Ch6 Abnormal Psychology

How do results from evoked potential studies support the idea of the existence of multiple personalities?

Different subpersonalities has been found to show different brain wave patterns

Which BEST describes someone experiencing derealization?

Feels as if the world has changed and become strange or surreal

Which is the BEST example of the subpersonalities is dissociative identity disorder differing in preferences?

One subpersonality loves alternative rock music and another hates it but loves country music

Which statement about long-term effects of rape on women is MOST accurate?

Rape victims are significantly more likely to abuse alcohol or drugs

Which has been proposed as a possible cause of dissociative disorder?

Self-hypnosis

Which child is MOST likely to develop a stress disorder later in life after experiencing trauma?

a child who lives alone with a single mother who is working multiple jobs

A person who witnessed a horrible car accident and then became unusually anxious and depressed for three weeks is probably experiencing:

acute stress disorder

Depersonalization disorder is most common among

adolescents and young adults

The effects of taking hallucinogens accompanied by feelings that objects are changing size, that other people are distorted, and that one might be mechanical is MOST similar to:

amnestic fugue

Which factor during childhood has NOT been shown to increase a person's likelihood of developing a stress disorder after experiencing a trauma later in life?

being required to "work" for an allowance

The first stop in treating people with dissociative identity disorder is to:

bond with the primary personality

Individuals experiencing dissociative amnesia sometimes are given sodium amobarbital or sodium pentobarbital because those drugs:

calm people and reduce their inhibitors

Colton has dissociative identity disorder. Fat Freddy and Carmen are two personalities who are aware of all of the others but do not interact with them. Fat Freddy and Carmen would be described as:

coconscious

Ever since Paul's car crash, during which he was miraculously unhurt. Paul has not been the same. He forgets appointments, friends' names, and even things done in the past few days. His amnesia is termed:

continuous

An individual has been diagnosed with a dissociative disorder. However, the individual has very good recall of previous life events and has a strong sense of self. The MOST likely diagnosis for this individual is:

deprsonalization disorder

Research on evoked potential with people with dissociative identity disorder has revealed that:

different subpersonalities show different brain-response pattern

An individual who formerly knew how to speak a foreign language and play a musical instrument can no longer remember how to do so as a result of a dissociative disorder. This dissociative disorder MOST likely present is:

dissociative identity

People with which dissociative disorder typically do not eventually recover without receiving treatment?

dissociative identity disorder

Jake is lying in bed and suddenly feels as though he is floating above his body. This is called:

doubling

One distinction that DSM-5 makes between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder is based on the:

duration of anxiety symptoms

The part of the body that releases hormones into the bloodstream is the ___ system.

endocrine

Someone who is experiencing doubling is:

feeling as if his or her mind is floating above him or her

The collective reactions generated by the sympathetic nervous system pathway and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) pathway are termed the:

fight-or-flight response

In the treatment of dissociative amnesia, sodium amobarital and sodium pentobarbital work by:

freeing people from their inhibitions, thus allowing them to recall unpleasant events

Just after doing well in an intramural basketball game- something which left me very happy, and in a high state of excitement- I sat down and studied for my abnormal psychology test. Research shows I would perform best on that test if, at the time of the test, I was:

happy and excited

Which is typical of posttraumatic stress disorder?

increased arousal, anxiety, and guilt

The most common type of dissociative amnesia is:

localized amnesia

Compared with covert exposure therapy for combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, virtual reality exposure therapy has been shown to be:

more effective

A personality change that often accompanies dissociative fugues is that people become:

more outgoing

A diagnostic criterion for posttraumatic stress disorder is the presence of significant distress or impairment for:

more than one month

Which statement about rape is MOST accurate?

most rape victims are younger than age 35

A person's level of cortisol and norepinephrine are in the normal range, MOST likely, that person is experiencing:

no stress disorder

Juanita has dissociative identity disorder, Big Tony and Smart Alice are two personalities who are aware of all of the others. None of her other personalities is aware of the others. This would be called a:

one-way amnesic relationship

Memory problems that do not interfere with daily living are referred to as:

peculiarities of memory

A student who turns pale and feels nauseated which called on to speak in class is experiencing a ___ response to stress.

physical

Years after the U.S. Civil War was over, many veterans diagnosed with melancholia or soldier's heart still experienced vivid flashbacks of their combat experiences, as well as nightmares and guilt about what they had done. Today, their symptoms are considered consistent with:

posttraumatic stress disorder

Kevin studies his history notes and textbook while he is drinking beer. According to some theorists, Kevin would later do better on his history exam if he also had alcohol in his system while taking the exam. These theorists would be basing their claim on:

state-dependent learning

Looking for rainbows while walking the dog in the rain is an example of a:

stress response

Having to walk the dog several times a day when it is raining is an example of a:

stressor

If a deer jumps in front of your car while you are driving, the stress response that is initially activated is the:

sympathetic nervous system

In response to a threat, we perspire, breathe more quickly, get goose bumps, and feel nauseated. These responses are controlled by the:

sympathetic nervous system

Kelly was in a passenger plane. He watched as all four engines quit at once and saw the plane explode. Thrown 5,000 feet in the air, he landed, severely injured, in a heavily wooded area in deep snow. When he regained consciousness several weeks later, he had a stress reaction that lasted for years, and he could never fly again. The factor that probably MOST contributed to his extreme posttraumatic stress reaction was:

the severity of the trauma

Norepinephrine is to ___ as corticosteroid is to ___.

the sympathetic pathway; the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal pathway

If you had lost your sense of identity, what would MOST likely be disrupted?

your memory