Disorders & Treatment Unit Review

Psychological perspectives have different ideas on the causes of psychological disorders.

Which of the following is NOT correct?

• Humanistic - Failure to strive toward one's potential

• Behavioral - Reinforcement history

• Cognitive - Dysfunctional thoughts or ways of thinking

• Psychoanalytic - Internal, unconscious conflicts

• Biomedical - Dysfunctional society

Which of the following concepts or techniques would a behavior therapist use?

• Challenging negative beliefs and cognitive triad

• Relaxation, token economy, counterconditioning

• Challenging illogical ways of thinking

• Free association and dream analysis

• Unconditional positive regard

Which of the following best describe post traumatic stress disorder?

• Usually involved flashbacks or nightmares following a person's involvement or witnessing a troubling event.

• Persistent, unwanted thoughts causing someone to feel the need to engage in a particular action.

• Marked by the sexual attraction to an object, person or activity not usually seen as sexual.

• Tend to be hypersensitive to sensory stimulation and often exhibit intense interest in objects typically viewed as uninteresting ie. a spoon.

• Commonly involves a binge-purge cycle in which a person eats a large quantity of food and then purges the food from their body later.

Which of the following describes the difference between dysthymia and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)?

• Dysthymia involves experiencing both manic and depressive episodes, MDD is only depressive episodes.

• MDD is more severe, as symptoms include hallucinations and paranoia.

• MDD includes long periods of depression, lasting for at least three years. Dysthymia has a faster onset, but is more severe in symptoms.

• Dysthymia is persistent depression that lasts at least two years. MDD has more severe symptoms that can be diagnosed after two weeks.

• Dysthymia is classified as a psychotic disorder, versus MDD is classified as a mood disorder.

Which of the following is NOT a negative symptom of schizophrenia?

• An expressionless face

• Flat affect

• A lack of emotions

• Hallucinations

• Reduced speech

Exhibiting two or more disorders is referred to as:

• There is not a specific term for this.

• Comorbidity

• Bisymptomatic

• Multidiagnosis

Anthony is 32 years old, well above average in intelligence, and quite charming. He has swindled several older people out of their life savings, and he seems to have little feeling for his victims, nor does he fear the consequences of getting caught. His behavior is evidence of which type of disorder?

• An obsessive-compulsive disorder

• A psychotic disorder

• A mood disorder

• An anxiety disorder

• A personality disorder

Misinterpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a dreaded disease is indicative of which disorder?

• Illness Anxiety Disorder

• Somatoform Disorder

• Conversion Disorder

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Borderline Personality Disorder

If a psychiatrist favored the biological perspective of psychology, how would they treat a person with Bipolar disorder?

• They would ask the about the patient's past, particularly their childhood, to find underlying causes.

• They would use free association, and then interpret the patient's words using reverse psychology.

• They would prescribe Lithium to stabilize the patient's dopamine and GABA levels.

• They would use counterconditioning to reduce the amount of manic episodes.

• They would begin client-centered therapy, where the therapist uses unconditional positive regard.

Traci fears that she will contract an incurable disease, which causes her to excessively clean every object in her house. Which of the following describes Traci's obsession?

• Constantly researching different types of incurable diseases

• Fearing unclean objects

• Excessively cleaning her home

• Fearing that she will contract an incurable disease

• Creating a daily cleaning schedule to make sure each object is cleaned