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Chapter 16 – Psychological Disorders
1. Why is it difficult to draw a line between normal and abnormal behavior?
2. What are some problems with defining abnormality as any deviation from the
majority?
3. According to the adjustment definition of normal, what type of person would be
“abnormal”?
4. How do some theorists view mental health as similar to physical health?
5. At what point should a psychological problem be considered an “illness”?
6. Why are psychological problems more difficult to classify than physical
problems?
7. In the DSM-IV what are five categories used to describe conditions?
8. In the DSM-IV what are the diagnostic criteria?
9. What problem in earlier classification systems have the axes in the DSM-IV
overcome?
10. Which axis in the DSM-IV is used to classify developmental disorders, such as
autism and speech problems?
11. What does Axis IV measure?
12. What major areas are included in a description of adaptive functioning?
13. How would you describe someone who is “highly functioning” in terms of use
of leisure time?
14. Anxiety is a reaction to:
15. Continuous anxiety is called:
16. When severe anxiety is focused on a particular thing or situation that seems
out of proportion to the danger, it is called:
17. A victim experiences intense anxiety during this kind of attack:
18. An uncontrollable pattern of thoughts is called a(an):
19. Repeatedly performing irrational actions is called:
20. Typical symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder include:
21. In section 3, the opening excerpt, did the prince fake his symptoms to avoid
work pressures?
22. What causes the symptoms of somatoform disorders?
23. What do people with a conversion disorder convert?
24. What is a sign that someone is suffering from a psychological rather than a
physical problem?
25. What is the psychoanalytic explanation for hypochondriasis?
26. How does amnesia affect memory?
27. What psychological function does a dissociative fugue probably serve?
28. In dissociative identity disorder, how do the different identities relate to one
another?
29. What childhood experiences are common among people with dissociative
identity disorder?
30. What psychological function does dissociative identity disorder serve?
31. Schizophrenia is a problem of the :
32. With schizophrenia, the person has lost contact with :
33. What are the symptoms?
34. List and describe the three types of schizophrenia:
35. What are some of the beliefs as to what causes schizophrenia?
36. What is “bipolar” disorder – the symptoms and causes:
37. How do personality disorders differ from disorders such as phobias and
schizophrenia?
38. How do people with antisocial personalities treat other people? How does
getting caught affect people with antisocial personalities? How do people with
antisocial personalities get away with their behavior?
Chapter 17:
39. What is psychotherapy ?
40. Psychoanalysis?
41. Humanistic theory?
42. Cognitive therapy
43. Behavioral therapy
44. Biological therapy