Abnormal Psychology Pract. Ch. 6

After a major earthquake, television coverage showed survivors shuffling confusedly through the ruined buildings. If such victims later could not remember the days immediately after the earthquake, the victims would be suffering from which type of amnesia?

Localized

Which statement provides the MOST persuasive argument against a psychodynamic explanation for dissociative identity disorder:

Most abused children do not develop the disorder

Alexis has dissociative identity disorder. When one of her personalities, Jodi, is asked about another one, Tom, she claims ignorance. Tom has never heard of Jodi, either. This is called a:

mutually amnesic relationship.

Which statement MOST accurately describes the sympathetic nervous system pathway of the stress response?

The hypothalamus excites the sympathetic nervous system, which then excites body organs to release hormones, causing even more arousal

According to developmental psychopathologists, why do children tend to fare worse than adults when faced with an extreme stressor for the first time?

Their stress pathways and stress circuits are not yet fully developed

Which statement is TRUE regarding dissociative disorders?

They involve major changes in memory

In the MOST common type of dissociative amnesia, a person loses memory for:

all events beginning with the trauma but within a limited period of time

The first step in treating people with dissociative identity disorder is to:

bond with the primary personality

Individuals experiencing dissociative amnesia sometimes are given sodium amobarbital or sodium pentobarbital because those drugs:

calm people and reduce their inhibitions.

According to the text, psychodynamic therapy seems especially well suited to treat:

dissociative amnesia

One distinction that DSM-5 makes between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder is based on the:

duration of anxiety symptoms

A friend says to you, "I know someone who is a combat veteran who was just diagnosed with PTSD. Do you think therapy will help this person?" Which is the BEST answer you can give based on current research?

"Probably. About two-thirds of those receiving therapy for PTSD eventually show improvement."

The individuals who are MOST likely to experience a psychological stress disorder are:

female or low-income individuals

In the treatment of dissociative amnesia, sodium amobarbital and sodium pentobarbital work by:

freeing people from their inhibitions, thus allowing them to recall unpleasant events

Which BEST describes someone with depersonalization?

Feels detached from his or her own body

Years after the U.S. Civil War was over, many veterans diagnosed with melancholia or soldier's heart still experienced vivid flashbacks of their combat experiences, as well as nightmares and guilt about what they had done. Today, their symptoms are considered consistent with:

posttraumatic stress disorder

The statement, "This is awful, but I guess I can deal with it like I do everything else," represents one person's:

stress response

If a deer jumps in front of your car while you are driving, the stress response that is initially activated is the:

sympathetic nervous system.

Kelly was in a passenger plane. He watched as all four engines quit at once and saw the plane explode. Thrown 5,000 feet in the air, he landed, severely injured, in a heavily wooded area in deep snow. When he regained consciousness several weeks later, he had a stress reaction that lasted for years, and he could never fly again. The factor that probably MOST contributed to his extreme posttraumatic stress reaction was:

the severity of the trauma.

Dissociative identity disorder is _____ to be diagnosed in a woman compared with a man.

three times more likely