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Abnormal Psychology
Test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is bi-polar disorder? | Disorders marked by alternating or intermixed periods of mania and depression. |
| numerous unpleasant thoughts that help to cause or maintain depression, anxiety, or other forms of psychological dysfunction are? | Automatic thoughts |
| What is A person who is ambivalent about the wish to die even as he or she attempts suicide called? | A Death Darer |
| In terms of gender, what is most common with suicide? | 3 times as many women attempt suicide, but men are 4 times as successful. |
| How many people in the US undergo ECT annually? | 100,000 |
| True or False: ECT is considered frontline treatment. | False. |
| What organizations endorse ECT? | American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, Surgeon general. |
| What is Illness Anxiety disorder? | When people unrealistically interpret bodily symptoms as signs of a serious illness. |
| Melinda is a 23-year old woman who complains of chronic abdominal pain, dizziness, nausea, and lack of sexual desire, for which there was no organic cause. She would most likely be diagnosed with: | Somatization Disorder. |
| A disorder in which bodily symptoms affect voluntary motor and sensory functions, but the symptoms are inconsistent with known medical diseases is said to have: | Conversion Disorder |
| Which disorder is marked by a parent making up or producing physical illnesses in their children? | Munchausen by Proxy |
| Traditional psychophysiological disorders are: | ulcers, asthma, insomnia, chronic headaches, hypertension, coronary heart disease |
| Which of the following is a new kind of eating disorder that is found almost exclusively in men? | reverse anorexia dysmorphia or muscle dysmorphia |
| What neurotransmitter is associated with eating disorders? | Serotonin |
| Both bulimia and anorexia often begin after what? | After a period of dieting by people who are fearful of becoming obese |
| What are delerium Tremens | dramatic withdrawal reaction experienced by some people with alcoholism. It consists of confusion, clouded consciousness, and terrifying visual hallucinations |
| What is the stop-start procedure | procedure developed by Semans (1956), the penis is manually stimulated until the man is fairly highly aroused. The couple then pauses until the man’s arousal subsides, at which time the stimulation is resumed. |
| According to the DSM-5, a major depressive episode is a period marked by at least _____ symptoms of depression and lasting for ____ weeks or more. | five, two |
| Which is not mentioned as a long-term stressor that commonly precipitates suicide? | malnutrition |
| According to weight set point theory, when people diet and fall to a weight below their set point, what happens? | The brain starts trying to restore the lost weight. |
| Which theory holds that people become depressed when they think that they no longer have control over the reinforcements in their lives and that they themselves are responsible for being helpless? | learned helplessness theory |
| on-demand pleasuring, or __________, is often used in therapy to help couples focus on giving and receiving sexual pleasure with a reduced focus on orgasm. | Sensate focus |
| Men with __________ have a persistent or recurrent deficiency of sexual thoughts or fantasies and desire for sexual activity | hypoactive sexual desire disorder |
| Which phase of the human sexual response cycle is not affected by a sexual dysfunction? | resolution |
| Which of the following is not a sociocultural explanation for the cause of substance disorders? | Children whose needs are not met by parents grow up depending on others for comfort and this may develop into a dependent relationship with a substance. |
| Drugs that attach to endorphin receptor sites and make it impossible for opioids to have their usual effect are known as: | narcotic antagonists |
| Which is not given as a factor in the origins of female arousal and orgasmic disorders? | engaging in masturbation in childhood. |
| People with ___________ have repeated and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors involving nonhuman objects, children, non consenting adults or experiences of suffering or humiliation. | paraphilias |
| A pattern of maladaptive behaviors and reactions brought about by repeated use of a substance, sometimes also including tolerance for the substance and withdrawal reactions is___________. | substance use disorder |
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