Clinical Psychology Review

A biological treatment in which a brain seizure is triggered as an electric current passes through electrodes attached to the patient’s forehead is called ____________.

• An MRI

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

• A CT scan

Karen is always watching her back.  She says that the FBI is out to get her because she didn't fill out her census paperwork.  The reason why she won't is that she thinks she's the lost Russian princess, Anastasia.  What is she probably suffering from?

• Paranoid Type Schizophrenia
• Disorganized Type Schizophrenia
• Catatonic Type Schizophrenia
• Undifferentiated Type Schizophrenia

Harley is all over the place.  One day she'll be running around and completing major projects that don't even seem possible.  The next day, she won't even move from her chair and has nothing nice to say about herself.  What is she probably suffering from?

• Major Depressive Disorder
• Dysthymic Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder
• General Anxiety Disorder

What makes psychology a science?

• Many psychologists have earned advanced college degrees.
• Psychologists may study the brain.
• The methods psychologists use to ask and answer questions.
• Psychologists focus on studying behavior and mental processes.

Forrest's family is really worried.  The other day he just got up, put on his shoes, and took off running.  It took a week until they found him and he said that he didn't remember them and that he was actually named Dan and was a professional runner.  What is he probably suffering from?

• Dissociative Amnesia
• Dissociative Fugue
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Undifferentiated Type Schizophrenia

It is the parents who actually _________________ these behavioral problems in their children.

• develop

• define

• consult

• observe

What type of psychologist is most likely to wonder how the brain scans of someone experiencing an epileptic seizure differ from the scans of someone who has not had a seizure?

• clinical
• health
• developmental
• biological

Disorder marked by the inability to focus attention, or overactive and impulsive behavior, or both.

• Schizophrenia

• ADHD

• Dissociate Identity Disorder

Karen has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, but she will not tell her co-workers because she does not want them to label her as abnormal, different, undesirable or affected, due to her mental disorder. She is worried about _______________.

• vulnerability

• comorbidity

• maladaptiveness

• stigmatization

Edward really hates germs.  He always seems worried about whether his hands are clean.  He takes it to the extreme, going through the process of adding soap seven times when he washes his hands.  What is he probably suffering from?

• Social Phobia
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• A Specific Phobia
• Obsessive-compulsive Disorder