Module 43 practice quiz

Lana is about the right weight for her age and height. Nevertheless, she is so preoccupied by her fear of becoming overweight that whenever she goes on an eating binge, she purges the excessive food intake by self-induced vomiting. It is likely that Lana suffers from:

bulimia nervosa.

Leslie works in a hospital psychiatric unit. She cares for a patient with schizophrenia who often stands motionless in a corner for several hours. This physical stupor usually ends abruptly with the patient then becoming quite agitated. This patient experiences:

catatonia.

Researchers have suggested that the role playing of fantasy-prone patients in response to the leading questions of therapists has often contributed to diagnoses of:

dissociative identity disorder.

Professor James studies personality disorders and is most interested in people who are self-focused and exaggerate their own importance. Professor James is studying people with a(n) _____ personality disorder.

narcissistic

Evidence suggests that ________ contribute(s) to the development of schizophrenia.

prenatal viral infections

During their most severe periods, those with _____ live in a private inner world, preoccupied with the strange ideas and images that haunt them.

schizophrenia

An abnormal shrinkage of cerebral tissue is most likely to be associated with:

schizophrenia.

Those with ______________ are often not only aggressive and ruthless but show no sign of the conscience that would inhibit wrongdoing.

antisocial personality disorder

Which of the following could be an example of a dissociative experience that is pathological or abnormal? being unable to remember your own name or other important details about your life automatically taking your usual exit off the highway because you are so preoccupied by your thoughts that you forget that you were planning to go to a different destination becoming so absorbed in the book you're reading that you don't hear the telephone ring waking up from a nap and momentarily thinking that a dream event really happened

being unable to remember your own name or other important details about your life

Dopamine overactivity appears to be most clearly related to:

hallucinations