Psychological Disorders

Which of the following is likely to be implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia?

Dopamine

Which subtype of schizophrenia often involves relatively normal cognitive functioning?

The paranoid type

Who argued that the notion of mental illness was invented by society (and the mental health establishment) to stigmatize and subjugate people whose behavior violates accepted social and legal norms?

Thomas Szasz

People with borderline personality disorder often ________.

are impulsive and unpredictable

Which of the following is a common characteristic of all dissociative disorders?

becoming split off, or dissociated, from one's core sense of self

Dr. Anastasia believes that major depressive disorder is caused by an over-secretion of cortisol. His view on the cause of major depressive disorder reflects a ________ perspective.

biological

The ________ perspective suggests that psychological disorders result largely from faulty physical processes, and the ________perspective emphasizes the importance of factors such as stress and thoughts as well as environmental factors in the development of psychological disorders.

biological; psychological

Suicide rates are ________ among men than among women, and they are ________ during the winter holiday season than during the spring months.

higher; lower

What should be changed to make the following sentence true? "The stress model suggests that people with a predisposition for a disorder are more likely to develop the disorder when faced with stress."

insert the word "diathesis-" before the first appearance of the word "stress"

A positive feature of the DSM-V, which helps psychologists and psychiatrists is

it provides a common language for diagnosing disorders

Nathan has an overinflated and unjustified sense of self-importance. He is preoccupied with fantasies of success and believes that he is entitled to special treatment from others. Which of the following diagnoses accounts for Nathan's personality?

narcissistic personality disorder

If Laura has bipolar disorder, then she ________.

often experiences mood states that vacillate between depression and mania

Schizophrenia is considered a ________ disorder.

psychotic

What do obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and hoarding disorder have in common?

repetitive thoughts and urges, as well as an uncontrollable need to engage in repetitive behavior and mental acts

In the harmful dysfunction definition of psychological disorders, dysfunction involves ________.

the inability of an psychological mechanism to perform its function

A recent study compared the vaccination histories of 256 children with autism spectrum disorder with that of 752 control children across three time periods during their first two years of life. Researchers found that ________.

the quantity of immunogens from vaccines received during the first two years of life were not at all related to the development of autism spectrum disorder

Panic disorder is characterized by

unpredictable episodes of intense dread, accompanied by chest pains and/or choking sensations