective
B. Briefer
C. More expensive
D. Less commonly used
A. Are similar to the symptoms of panic disorder
B. Are triggered by low levels of stress hormones
C. Are related to hyperactivity in the orbitofrontal cortex
D. Are reduced if people are asked to view photos of stimuli that trigger the symptoms
A. Are related to hyperactivity in the orbitofrontal cortex
B. Physical complaints that cannot be explained medically
C. Periods of extreme elation and euphoria
D. Are impulsive and unpredictable
A. Stress-vulnerability model
B. Psychodynamic model
C. Cognitive model
D. Biological model
A. Flat affect.
B. Anxiety
C. Antisocial
D. Borderline
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Constant
D. None of these
A. Freud
B. Borderline
C. Phlegm
D. None of these
A. A context
B. Concurrent
C. Measurable
D. Behavioral
A. Positive
B. Help psychological professionals diagnose psychological disorders
C. Behavioral
D. A specific phobia
A. Give anyone a diagnosis.
B. Keep track of statistics, such as prevalence.
C. Give labels to disorders.
D. Treat disorders
A. Recognition
B. Explicit memory
C. Suppression
D. Chunking
A. Psychoanalytic.
B. Cognitive.
C. Behavioral.
D. Client-centered therapy
A. Xanax
B. Rogers
C. Rorschach
D. PTSD
E. Bulimia
A. Unreliable
B. Invalid
C. Subjective
D. Objective
A. Cause emotional distress.
B. Are eccentric.
C. Both of these
D. None of these
A. Experiences flashbacks interspersed with depression
B. Never thinks about the risk that a major depressive episode will follow a manic episode
C. Often experiences mood states that vacillate between depression and mani
D. Once started a day euphoric and ended the day tired
A. Four
B. Biological
C. Anxiety
D. Culture
A. Vulnerability and adverse experiences
B. Biochemical factors
C. Chemical imbalances and structural abnormalities in the brain
D. Adverse childhood experiences
A. Body shape and weight excessively influencing the person's self-image
B. Refusal to maintain body weight at or above minimal normal weight for age and height
C. Recurrent episodes of binge eating
D. Recurrent inappropriate behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting, to try and prevent weight gain
A. They do not try to hide their disorder
B. They have a distorted view of their own body
C. They may have had a troubled childhood and adolescence
D. They have an intense interest in food but eat with disgust
A. Can perform miracles
B. Are being cheated
C. Are being followed
D. All of these
A. Classify
B. Critisize
C. Both
D. None of these
A. Cognitive
B. Behavioral
C. Humanistic
D. Psychodynamic
A. Cognitive view
B. Biological view
C. Behavioral view
D. Humanistic view
A. Adults; children.
B. Boys; girls.
C. Girls; boys.
D. Adolescents; children
A. A belief that one can perform adequately in a given situation
B. Consistency, stability, and individual differences
C. Not feeling that their freedom to make a choice is threatened
D. Characteristic ways that people differ from one another
A. Eating
B. Personality disorder
C. Dissociative
D. Emotional intelligence
A. CT Scan
B. Three
C. ICD
D. It is often difficult to control the conditions in natural settings
A. Id
B. Ego
C. Superego
D. Preconscious
A. Distorted body image
B. Genetic disorder that results in persistent feelings of intense hunger
C. Type of eating disorder characterized by binge eating
D. Type of surgery that modifies the gastrointestinal system
A. Reinforce
B. Increase
C. Neutralize
D. Clarify
A. More common among men/equally common in men and women
B. More common among women/equally common in men and women
C. Equally common in men and women/more common among women
D. Equally common in men and women/more common among men
A. Problems to be solved
B. Something to be ignored
C. Threats to their manhood
D. Chances to be altruistic
A. Inappropriate conditioning and modeling
B. An individual will go to any length to avoid the situation that he fears
C. An individual is not aware of what triggers his fear
D. It is not associated with a specific object or situation
A. Unconscious conflicts
B. Abnormal thought processes
C. Sociocultural factors
D. A predisposition to mental illness
A. Personality
B. Causes
C. Conditions
D. Forms
A. Causes
B. Conditions
C. Forms
D. Psychopathology
A. A psychological disorder
B. External behavior
C. Underlying genetic cause
D. External trigger
A. Conformity
B. Obedience
C. Reactance
D. Altruism
A. External behavior
B. Underlying genetic cause
C. External trigger
D. Internal predisposition
A. Antisocial
B. Dissociative
C. Obsessive-compulsive
D. Paranoid schizophrenia.
E. Agoraphobia
A. A lack of hemispheric dominance
B. An unusually small corpus callosum
C. Brain damage during the birth process
D. Abnormal autonomic activation during stress
A. Decreased significantly
B. Decreased slightly
C. Increased
D. Stayed the same
A. Posttraumatic stress disorder
B. Are similar to the symptoms of panic disorder
C. Are triggered by low levels of stress hormones
D. Are related to hyperactivity in the orbitofrontal cortex
A. Conscious experience
B. Are similar to the symptoms of panic disorder
C. Are triggered by low levels of stress hormones
D. Are related to hyperactivity in the orbitofrontal cortex
A. Glutamate
B. Serotonin
C. Dopamine
D. GABA
A. Harmful to self or others
B. Culturally insensitive
C. A deviation from the norm
D. Lacking justification
A. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
B. Paranoia.
C. Hallucinations
A. Process; likely
B. Reactive; unlikely
C. Process; unlikely
D. Reactive; likely
A. Insomnia
B. Depression
C. Mania
D. Anxiety
A. Dissociative amnesia.
B. Dissociative identity disorder.
C. Both of these
D. None of these
A. Bipolar II Disorder
B. Bipolar I Disorder
C. Pressured Speech
D. All of these
A. Overgeneralization
B. Process of closing large asylums
C. Possessed by demons
D. Psychiatric hospitals
A. Excessive worrying, expecting to do poorly, and finding it hard to study in the first place (procrastination, avoiding studying or deficient study skills)
B. Repressed thought and memories that try to resurface (a set of learned responses)
C. Clearly identifiable symptoms (a decrease in normal functioning)
D. The result of illogical, irrational thought process (linked to an imbalance in several neurotransmitters in the nervous system)
A. Compulsions/obsessions
B. Obsessions/compulsions
C. Delusions/hallucinations
D. Hallucinations/delusions
A. Men have a stronger sexual drive, not to imply that women never engage in paraphilias
B. Flasher
C. Depriving the brain of oxygen, usually through some form of strangulation or hanging, during masturbation
D. Sexual preference for a nonhuman object or a body part that most members of a culture do not consider sexual
A. A set of learned responses
B. Dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine
C. A danger signal that repressed conflicts are threatening to surface
D. Emotion
A. Randomly selected samples
B. Samples of convenience
C. Reliable measures
D. Valid measures
A. Binge eating disorder; night eating syndrome
B. Night eating syndrome; caloric deregulative disorder
C. Binge eating disorder; pica
D. Pica; night eating syndrome
A. MAOIs
B. Cyclics
C. Prozac
D. Chlorpromazine.
A. 1960s
B. 1970s
C. 1980s
D. 1990s
A. Panic
B. Phobic
C. Generalized
D. Phobia
A. Agoraphobia
B. Compulsion
C. Cognitive
D. Comorbidity
A. Psychic epidemics
B. Self-hypnotic suggestion
C. Substance-induced psychosis
D. Psychotic episodes.
A. Bipolar disorder.
B. Post-traumatic stress disorder.
C. Antisocial personality disorder.
D. Panic disorder.
A. Mood disorders
B. Dissociative neurosis
C. Anxiety disorders
D. Amnesia
A. Illogical thinking patterns
B. Maladaptive
C. Hallucinations
D. Specific phobia
A. Innate
B. Specific
C. Social
D. Primary
A. Depressive disorders / bipolar disorder
B. Bipolar disorder / depressive disorders
C. Dysthymic disorder / depressive disorders
D. Dysthymic disorders / bipolar disorder
A. High levels/high levels
B. High levels/low levels
C. Low levels/high levels
D. Low levels/low levels
A. Dependency.
B. Admiration.
C. Solitude.
D. Stability
A. Emotion; cognition
B. Cognition; emotion
C. Cognition; behavior
D. Behavior; cognition
A. Projective tests
B. Introjective tests
C. Reports by friends
D. Rating scales and frequency counts
A. Drug therapy
B. Psychosurgery
C. EST
D. Shock treatment
A. Serotonin
B. Epinephrine
C. Tryptamine
D. Dopamine
A. 10 to 20
B. 30 to 50
C. 55 to 65
D. 75 to 90