Module #32 - Dissociative, Schizophrenic, and Personality Disorders
1.Which category of disorders involves a separated sense of self—separate from memories, thoughts, and feelings?
2.What is memory loss that occurs as a reaction to a traumatic event called?
3.Which disorder is an extended form of dissociative amnesia characterized by loss of identity and travel to a new location?
4.A disorder in which an individual exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities is called what?
5.After his boss discovers he is embezzling funds, Fred is fired from the company he's been working at for the last 15 years. Soon after this event, Fred disappears for two months. Finally, he is discovered by the police in a city over 100 miles away from his home, homeless and disoriented. Fred may have suffered a:
6.A controversial diagnosis for a person who exhibits two or more distinct personalities is:
7.Skeptical psychologists might offer which of the following explanations for the rise in diagnoses of dissociative identity disorder over the last 30 years?
8.A person who is admitted to a mental hospital who forgot who she was, abandoned her family, and traveled to a different state might be diagnosed with which of the following kinds of disorders?
9.Someone who witnessed a violent mugging and loses his memories of all the events that occurred in the week before the incident might be diagnosed with which of the following disorders?
10.Wilbur, an airplane pilot, is unable to remember anything of a bombing raid in which his plane was severely damaged and two crew members were killed. Because he himself suffered no physical injuries, psychologists suspect that Wilbur probably suffers from?
11.A person who is convinced that she has more than one personality and “blacks out” for hours while another personality takes over is likely to be diagnosed with which of the following?
12.Why is the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder controversial?
13.What are the false beliefs experienced by people with schizophrenia called?
14.What are false beliefs about exaggerated importance called?
15.The group of disorders characterized by delusional thinking and disturbed perceptions are called:
16.A false belief that people are out to get you is called what?
17.What are false beliefs about being responsible for some misfortune called?
18.What are false beliefs about being controlled by outside forces called?
19.What are the false perceptions experienced by people with schizophrenia called?
20.Nonsense speech, characteristic of some types of schizophrenia, is called:
21.In rare cases, some people with schizophrenia will maintain their physical position when their limbs are moved into a position. What is this condition called?
22.The symptoms of schizophrenia mentioned in the text are?
23.In which type of disorder is a person's speech likely to be so full of unrelated words and phrases that it could be characterized as a “word salad”?
24.The type of schizophrenia that typically includes delusions (and supporting hallucinations) of grandeur and persecution is called:
25.______schizophrenia involves variations in voluntary movement and waxy flexibility.
26.Approximately what percentage of the general population is diagnosed with schizophrenia?
27.If one identical twin is diagnosed with schizophrenia, what percent chance does the other twin have of developing schizophrenia?
28.What term indicates an increased likelihood that a disorder will develop?
29.Brain scans indicate that smaller amounts of brain tissue and larger fluid-filled spaces around that tissue are associated with which psychological disorder?
30.Which of the following brain structures is smaller in people diagnosed with schizophrenia?
31.Which of the lobes of the cerebral cortex shows less activity in people diagnosed with schizophrenia?
32.An excess of receptor sites for which neurotransmitter is associated with schizophrenia?
33.A person who is diagnosed with schizophrenia believes he was created by aliens called “Feetans” and will be contacted by them and taken back to their planet. What is this belief called?
34.A person who is diagnosed with schizophrenia thinks that she is the hereditary ruler of the lost city of Atlantis. What is this kind of delusion called?
35.A person who is diagnosed with schizophrenia starts to see a hand floating above his television set. What is this perception called?
36.A person who is diagnosed with schizophrenia thinks that he is responsible for the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. What is this kind of delusion called?
37.A person who experiences a perception of heat on his skin without any sensation activating sensory neurons in the skin might be experiencing which of the following?
38.A schizophrenic with symptoms that could not clearly be characterized as paranoid, catatonic, or disorganized would most likely be diagnosed with ______schizophrenia.
39.Someone diagnosed with schizophrenia is likely to have which physical brain differences?
40.What types of people of the following are at highest risk for developing schizophrenic symptoms?
41.What theory about a cause of schizophrenia is outdated and disproved by recent research?
42.Whiat is most likely to trigger someone with a genetic predisposition toward schizophrenia to develop symptoms?
43.What are lasting, rigid behavior patterns that disrupt social functioning called?
44.Personality disorders can be divided into which categories?
45.A person who is very detached from social relationships might be diagnosed with which personality disorders?
46.A person who is so overly sensitive about being rejected that personal relationships become difficult might be diagnosed with which personality disorders?
47.A man who behaves in clingy, submissive ways and displays a strong need to have others take care of him might be diagnosed with which personality disorders?
48.A person whose deep mistrust of others gets in the way of personal relationships might be diagnosed with which personality disorder?
49.A person who is so detached from emotional relationships that he or she avoids intimate interactions with others at all costs might be diagnosed with which personality disorders?