Unit 2

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Sexual aversion is considered a disorder of which phase of the human sexual response cycle?

desire

Megan is anorexic. She believes that weight and body shape are the only true criteria on which self-worth can be judged. Her thought process in this regard illustrates:

distorted thinking

A person feels most comfortable wearing clothes preferred by the other gender, strongly wishes to be the other gender, and is considering a surgical solution. The most likely diagnosis for this person is according the the DSM-IV-TR:

Gender Identity Disorder

The hallucinations and distortions of perception in particular drugs, such as LSD, produce are called:

Hallucinogens

If a person complains of a wide variety of physical symptoms over a period of time in the absence of a physical basis for the symptoms, the diagnosis would likely be:

Somatic Symptom disorder

A person who has injected a narcotic feels relaxed, happy, and unconcerned about food, sex, or other bodily needs. This person is experiencing what is known as:

a high

Jenny simply cannot get up in the morning without her uppers, those little amphetamine pills her friend gave her. She feels she must take them every day. She has:

a substance dependence

Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all the following except:

a view that one is currently unattractively thin

Most people with bulimia nervosa ______ compared to people with anorexia nervosa.

are of more normal weight

Most clinicians would agree that paraphiliac activities should only be considered a disorder when they:

are the exclusive means of achieving orgasm

Because of the likelihood of convulsions, withdrawal from ______ is especially dangerous.

barbiturates

A man appeared at the emergency room complaining of bloody diarrhea. The doctor who examined him found that the man was intentionally creating the diarrhea through use of laxatives and anticoagulant medication and liked being a patient. The man is MOST likely:

experiencing a factitious disorder.

In a very crowded department store during the Christmas rush, a woman suddenly feels a stranger rubbing his genital area against her thigh. He continues until the crowd begins to break up, then moves away. The most likely diagnosis for this man is:

frotteurism

Hypochondriasis (Illness Anxiety Disorder) differs from somatic Symptom disorder in that:

in IAD, anxiety is more pronounced than in somatization disorder and the person is more concerned with the idea they are ill

Benzodiazepines have a depressant effect on the CNS by binding to GABA receptors and:

increasing GABA activity

Symptoms of vaginismus always include:

involuntary contraction of vaginal muscles

A paraphilia:

is a response to a socially inappropriate object

Barbiturates were first prescribed to help people:

sleep

One medical problem linked to bulimia nervosa is:

tooth loss

"Cross-dressing" is another term for:

transvestism

Mark often has a burning sensation or pain in his stomach after eating. He often experiences occasional vomiting. He may be suffering from:

ulcers

Which of the following would lead you to suspect someone has a conversion disorder rather than is exhibiting medical symptoms?

uniform and even numbness in the "damaged" hand

If an anorexic woman has lanugo, what has happened?

She has grown fine silky hair on her body

Someone who has Munchausen syndrome, also by definition, has:

a factitious disorder

According to the DSM, to be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, a person's weight loss must be at least ______ percent below normal.

15

At the "rave," a student took a drug which caused a great burst of energy, along with badly distorted visual experiences. Most likely, the drug the student took was:

Ecstasy

Sarah brings her young daughter into the emergency room with internal bleeding. The attending physician later concludes that Sarah caused the symptoms in her daughter intentionally, because of a need to gain attention and praise for her devoted care of her sick child. If this assessment is correct, Sarah would be diagnosed as having:

Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

Similarities between bulimia and anorexia include:

NOT -both involve an underestimation of one's weight and body size

Consequences of anorexia nervosa include all of the following except:

NOT -dry, rough, cracked skin

Alcohol works as a central nervous system depressant by:

NOT -unbinding receptors on neurons -stimulating the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters

During which period does pedophilia typically develop?

adolescence

A person who loses weight by forcing herself to vomit after meals or by using laxatives, and who otherwise fits the definition of anorexia is experiencing:

binge-eating/purging anorexia nervosa

A 35-year-old woman hobbles into the office of a physician complaining of a debilitating illness that has robbed her of the use of her left leg and right arm. The physician finds no physical basis for her symptoms. She appears totally unaware that the cause of her symptoms may be psychological. The diagnosis would be:

conversion disorder

The severe withdrawal symptoms seen in alcohol withdrawal are known as:

delirium tremens

Which of the following is not a DSM-IV-TR or DSM-5 diagnostic category?

homosexuality

If a person were experiencing numerous physical complaints, visiting doctors frequently, and expressed great concern and anxiety about normal bodily symptoms, and is convinced that they have a serious illness one would most likely suspect:

hypochondriasis (Illness Anxiety Disorder)

Which of the following responses from the person he exposed himself to would be least satisfying to an exhibitionist?

ignoring the exhibitionist

All the opioid drugs are known as:

narcotics

Glenda binges almost every day. She eats chips and dips, burgers and fries, and a couple of shakes. After her eating she goes to the gym and does 90 minutes of aerobics, spends an hour on the stairstepper, and then does weights for another hour. She also does not eat for 72 hours. This set of assumptions would lead to a diagnosis of:

nonpurging-type bulimia nervosa

Madeline appeared at the clinic complaining of pain in her knee, shoulder, and abdomen, nausea and vomiting, blurred vision, and exhaustion. The patient history revealed that she had been going to clinics for years trying to get treatment for these complaints and a host of other physical symptoms. The diagnostic consensus was that Madeline suffered from:

somatic symptom disorder.


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