Psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality

a. catatonic stupor

b. culture-bound syndrome

c. Schizophrenia

d. bipolar

Answer

c. Schizophrenia

Unrealistic preoccupation with the fear that one has a serious disease

a. Hypochondria

b. culture-bound syndrome

c. Schizophrenia

d. dissociation

Answer

• Hypochondria

Anxiety disorder involving a persistent excessive or irrational fear

a. catatonic stupor

b. depression

c. Simple phobia

d. bipolar

Answer

• c. Simple phobia

Comalike state

a. catatonic stupor

b. depression

c. Simple phobia

d. bipolar

Answer

a. catatonic stupor

• Intense, persistent feelings of anxiety caused by traumatic experience

a. Simple Phobia

b. hypochondria

c. dissociation

d. post-traumatic stress disorder

• post-traumatic stress disorder

During a(n) ____________________ ____________________, a person may experience intense fear and become short of breath and dizzy.

Answer

• Panic Attack

____________________ are unwanted thoughts, ideas, or mental images that occur over and over again.

A. Compulsions

B. mania

c. Fugue

d. Obsessions

Anseer

d. Obsessions

Periods of ____________________ involve extreme excitement characterized by hyperactivity and chaotic behavior.

a. depression

B. mania

c. Fugue

d. compulsions

Answer

B. mania

1. People with ____________________ schizophrenia have delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations relating to a single theme.

Answer

• paranoid

The most widely used classification scheme for psychological disorders is the

a. Social Readjustment Rating Scale.

b. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

c. California Personality Inventory.

d. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Answer

d. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The short-term anxiety disorder that may occur almost immediately after a traumatic event is

• a. post-traumatic stress disorder.

• b. obsessive-compulsive disorder.

• c. acute stress disorder.

• d. panic disorder.

Answer

• acute stress disorder.

• Dissociative amnesia is caused by

• a. a traumatic event.

• b. genetic factors.

• c. a severe head injury.

• d. all o of the above.

Answer

• a traumatic event

Conversion disorders involve a change ina. mood from depression to mania.

b. levels of anxiety about an object associated with a traumatic event.

c. body shape from compulsive dieting.

d. physical functioning with no medical explanation

• d. physical functioning with no medical explanation

• A person in the manic phase may havea. delusions about superior abilities.

b. recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.

c. more than two personalities.

d. all of the above.

a. delusions about superior abilities.

• People with personality disorders suffer disruptions in their social life or work because of

• a. patterns of inflexible traits.

• b. hallucinations.

• c. delusions of grandeur.

• d. all of the above.

• a. patterns of inflexible traits.

• People who are loners and cannot become attached to other people are likely to have

• a. paranoid schizophrenia.

• b. dissociative identity disorder.

• c. schizoid personality disorder.

• d. panic disorder.

• c. schizoid personality disorder.

In the United States, psychological disorders affect

• a. less than one fifth of all adults.

• b. almost one third of all adults.

• c. about one fourth of all adults.

• d. close to half of all adults.

• almost one third of all adults.