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Module 50 & 51
Schizophrenia & Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is schizophrenia? | a group of severe disorders whose symptoms may include disorganized and delusional thinking, inappropriate emotions and actions, and disturbed perceptions |
| What is psychosis? | a psychological disorder in which a person experiences irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, and a loss of contact with reality. |
| What are delusions? | false beliefs that often are symptoms of psychotic disorders |
| What are dissociative disorders? | involve a separation of conscious awareness from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
| What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)? | a dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities |
| What disorder was formerly called multiple personality disorder? | dissociative identity disorder |
| What is anorexia nervosa? | an eating disorder, most common in adolescent females, in which a person restricts food intake to become significantly underweight and yet still feels fat |
| What is bulimia nervosa? | an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating followed by purging (by vomiting or laxative use) or fasting |
| What is binge-eating disorder? | characterized by episodes of overeating, followed by distress, but without the purging or fasting that marks bulimia |
| What are personality disorders? | characterized by inflexible and enduring maladaptive character traits that impair social functioning |
| What is antisocial personality disorder? | a disorder where the person is aggressive, ruthless, and shows no sign of a conscience that would inhibit wrongdoing |
| What is the effect of drugs that block receptors for dopamine? | alleviate schizophrenia symptoms |
| Most hallucinations of schizophrenia patients involve which of the five senses? | hearing |
| Hearing voices would be a(n) ________; believing that you are Napoleon would be a(n) ______. | hallucination; delusion |
| Many psychologists believe the disorganized thoughts of people with schizophrenia result from a breakdown in what? | selective attention |
| Research evidence links the brain abnormalities of schizophrenia to ________ during prenatal development. | a viral infection contracted |
| Matt has never been able to keep a job. He's been and out of jail for charges such as theft, sexual assault, and spousal abuse. Matt would most likely be diagnosed with what? | antisocial personality disorder |
| When expecting to be electrically shocked, people with an antisocial personality disorder, as compared with normal people, show what? | less fear and less autonomic arousal |
| Psychodynamic and learning theorists both agree that dissociative disorders are symptoms that represent the person's attempt to deal with what? | anxiety |
| What is schizoid personality? | an individual who exhibits eccentric behaviors, such as social disengagement |
| What is avoidant personality? | a person with a fearful sensitivity to rejection |
| A person with an antisocial personality disorder used to be called what? | a psychopath or sociopath |
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