This gender is more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety disorders..
What are Females
100
What is OCD?
Is characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions that provoke distress and/or interfere significantly with everyday functioning
100
What are the main symptoms of Schizophrenia?
What is hallucinations, delusions, and confused speech and behavior.
100
What is tourettes?
Tourettes syndrome is a disorder characterized by repetitive, sterdotyped, involuntary movements and vocalizations called tics and can only be diagnosed after at least one year of observation by a psychologist.
100
What is a psychological disorder?
A syndrome marked by a "clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognitions, emotion regulation, or behavior"
200
Anxiety disorders are most successfully diagnosed and treated amongst this age group.
A. Adults
B. Children
C. Elderly
What are Children
200
Are obsession and compulsion symptoms the same?
A. Yes
B. No
What is
B. No
200
What race shows more cases of Schizophrenia?
A. Caucasian
B. African American
C. Hispanic
D. All of the above
What is
D. All of the above
200
What age group (A)and gender (B) is found more likely to have Tourette's syndrome?
(A) infants, children, adolescents, adults
(B) female, male
What is
(A) Children
(B) Male
200
Disturbed, or dysfunctional, thoughts, emotions, or behaviors interfere with ____?
Normal day-to-day life
300
This age group is 3.1% of the population that have anxiety disorders..
What are the Elderly
300
What is a key environmental trigger in developing OCD?
A) Family history
B) Stressful life events
C) All of the above
C) All of the above
300
How many people in the U.S are diagnosed with Schizophrenia?
A. 10 million
B. 3.5 million
C. 5 million
What is
B. 3.5 million
300
How might one treat or control their Tourette tics?
a) medicine and self suppression
b) medicine use only
c) Tourettes cannot be treated
a) The medicine colonidine can be used to help the significance of tics, but some patients use self suppression to hold back their tics.
300
____ adults suffer from a mental disorder in a given year
A) 1 in 2
B) 1 in 4
C) 1 in 6
B) 1 in 4
400
Symptoms of panic attacks usually peak at what time?
A. 20 minutes
B. 30 minutes
C. 10 minutes
What is 10 minutes
400
Do genes matter?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Sometimes
What is
A) Yes
400
True or False, Schizophrenia is most common in children and adults over 45.
What is False.
400
How is Tourette's Syndrome inherited?
a) Genetics
b) Environmental factors
c) a and b
d) randomized inheritence
What is C) both genetics and environmental factors can cause Tourette's syndrome to be inherited.
400
What does the classification of a psychological disorder entail?
Classification is more than just a sketch of what is going on with the patient. It includes psychological observation that entails a psychiatry and psychological attempt to predict the disorders future course and includes a research or study of the patient to help describe the situation.
500
Panic disorders cause fear of death because they mimic symptoms of (a) ______.
A. Stroke
B. Heart Attack
C. Memory Loss
What is a Heart Attack
500
How is OCD similar to anxiety disorders?
Involves both environmental and genetic factors with interactions between them
500
True or False, antipsychotic medication will cure someone of all schizophrenic symptoms.
What is False.
500
Can Tourette's lead to other disorders, if so give an example of one?
What is Yes.
Examples: obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, ADHD.
500
Having a disorder can lead to feeling different than others and can increase the chance of depression, how many times more likely is suicide for those with disorders?
a) 3 times
b) 5 times
c) 8 times
b) 5 times more likely
Each year one million people choose to end their lives with suicide. Those with depression from psychological disorders choose this route 5 times more than the average human. They are also more likely to commit suicide gestures.