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Abnormal Psychology Exam 2 Q & A., Exams of Abnormal Psychology

DeVry University - ArizonaAbnormal Psychology

(1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? - (2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? - (3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? -

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Abnormal Psychology Exam 2 Q & A.
(1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? - Correct Answer continuous
(2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? - Correct Answer Psychogenic
Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
(3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? - Correct Answer The DSM-5 is
descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds theory
(4) What type of onset do we see in depression and anxiety? - Correct Answer Anxiety
has a more sudden onset then depression
(5) What is anhedonia? - Correct Answer the inability to experience pleasure from
pleasurable things
(6) What are depersonalization and derealization? - Correct Answer Depersonalize,
these are dissociative responses depersonalization we experience ourselves as unreal
derealization we experience other in detached manner
(7) What type of emotion is experienced in a manic state? - Correct Answer Hyper
elation
(8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder: males or females? -
Correct Answer females
(9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of the corticoptrophin releasing
factor (CRF) in the body? - Correct Answer it increases
(10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a diagnosis of Acute Stress
Disorder and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? - Correct Answer the duration of the
presence of the symptoms
(11) Do we consider the dysthymic disorder to be unipolar or bipolar in nature? - Correct
Answer unipolar
(12) Who is more likely to suffer from the bi-polar disorder? - Correct Answer people
from higher social economic status; people with ADD
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(1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? - Correct Answer continuous (2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? - Correct Answer Psychogenic Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation (3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? - Correct Answer The DSM-5 is descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds theory (4) What type of onset do we see in depression and anxiety? - Correct Answer Anxiety has a more sudden onset then depression (5) What is anhedonia? - Correct Answer the inability to experience pleasure from pleasurable things (6) What are depersonalization and derealization? - Correct Answer Depersonalize, these are dissociative responses depersonalization we experience ourselves as unreal derealization we experience other in detached manner (7) What type of emotion is experienced in a manic state? - Correct Answer Hyper elation (8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder: males or females? - Correct Answer females (9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of the corticoptrophin releasing factor (CRF) in the body? - Correct Answer it increases (10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? - Correct Answer the duration of the presence of the symptoms (11) Do we consider the dysthymic disorder to be unipolar or bipolar in nature? - Correct Answer unipolar (12) Who is more likely to suffer from the bi-polar disorder? - Correct Answer people from higher social economic status; people with ADD

(13) What is rapid cycling? - Correct Answer a form/ variation of the bipolar disorder with 4 or more full cycles in a one year period (14) What is the correlation between SES and the bipolar disorder? - Correct Answer Positive Correlation (15) What is the GAD? - Correct Answer Generalized Anxiety Disorder; chronid low grade non-specific stat of anxiety (16) Who is more likely to attempt suicide? - Correct Answer Females 3: (17) Who is more likely to die from a suicide attempt? - Correct Answer Males 3: (18) Why do we see this in #17? - Correct Answer males employ a more lethal means (19) What are we more likely to see in hippocampus scans of people diagnosed with PTSD? - Correct Answer Atropication def:The wasting away or decrease in size of an organ or tissue in the body. When a body part is affected by paralysis, the muscles may atrophy through lack of use. (20) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with the Social Anxiety Disorder? - Correct Answer Females (21) What is the correlation between social anxiety and self esteem? - Correct Answer Negative Correlation (22) What type of phobia is more debilitating? - Correct Answer Social anxietydisorder (23) How do agoraphobia and the social anxiety disorder differ? - Correct Answer Agoraphobia fear of panic attacks; social anxiety disorder fear of being judged (24) What type of correspondence is there between social anxiety as an adult and shyness in that person as a child? - Correct Answer shyness as a child increases the prob of developing social anxiety (25) Obsessions are: - Correct Answer unwanted intrusive thoughts (26) Compulsions are: - Correct Answer unwanted intrusive displaying of behaviors (27) Is there a genetic basis to the bipolar disorder? - Correct Answer yes, it runs in families (28) The obsessive-compulsive disorder and the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder seem to be: - Correct Answer independent disorders OCD obsessive compulsive; OCPD time, dirt, money

(45) What is the difference between a panic attack and a panic disorder? - Correct Answer the frequency of occurrence of the attacks (46) What effect does the neurotransmitter GABA have on panic attacks? - Correct Answer increased GABA leads to decreased anxieties (47) Do people with agoraphobia like to have another person with them when they go out? - Correct Answer yes, provides safety (48) Benzodiazepines have successfully been used to treat panic attacks. What happens when the patient stops taking these medications? - Correct Answer panic attacks return (49) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been used to treat people with panic attacks. What happens when the cognitive behavioral therapy is stopped? - Correct Answer Positive effect continues (50) Which division of the human nervous system would display elevated activity during times of anxiety? - Correct Answer sympathetic nervous system (51) Is person with the generalized anxiety disorder likely to have specific issues that elicits anxiety? - Correct Answer Generally, No (52) Which part of the nervous system is thought to be responsible for the generalized anxiety disorder? - Correct Answer The Central Nervous System (53) The medial-prefrontal cortex of the brain plays a role in modulating the activity of the amygdala. What happens to the reactivity in this region of the grain in people diagnosed with PTSD? - Correct Answer reactivity is decreased (54) Does the generalized anxiety disorder seem to run in families? - Correct Answer yes (55) Which sex is likely to be diagnosed with a phobic disorder? - Correct Answer females (56) What effect does parental over-protectiveness have on the probability that a child will develop a clinical phobia later in life? - Correct Answer over protectiveness increases probability of phobias developing (57) In which type of Bipolar disorder will we see the display of a full manic episode? - Correct Answer Type 1 bipolar disorder (58) Who is more at risk of suffering from the obsessive-compulsive disorder: males or females? - Correct Answer rates are similar

(59) SAD is the seasonal affective disorder. It seems to be the case that the absence of light can trigger a depressive response in the person. What is the "solution" to this form of depression? - Correct Answer "turn on the lights" (60) The correlation between creativity and bipolarity is: - Correct Answer positive (61) Which neurotransmitter has been implicated as causal factors in depressive disorders? - Correct Answer Serotonin pathways (62) What is an SSRI? - Correct Answer Selective Serotonin Re uptake Inhibitors (63) Are people with the obsessive-compulsive disorder more likely or less likely to suffer from tic disorders than people without the obsessive-compulsive disorder? - Correct Answer more likely to develop tic disorders (64) This theory suggests that depression is caused by the introjection of hostility. Which theory is this? - Correct Answer Psycho dynamic theory (65) How long does PTSD last? - Correct Answer Decades (66) Which antidepressant is more likely to interact adversely with foods? - Correct Answer MAO inhibits affected by diet (67) Do dissociative disorders tend to be biogenic or psychogenic in nature? - Correct Answer Psychogenic (68) Your text compares the prevalence of the somatic symptom disorders in individualistic vs. collectivist cultures. In which of these culture types are we more likely to see "somatization?" - Correct Answer in collectivists cultures (69) In terms of identifying the cause of the somatic symptom disorders, it has been suggested that the people diagnosed with this disorder may be overly sensitive to "signals" from their bodies. In which theoretical perspective would we find this hypothesis? - Correct Answer Dognitive Awareness + misinterpretation (70) Do the somatic symptom disorder and the illness anxiety disorder "run in families?"

  • Correct Answer yes (71) In which theoretical approach to the treatment of the somatic symptom disorder and the illness anxiety disorder might the therapist focus on developing insight into the relationship that might exist between emotional factors and somatic complaints? - Correct Answer Psychodynamic theory (72) How common are conversion disorders? - Correct Answer Fairly uncommon, 1in5000 vs. 1in100 schizo.

(87) Because they often report hearing the voices of the "alter" personalities, people with DID may be misdiagnosed as suffering from: - Correct Answer Schizophrenia (88) The dissociative identity disorder is seen as being primarily due to: - Correct Answer Psychogenic factors earlier life experiences (89) Is profound childhood abuse is common in people who suffer from DID? - Correct Answer very common (90) Is it common for a DID patient to have an "alter" who is a child? - Correct Answer very common (91) Can male DID's have female alters? - Correct Answer yes (92) When it is found that the DID is an "iatrogenic effect," this means that the DID was caused by: - Correct Answer The therapist (93) You feel that you have been "cut-off" from yourself and are viewing yourself "from the outside." You seem to be a robot. There is a chance that you are suffering from: - Correct Answer Depersonalization (94) Does derealization only occurs in people who are mentally ill? - Correct Answer no (95) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with DID: males or females? - Correct Answer females (96) According to behavioral theory, dissociative disorders are caused by: - Correct Answer Secondary gain learning (97) You suffer from Illness Anxiety Disorder. Are you faking it? - Correct Answer no (98) Are conversion disorders thought to be biogenic or psychogenic? - Correct Answer psychogenic (99) What is secondary gain? - Correct Answer what you gain from having a disorder (100) What is le belle indifference? - Correct Answer The non response by a person with a conversion disorder def: A condition in which the person is unconcerned with symptoms caused by a conversion disorder. A naive, inappropriate lack of emotion or concern for the perceptions by others of one's disability, usually seen in persons with conversion disorder.