CLP 3184
Which of the following is NOT a symptom of depression?
ALL of these : weight loss excessive guilt increased appetite fatigue
(From Case 3) Abbey was prescribed Zoloft to help with her anxious ruminations. How did this medication affect Abbey?
Abbey experienced unpleasant side effects and chose to switch from Zoloft to Lexapro.
Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for postpartum depression?
Actually, all of these are risk factors for postpartum depression.
Generalized anxiety disorder is thought to involve a lack of which neurotransmitter?
GABA
Which type of antidepressant medication has the most severe side effects?
MAOIs
reframing
Talk about an experience for which the client blames herself and find the ways society's influence made the event more likely to happen.
If I am socially withdrawn and hypersensitive to criticism, my most likely diagnosis is __________ personality disorder.
avoidant
If I have no desire for close relationships and am seen as cold and humorless, my most likely diagnosis is __________ personality disorder.
avoidant
If you are teaching a client with depression what to say and do to be more effective in social situations, you are practicing what kind of therapy?
behavioral
If a person with borderline personality disorder loses track of time while cutting himself or herself, not remembering the act, _____________ has occurred.
dissociation
Which disorder can be associated with unexpectedly leaving home for days at a time?
dissociative amnesia
I have had symptoms of persistent depressive disorder for the past four years. Recently, though, I experienced my first episode of major depressive disorder. One name for this condition is:
double depression
The preference to play with children of the same gender begins to diminish at what age?
early adolescence
The following exchange is an example of ________. Mom: "Have you brushed your teeth?" Child: "Have you brushed your teeth? Have you brushed your teeth? Have you brushed your teeth?"
echolia
A(n) ______ marriage is one in which both partners share power equally
egalitarian
The parts of the brain that are dysfunctional or malformed during depression can be returned to normal by:
either counseling or antidepressants.
If I am unable to easily distinguish between my true wishes and what my parent wants me to do, I am experiencing the results of:
enmeshment
Though it is true that women are represented in a biased way in the media, research suggests that this bias has little or no effect on individuals' attitudes.
false
Symptoms of postpartum psychosis can include hallucinations. Which is an example of a hallucination?
feeling like you're walking through spider webs when you're not
For which of these disorders is the male counterpart called male hypoactive sexual desire disorder?
female sexual interest/arousal disorder
Which category of persons is considered least pleasant?
feminist women
Symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder tend to occur:
from the week before menses to a few days after it starts.
If a woman was sexually abused as a girl, her bulimia nervosa may be a subconscious attempt to:
gain control over her body.
The realization that "I am a boy" or "I am a girl" is called:
gender identity
The realization that "I am a girl" or "I am a boy" is called:
gender identity.
Our tendency to see all males as similar, all females as similar, and females and males as different is called
gender polarization.
A tendency to feel anxious all the time and in most situations would be diagnosed as:
generalized anxiety disorder
"My significant other is such a great listener!" This quote would be more likely to come from a teenage:
girl
Who tends to enter puberty first?
girls
The reformulated learned helplessness theory suggests that attributing bad things to causes that are ____________ will lead to helplessness.
global, internal, and stable
Most adolescent lesbians are ______ their sexual orientation.
happy about
The main goal of feminist therapy is:
helping the client become more aware of how she or he has been harmed by gender stereotypes.
A person with which type of personality disorder would be most likely to agree to let a friend live with them for a few weeks, and then if friend didn't leave after the agreed-upon time, complain dramatically to other friends about the inconvenience.
histrionic
A boy with conduct disorder would be more likely to ______, while a girl with conduct disorder would be more likely to ______.
hit you;lie to you
Consider the following two quotes: "I don't feel like I can trust a woman to have my back in a war zone." "Women are more in touch with their emotions than men are, making the rigors of war more difficult for women to bear." Both of these quotes would fit under the category:
hostile sexism
Which of these is a male-specific symptom of depression?
hyperactivity
Which of the following examples would NOT be included in Beck's cognitive triad?
i am ugly-self no one loves me-world i am hopeless-future
Which personality disorder is NOT in Cluster C: Anxious-Fearful Personality Disorders?
schiztotypical
A mother of several kids whose husband resents her for the time that her low-paying job takes away from her family duties would probably not experience health benefits from being employed outside of the home.
true
Baby girls tend to be viewed as weaker and more feminine, even though there is no objectively measurable difference between baby girls and boys in these areas.
true
Borderline and histrionic personality disorders each occur in about 2% of the population, while Dependent PD has a prevalence of less than 1%.
true
Girls with autism spectrum disorder are more likely to have low intelligence than are boys with the disorder.
true
In grade school and during adolescence, peers tend to respond to girls based on physical attractiveness more so than they do to boys.
true
More women than men earn PhD degrees each year.
true
Puerperal psychosis is more likely to be seen in women who have a history of bipolar disorder.
true
Research predicts that female stockbrokers would tend to be a little less confident than male stockbrokers.
true
Somatic symptom disorder involves real physical symptoms, not ones that are faked or made up.
true
The United States has the highest percentage of women who get postpartum out of all the developed countries.
true
The author states that women who have had C sections seem to have more difficulty adjusting to new motherhood.
true
The countries with the greatest amount of gender equality in the world still only have Parliaments that are about 40% female.
true
The rule of thumb for determining the appropriate level of substance dependence treatment for a client is to provide the client with the least intensive treatment that adequately meets her/his treatment needs.
true
Thoughts or impulses that are persistent, intrude without control, and cause distress are called obsessions.
true
Treatment for bulimia nervosa tends to be more effective than treatment for anorexia nervosa.
true
When the differences between the housework responsibilities of a wife and a husband are extreme (with the wife doing more), the wife is at greater risk for depression.
true
men do more interupting
true
Sexual harassment is defined as:
any UNWANTED sexual advance
Of college students, men are more likely to have consumed alcohol over the past year.
False
Who aspires to more prestigious careers?
There is no difference between the genders in this area.
Who is more likely to feel parental pressure regarding career decisions?
adolescent boys
Who is better at gathering needed information as they consider their career goals?
adolescent girls
Who is more likely to choose nontraditional, non-gender-typed careers?
adolescent girls
My drive to win any game I play would be an example of ________.
agency
A new mother has a greater risk for developing postpartum depression if:
all of these
If a mother has postpartum depression, the baby is at greater risk for:
all of these
Kids' books:
all of these
Lower activity in the anterior cingulate area of the brain is related to what symptom of depression?
anhedonia
I used to love horseback riding, but lately it just doesn't interest me. I am probably experiencing:
anhedonia.
The feeling of being detached from one's self is called derealization.
false
The reliability of the diagnosis of the personality disorders tends to be high.
false
There is strong evidence that an imbalance of hormones is the major cause of postpartum depression.
false
Feeling stressed out about having to find time to both go to your child's school play and finish a project at work is an example of:
role strain
A girl learns to play dress-up primarily through what mechanism?
the social learning approach
Which of these disorders is NOT about twice as common in women?
trichotillomania
A cesarean section delivery typically requires more post-delivery recovery time than a vaginal birth.
true
Females make up ___ of those with ADHD and tend to have the _______ type of the disorder.
1/3; inattentive
What portion of women report regularly experiencing pain during sex?
15%
(From Case 17) After her successful completion of treatment, what is the expected long-term outcome for Jill's symptoms?
183-184
(From Case 18) According to Case Study 18, when it was published any BMI under _____ was considered so underweight that a person could have anorexia nervosa. (The most recent guideline is anything 18.49 or below.)
186
About ______ of all mothers experience post partum depression.
3-6%
(From Case 3) If a group of people experience the same traumatic event, about what percentage of them would be expected to later develop PTSD?
33%
About what percentage of those who use drugs illegally are women?
37%
The average romance during adolescence lasts:
4 months
For women, what portion of depression is caused by heredity?
40%
By what age can a kid tell the difference between male and female?
6 months
If employed married women have an average of 24 minutes of free time per day, their husbands would have an average of ___ minutes of free time per day
60
What percentage of childcare do mothers in the US typically do?
60% - 90%
A child would be expected to be able to accurately explain the biological differences between males and females by age:
7
What percentage of women who are raising children are also employed outside of the home?
71%
Women earn ____ as much as men.
77%
assertiveness training
Assist the client in becoming better at asking for what she wants.
power analysis
Examine the ways that organizations treat women differently and how this has affected the client's self-image.
Aristotle would have been considered a feminist.
False
Which of the following is an example of adaptive fear (and not maladaptive anxiety)?
I experience a moderate amount of anxiety right before a test.
relabeling
If the client tends to think of herself as "a bad mother" for having to work a lot, suggest that she think of herself as "a good breadwinner" instead.
obstetrical psychologists
In Europe obstetrical psychologists monitor the well being of new mothers.
The term "borderline:
Module 10b Notes 1
For which disorder has the link to childhood abuse been recently called into question by research findings?
Module 14 Notes 4
Which of these areas of focus for equality are included in feminist theory but not in feminism?
Module 15 Notes 1
When current versions of self-report measures are used, depression is found twice as often in females as in males. When a list of male-specific depressive symptoms is used instead:
Module 7 Notes 2
Which of the following is NOT a reason that the prevalence of depression decreases with age?
Module 7 Notes 2
Which of the following is NOT a common imbalance with neurotransmitter functioning that can lead to a mood disorder?
Module 7 Notes 3
If you're teaching your client assertiveness skills, such as the ability to say "No" when appropriate, you would want to tell him or her to expect others to react with frustration at first. These reactions to your client's new assertiveness skills would be called:
Module 7 Notes 6
Which movie was probably directly inspired by the first case of dissociative fugue?
The Bourne Identity
La Leche League
Their mission statement is ,"to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother."
In what way(s) are adult men's and women's descriptions of their heterosexual relationships different? (As always, pick the BEST answer.)
Women report more positive emotions and more negative emotions.
puerperal fever
Women would die of puerperal fever after giving birth. The cause of this condition was because the people taking care of the pregnant women were not washing their hands with antiseptic between taking care of patients. Antibiotics and antisepsis helps to prevent pregnant women from dying of this fever.
gender role analysis
Work with the client to help her make conscious choices about what beliefs she chooses to hold about weight and attractiveness.
What is the skill that is used to help a therapist guess how a client might react to what the therapist wants to say, so the therapist can avoid saying things that may hurt the client?
anticipatory empathy
BuSpar is especially helpful for what common symptom of alcohol withdrawal?
anxiety
If a woman has bipolar disorder, which of these things is she NOT more likely to experience along with it?
anxiety
One problem with the use of antidepressants to help with anxiety symptoms is that when a person begins to take these drugs, their side effects can mimic symptoms of:
a panic attack
We tend to attribute a man's success to ________, while we tend to attribute a woman's success to ________.
ability,effort
Women in lesbian couples tend to be ________ satisfied with their relationships as women in straight couples.
about as
The monoamines include all BUT WHICH of the following neurotransmitters?
acetylcholine
I am an addict who has just started going to NA meetings, I'm currently looking for a sponsor, and I have cut ties with all of my old, partying friends. Which stage of change am I in?
action stage
Two people, a man and a woman, are each carrying three moderately heavy bags. A third person offers to carry one of the bags for the woman, but not for the man. What might be happening here?
benevolent sexism
When you suggest to your client that she read "Reviving Ophelia," you are using:
bibliotherapy
A teacher is likely to have lower academic expectations for a girl who is ______.
black
Which of the following groups of adolescent girls DOES NOT tend to show a dip in their self-esteem during the late teenage years?
black girls
Which disorder CAN include purges?
both
Who is less likely to consider the importance of marriage and kids when thinking about career goals?
boys
Which disorder MUST include binges?
bulimia nervosa
a subset of the monoamines released by the adrenal glands into the bloodstream
catecholamines.
About 2/3 of ________ are male.
clip art
Girls with enuresis tend to wet their ________, while boys tend to wet their ________.
clothes;bed
My therapist encourages me to tell myself, "Taking care of a baby is hard, but it's not too much for me. I CAN do it!" What kind of counseling am I receiving?
cognitive
The behavior of a woman who strongly values her friendships and enjoys taking care of others would fit what common female stereotype?
communion
A person who believes that Republicans are more corrupt than Democrats will have a tendency to only notice examples of corrupt Republicans, and to forget about examples of corrupt Democrats. This is due to the ________.
confirmation bias
A depressed person may tend to have extreme emotional responses to even minor stressors. This would suggest that the person has an excess of what hormone?
cortisol
If I am receiving substance abuse treatment by going to a treatment facility from 9 to 5 every weekday and then going back home at night, what level of treatment am I receiving?
day treatment
Believing that my baby is evil and must be killed to save the world would be:
delusion
If I tend to be submissive and clingy because of my strong need to be taken care of, my most likely diagnosis is __________ personality disorder.
dependent
Persons with which type of personality disorder are most likely to seek counseling specifically for their personality disorder symptoms?
dependent
A person with which type of personality disorder would be most likely to agree to let a friend live with them for a few weeks, and then not ask the friend to leave after the agreed-upon time, even if the person wanted the friend to leave?
dependent personality disorder
(From Case 3) The therapeutic technique that involves having the client move her eyes quickly back and forth while she talks about a traumatic event is called:
eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
A mother who is breastfeeding and who has postpartum depression will be unable to take antidepressant medications without risking harm to her baby.
false
A person with the binge/purge type of anorexia nervosa tends to be more in denial of the seriousness of their condition than one with the restricting type.
false
About 3%-6% of mothers experience postpartum blues.
false
Due to their tendency toward organization, persons with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder tend to be very efficient workers.
false
If a person with borderline personality disorder claims to "not remember" cutting themselves, it is likely that they are lying, since this behavior would be unlikely to be forgotten.
false
In American culture, stereotypes about males are stronger than stereotypes about females, but this is not true across most other cultures.
false
It is more likely that a boy will choose to be a daycare worker than it is that a girl will choose to be a construction worker.
false
Our gender schemas tend to be more complex and flexible when we are young.
false
People with dependent personality disorder will probably be very effective employees, since they are highly motivated to please their bosses.
false
Personality disorders tend to be easy to treat.
false
Research clearly shows that girls' friendships during adolescence tend to be more intimate than boys' friendships.
false
Research shows that Americans tend to prefer having a baby boy to having a baby girl.
false
Research shows that a disruption in the control of appetite and satiation in the hypothalamus causes eating disorders.
false
So that the client won't feel undue pressure to change her values, the feminist therapist should refrain from sharing his or her opinions regarding such things as whether or not it's OK for a woman to choose to be a homemaker.
false
Stealing a TV to sell it for money to pay the power bill would fit the criteria for kleptomania.
false
The United States' legislative branch has a higher percentage of women members than any other country.
false
What is most closely related to increased suicide risk in those with depression?
increased activity in the HPA axis
Adolescence:
is a transition phase between childhood and adulthood.
Women are typically viewed as:
less competent and more pleasant.
Between ages 17 to 19, teenage girls' self esteem tends to be ______ that of boys of the same age.
lower than
What is the DSM-5 name for postpartum depression?
major depressive disorder with peripartum onset
Which gender has a larger personal space zone?
men
Which gender tends to have a more relaxed posture?
men
Which of these is a negative symptom?
monotonous speaking style
Assume that there is a common stereotype that women are better at calming crying babies. If I'm female and I'm currently conscious of the fact that I am a woman, I will be _______ effective at calming a crying baby. This is an example of a ________.
more; stereotype threat
Recent research on brain structure has found that regarding the brains of men and women:
most people have a unique mosaic of both male and female brain structure characteristics.
Adolescent girls typically feel closer to their:
mothers
If I have a strong need for admiration and see myself as unusually impressive, my most likely diagnosis is __________ personality disorder.
narcissistic
Histrionic personality disorder may be the same disorder as _____________, but with feminine instead of masculine qualities.
narcissitic
If I believe that other drivers possess inferior driving skills, and that because of my excellent driving skills I should be allowed to earn a special driver license that permits speeding, I would probably have __________ personality disorder.
narcissitic
Girls in children's books tend to:
need more help
A woman who is very assertive and confident tends to get more ________ responses from others in the workplace.
negative
I feel the urge to use heroin when I feel guilty about how I've let down my family because of my addiction. I try to fight it, but I usually give in and get high. When I do, my guilt temporarily melts away. What behavioral concept is being illustrated here?
negative reinfircement
Which gender is more likely to help someone in need without expecting a reward?
no real difference between the genders
The most commonly diagnosed personality disorder is:
other specified personality disorder
If you wanted to predict a female adolescent's level of self-worth, the one variable that would give you the best chance of predicting it correctly would be:
physical attractiveness
Those with borderline personality disorder may have reduced functioning in the _______, which is known as the brain's stop sign.
prefrontal cortex
"I may get drunk every weekend, but I'm not an alcoholic because I don't drink as much as a lot of the other people I hang out with." This would be an example of which major category of addictive thought distortions?
rationalization
Which of the following is NOT one of the three components that combine to determine whether a person becomes addicted?
receiving drug use prevention education
Which of these is a common emotional reaction to divorce?
relief , depression , anger
How long does a sexual dysfunction have to persist before it can be diagnosed?
six months
In one study, ________ girls with combined type ADHD either cut or burned themselves.
small minority
When a dad smiles at his son when the son plays with his G.I. Joe action figure, but looks away when the son picks up a Barbie doll, the __________________ approach is involved in shaping the son's gender.
social learning
Frequently suffering from hangovers would BEST fit into which symptom for substance dependence?
spend a lot of time obtaining, using, or recovering from substance
if my attention is drawn to the fact that I am female (which is a group stereotypically believed to be less skilled at computers), I will actually do a worse job working with a computer. This is because of
stereotype threat
A woman who applies for a job as a hotel housekeeper is MOST LIKELY to personally experience which phenomenon at some point in her career?
sticky floor
You are studying speeding tickets again. This time you want to find out if it is more likely that a ticket (versus just a warning) will be issued to a woman driver or a man driver after the officer has pulled them over. You are studying a ________ variable.
stimulus
Question 1 refers to a _______ variable, and question 2 refers to a ______ variable.
stimulus,subject or subject subject
A female plumber would be held to ________ performance standards when compared to her male counterparts.
stricter
You are researching who gets more speeding tickets, women or men. You are studying a ________ variable.
subject
In September 2009, a pregnant woman in Arkansas found out that she became pregnant with a second baby 2 ½ weeks after she became pregnant with her first baby. This condition is called:
superfetation
When describing their significant others, adolescent girls tend to mention their boyfriend's ________, while boys tend to mention their girlfriend's ________.
support and intimacy; physical appearance
episiotomy
surgical incision of the perineum and the posterior vaginal wall.
A person says this: "My friend has a pickup truck. Semi-trucks use diesel fuel. I like Vin Diesel in the 'Fast and Furious' movies." What is being demonstrated here?
tangential speech
The phrase, "ensuring that adequate workmanship standards and training for electronic hardware are available to NASA, its suppliers, and the aerospace community," from nasa.gov contains an example of:
the androcentric generic.
Gaskin Maneuver
the pregnant woman in the procedure gets on her hands and knees while simultaneously arching her back. This is done to help with shoulder dystocia which is when a baby's head is out of the vagina , but it's shoulder's are stuck.
What percentage of divorced dads pay court-mandated child support?
under 50%
When does premenstrual dysphoric disorder occur?
week before start of period
An adolescent would be most likely to agree with her parents about:
which party's presidential candidate to support.
Lesbians in a relationship:
who are married have received the same legal benefits as those in straight married couples in most of the developed world for many years, but only recently have they received those benefits in all of the US.
Which spouse is more likely to be the one who initiates a divorce in a heterosexual marriage?
wife
For which gender is it true that other people look at them more?
women
Which gender has a higher self-rating of empathic ability?
women
Which gender says things like "maybe..." more often?
women
Which gender tends to look at their conversation partner more?
women
Which gender values physical contact with a friend more?
women
Which of the following is NOT a general theme in religion's views of women?
women are less capable
A person says this: "Large sky pie. Underneath interesting intended to unbutton." What is being demonstrated here?
word salad
