Abnormal Psych. 13
Some individuals experience a normal interest in sex but choose not to engage in sexual relations. Such people would be diagnosed with:
No sexual dysfunction
If an individual had experienced normal sexual functioning for years and gradually developed a problem with becoming aroused under any conditions, the type of dysfunction would be:
Acquired and generalized
During which period does frotteurism typically develop?
Adolescence
According to Masters and Johnson, performance anxiety may result in a man:
Adopting a spectator role during sexual activity
In therapy, a patient is taught to visualize sexual scenes and uncover any negative emotions that occur. The therapist is using:
Affectual awareness
Which of the following drugs, used at low level, may raise the sex drive?
Alcohol
What is another name for genital pain during sexual activity?
Dyspareunia
If during intercourse, the female repeatedly stimulates her male partner up to the point when he almost reaches orgasm and then stops, he is probably being treated for:
Early ejaculation
In the classic type of pedophilic disorder, those MOST at risk are:
Prepubescent boys
Autoerotic asphyxia is a fatal side effect of:
A masochistic practice
A man awakens after eight hours of normal sleep, and has an unbroken "snap gauge" band. There's a good chance that the man has:
A physical basis for this erectile problem
An anti androgen would be MOST appropriate if a paraphilic disorder is caused by:
An inappropriate sex drive
In males, the penis becomes erect during which phase of the sexual response cycle?
Arousal
The view that modern researchers hold about clitoral orgasms is that they are:
As healthy as vaginal orgasms
How does Viagra work?
It increases blood flow into the penis
Research shows that parents who want to decreased the likelihood that their young daughters will experience orgasms disorder as adults should:
Be affectionate with each other
While inflicting pain, perhaps unintentionally, on an animal or person, a teenage may become sexually aroused and later turn out to be a sadist. The theory that BEST describes this example of the development of sadism is:
Behavioral
A recently married, physically healthy man expresses great love for his new spouse, yet feels almost no sexual desire for her. One likely cause of his condition is:
Belief in a cultural double standard about women
If someone receives "modern: sex therapy, chances are that the therapy will:
Center on specific sexual problems
What is thought to be the cause of vaginismus (the involuntary contraction of vaginal muscles)?
Conditioning of a fear response
When a detishist imagines the object of the fetish, then immediately imagines an aversive stimulus, the behavioral approach being used is:
Covert senstization
In the United States, over the sat several decades, the typical duration of sexual intercourse has:
Decreased, as has the distress of those suffering from early ejaculation
William, a 20-year-old who is having his first sexual relationship, has gone to see a sex therapist about a sexual dysfunction problem. What is William MOST likely suffering from?
Delayed early ejaculation
If a therapist were seeing patients for treatment of hypoactive sexual desire, the therapist would be MOST likely to find which of the following disorders as well?
Depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder
A man experiencing the process of erection and partial elevation of the testes is in which stage of sexual response?
Desire
A person who (unfortunately) had the following disorders-clogged arteries, diabetes, kidney failure-would be at special risk for:
Erectile disorder
Which hormone can cause decreased sexual desire when present in either low or high levels?
Estrogen
According to DSM-5, someone who initiates sexual contact with children is:
Experiencing a paraphilia regardless of how troubled the individual may be
What problem did early behavioral therapists focus on when treating sexual dysfunction?
Fear
Which of the following pains are MOST analogous (comparable)?
Female-to-male gender dysphoria and male-to-female gender dysphoria: androphilic type
What is the term for the use of and attrition to inanimate objects as a preferred method of achieving sexual excitement?
Fetishism
Hypoactive sexual desire may include all of the following EXCEPT:
Finding sexual activity repulsive
If someone felt assigned to the wrong sex and identified with the other gender, that person would MOST likely receive a diagnosis of:
Gender dysphoria
What is the MOST common outcome of gender dysphoria in childhood?
It disappears by adolescence or adulthood
Women are MORE likely to be orgasmic when they have:
Had a relatively long relationship with their first sex partner
Which of the fowl long findings BEST argues against the idea that female orgasmic problems are due to society's message to women that they should deny their sexuality? Many women with arousal and orgasmic difficulties:
Have a history of rape or child sexual molestation
Which of the following responses from the person he exposed himself to would be at LEAST satisfying to an exhibitionist?
Ignoring the exhibitionist
Which of the following is NOT a symptom of female sexual interest arousal disorder?
Inadequate lubrication during sexual activity
A paraphilia:
Is a response to a socially inappropriate object or situation
A man who has never been able to achieve or maintain an erection for sexual intercourse would MOST likely be diagnosed with what type of erectile disorder?
Lifelong
If a woman had never experienced normal sexual functioning with her husband and had a problem with becoming aroused with him, but found she could be aroused with other men, the type of dysfunction would be:
Lifelong and situational
Which of the following is a sociocultural cause for male erectile disorder?
Loss of job
Terry has been diagnosed as having a paraphilia, specifically transvestic fetishism. Terry is MOST likely to be:
Male
Recent studies of pedophiles show that:
Most have at least one other psychological disorder
Which of the following is MOST descriptive of an orgasm?
Muscle contraction
The idea that both partners share the accountability for sexual dysfunction is known as:
Mutual responsibility
A man being treated for a fetish to women's hats first obtains an erection rom looking at women's hats, then begins to masturbate while looking at a picture of a nude woman. At the moment of orgasm, he masks sure to be looking at the picture of the nude women. The behavioral approach being used it:
Orgasmic reorientation
If grandma is 90 and healthy, what is the percent chance she still masturbates at least occasionally?
Over 20 percent
If grandpa is 90 and healthy, what is the percent chance he still masturbates at least occasionally?
Over 40 percent
The following are all examples of sociocultural causes of hypoactive sexual disorder EXCEPT:
Pain medication
The technique of having a client with pedophilia identify situations in which he performs inappropriate behavior and then teaching him more appropriate coping strategies is called:
Relapse-prevention training
In Victorian times, a woman diagnosed as "insane: was presumed to have a dysfunction of her:
Reproductive organs
If someone had a sexually dysfunction, we know that this person would not be having difficulty in which of the following phases of the sexual response cycle?
Resolution
A woman reports having vivid sexual fantasies, yet is unable to experience either clitoral or labial swelling, or vaginal lubrication. The MOST likely diagnosis for this woman would be:
Sexual interest arousal disorder
A woman who experiences little sexual response to erotic cues and physical stimulation is MOST likely experiencing:
Sexual interest/arousal disorder
A woman's dyspareunia is MOST likely caused by:
Some physical condition
Who is MOST likely to receive phalloplasty?
Someone experiencing gender identity disorder
In treating erectile disorder, the "tease" technique involves:
Stimulating the penis, but stimulation is stopped once erection occurs
Most clinicians would agree that paraphilic activities should NOT be considered a disorder when:
The behavior is part of an otherwise typical sex life
Which of the following is the MOST accurate conclusion regarding the use of Viagra and related drugs to treat erectile disorders?
The drugs work about 75 percent of the time and are often given without first assessing what is causing the problem
Most sex therapists are uneasy about recent reliance on drug treatments for sexual dysfunctions because:
The integrated approach to therapy might be ignored
Delayed ejaculation appears MOST likely to be caused by disruptions in which of the following?
The neurological system
Which of the following thoughts would most likely be MOST arousing to a voyeur in the act of secretly watching a couple have sex?
The people would be humiliated if they knew I was watching
Why do people object to the use of Viagra and similar drugs being voluntarily covered by health insurance companies, but fail to object to birth control pills not being covered unless mandated by law?
The reason may be the sexual double standard; sex is OK for men but not for women
According to Masters and Johnson, the resolution phase is more gradual and less sudden in women when:
They do not experience orgasm
What do androphilia and autogynephilia have in common?
Those who are diagnosed are genetically male
Couples in sex therapy who are working on eliminating the spectator role, are generally advised:
To refrain from having intercourse and focus on other body pleasure instead
A man who is biologically masculine but considers himself a woman and would like to live as a woman is:
Transgendered
"Cross-dressing" is another term for:
Transvestic disorder
Which of the following does NOT belong with the others as a treatment for orgasmic dysfunction in women?
Use of the squeeze technique
In looking for a biological cause of an erectile disorder, one would MOST productively look for a:
Vascular problem
A client receives directed masturbation training and self-exploration instruction as part of the client's sex therapy. MOST likely, the client is a:
Woman being treated for orgasmic disorder
Which of the following statements is MOST accurate about female orgasm?
Women who are comfortable masturbating are more likely to experience orgasm