Unit 8 (disorders and treatment)

Following the failure of his business, Mr. Jones disappeared and was discovered two years later in another state practicing law without a license. When questioned, he responded that he had found himself in a strange city and could not remember any personal information. 

• dissociative identity disorder
• dissociative amnesia with fuge
• dementia
• bipolar

Marco says “I am the ruler of Xylomek and have come to your planet to marry my long time lover, who has been communicating to me through television waves,” Marco is 

• engaging in word salad
• delusional
• paranoid
• exhibiting multiple personalities

Bob has never met Beyonce but he is convinced that she is deeply in love with him. Bob is suffering from

• Schizophrenia

• Depression

• Grandiose delusions

• eromatic depression

GAD, panic, and phobias are formally classified as __________ disorders.

• Psychotic 
• Manic
• Personality 
• Anxiety 

A core feature of all abnormal behavior is that it is

• Maladaptive 
• Crazy
• Uncategorized 
• Learned 

Psychotic disorders frequently involve perceptions of nonexistent sensory stimulation, such as voices.  Symptoms such as these are called

• delusions
• paraphillas
• hallucinations
• psychic phenomena

A person who has an extreme lack of self-confidence and who allows others to run his or her life is said to have a(n) ______ personality

• dependent
• narcissistic
• paranoid
• antisocial

If you met an individual who appeared to be very charming at first, but later you discovered that he or she manipulated people, caused others hurt without a second thought, and could not be depended upon, you might suspect him of being

• dependent
• narcissistic
• antisocial
• paranoid

A person who experiences prolonged episodes of severe unhappiness and loss of interest in life would most likely be diagnosed with

• agoraphobia

• generalized anxiety

• major depressive disorder

• hypochondriasis

A psychologist who spends most of his time treating people suffering from depression and bipolar disorders focuses on ___ disorders

• personality

• depressive

• anxiety

• schizophrenic