Week 11 Flashcards
What is the only empirically supported psychodynamic therapy?
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Which is the most common/has the highest cumulative lifetime prevalence of specific phobias
Natural
What should never be done to treat PTSD?
Psychological Debriefing -
In the historical account of psychology, Philippe Pinel is well-known for which one of the following?
Removed chains from inmates to test the hypothesis that patients with mental illness should be treated with kindness
Which of the following learning phenomena, have been found in both animals and humans?
a.
Social facilitation
b.
Observational learning
c.
Operant conditioning
d.
B and C only
e.
All of the above
e. All of the above
According to Freud, at what stage and age range of psychosexual development, does the child fixate about their genitals and become preoccupied with stereotypes related to their own and the opposite sex?
Phallic stage - 4-6 years
Inhibition to the unfamiliar is a component of temperament, that is shown to:
a.
Affect a high percentage (40%) of children
b.
Be driven predominantly by environment
c.
Reduce an individual’s likelihood of developing depression later in life
d.
Be unrelated to a mother’s level of protectiveness
e.
Be related to anxiety
e. be related to anxiety
affects 10% of children, is related to a mother’s level of protectiveness, and increases the likelihood of depression development later in life
In most anxiety disorders, the person’s distress is
Select one:
a.
disproportionately large compared to the reality of the situation.
b.
focused on general situations.
c.
focused on a specific situation.
d.
based on a physical cause.
e.
related to ordinary life stresses.
a. disproportionately large compared to the reality of the situation
How does the preparedness theory of phobias explain the high incidence of some types of phobias?
Select one:
a.
People have not been prepared in childhood to face frightening things.
b.
Classical conditioning prepares people to be more afraid of dangerous things.
c.
Parents have prepared children to be afraid of dangerous things like snakes.
d.
Evolution favours organisms with a built-in predisposition to fear dangerous things, such as snakes.
e.
Parents have not prepared children enough to be afraid of dangerous things like snakes.
d. Evolution favours organisms with a built-in predisposition to fear dangerous things, such as snakes
During the Renaissance Period, what was the treatment for mental disorders?
Select one:
a.
Restoration of balance between the four humours.
b.
Exorcism.
c.
Kindness.
d.
Holy water.
e.
Being placed in an asylum.
e. being placed in an asylum
Why do many psychiatric drugs affect body weight?
Select one:
a.
Many psychiatric drugs are serotonin and/or dopamine agonists
b.
Many psychiatric drugs are serotonin and/or dopamine antagonists
c.
Many psychiatric drugs affect multiple transmitter systems involved in satiation
d.
Many psychiatric drugs affect multiple transmitter systems involved in hunger
e.
None of the above
b. many psychiatric drugs are serotonin and/or dopamine antagonists (ie they bind to the receptors of serotonin and/or dopamine which suppresses/stops their response to signal fullness)
Of the following individuals below, which one was most renowned for their contribution to developmental psychology?
a.
Charles Darwin
b.
Jean Piaget
c.
Sigmund Freud
d.
William James
e.
B.F. Skinner
Jean Piaget
What is a panic attack?
They need to have 4+ symptoms come on abruptly:
- unexpected
- heart palpitations
- out-of-body experience
- tingling
- fear of going crazy
- fear of dying
- dizzy
- sweating
- choking
- shortness of breath
What is a panic disorder?
Need to be afraid of panic attacks
Not attributable to physiological effects
Not explained by another mental disorder
What are the 12 month prevalence rates of panic disorder?
2-3% in adolescents and adults
