Exam three

Question 1

Which of the following is not a condition found with eating disorders in the DSM?

Answer 1

–

Question 2

Lanugo is defined as what?

Answer 2

Dawny hair growth

hair growth from starvation

Question 3

Binge-eating disorder was added to which DSM?

Answer 3

DSM-5

Question 4

Delilah is overweight. She likes to eat cookies and other sugary snacks, and often eats an entire package at one sitting. She is upset by this because she knows how important weight is to health, but she does not engage in any compensatory behaviors. Which of the following would be a likely diagnosis?

Answer 4

Binge-eating disorder

Question 5

Ginger suffers from anorexia. She is often angry and irritable. These feelings may result from what?

Answer 5

May be a result of her starving herself

Question 6

Which of the following is the strongest predictor of a person developing bulimic symptoms?

Answer 6

The amount of critical comments family members made about the person’s apperance

Question 7

Research suggests that ________ provides the best immediate and long-term outcomes in the treatment of bulimia nervosa.

Answer 7

Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Question 8

A common sign of bulimia nervosa is

Answer 8

Reoccurant episodes of Binge-eating
feeling of being “out of control” during BE epidsodes
compensatory behaviors

Question 9

The behavioral patterns of individuals with personality disorders

Answer 9

Are thought to be relatively consistant over time, with little adaptation to new kinds of experiences

Question 10

Helen is suspicious and doubts the loyalty of even her friends. She is unwilling to forgive perceived insults and never forgets a grudge. She is most likely to be diagnosed with ________ personality disorder.

Answer 10

Paranoid personality disorder

Question 11

Early criminal behavior is most characteristic of what personality disorder?

Answer 11

anti-social personality disorder

Question 12

Sam shows little emotion and is a loner. He has no social relationships, other than his family, and he seems to experience little pleasure, if any. What personality disorder might Sam have?

Answer 12

schizoid

Question 13

Hattie has a dependent personality disorder. This means that she experiences what behaviors?

Answer 13

has acute discomfort when she is alone

Question 14

Why does the person with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have problems in interpersonal relationships?

Answer 14

they have no times for relationships

Question 15

Dialectical behavior therapy is defined as?

Answer 15

A promising, problem focused treatment for BPD–

Question 16

Which of the following personality disorders is most likely to be mistaken for schizophrenia?

Answer 16

Schizotypal

Question 17

What personality disorders are considered part of the Cluster B personality disorder?

Answer 17

anisocial, conduct disorder, borderline, hisrionic, narcissistic

–Cluster B: emotional, dramatic, erratic

Question 18

What do all of the Cluster A disorders have in common?

Answer 18

social dysfucntion

Question 19

Judd has been drinking heavily for a number of years. When he is not drinking, he experiences profuse sweating and shakes. This indicates that Judd

Answer 19

has withdrawal symptoms when he abstains from alcohol

Question 20

All drugs that people become dependent upon produce what?

Answer 20

act on pleasure pathways in the brain

Question 21

Concerning the causes of alcoholism, the research tell us what?

Answer 21

they are probably several different patterns of causes associated with several different types of alcohol dependence

Question 22

Heavy drinking during pregnancy, especially the early part, often causes what behavioral effect in children?

Answer 22

aggressiveness and withdrawal in the child

Question 23

“I am a person who has an affliction-I cannot drink like social drinkers. Spiritual change may help me in recovering from my addiction, but I will be an alcoholic for life.” The person who said this would feel most comfortable in ________.

Answer 23

Alcoholic anonymous

Question 24

What makes treatment of dependence on heroin especially challenging?

Answer 24

the likely involvement of the user in a drug-using subculture

Question 25

The drug that can create a state most like psychosis is

Answer 25

LSD

Question 26

What is a paraphilia?

Answer 26

need not cause harm either to the individual or to others.

recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors

Question 27

Gary finds himself sexually aroused by dressing in women’s clothing. He sometimes steals the clothes from women and from stores. He has a wife and is happy in his marriage. Gary’s most likely diagnosis is

Answer 27

transvestic fetishism

Question 28

Serial killers tend to be diagnosed with what paraphilia?

Answer 28

sexual sadists

Question 29

The ________ enjoys inflicting pain, while the ________ desires pain and degradation

Answer 29

1: sexual sadism
2: sexual masochism

Question 30

Patricia, age 10, refuses to wear dresses and insists on being called Pat. She knows she is a girl, but she says boys have it better. She prefers playing with boys and only plays the games they play. She says she wants to be a football player and a mother when she grows up. Pat has

Answer 30

no disorder??

Question 31

The only treatment that has been shown to be effective in treating gender dysphoria in adults is

Answer 31

surgical sex reassignment

Question 32

Angela is 10 and has been a victim of sexual abuse. The short-term effects may include:

Answer 32

childhood sexual abuse: risk for fear/anxiety, substance abuse?

Question 33

Research on memory finds that false memories are:

Answer 33

false memories can be experimentally induced