Chapters 11 & 12 (4)

Which of the following is true of the potential causes of schizophrenia?

Problems regulating the neurotransmitter dopamine play a role in schizophrenia.

The main medical treatment for bipolar disorder is

lithium

Like those who develop anorexia nervosa, those who develop bulimia nervosa tend to be

perfectionistic

________ is a depressive disorder in children who show persistent irritability and recurrent episodes of out-of-control behavior.

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

Approximately ______ percent of people who die by suicide are estimated to have a diagnosable psychological disorder.

90

________ is an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.

Anorexia nervosa

________ is said to have the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder.

Anorexia nervosa

________ is a psychological disorder characterized by guiltlessness, law-breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit.

Antisocial personality disorder

________ is a mood disorder that is characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania, an overexcited, unrealistically optimistic state.

Bipolar disorder

________ is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, and of marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts.

Borderline personality disorder

________ is an eating disorder in which a person consistently follows a binge-and-purge eating pattern.

Bulimia nervosa

________ is a common negative symptom of schizophrenia, which means the display of little or no emotion.

Flat affect

Which of the following statements about the causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is true?

Genes play a substantial role in both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

________ are sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli. ________ are false, unusual, and sometimes magical beliefs that are not part of an individual's culture.

Hallucinations; Delusions

________ refers to a psychological state in which an individual feels overexcited and unrealistically optimistic.

Mania

Suicide attempts vary across ethnic groups. More than 20 percent of which of the following adolescent groups reported that they had attempted suicide in the previous year?

Native American/Alaska Native females

________ refers to a psychological state in which a person's perceptions and thoughts are fundamentally removed from reality.

Psychosis

________ refers to ascribing personal meaning to completely random events.

Referential thinking

________ is a severe psychological disorder that is characterized by highly disordered, psychotic thought processes.

Schizophrenia

According to Thomas Joiner's interpersonal theory of suicide, what two factors are involved in suicide?

a desire to die and the acquired capability for suicide

Genetic factors are stronger predictors of ________ than predictors of ________.

bipolar disorder; depressive disorders

People with bulimia nervosa tend to have ________ of perfectionism and ________ of self-efficacy.

high levels; low levels

Research has linked suicide to which of the following types of culture?

honor cultures

Antisocial personality disorder has been associated with

low levels of prefrontal activation.

Suicide is correlated with which of the following biological factors?

low levels of serotonin

The Americans with Disabilities Act

made it illegal to discriminate against a person with a psychological disorder in the workplace when the person's condition does not prevent performance of the job's essential functions.

The ________ of schizophrenia are marked by a distortion or an excess of normal function, whereas the ________ reflect social withdrawal, behavioral deficits, and the loss or decrease of typical functions.

positive symptoms; negative symptoms

A subgroup of people with antisocial personality disorder are remorseless predators who engage in violence to get what they want. These people are sometimes referred to as

psychopaths.

Depressed people tend to have too few receptors for the neurotransmitters

serotonin and norepinephrine.