Abnormal Psychology Vignettes Final Exam review questions and answers 2023 latest update

Acute Stress Disorder - Finn experienced severe stress after finding himself and classmates in a burning dormitory building, where a few students found themselves severely injured. After that day, Finn was negative in perceptions and reflected back on what happened that day. These flashbacks brought him to fear and shuddering, even caused one nightmare that allowed little sleep. He feared fire, controlled flames, and smoke which caused him to only consume cold food for the time being. These symptoms merely lasted under a month and after that, Finn resumed his daily life. This was not due to any taken substances or medication. Anorexia Nervosa - As an adolescent, Abigail desired to lose weight after her sister pointed out her added weight following her eighth-grade semester. Abigail was then determined to lose weight to ensure confidence in her first year of high school, exercising every day and limited her portion sizes. She lost weight fast and became confident of her new body although her appearance would soon deteriorate (lack of menstruation, sunken eyes, brittle nails) as she kept limiting her portion sizes and worked out whenever she had free-time. Abigail feared to gain weight and desired to keep her figure which becomes thinner to worried relatives and friends. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder - Mandy hated the week before her actual period because her premenstrual symptoms, unlike other girls, were severe enough to make her more tired, unable to sleep, unable to concentrate or enjoy anything positive. She found herself experiencing lability in emotions - depressed, angered, anxiety - to the point where she had to ignore others and skip school for almost a week due to the severity of her symptoms and mood. This previously worried her parents as her absences in the past school year almost prevented her from entering the tenth grade. While her condition was not caused by other medication or substances, Mandy is desperate for relief of these symptoms. Paranoid Personality Disorder (Cluster A) - Juniper is a freshman student attending college who is suspicious of her fellow classmates, professors, former friends, and eventually her family. The thought of bonding or interacting with these people is not fine because she feels that they will manipulate her and use her for personal advantages. This has caused others to avoid Juniper, leaving her to be alone, to which she suspects her professors caused her classmates to avoid her (but they did not). Juniper goes even further to state that her parents have caused her isolation and plot to kill her, wanting the insurance check after her death to travel to Beijing. The mistrust Juniper interprets of others leaves her enraged, but unfortunately alone and wonders if she will ever find someone to trust. Gender Dysphoria: - Mark, who is 10 years old has been saying that he thinks he is a girl for the last 2 years. He tells his parents that he needs to be a girl and that is truly who he is. He is often caught wearing his older sister clothes and using her make up. While at recess during school he often portrays himself as a girl and will play dress up with the girls. He has few male friends but many female friends. Lastly, he states that he often hates his body and wishes he can female features such as breasts. Fetish Disorder: - Stacy, has become increasingly sexually aroused by yellow rubber ducks. This has been going on for about a year now. Every time she passes or sees a yellow rubber duck she becomes aroused especially at the thought of touching a rubber duck gets her aroused. It has become significantly distressful because she worries about walking into a store and seeing a rubber duck and getting aroused. She has started to avoid going places that might sell or have yellow rubber ducks. Premature Ejaculation: - Josh, 28 has been ejaculating within 1 minute of vaginal penetration with all of his sexual partners. He often states that he wishes he could last longer and bring pleasure to his partners. He is often afraid to start dating some one new because he will disappoint them sexually. He has become distressed because he feels like he will never have the family he always envisioned having. Female Arousal Disorder: - Jan, 31 has had a lot of failed romantic relationships which is causing her significant distress. She states that the reason is because of her lack of sexual arousal and interest in her partners even though she is emotionally connected to them. She states that when she is with her partner she just doesn't want to have sex and rarely even thinks about having sex with her partner. With every partner she has had she hasn't ever really enjoyed the experience of sexual intercourse. Hoarding - Susan lives in a fourteen bedroom, eight bathroom mansion that she inherited from her parents. She claims to have a passion for collecting shoes and likes to go shopping every week to get new ones. Her children confronted her about her collection after they found twelve bedrooms and the living areas stacked waist height in shoes that mostly had never been worn. Susan doesn't see any problem with this even though she has to use a ladder to climb into the second story window just to use a bathroom and cannot open the front door without shoes falling everywhere. Exhibitionistic Disorder - Rodney is a 37 year old male who enjoys exposing his genitals to unsuspecting victims. He states that this is an uncontrollable sexual urge for him. He becomes distressed after a long period of time without exposing himself because he cannot orgasm without first surprising an unsuspecting victim with his penis. Rodney said he decided he needed help after he got beat up in an elevator for exposing himself to approximately 9 strangers both m