Ch6 Abnormal Psychology
How do results from evoked potential studies support the idea of the existence of multiple personalities?
Different subpersonalities has been found to show different brain wave patterns
Which BEST describes someone experiencing derealization?
Feels as if the world has changed and become strange or surreal
Which is the BEST example of the subpersonalities is dissociative identity disorder differing in preferences?
One subpersonality loves alternative rock music and another hates it but loves country music
Which statement about long-term effects of rape on women is MOST accurate?
Rape victims are significantly more likely to abuse alcohol or drugs
Which has been proposed as a possible cause of dissociative disorder?
Self-hypnosis
Which child is MOST likely to develop a stress disorder later in life after experiencing trauma?
a child who lives alone with a single mother who is working multiple jobs
A person who witnessed a horrible car accident and then became unusually anxious and depressed for three weeks is probably experiencing:
acute stress disorder
Depersonalization disorder is most common among
adolescents and young adults
The effects of taking hallucinogens accompanied by feelings that objects are changing size, that other people are distorted, and that one might be mechanical is MOST similar to:
amnestic fugue
Which factor during childhood has NOT been shown to increase a person's likelihood of developing a stress disorder after experiencing a trauma later in life?
being required to "work" for an allowance
The first stop 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 inhibitors
Colton has dissociative identity disorder. Fat Freddy and Carmen are two personalities who are aware of all of the others but do not interact with them. Fat Freddy and Carmen would be described as:
coconscious
Ever since Paul's car crash, during which he was miraculously unhurt. Paul has not been the same. He forgets appointments, friends' names, and even things done in the past few days. His amnesia is termed:
continuous
An individual has been diagnosed with a dissociative disorder. However, the individual has very good recall of previous life events and has a strong sense of self. The MOST likely diagnosis for this individual is:
deprsonalization disorder
Research on evoked potential with people with dissociative identity disorder has revealed that:
different subpersonalities show different brain-response pattern
An individual who formerly knew how to speak a foreign language and play a musical instrument can no longer remember how to do so as a result of a dissociative disorder. This dissociative disorder MOST likely present is:
dissociative identity
People with which dissociative disorder typically do not eventually recover without receiving treatment?
dissociative identity disorder
Jake is lying in bed and suddenly feels as though he is floating above his body. This is called:
doubling
One distinction that DSM-5 makes between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder is based on the:
duration of anxiety symptoms
The part of the body that releases hormones into the bloodstream is the ___ system.
endocrine
Someone who is experiencing doubling is:
feeling as if his or her mind is floating above him or her
The collective reactions generated by the sympathetic nervous system pathway and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) pathway are termed the:
fight-or-flight response
In the treatment of dissociative amnesia, sodium amobarital and sodium pentobarbital work by:
freeing people from their inhibitions, thus allowing them to recall unpleasant events
Just after doing well in an intramural basketball game- something which left me very happy, and in a high state of excitement- I sat down and studied for my abnormal psychology test. Research shows I would perform best on that test if, at the time of the test, I was:
happy and excited
Which is typical of posttraumatic stress disorder?
increased arousal, anxiety, and guilt
The most common type of dissociative amnesia is:
localized amnesia
Compared with covert exposure therapy for combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, virtual reality exposure therapy has been shown to be:
more effective
A personality change that often accompanies dissociative fugues is that people become:
more outgoing
A diagnostic criterion for posttraumatic stress disorder is the presence of significant distress or impairment for:
more than one month
Which statement about rape is MOST accurate?
most rape victims are younger than age 35
A person's level of cortisol and norepinephrine are in the normal range, MOST likely, that person is experiencing:
no stress disorder
Juanita has dissociative identity disorder, Big Tony and Smart Alice are two personalities who are aware of all of the others. None of her other personalities is aware of the others. This would be called a:
one-way amnesic relationship
Memory problems that do not interfere with daily living are referred to as:
peculiarities of memory
A student who turns pale and feels nauseated which called on to speak in class is experiencing a ___ response to stress.
physical
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
Kevin studies his history notes and textbook while he is drinking beer. According to some theorists, Kevin would later do better on his history exam if he also had alcohol in his system while taking the exam. These theorists would be basing their claim on:
state-dependent learning
Looking for rainbows while walking the dog in the rain is an example of a:
stress response
Having to walk the dog several times a day when it is raining is an example of a:
stressor
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
In response to a threat, we perspire, breathe more quickly, get goose bumps, and feel nauseated. These responses are controlled by 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
Norepinephrine is to ___ as corticosteroid is to ___.
the sympathetic pathway; the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal pathway
If you had lost your sense of identity, what would MOST likely be disrupted?
your memory