Psychological Disorders

DSM-V is a widely used system for:

• classifying psychological disorders

• identifying the causes of psychological abnormality

• distinguishing sanity from insanity

• treating depression

According to the medical model, psychological disorders are

• sicknesses that need to be diagnosed and cured

• maladaptive responses to a troubling environment

• purely imaginary symptoms of distress

• learned habits that need to be extinguished

The DSM-V does not:

• include a classification for personality disorders

• explain the causes of the various psychological disorders

• include a very broad range of psychological disorders

• provide systematic guidelines for diagnosing psychological disorders

Obsessions are:

• persistent, irrational fears of specific objects or situations

• offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person

• hyperactive, wildly optimistic states of emotion

• false beliefs of persecution or grandeur

Julie is so alarmed by spiders and insects that she avoids most outdoor activities and even refuses to enter the basement of her own house alone.  She appears to suffer from:

• obsessive-compulsive disorder

• histrionic personality disorder

• phobia

• mood disorder

Frequent nightmares, insomnia, and the intrusion of painful memories are symptoms most commonly associated with:

• bipolar disorder

• dissociative disorder

• anorexia nervosa

• post-traumatic stress disorder

Mental health workers label behavior psychologically disordered when it is:

• prejudicial, unconsciously motivated, ingenuine, and insane

• biologically based, unconsciously motivated, aggressive, and difficult to change

• selfish, habitual, and avoidable

• atypical, disturbing, maladaptive and unjustifiable

Learning theorists have suggested that a generalized anxiety disorder results from:

• repeated misuse of alcohol, heroin, or other addictive drugs.

• a lack of effective childhood training in impulse control

• exposure to unpredictable aversive events

• a genetically based predisposition to fear unfamiliar objects or situations

Obsessive thoughts typically ____ anxiety and compulsive behaviors typically ____ anxiety

• increase; increase

• decrease;

  decrease

• decrease;increase

• increase; decrease

In which disorder do people alternate between states of lethargic hopelessness and wild overexcitement? 

• dissociative identity disorder

• bipolar disorder

• obsessive-compulsive disorder

• schizophrenia