Fill-in-the-blanks - Psychological disorders

Question 1

In ancient times, holes wer cut in an ill person’s head to let out evil spirits in a process called _________.

Answer 1

trepanning or trephinig

Question 2

__________ believed that mental illness cam from an imbalance in the body’s four humours

Answer 2

Hippocrates

Question 3

The study of abnormal behaviour is called __________.

Answer 3

psychopathology

Question 4

A pattern of behaviour that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life is called a ___________ ___________.

Answer 4

Psychological disorder

Question 5

Anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life is called ____________.

Answer 5

maladaptive

Question 6

The _____________ model explains behaviour as caused by biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic systems of the body.

Answer 6

biological

Question 7

_____________ _____________ assume that abnormal behaviour stems from repressed conflicts and urges that are fighting to become conscious.

Answer 7

Psychoanalytical theorists

Question 8

___________ believe that abnormal behaviour is learned.

Answer 8

Behaviourists

Question 9

____________ ____________ see abnormal behaviour as coming from irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought.

Answer 9

Cognitive theorists

Question 10

______________ _____________ is the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behaviour takes place.

Answer 10

Cultural relativity

Question 11

Disorders found only in particular cultures are known as ___________ ______________.

Answer 11

Culture-bound syndromes

Question 12

A manual pf psychological disorders and their symptoms is called the __________ ____________ __________ __________.

Answer 12

DSM-V - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

Question 13

One of the most common psychological disorders worlwide is _________.

Answer 13

Depression

Question 14

Disorders in which the main symptoms are excessive or unrealistic anxiety and fearfulness are called _________ disorders.

Answer 14

Anxiety

Question 15

A _________ is an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity.

Answer 15

Phobia

Question 16

The fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible is called _________.

Answer 16

agoraphobia

Question 17

The disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions created anxiety that is relieved by performing repetitive, ritualisitc behaviour (compulsion is called ___________-_____________ ____________.

Answer 17

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Question 18

A person is said to have a ______________ ____________ when panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life.

Answer 18

panic disorder

Question 19

_____________ _____________ _____________ is a disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts six months or more.

Answer 19

Generalized anxiety disorder

Question 20

A _____________ _____________ is a disorder that takes the form of bodily illnesses and symptoms but for which there are no real physical disorders.

Answer 20

somatic symptom disorder

Question 21

A _____________ _____________ is a disorder in which psychological stress causes a real physical disorder or illness.

Answer 21

psychosomatic disorder

Question 22

_____________ _____________ _____________ is a somatic symptom disorder in which the person is terrified of being sick and worries constantly, going to doctors repeatedly, and becoming preoccupied with every sensation of the body.

Answer 22

Illness anxiety disorder

Question 23

The somatic symptom disorder in which the person experiences a specific symptom in the somatic nervous system’s functioning, such as paralysis, numbness, or blindness, for which there is no physical cause is called _____________ _____________.

Answer 23

Conversion disorder

Question 24

A loss of memory for personal information, either partial or complete is known as _____________ _____________.

Answer 24

Dissociative amnesia

Question 25

_____________ _____________ is travelling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trip and possible amnesia for personal information.

Answer 25

Dissociative fugue

Question 26

_____________ _____________ _____________ is a disorder occuring when a person seems to have two or more distinct personalities within one body.

Answer 26

Dissociative identity disorder

Question 27

In psychology, an emotional reaction is called the _____________.

Answer 27

Affect

Question 28

A disorder that consists of mood swings from moderate depression to hypomania and lasts two years or more is called _____________.

Answer 28

Cyclothymia

Question 29

_____________ _____________ is severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause.

Answer 29

Major depression

Question 30

_____________ _____________ is severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes..

Answer 30

Bipolar disorder

Question 31

When an individual has excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritability, it is known as _____________.

Answer 31

Mania

Question 32

A severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behaviour, hallucinations, and is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality is called _____________.

Answer 32

Schizophrenia

Question 33

When someone does not have the ability to perceive what is real and what is fantasy we say they are _____________.

Answer 33

Psychotic

Question 34

The _____________ _____________ of schizophrenia are excesses of behaviour or occur in addition to normal behaviour,; hallucinations, delusions, and distorted thinking.

Answer 34

Positive symptoms

Question 35

The _____________ _____________ of schizophrenia are lacks of behaviours or less-than-normal behaviour like poor speech or loss of affect.

Answer 35

Negative symptoms

Question 36

False sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist, are called _____________ .

Answer 36

Hallucinations

Question 37

False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness are called _____________ .

Answer 37

Delusions

Question 38

The type of schizophrenia in which behaviour is bizarre and childish and thinking, speech, and motor actions are very disorderd is called ____________ schizophrenia

Answer 38

Disorganized

Question 39

The type of schizophrenia in which the person suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations is called _____________ schizophrenia.

Answer 39

Paranoid

Question 40

A disorder in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behaviour that interferes with normal social interactions is a _____________ _____________.

Answer 40

Personality

Question 41

_____________ _____________ is a disorder in which a person has no morals or conscience and often behaves in an impulsive manner without regard for the consequences of that behaviour.

Answer 41

Antisocial personality disorder

Question 42

_____________ _____________ _____________ is a maladptive personality pattern in which the person is moody, unstable, lacks a clear sense of identity, and often clings to others.

Answer 42

Borderline personality disorder

Question 43

_____________ _____________ _____________ is a mood disorder caused by the body’s reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months.

Answer 43

Seasonal affective disorder