Abnormal psych final
according to surveys how many transgender people in the united states have reported that they have been harassed and attacked at school at work or in their communities as a result of being transgender?
10-15%???
if the schizophrenia-related brain circuit contains distinctive subcircuts, then one would expect to observe:
?NOT increased activation in one circuit
what differentiates a person with gender dysphoria from a transgender person?
A person with gender dysphoria experiences extreme distress over his or her gender incongruence
A person feels most comfortable wearing clothes preferred by the opposite gender, strongly wishes to be the opposite gender, and is considering a surgical procedure. The most likely diagnosis for this person is..
Gender dysphoria
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
Which statement accurately represents the "rational path to madness"?
I experience disturbing symptoms. I talk them over with others. Others say I am imagining things. I decide others are lying to me.
What is the MOST common outcome of gender dysphoria in childhood?
It disappears by adolescence or adulthood
A technique used to treat pedophiles is to have them identify the situations that trigger pedophilic fantasies and then learn to avoid the situation or cope with them more efficiently. This technique is called:
Relapse prevention
Which of the following thoughts would 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
What is the primary source of sexual excitement fro sexual sadists?
The victim's suffering
A patient with schizophrenia who is mute, statue-like, and fails to participate in the hospital routine is most likely experiencing
Type II schizophrenia
the campus "bra bandit" steals women's underwear from the campus laundry and then masturbates into the underwear. the MOST accurate diagnosis would be:
a fetishism
in general, the closer people are genetically related to someone with schizophrenia the more likely the are to be diagnosed with schizophrenia as well. The evidence of ___ between schizophrenia diagnosis and the degree of closeness of relationship.
a positive correlation
Which of the following theoretical orientations appears to be most helpful in understanding the origin of gender identity disorder?
biological
While inflicting pain, perhaps unintentionally, on an animal or person, a teenager 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 _____ theory.
cognitive- behavioral
Eduardo has a troublesome foot fetish. In therapy, he imagines a shoe and then immediately imagines an aversive stimulus. The behavioral approach being used is
covert sensitization
Anna shows no emotions when people tell her happy or sad stories and complains of hearing voices in her head telling her that the TV is spying on her. At times, she remains motionless in her chair for hours. When she does get out of her chair, she poses like the statue in the town square. Which of these represents a positive symptom of schizophrenia?
hearing voices in her head
What kinds of treatment programs seem to work best for mentally ill chemical abusers (MICAs)?
long-term, individualized, comprehensive therapy
In general, the problems that mentally ill chemical abusers (MICAs) face in terms of diagnosis and treatment are:
more than those faced by either people with severe mental disorders or chemical abuse disorders
People who attend to their own ideas and fantisies who are unable to reconize other people's needs and emotions and who distance themselves from reality are displaying
social withdraw
The HPA pathway becomes activated when people experience
stressful events???
most clinicians would agree that paraphilia activists should not be considered a disorder when:
the behavior is part of an otherwise typical sex life
A man derives sexual arousal exclusively from dressing in women's clothing. MOST likely, that person would be diagnosed as:
transvestic disorder
cross-dressing is another term for
transvestic disorder
when people with gender dysphoria take hormones it is an attempt to
facilitate their living as the other gender
what is the term for the use of and attraction to inanimate objects as a preferred method of achieving sexual excitement?
fetishism
