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The most common psychological disorders in the United States are ________ disorders. |
anxiety |
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The DSM-IV-TR was published in: |
2000 |
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Behaviorists explain obsessive-compulsive disorder as a result of: |
negative reinforcement. |
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Multiple personality disorder ________ in women than in men. |
is nine times more likely |
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Jason tells a counselor that, at least once a week, he feels intense apprehension with labored breathing and shaking hands for no apparent reason. The counselor might conclude that Jason suffers from |
a panic disorder |
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The brain structure associated with the acquisition of conditioned fear is the: |
amygdala |
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the: |
American Psychiatric Association |
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A sensory conversion, such as one presented in the text in Phil's case study, does not include: |
physical symptoms. |
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Psychological states such as anxiety, depression, and agitation are labeled as ________ criteria for defining abnormal behavior. |
emotional discomfort |
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An anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences numerous (four or more in a four-week period) emotional attacks, which are characterized by overwhelming terror and often a feeling of unreality or depersonalization, is a/an: |
panic disorder |
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A difference between a phobia and a normal fear is that the phobia: |
is out of proportion to the real danger |
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A somatoform disorder that manifests itself by a detailed concern for imagined symptoms is known as: |
somatization disorder |
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Biological predispositions: |
do not play a significant role in the development of dissociative disorders. |
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A person who complains of stomach pain, headaches, and dizziness, although doctors cannot find anything physically wrong, may be suffering from a/an: |
somatization disorder |
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The somatoform disorders include: |
somatization disorder, hypochondriasis, and conversion disorder |
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Little Hans was a famous patient of Freud whose phobic fear of horses represented to Freud: |
an unconscious fear of his father |
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Loss of function, such as paralysis, vision, or feeling, with no physical damage, is known as: |
conversion disorder |
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From the biological perspective, people develop anxiety disorders as a result of: |
abnormalities in GABA activity. |
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Symptoms of generalized anxiety do not include: |
hallucinations. |
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According to the ________ perspective, dissociative disorders involve massive repression. |
psychoanalytic |