Unit 12 multiple choice

Although the brain maturation of children diagnosed with ADHD is normal, it lags behind that of their peers by about

3 years

The surging rate of violent crime in western nations are best understood in terms of

A biopsychosocial approach

Those with an avoidant personality disorder are most likely to display

A fear of social rejection

Among schizophrenia patients, the fluid filled areas of the brain are

Abnormally large and the thalamus is abnormally small

Researchers have found low levels of _____ in 13 year old boys who were later convicted of a crime as 18-26 year olds

Adrenaline

One of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia is

An expressionless face

The risk of suicide is greatest when people

Begin to rebound from their depression

Dr. M emphasized that depression often involves the interactive influences of self focused rumination, rejection from others, and low serotonin levels. Dr. M's emphasis best illustrates

Biopsychosocial approach

A parrot like repeating of another's speech or movements is most common among those with _____ schizophrenia

Catonic

Rats that received unpredictable electric shocks in a lab experiment subsequently became apprehensive when returned to the same lab setting. This best illustrates that anxiety disorders may result from

Classical conditioning

Among women, the stresses and demoralization of poverty are especially likely to precipitate

Depression

A schizoid personality disorder is most likely to be characterized by

Detachment from social relationships

Seeing one eye monsters would be a ____. Believing that your Christopher Columbus would be a _____

Hallucination delusion

The experience of depression ____ risk taking and _____ aggression

Inhibits; inhibits

Judicial systems are responsible for making decisions regarding

Insanity

Luke suffers from acrophobia, a fear of high places. Luke's therapist suggest that his reactions to heights is a generalization of the feat triggered by childhood playground accident. The therapists suggestion reflects a _____ perspective

Learning

The greatest shortcoming associated with explanations of psychological disorders in terms of demon possession is that these explanations

Led to some harsh and ineffective remedial treatments

The major characteristic of dissociative disorders is a disturbance of

Memory

If those who talk of suicide _____ actually attempt suicide. Of those who attempt suicide ____ succeed in completing the act

Most; only a few

Drugs that alleviate mania tend to reduce the levels of the neurotransmitter

Norepinephrine

A PET scan study of people with ____ found increased in the amygdala

Paranoia

Anxiety is considered disordered if it is

Persistent and distressing

Psychiatrists and psychologists would be likely to identify agoraphobia as a psychological disorder because it is

Personally dysfunctional

Midoris therapist suggests that she developed a dissociative identity disorder as a way of protecting herself from an awareness of her own hatred from her abusive mother. The therapist suggestion most directly reflects a _____ perspective

Psychoanalytic

The chances for recovery from schizophrenia are considered to be greatest when the disorder develops

Rapidly in response to a stressful life situation

Some psychological disorders occur primarily in one culture. However _______ occurs worldwide

Schizophrenia

One study monitored tried teens and young adults who had 2 relatives with schizophrenia. Those who subsequently developed schizophrenia displayed a tendency to be _____ prior to the onset of their disorder

Socially withdrawn

A person who has agoraphobia is most likely to

Stay close to home

Research on the causes of schizophrenia strongly suggest that

There is genetic predispositions to schizophrenia