Abnormal Psych Test 3 MC

The peak age for the development of anorexia is:

14-18

If you were looking at a photograph of yourself and adjusting the size until you thought the picture looked like you, you would MOST likely be participating in an assessment of your:

Accuracy in estimating body size

A person who witnessed a horrible accident and then became unusually anxious and depressed for 3 weeks is probably experiencing:

Acute stress disorder

If a researcher believes that dissociative identity disorders are iatrogenic, that researcher believes that DID:

Are unintentionally produced by therapists

People who are often overweight and regularly binge eat without compensatory behaviors are experiencing:

Binge eating disorder

What do we know about the inheritance of PTSD?

Both men and women appear to be able to pass on their tendency to develop PTSD

Similarities between bulimia and anorexia include:

Both tend to begin after a period of dieting among people afraid of becoming obese

In the face of fear, someone is unable to concentrate and develops a distorted and irrational view of the world. This person is showing which of the following fear responses?

Cognitive

Research on evoked potential with people with dissociative identity disorder has revealed that:

Different subpersonalities have shown different brain response patterns

Which diagnosis includes a breakdown in sense of self, a significant alteration in memory or identity, and even a separation of one part of the identity from another part?

Dissociative disorder

An individual who formerly knew how to speak a foreign language and play a musical instrument, can no longer remember how to as a result of a dissociative disorder. The dissociative disorder MOST likely is:

Dissociative identity

If a person says, "I must be perfect in every way. I'll be a better person if I deprive myself of food," that person is engaging in:

Distorted thinking

Family members are overinvolved in each other's lives but are affectionate and loyal. This description fits Salvador Minuchin's definition of an:

Enmeshed family pattern

A combat veteran undergoing EMDR is experiencing which general form of therapy?

Exposure therapy

The PRIMARY motivating emotion a person with anorexia experiences is:

Fear

Which of the following is the BEST example of "reduced responsiveness" as it relates to PTSD?

Feeling detached or estranged from others and loss of interest in activities

Consequences of anorexia nervosa include all of the following EXCEPT:

Fever and high blood pressure

Current research suggests that those who experience severe stress:

Have abnormal levels of norepinephrine and cortisol following the trauma

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

How long the anxiety symptoms last

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 what type of amnesia?

Localized

A young woman who is very concerned about being attractive to others, is more sexually experienced, and has relatively few obsessive qualities is:

More likely to be experiencing bulimia than anorexia

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

Mutually amnesic relationship

a patient in therapy who eats exactly eight pieces of bread that he or she has carefully made into balls of equal diameter is displaying a symptom of anorexia nervosa related to:

OCD

A pattern of anxiety, depression, and flashbacks that persists for years after a horrible event is called:

PTSD

"Depression and eating disorders are correlated." What does this statement mean?

People with eating disorders also tend to be depressed

The people MOST likely to develop stress disorders lived their childhood in:

Poverty, and had parents who divorced when they were younger than 10

All of the following are compensatory behaviors for someone with bulimia EXCEPT:

Preoccupation with food

A woman eats cookies , cake, ice cream, and almost anything else that is sweet. At some point during her binge, she takes a huge dose of a laxative, so she will "empty out" the food. Her taking the laxative, and the assumptions underlying why she does it, would lead to a diagnosis of:

Purging-type bulimia nervosa

People with alexithymia are NOT readily able to:

Put descriptive labels on what they are feeling

A person with PTSD who is having "flashbacks" is:

Reexperiencing the traumatic event

Psychodynamic theoriest believe that dissociative amnesias and fugues result from:

Repression

A person who stopped eating candy and other sweets, then gradually eliminated other foods until he or she was eating almost nothing could be experiencing:

Restricted-type anorexia nervosa

The preoccupation with food characteristic of anorexia is thought to:

Result from starvation

If one found that the average weight and size of cheerleaders had declined significantly over the years, and that those who aspired to be cheerleaders had a high level of eating disorders, one would have evidence for what causes of eating disorders?

Societal

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

Regarding emotions, the pattern common in bulimia from prebinge, through binge, to postbinge is BEST described in sequence as:

Tension, powerlessness, shame

Which of the following accurately describes the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal pathway of the stress response?

The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release corticosteroids

What do acute and posttraumatic stress disorder have in common with dissociative disorders?

They are triggered by traumatic events

According to Hilde Bruch, which of the following would characterize ineffective parents whose children are prone to eating disorders?

They decide when the child is hungry and misinterpret the actual condition of their children

I am generally a calm, relaxed person. If you are generally a tense, excitable person, we differ in:

Trait anxiety

Bulimia is always characterized by:

Uncontrollable overeating

If a therapist thought that eating disorders were BEST explained by an interaction of sociocultural, psychological, and biological factors, that therapist would be taking a(an):

multidimensional perspective