Abnormal Psychology Final Exam Questions AND Correct
Answers
(depressive) cognitive triad - ✔✔Thinking errors in depressed
people that are negatively focused in three areas: themselves,
their immediate world, and their future.
(ego) defense mechanisms - ✔✔Common patterns of behavior
-- often adaptive coping styles when they occur in moderation
-- observed in response to potentially threatening situations.
In psychodynamic theory, they are proposed to be
unconscious processes to reduce anxiety.
abnormal behavior - ✔✔Patterns of thought, emotion, and
actions that are deviant, unexpected, or "away from the
standard" based on statistical, social-cultural, and/or
functional standards.
abnormal psychology - ✔✔The scientific study of abnormal
behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and ultimately
change abnormal patterns of functioning.
acute stress disorder - ✔✔An anxiety disorder in which fear
and related symptoms are experienced soon after a traumatic
,event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional
numbing, and derealization, and lasting less than a month.
Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder.
addiction - ✔✔Physical dependence on a substance marked
by tolerance, withdrawal symptoms during abstinence, or
both.
affect - ✔✔A subjective feeling of emotion or mood often
accompanied by bodily expressions noticeable to others.
age of onset - ✔✔Person's age when he or she develops or
exhibits symptoms of a disorder.
agnosia - ✔✔Inability to recognize and name objects; may be
a symptom of dementia or other brain disorders.
agoraphobia - ✔✔Anxiety about being in places or situations
from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing) or help
unavailable if panic symptoms were to occur.
,alogia - ✔✔Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a
disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia. Also
known as poverty of speech.
alternate personalities / alters - ✔✔In dissociative identity
disorder, the additional identities along with the host identity.
Also known as subpersonalities.
American Law Institute (ALI) test (1955) - ✔✔A legal test for
insanity that holds a person to be insane at the time of
committing a crime, if during criminal conduct, the individual
could not judge right from wrong or control his or her
behavior as required by law. Compare M'Naghten Rule and
irresistible impulse.
amnestic disorders - ✔✔Organic disorders in which the
primary symptom is memory loss.
anhedonia - ✔✔Inability to experience pleasure, associated
with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.
, anorexia nervosa - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by
continual food refusal and the pursuit of extreme thinness,
leading to dangerously low body weight.
anorexia nervosa, binge-eating-purging type (bulimarexia) -
✔✔A variation of anorexia in which the individual turns to
bingeing and then goes on to vomiting or other purging as a
way of keeping weight at very low levels.
antisocial personality disorder - ✔✔A personality disorder
marked by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation
of the rights of others. Deceitful, unremorseful, manipulative,
lacks anxiety and guilt.
anxiety - ✔✔Mood state characterized by marked negative
affect, behaviors, and bodily symptoms of tension in which a
person apprehensively anticipates future danger or
misfortune.
anxiety disorders - ✔✔A varied group of disorders that all
have anxiety, fear, or tension as an essential feature. Includes
specific phobias, social phobia, panic disorder, generalized
anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and
posttraumatic stress disorder.
Answers
(depressive) cognitive triad - ✔✔Thinking errors in depressed
people that are negatively focused in three areas: themselves,
their immediate world, and their future.
(ego) defense mechanisms - ✔✔Common patterns of behavior
-- often adaptive coping styles when they occur in moderation
-- observed in response to potentially threatening situations.
In psychodynamic theory, they are proposed to be
unconscious processes to reduce anxiety.
abnormal behavior - ✔✔Patterns of thought, emotion, and
actions that are deviant, unexpected, or "away from the
standard" based on statistical, social-cultural, and/or
functional standards.
abnormal psychology - ✔✔The scientific study of abnormal
behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and ultimately
change abnormal patterns of functioning.
acute stress disorder - ✔✔An anxiety disorder in which fear
and related symptoms are experienced soon after a traumatic
,event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional
numbing, and derealization, and lasting less than a month.
Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder.
addiction - ✔✔Physical dependence on a substance marked
by tolerance, withdrawal symptoms during abstinence, or
both.
affect - ✔✔A subjective feeling of emotion or mood often
accompanied by bodily expressions noticeable to others.
age of onset - ✔✔Person's age when he or she develops or
exhibits symptoms of a disorder.
agnosia - ✔✔Inability to recognize and name objects; may be
a symptom of dementia or other brain disorders.
agoraphobia - ✔✔Anxiety about being in places or situations
from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing) or help
unavailable if panic symptoms were to occur.
,alogia - ✔✔Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a
disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia. Also
known as poverty of speech.
alternate personalities / alters - ✔✔In dissociative identity
disorder, the additional identities along with the host identity.
Also known as subpersonalities.
American Law Institute (ALI) test (1955) - ✔✔A legal test for
insanity that holds a person to be insane at the time of
committing a crime, if during criminal conduct, the individual
could not judge right from wrong or control his or her
behavior as required by law. Compare M'Naghten Rule and
irresistible impulse.
amnestic disorders - ✔✔Organic disorders in which the
primary symptom is memory loss.
anhedonia - ✔✔Inability to experience pleasure, associated
with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.
, anorexia nervosa - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by
continual food refusal and the pursuit of extreme thinness,
leading to dangerously low body weight.
anorexia nervosa, binge-eating-purging type (bulimarexia) -
✔✔A variation of anorexia in which the individual turns to
bingeing and then goes on to vomiting or other purging as a
way of keeping weight at very low levels.
antisocial personality disorder - ✔✔A personality disorder
marked by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation
of the rights of others. Deceitful, unremorseful, manipulative,
lacks anxiety and guilt.
anxiety - ✔✔Mood state characterized by marked negative
affect, behaviors, and bodily symptoms of tension in which a
person apprehensively anticipates future danger or
misfortune.
anxiety disorders - ✔✔A varied group of disorders that all
have anxiety, fear, or tension as an essential feature. Includes
specific phobias, social phobia, panic disorder, generalized
anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and
posttraumatic stress disorder.
