General Concepts
What two factors influence disorders?
Nature and Nurture
What is the difference between sadness and depression?
Sadness is good for your health and well-being, but depression is not.
What do you call a wrong belief that somebody holds to be true?
Delusion
Are either men or women more likely to display Antisocial Personality Disorder(lack of conscience for wrongdoing)?
Men
Which friend of Winnie the Pooh displays rumination?
Piglet
Psychological disorders directly affect what part of the body?
The brain
Are men or women more likely to be affected by rumination and depression?
Women
Chris Frith proposed that the symptoms of schizophrenia occur due to the decline of cognitive aspects such as Theory of Mind. What is the Theory of Mind?
The capacity to understand others by ascribing mental states to them
T/F: Are dissociative disorders positively correlated to a difference in brain structure?
True
This Star Wars character has Borderline Personality Disorder, which eventually led him to become Darth Vader.
Anakin Skywalker
What is a disorder?
It is a clinically significant disturbance in cognition or behavior.
2 years
A type of disorder marked by irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
Psychotic disorder
What is Objectifaction Theory?
A theory that asserts that feeding and eating disorders are a result of cultural pressures that force women to view their bodies as objects
This is a movie adapted from a book where a Wall Street Banker is either a serial killer, or suffers from severe delusions.
American Psycho
Can disorders lead to death?
Yes
Major Depressive Disorder
What is the difference between Chronic and Acute Schizophrenia?
Chronic schizophrenia has symptoms that appear in late adulthood, while Acute Schizophrenia symptoms often appear in response to a traumatic event.
What is the name of the eating disorder in which a person starves themself despite being underweight(most common with females)?
Anorexia Nervosa
What Batman villain has dissociative identity disorder?
Two-Face
One in how many people are affected by psychological disorders?
Eight
Manic State
A genetic predisposition to schizophrenia
What is the name of the disorder that appears in childhood and is defined by limitations in social interaction?
Autism Spectrum Disorder
What type of disorder does Eeyore(another friend of Winnie the Pooh) have?
Depressive Disorder