Chapter 16
Parauresis, or the fear of using public restrooms, is an example of
a specific social phobia
Symptoms of depression include all of the following except
a tendency to blame others for bad things that happen
Symptoms of mania include all of the following except
an increased need for sleep
People who were formerly labeled as psychopaths because of their willingness to steal, lie and cheat show signs of
antisocial personality disorder
A person with schizophrenia who primarily has negative symptoms, such as emotional flatness, is a
disorganized type
A person with a specific phobia, such as arachnophobia,
has an out-of-proportion anxious response to a specific trigger but not others
Methadone is used to
help with heroin withdrawal symptoms
A class clown with few close friends may have
histrionic personality disorder
A person who assumes the worst about a mild symptom is exhibiting
hypochondriasis
The difference between somatoform disorders and malingering is that
patients with somatoform disorders believe they're sick while malingerers are faking their symptoms
Including social and environmental factors in the DSM is important because
this knowledge can aid in treatment
A person with little regard for others but a high regard for himself may have
narcissistic personality disorder
Conversion disorder has symptoms similar to all of the following except
a heart attack
Signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder include all of the following except
avoiding social situations with strangers
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has undergone many revisions because
our understanding of symptoms and disorders is evolving
Schizophrenia symptoms like delusions and disordered speech are considered
positive because they're more than what a typical person experiences
A person with an active internal fantasy world who is socially withdrawn may have
schizoid personality disorder
While it's precise cause is unknown, Generalized Anxiety Disorder seems to result from all of the following except
smoking
Schizophrenia may be caused by all of the following except
social and environmental factors
The three types of bipolar disorder, from most extreme to least extreme, are
bipolar I, bipolar II and cyclothymia
The Star Wars character Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader), who swings wildly between good and evil, may have
borderline personality disord
It is believed that split personalities can be caused by any of the following except
brain damage
In David Rosenham's experiment with diagnosing psychological disorders, the best results were obtained
by the actual hospital patients
A person with retrograde amnesia
can form new memories, but has no memory from before the amnesia set in
A person with anterograde amnesia
can't form new memories, but remembers everything from before the amnesia set in
A person with schizophrenia who is motionless and exhibits wavy flexibility is a
catatonic type
Axis I in the DSM includes
clinical disorders
The difference between substance abuse and dependence is that people with substance
dependence have great difficulty quitting
Axis II in the DSM includes
intellectual disabilities
Dissociative disorders cause disturbances in all of the following except
intelligence
While mild social anxiety is common, it becomes a disorder when it
is constant and debilitating
Use of a substance becomes abuse when
it has negative social or work-related consequences
A depressive episode can become major depression if it lasts
longer than two weeks
Addiction can be caused by all of the following except
low levels of dopamine
Depressed patients have been found to possess
low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine
During fugue states, people
temporarily forget their identity
Having wide-ranging emotions that lack intensity or don't run the full, expected range is called
the blunted affect
With pain disorder, pain is caused by
the brain
