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WorksheetsDisorders & Treatment Unit Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 17mins
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
To have a mental disorder, the person's behavior must be described as all of the following EXCEPT:
Atypical
Unnecessary
Disturbing
Maladaptive
Unjustifiable
The behavioral perspective states that the main cause of psychological disorders is:
low self-esteem
irrational thought processes
chemical imbalance in the brain
internal conflict from one's childhood
reinforcement of maladaptive behavior learned through experience
A soldier experiences sudden blindness after returning from battle. He would most likely be diagnosed with which of the following disorders?
Conversion Disorder
Panic Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Antidepressant drugs can be effective for people with Major Depressive Disorder because they raise the level of a single neurotransmitter called:
Glycogen
Norephinephrine
Dopamine
Epinephrine
Serotonin
The ___________ Model assumes that a biological sensitivity to a certain disorder will result in the development of that disorder under the right conditions of environmental or emotional stress.
Biological
Cognitive
General Adaptation Model (GAS)
Diathesis-Stress
Behavioral
