test 4

A core feature of all abnormal behavior is that it is

Which of the following situations does NOT indicate that an individual needs psychological help?

The chief distinguishing feature of psychotic disorders is

Schizophrenia and delusional disorders are types of

Persons who are either euphoric and hyperactive or severely depressed may be suffering from

Which of the following is classified as a mood disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorders involve

Behavior problems in which the person exhibits symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury, but for which there is no identifiable cause, are called

Which of the following is a dissociative disorder?

____ are deeply ingrained, unhealthy behavior patterns that usually appear in adolescence and continue through much of adult life and include paranoid, narcissistic, dependent, and other types

Which of the following is a personality disorder?

Blanche is always overly dramatic, enjoys being the center of attention. Blanch fits the description of a _____ personality

Those who are preoccupied with their own importance, and crave attention and admiration, have a ___ personality

Deceiving and manipulating others without any remorse are the main characteristics of the ____ personality disorder.

Salvatore has extreme perfectionism that often prevents him from completing tasks. Salvatore would most likely be diagnosed with an ____ personality disorder.

Thomas tends to e so overly suspicious of people's motives that he appears to trust no one. Thomas fits the description of a ___ personality disorder

Anxiety refers to

In general, anxiety-related problems involve

Social phobia, a post-traumatic stress disorder, and agoraphobia are classifies as

Annabelle is in the grocery store when she notices her heart is racing, and she becomes very dizzy. Annabelle is exhibiting symptoms of a

Sue is housebound. She is suffering from

Julie can't stop thinking about germs and dirt. She is suffering from

The difference between an acute stress disorder and PTSD is

In most cases, dissociative identity disorder occurs as a response to

A person who regularly interprets normal body sensations as signs of a serious disease has

In contrast to hypochondriasis, somatization disorders result when

"Glove anesthesia" is a

When a person experiences delusions and/or hallucinations and loses contact with shared views of reality, the person is experiencing a

False beliefs that are held even when the facts contradict them are called

Allison believes that the announcer on a T.V. program is speaking to her and that the message has special mystical significance. She shows signs of

Imaginary sensations, such as seeing, hearing, or smelling things that do not exist in the real world are known as

The type of schizophrenia marked by incoherence, grossly disorganized behavior, bizarre thinking, and flat affect is called

Hal is a resident at a psychiatric facility. He often remain motionless in an off posture for hours and sometimes days at a time. From what type of schizophrenia is he probably suffering?

___ schizophrenia usually involves delusions of persecution and grandeur.

The risk of developing schizophrenia for the general population is ___ percent.

The dopamine-psychosis link is based on the obervation that

Major disturbances in emotion, such as depression or mania, are classified as

Sadness, hopelessness, withdrawal, and feelings of worthlessness are symptoms of

In ____, people go both "up" and "down" emotionally.

Calvin has been on a "pleasure binge" for the last three days. A week ago he was felling like a failure and was withdrawn and unhappy. Calvin would most likely be diagnosed with

A patient is asked to concentrate on the thought that most upset her. At the same time, she is asked to watch a moving pencil. The patient is probably being treated with

____ refers to learning based on the consequence of making a response.

Shaping, time out, and extinction are three principles of

If you get praised by your parents for making A's in your college courses, the grades are

If a response is not followed by a reward after is has been repeated many time, it will go away. This describes the operant condition term of

Mrs. Parkers first grade class has been used to just calling out her name to her her attention. she calls on the students who quietly raise their hands to get her attention and doesn't answer those loudly calling her name. Eventually the students will stop loudly calling out her name because of the behavioral principle of

A ____ procedure is a variation of non-reinforcement and involves removing the individual from a situation in chich reinforcement occurs.

Scolding misbehaving children in a classroom may actually increase misbehavior because of the

By using tokens, a therapist can

Tokens are

An elementary school teacher practically ends classroom discipline problem by giving the students "chances" in a lottery to be held at the end of the week for some small toy. The teacher has used

Cognitive therapist are mainly interested in

According to Aaron Beck, depressed persons see themselves, the world, and the future in negative terms because of

When a person blows a single unpleasant event out of proportion by extending it to a large number of unrelated situations the person is exhibiting

Beck labels the tendency of depressed persons to see things as completely good or bad, right or wrong as

Rational-emotive behavior therapy attributes negative emotions to

In the A-B-C analysis of rational-emotive behavior therapy, the letters stand for

The use of drugs to alleviate the symptoms of emotional disturbance is known as

One of the drawback of using pharmacotherapy with psychotic disorders is that it

Which of the following types of drugs are used to reduce hallucinations and delusions?

The most appropriate use of electroconvulsive therapy is as a

The use of electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of depression

Lobotomies and deep lesioning are examples of

Which of the following statements regarding the prefrontal lobotomy is False?

A psychoanalyst who believes in the theories of Freud would see psychopathology as caused by

The purpose of free association and dream analysis is to

Saying whatever comes to mind, even if it seems senseless, painful, or embarrassing, is part of the Freudian technique known as

When utilizing dream analysis, Freud would interpret symbols to uncover the ____ content of the dream.

In psychoanalysis, resistance was thought by Freud to be important because it

In psychoanalysis, an emotional attachment to the therapist that symbolically represents other important relationships in the patients life is an example of

Today, psychoanalysis

Humanistic therapies generally emphasize

Which of the following would be described as a non-directive therapy based on insights gained from conscious thoughts and feelings and that emphasizes accepting one's true self?

Total and uncritical acceptance of a client's thoughts and feelings is called

Behavior modification involves

One thing that all behavior modification techniques have in common is that they

Behavior modification refers to any use of ___ or ___ to directly alter human behavior.

In ____, a neutral stimulus is followed by an unconditional stimulus that consistently produces an unlearned reaction, called the unconditioned response. Eventually, the previously neutral stimulus begins to produce this response directly.

The process of suppressing an undesirable habit, such as smoking or drinking, by association it with a painful or uncomfortable situation is known as

Desensitization is primarily used to