Abnormal Psychology Quiz 4

Which of the following is not true about anorexia nervosa?

About 25 percent of people who experience anorexia nervosa are men.

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can damage the developing embryo and fetus, resulting in:

fetal alcohol syndrome.

Research shows that the best method to use if you want to stop smoking is:

get aversion therapy which uses the rapid smoking method.

For people with bulimia nervosa, binge episodes produce feelings of:

guilt and depression.

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

ignoring the exhibitionist

A frequent drug user finds that more and more drug is necessary to produce the same "high" that much lower doses once produced. That drug user is developing:

tolerance.

Male orgasmic disorder has been linked most clearly to:

Prozac.

If an anorexic woman has lanugo, what has happened?

She has grown fine silky hair on her body.

Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all the following except:

a view that one is currently unattractively thin.

The disorder that is characterized by eating binges followed by forced vomiting is called:

bulimia nervosa.

Someone who fasts or exercises strenuously following a binge is engaging in:

compensation.

What is thought to be the cause of vaginismus (the involuntary contraction of vaginal muscles)?

conditioning of a fear response

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

desire

If a woman 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.

According to DSM-5, someone who initiates sexual contact with children is:

experiencing a paraphilia regardless of how troubled the individual may be.

A full-time college student has just become a college dropout. The chances that alcohol was a factor in the dropout is about:

one in four.

Which is the most common male sexual dysfunction in the orgasm phase?

premature ejaculation

A woman is perfectly capable of masturbating herself to orgasm, yet is unable to reach orgasm with a partner, either through sexual intercourse or through being masturbated. Most likely, this type of orgasmic disorder would be called:

situational.

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 ______ causes of eating disorders.

societal

A person you know has just started experiencing delirium tremens. Probably they will last:

two or three days, with a significant risk of problems like seizure or stroke