Abnormal Psychology Review

Esteban hears voices encouraging him to steal from stores. He is experiencing which of these?

• delusions
• obsessions
• anxiety
• hallucinations

In what would a person diagnosed with schizophrenia most likely differ from a person diagnosed with a dissociative disorder?

• a person with schizophrenia is likely to have more than one personality
• a person with a dissociative disorder is more likely to suffer from delusions
• a person with dissociative disorder may have trouble keeping a job
• a person with schizophrenia is likely to experience hallucinations

 A lack of serotonin would most likely cause

• depression
• schizophrenia
• sleep apnea
• hallucinations

All schizophrenics suffer from

• depression
• multiple personalities
• flat affect
• distorted thinking

"I am the most important person in the world" would most likely be said by someone who is

• schizophrenic
• dissociative
• narcissistic
• depressed

View people as prey.

• schizoid
• antisocial
• historionic
• narcissitic

John has been unable to move his left foot. The doctors can find nothing physically wrong with it. He is possibly suffering from

• seasonal affective disorder
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• conversion disorder
• illness anxiety disorder

Someone suffering from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) would most likely

• have flashbacks
• be unable to reintegrate with society
• become bipolar
• go to a mental institution

Which of the following symptoms is common among all somatoform disorders?

• physical problem without a physical cause
• substance abuse
• delusions
• inappropriate emotions

Which of these is not an explanation of schizophrenia?

• dopamine hypothesis
• enlarged ventricles in the brain
• genetic factors
• problems with parts of the brain stem