Psychology Questions Flashcards
What is factitious disorder?
A condition in which a person acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms.
What is a mental disorder characterized by symptoms that suggest physical illness or injury, but cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition?
Somatoform disorder
What is the proper treatment for borderline personality disorder?
Dialectical behavior therapy. Originally developed by Marsha M. Linehan. DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness largely derived from Buddhist meditative practice.
What is encopresis?
Voluntary or involuntary fecal soiling in children who have usually already been toilet trained.
What is object relations theory?
Based on psychodynamic theory, the theory object relations suggests that people relate to others and situations in their adult lives as shaped by family experiences during infancy. For example, an adult who experienced neglect or abuse in infancy would expect similar behavior from others who remind them of the neglectful or abusive person from their past (often a parent).
What is the disorder called where the ability to recognize faces is impaired in an individual?
Prosopagnosia
Words in a young learner’s lexicon are most likely to be what?
Nouns referencing familiar objects in the environment.
