Intro To Psychology Chapter 12 Answer Key

1. What are some symptoms of major depression?  Weight loss  Feeling worthless  Trouble sleeping 2. Adele has experienced a number of discrete periods of terror in which she sweats, trembles, feels dizzy, and is quite certain that she is “going crazy”. Her physician has assured her that there is no medical reason for these episodes. What is Adele’s most likely diagnosis?  Panic attack 3. __________ disorder is a mood disorder that is characterized by extreme mood swings  Bipolar 4. Which of the following examples demonstrate hallucinations?  Morgan sees her dead grandmother in her bedroom at night  Rachel continuously detects the smell of burning rubber, but no one else can smell it 5. _________ eating disorder is characterized by recurrent patterns of eating large amounts of food during which a person feels a lack of control  Binge 6. ____________ are false, unusual, and sometimes magical beliefs that are not part of an individual’s culture  Delusions 7. What disorder is characterized by long-term, persistent anxiety, and uncontrollable worry?  Generalized anxiety disorder 8. An ___________ ____________ is a psychological disorder in which an individual has an irrational, overwhelming, persistent fear of a particular object or situation  Specific phobia 9. What makes anxiety disorders different from the normal experience of anxiety?  It may involve anxiety disproportionate to the actual danger a person might be in  It may involve a diffuse feeling of dread 10. The __________ perspective involves factors such as interactions between other perspectives, including biological, psychological, and sociocultural  Biopsychosocial 11. ____________ refers to a disorder, or class of disorders, in which severe distortion of reality occurs  Schizophrenia 12. The three most common eating disorders are which of the following?  Bulimia nervosa  Binge eating  Anorexia nervosa 13. Select the three criteria of abnormal behavior  Deviant  Maladaptive  Personally distressful 14. A ______________ disorder is characterizes by a set of inflexible, maladaptive behavior patterns that keep a person from functioning appropriately in society  Personality 15. Which of the following are types of anxiety disorders?  Specific phobia  Panic disorder  Generalized anxiety disorder 16. Cultural _____________ provide guidance about how people should behave and what behavior is healthy  Norm 17. _________ refers to a state in which a person’s perceptions and thoughts are fundamentally removed from reality. Symptoms of this severe state include delusions, hallucinations, and ideas of reference  Psychosis 18. ___________ nervosa is to starvation, whereas bulimia nervosa is to binging and purging  Anorexia 19. _____________ nervosa is an eating disorder in which an individual engages in binging and purging behaviors  Bulimia 20. Abnormal behavior can be defined in many ways, some of which are  Distressful  Maladaptive  Deviant 21. What are some example of negative symptoms of schizophrenia?  Flat affect  Social withdrawal 22. A situation in which a person suffers from an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life is an ________ disorder  Depressive 23. ___________ phobia is an intense fear of being humiliated or embarrassed around other people  Social 24. What are some examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia?  Hallucinations  Delusions 25. Unlike ____________, which are stimulated by specific objects or situations. _________ do not have an identifiable specific cause  Phobias; panic attacks 26. During the week, Zack eats healthy and watches his caloric intake. On the weekends, Zack eats large amounts of food and feels out of control. Zack is exhibiting ____________-eating disorder  Binge 27. __________ establishes the norms by which people evaluate their own behaviors  Culture 28. __________ refers to a disorder, or class of disorders, in which severe distortion of reality occurs  Schizophrenia 29. Abnormal behavior is considered __________ when it deviates from what is acceptable in a culture  Deviant 30. _____________ personality disorder is a disorder characterized by guiltlessness, lawbreaking, exploitation of others, and being superficially charming  Antisocial 31. Which of the following are true in regard to schizophrenia?  A common cause of relapse is failure to take medications  It is characterized by a disorder thought  It is a serious psychological disorder 32. In which type of disorder do feelings of apprehension or tension occur without an obvious external cause, affecting daily functioning?  Anxiety disorders 33. According to Seligman’s research, when a person encounters an aversive stimulus that they are unable to avoid, they become apathetic. This is called the ___________ __________ theory  Learned helplessness 34. __________ disorders are psychological dysfunctions characterized by the separation of different facets of a person’s conscious experience  Dissociative 35. Which of the following cognitive symptoms apply to Sara, who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia?  She is unable to interpret information and make decisions  She has problems sustaining attention  She cannot hold information in memory 36. The ___________ disorder called word salad is used to describe incoherent, loose word associations that’s sometimes appear in the speech of a person diagnosed with schizophrenia  Thought 37. What disorder is defined by one individual exhibiting multiple personalities, each of which has a unique set of likes and dislikes and their own reactions to situations?  Dissociative identity disorder 38. What are the reasons somebody may develop a dissociative disorder?  To keep disturbing memories from reaching conscious awareness  To keep disturbing perceptions from reaching conscious awareness 39. In the most severe form of ____________ amnesia, individuals cannot even recall their names  Dissociative 40. Roberta has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. She firmly believes that she works for the CIA and God. This is an example of?  Delusion 41. Which of the following illustrate the idea of personal discomfort in defining abnormal behavior?  Maureen is preoccupied that something is wrong with her medically, even though physicians have found nothing. She continues visiting doctors  Larry does not believe that he has a [psychological disorder, but his life is in shambles, and he frequently thinks it is intolerable 42. Dissociative identity disorder was formerly known as _________ _________ disorder  Multiple personality 43. The _____________ perspective or model suggests that when an individual displays symptom of abnormal behavior, the root cause will be found in a physical examination of the individual  Medical 44. Many factors contribute to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa, including which of the following?  Social  Biological  Genes 45. When we use terms such as symptoms, mental illness, and mental hospitals, we are reflecting the terminology in the ____________ model or approach  Biological