factors that contribute to the development of a disorder
Etiology
100
If you experience intense, uncontrollable fear when you encounter or think about a specific object, you would probably be diagnosed with:
Phobic Disorder
100
This personality disorder is characterized by a lack of empathy and of remorse:
antisocial personality disorder
100
Transcranial magnetic stimulation has been found most useful in treating:
depression
100
an improvement in physical or mental health following treatment with a drug or treatment that has no active component on the disorder being treated
placebo effect
200
An alternative type of evaluation, called a ______ ________, is to consider psychological disorders along a continuum in which people vary in degree rather than in kind.
dimensional approach
200
You would most likely be diagnosed with _____ if you displayed negative mood, sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, and thoughts of suicide.
major depression
200
excessive, irrational fear of being in public spaces
Agoraphobia
200
Freud's "talking cure" that includes techniques like free association, dream interpretation, hypnosis, etc.
psychoanalysis
200
The idea that behaviors are learned and can be unlearned through classical and operant conditioning is the basis of _____ therapies.
behavioral
300
Believed that bodily fluids (“humors”) were related to mental illness
Hippocrates
300
Sam woke up one morning in a strange hotel in Detroit. He has no memory of how he got there and cannot remember his name or where he is from. Miguel is most likely suffering from:
dissociative fugue
300
This disorder is by the appearance of multiple personalities in the same individual
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
300
Group therapy increased in use after World War II because:
the number of people needing therapy far exceeded the number of available therapists
300
This treatment delivers a strong electrical current to the brain, with the goal of reducing the symptoms of depression:
electroconvulsive therapy
400
A false sensory perception experienced without external sources is a:
hallucination
400
Caroline uses an old grocery cart to collect cans, plastic bags, and newspapers from the street. She wears multiple layers of clothing even when it is hot outside. She frequently talks to herself in public. She is most likely suffering from:
schizophrenia
400
This disorder is characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, and restricted interests
autism
400
Hayley has a snake phobia. She has always avoided situations in which she may encounter a snake, and she will even avoid viewing pictures of them. If Hayley’s therapist approaches her problem from a behavioral perspective, he may use:
exposure therapy
500
Which gender is schizophrenia more common in?
there is no gender difference
500
Which gender is antisocial personality disorder more common in?
males
500
type of biopsychosocial model that relates the development of disorders to the combination of a predisposition or vunerability, usually genetic in origin, and exposure to stressful events or life circumstances
Diathesis-stress model
500
______was an improvement over previous antipsychotic medications because it reduced the negative as well as the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Clozapine
500
The extensive use of _____ in the latter half of the last century is largely responsible for the dramatic reduction in the number of individuals institutionalized for many years for mental disorders.