Abnormal psychology corrections

Depersonalization disorder is most common among those who are

adolescents and young adults

If i suffer from depersonalization disorder, but the symptoms disappear after awhile, they most likely will appear if I

Survive a bad car accident.

Which of the following statements is MOST accurate about depersonalization disoder?

Depersonalization disorder usually comes on suddenly and may be triggered by extreme fatigue, intense stress or pain

Transient depersonalization and derealization:

can be induced by a life threatening experience

When a person feels that the external world is removed, mechanical, distorted, or even dead, he or she is experiencing

derealization

Someone who is experiencing doubling is

feeling like his or her mind is floating above him or her

Depersonalization_____, while derealization ____

refers to oneself: refers to the external world

if you were to experience doubling you would most likely feel that

your mind were floating above your actual body

What effect has the use of sodium amobarbital had in treating dissociative amnesia and fungue?

Results are mixed: successful with some patients and not with the others

People with which dissociative disorder typically do not eventually recover without receiving treatment?

dissociative identity disorder

A visual image that is retained so vividly that one can continue to scan it for ore information is called

an eidetic image

A strong- feeling of knowing is associaed with which of the following

the tip of the tongue phenomenon

What treatment approach is often used in cases of dissociative amnesia and fugue?

hypnotherapy

Individuals experiencing dissociative amnesia sometimes are given sodium amobarbital or sodium pentobarbital because those drugs:

calm people and reduce their inhibitions

What characteristic is MOST common to both self hypnosis and dissociative identity disorder?

the ability to escape threatening events

Just after doing well in an intramural basketball game- something which left me very happy, and in a high state of excitement- I sat down and studied for my abnormal psychology test. Research shows I would perform best on that test if, at th time of the test, I was:

…

If you studied for this exam while you were unusually happy, you will probably do BEST taking it while you are:

unusually happy

Laurent has three subpersonalities. Jackie emerges when Laurent is in an awkward social situation, Grace surfaces during sporting events, and Carlos appears when Laurent is angry. The therapist believes that the mood and conditions under which each subpersonality appears are critical to understanding this disorder, demostrating a belief in

State dependent learning.

One who suffers from dissociative identity disorder is MOST likely to be a:

woman who was physically abused as a child

Combat veterans are MOST likely to report symptoms of :

localized amnesia

Carlotta is attcked in the street and her young daughter is kidnapped, Eventually, the police find her daughter and she is returned to her mother. However, Carlotta is unable to recall events that have occured since the attack. She is even unable to retain new information: she remembers what happened before the attack but cannot remember new and ongoing experiences. This is a classic example

continuous amnesia

Gwendolyn is held up at knife point and her young son is kidnapped, Eventually her son is found and returned. However, she is unable to recall events that occurred since the attack, although she remembers some new experiences; worse still, she finds that she is forgetting events that occurred even before the attack. This is a classic example of

generalized amnesia

In the most common type of dissociative amnesia, a person loses memory for;

all events beginning with the trauma but within a limited period of time

A feeling of detachment from oneself could be diagnosed as PTSD or depersonalization disorder. How would one decide which diagnosis is BEST?

by considering which symptos predominated

Which diagnosis includes a breakdown in sense of self, a significant alteration in memory or identity, and even a separation of one part of the identity from another part ?

dissociative disorder

Dissociative disorders:

involve major changes in memory

A person experiencing multiple personalities would MOST accurately be diagnosed with dissociative:

identity disorder

Based on research studies, which of the following statements about the effectiveness of psychological debriefing following a disaster would be MOST accurate ?

Debriefing doesn’t work too well, it might even make victims worse.

If someone asked you about the effectiveness of psychological debriefing following a disaster, based on research, you would be MOST correct in saying that :

there is limited evidence that debriefing works

ideally, critical incident stress debriefing occurs:

immediately, and is short term.

A flash flood hits a small Appalachian community. Those providing critical incident stress debriefing intervention would:

provide short-term counseling services

Combat veterans in a therapy group express a great deal of guilt and rage, MOST likely, the veterans are in a:

rap group

A returning combat veteran with a stress disorder would MOST likely be in___, to help change

cognitive therapy

The therapist wants me to imagine scenes where I was in combat and imagine them like I was there. I don’t want to do that. How can this possibly help me? Which of the following is the BEST answer you can give to a combat veteran who say this?

Your therapist is suggesting an effective form of exposure called ‘flooding.’

a combat veteran undergoing- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is experiencing which general form of therapy?

exposure therapy

A combat veteran receiving the best treatment for a stress disorder would be likely to experience all of the following EXCEPT:

antipsychotic medication

A friend says to you,_ I know someone who is a combat veteran who was just diagnosed with PTSD. Do you think therapy will help this person? which of the following is the BEST answer you can give based on current research?

Probably- about two thirds of those receiving theraphy for PTSD eventually show improvement

After Marie ‘s plane crashed, her mother came to stay with her. Her friends visited often, and went to lunch and dinner with her occasionally. This situation, which probably contributed to Marie’s coping ability after the accident, relates to____ as a factor in her response to the stress.

social support

The people MOST likely to develop stress disorders lived their childhood in:

: poverty, and had parents who divorced when they were younger than 10 years old

The torturers on the TV show Homeland who mad Brady think he had killed and buried his fellow solider were engaging in what kind of torture?

psychological

Investigators have shown that traumatic events are related to abnormal activity of the neurotransmitter

norepinephrine

What do we know about the inheritance of PTSD?

Women who have high cortisol levels tend to have children with high cortisol levels?

Those MOST likely to experience substantial stress symptoms after the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001:

live near the attack site

These days, many people experience disasters secondhand through the media. Studies show that watching coverage of disasters:

increases the likelihood of watchers developing stress disorders.

Poor health is BEST described as a:

Stressor

Having to walk the dog several times a day when it is raining is an example of a:

Stressor

Looking for rainbows while walking the dog in the rain is an example

stress response

In the face of fear, someone is unable to concentrate and develops a distorted and irrational view of the world. This person is showing which of the following fear responses?

Cognitive

Based on current research, what is the BEST conclusion about the cause of acute and posttraumatic stress disorders? Is nature or nurture more responsible for these disorders?

Its probably an interaction. Both nature and nurture are important

The MOST common diagnosis for making insurance claims is:

adjustment disorder

About 30 percent of those receiving outpatient therapy are diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. Some experts say adustment disorders are:

overdiagnosed, because they are easy to apply to many probelms and are less stigmatizing than other diagnoses

Someone you know has just been diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. You can be reasonably sure that this person’s disorder is:

not in the normal range of functioning, but less severe than acute distress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder

The chief sources of data used to support the theories of psychodynamic and behavioral clinicians are:

case studies

Which of the following hypotheses used to explain dissociative disorders is shared by psychodynamic and behavioral theorist?

They serve to help someone escape something upleasant

In addition to failing to explain why some people who experience severe trauma do not develop dissociative disorders, behavioral theorist also have the MOST difficulty explaining how:

temporary escape from painful memories grows into a complex disorder

psychodynamic theorist believe that dissociative amnesias and fugues result from:

repression

In the United States, the number of diagnosed cases per year of dissociative identity disorder:

has increased

If a researcher believes that dissociative identity disorders are iatrogenic, that researcher believes that dissociative identity disorders:

cannot be measured using standard personality test

Research on evoked potential with people with dissociative identity disorder has revealed that:

different subpersonalities have shown different brain response patterns.

the BEST example of the subpersonalitites in dissociative identity disordr differing in their vital statistics occurs when:

one personalitiy is a woman and another is a man

An individual who formerly knew how to speak a foreign language and play a musical instrument, can no longer remember how to as a result of a dissociative disorder. The dissociative disorder MOST likely is:

dissociative identity

One who suffers from dissociative identity disorder is MOST likely to be a :

woman who was physically abused as a child

Of the following disorders, the one for which an individual would LEAST liekly need therapy to avoid a recurrence and to recover lost memories is:

dissociative fugue

Those with dissociative amnesia experience a loss of

a recurrence of the problem months or years later

OF the following alternative, which is the Best way of differentiating between dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue?

Those with dissociative fugue change where they live

Dissociative fugues usually:

Follow a stressful event

A persoanlity change that often accompanies dissociative fugues is that people become:

more outgoing

Which of the following is NOT an example of memory recovery techniques used by therapists?

drug induced memory

Combat veterans are MOST likely to report symptoms of

localized amnesia

Carlotta is attackd in the street and her young daughter is kidnapped. Eventually, the police find her daughter and she is returned to her mother. However, Carlotta is unable to recall events that have occurred since the attack. She is even unable to retain new information; she remebers what happened before the attack but cannot remember new and ongoing experiences. This is an classic example of

continuous

Gwendolyn is held u at knifepoint and her young son is kidnapped. Eventually, her son is found and returned. However, she is unable to recall events that occurred since the attack, although she remembers some new experiences; worse still, she finds that she is forgetting events that occurred even before the attack. This is a classic example of

generalized amnesia

Mary Ann experiences a mugging and robbery in which her prized poodle is kidnapped. Eventaully the dog is found and returned. However, she is unable to recall events immediatley following the attack, up until the safe return of the dog. This is a classic example of

localized amnesia

In the most common type of dissociative amnesia, a person loses memory for:

all events beginning with the trauma but within a limited period of time

In which of the folowing racial groups is a woman’s risk of being raped the greatest, relative to the group’s percentage of the population?

African americans

Which one of the following statements about rape is MOST accurate?

Most rape victims are young

How concerned should we be about victims of sexual assault and terror? Is there a very great risk that they will experience PTSD?

Yes, the risk is great; over a third of sexaul assault victims and about half of terror victims experience PTSD

which of the following is the most common experience for a veteran of the iraq/afghanistan wars

seeing friends seriously wounded or killed

A friend says, if we could just eliminate combat trauma, we could eliminate a great deal of posttraumatic, stress disorder. Of the following choices your MOST accurate answer would be:

Yes- although civilian trauma causes many more cases of PTSD than combat trauma does

Based on recent research, it can be concluded that the impact of repeated combat deployments:

significantly increases one’s risk of developing PT

Years after the U.S. Civil War war over, many veterans diagnosed with melancolia or solider’s heart still experienced vivid flashbacks of their combat experiences, as well as nightmares and guild about what they had done. Today, their MOST likely diagnosis would be:

posttraumatic stress disorder

Those who are MOST likely to experience a psychological stress disorder are:

female, or low income individuals

When was acute stress disorder as a result of combat(Called- shell shocks) first recognized?

after World War

A person with posttraumatic stress disorder who refuses to talk about it is

experiencing avoidance

A person with posttraumatic stress disorder who is having- flashbacks is

reexperiencing the traumatic event

which of the following is typical of posttraumatic stress disorder

increased arousal, anxiety and guilt

Which of the following is the BEST example of reduced and responsiveness as it relates to posttraumatic stress disorder?

feeling detached or estranged from others and loss of interest in activities

Dorian was only 10 miles away when MT. St helens exploded with one of the largest blasts in history. There was ash and lava everywher, and he was terified and sure he was goin to die. When resuce eams found him a week later, he was cold, hungry and scared. More than a year later he still has nightmares and wakes up in a cold sweat. This description BEST fits a

posttraumatic stress disorder

One distinction that DSM-5 makes between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder is based on:

how long the anxiety symptoms last

posttraumatic stress disorders:

last longer than a month

If i have a severe fear of flying, we know that I have a high level of:

We can’t tell; it might be trait or state anxiety, or both

norepinephrine is to ________ as corticosteroid is to ______

sympathetic pathway; hypothalamic- pituitary adrental pathway

For me, crossing a bride is terrifying. If you hardly notice crossing a bridge, we differ in:

state anxiety

The part of the body that releases hormones into the bloodstream is the ____system

endocrine

in terms of their dsm diagnostic categorization which of the following pairs belong together

acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder

What do acute and psttraumatic stress disorder have in common with dissociative disorders?

They are triggered by traumatic events

The statment,- this awful, but I guess I can deal with it like I do everything else, MOST impact one’s

stress response