Psychology Ch. 15

A fear becomes a phobia when _____.

Which of the following statements is true of schizophrenia?

Which of the following statements is true of the sociocultural factors involved in suicide?

Which psychological approach would attribute a person's depression to escalating negative and self-defeating thoughts?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), which of the following nations has the highest suicide rates?

What kind of thinking involves ascribing personal meaning to completely random events?

Which of the following is a common negative symptom of schizophrenia?

Which of the following statements is true of borderline personality disorder (BPD)?

For a person to be diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD), he or she must have experienced a significant depressive episode and depressed characteristics, such as lethargy and hopelessness, for at least _____.

Which of the following statements is true of the biopsychosocial model?

_____ refers to a psychological state in which an individual feels overexcited and unrealistically optimistic.

In the context of treating children who suffer from bipolar disorder, _____, included by the DSM-5 as a new diagnosis, is considered a depressive disorder in children who show persistent irritability and recurrent episodes of out-of-control behavior.

Dissociative disorders are _____.

Individuals with depressive disorder appear to have too few receptors for the neurotransmitters _____.

An example of a specific phobia that is associated with the fear of strangers is referred to as _____.

Which of the following statements is true of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD)?

Dissociation refers to a psychological state in which the person feels _____.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three criteria that is used to distinguish normal from abnormal behavior?

In 1973, Rosenhan performed a study in which eight healthy adults were admitted to a psychiatric hospital. What did this study demonstrate?

Which of the following disorders is related to the experience of anxiety, but has NOT been classified by the DSM-5 as an anxiety disorder?

Which of the following statements is true of the psychological factors involved in suicide?

The _____ is the name of the manual that was published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association for the major classification of psychological disorders in the United States.

Which of the following groups has the highest suicide rate among all the other demographic groups in the United States?

Hallucinations are _____.

Which of the following statements is true of the sociocultural factors involved in depression?

An individual diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder is most likely to _____.

Which of the following disorders is an example of a culture-related disorder?

Which of the following statements is true of the biological factors involved in bipolar disorder?

Which of the following is true of people suffering from histrionic personality disorder?