Abnormal Psychology Exam 2
(1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? continuous
(2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? Psychogenic
Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
(3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? The DSM-5 is descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds
theory
(4) What type of onset do we see in depression and Anxiety has a more sudden onset then depression
anxiety?
(5) What is anhedonia? the inability to experience pleasure from pleasurable things
(6) What are depersonalization and derealization? Depersonalize, these are dissociative responses depersonalization we
experience ourselves as unreal derealization we experience other in detached
manner
(7) What type of emotion is experienced in a manic Hyper elation
state?
(8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive females
disorder: males or females?
(9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of it increases
the corticoptrophin releasing factor (CRF) in the body?
(10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a the duration of the presence of the symptoms
diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder and the Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder?
(11) Do we consider the dysthymic disorder to be unipolar
unipolar or bipolar in nature?
(12) Who is more likely to suffer from the bi-polar people from higher social economic status; people with ADD
disorder?
(13) What is rapid cycling? a form/ variation of the bipolar disorder with 4 or more full cycles in a one year
period
(14) What is the correlation between SES and the bipolar Positive Correlation
disorder?
(15) What is the GAD? Generalized Anxiety Disorder; chronid low grade non-specific stat of anxiety
(16) Who is more likely to attempt suicide? Females 3:1
, Abnormal Psychology Exam 2
(17) Who is more likely to die from a suicide attempt? Males 3:1
(18) Why do we see this in #17? males employ a more lethal means
(19) What are we more likely to see in hippocampus Atropication def:The wasting away or decrease in size of an organ or tissue in
scans of people diagnosed with PTSD? the body. When a body part is affected by paralysis, the muscles may atrophy
through lack of use.
(20) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with the Social Females
Anxiety Disorder?
(21) What is the correlation between social anxiety and Negative Correlation
self esteem?
(22) What type of phobia is more debilitating? Social anxietydisorder
(23) How do agoraphobia and the social anxiety disorder Agoraphobia fear of panic attacks; social anxiety disorder fear of being judged
differ?
(24) What type of correspondence is there between shyness as a child increases the prob of developing social anxiety
social anxiety as an adult and shyness in that person as
a child?
(25) Obsessions are: unwanted intrusive thoughts
(26) Compulsions are: unwanted intrusive displaying of behaviors
(27) Is there a genetic basis to the bipolar disorder? yes, it runs in families
(28) The obsessive-compulsive disorder and the independent disorders
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder seem to be: OCD obsessive compulsive; OCPD time, dirt, money
(29) SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are deptession , panic disorders, OCD
used to treat:
(30) Which is more common—depression or anxiety? Anxiety
(31) Which results in more hospitalization—depression Depression
or
anxiety?
(32) Which theoretical perspective would view the Psycho dynamic theories
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as being the product of
anxiety associated with sexual impulses?
(1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? continuous
(2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? Psychogenic
Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
(3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? The DSM-5 is descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds
theory
(4) What type of onset do we see in depression and Anxiety has a more sudden onset then depression
anxiety?
(5) What is anhedonia? the inability to experience pleasure from pleasurable things
(6) What are depersonalization and derealization? Depersonalize, these are dissociative responses depersonalization we
experience ourselves as unreal derealization we experience other in detached
manner
(7) What type of emotion is experienced in a manic Hyper elation
state?
(8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive females
disorder: males or females?
(9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of it increases
the corticoptrophin releasing factor (CRF) in the body?
(10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a the duration of the presence of the symptoms
diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder and the Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder?
(11) Do we consider the dysthymic disorder to be unipolar
unipolar or bipolar in nature?
(12) Who is more likely to suffer from the bi-polar people from higher social economic status; people with ADD
disorder?
(13) What is rapid cycling? a form/ variation of the bipolar disorder with 4 or more full cycles in a one year
period
(14) What is the correlation between SES and the bipolar Positive Correlation
disorder?
(15) What is the GAD? Generalized Anxiety Disorder; chronid low grade non-specific stat of anxiety
(16) Who is more likely to attempt suicide? Females 3:1
, Abnormal Psychology Exam 2
(17) Who is more likely to die from a suicide attempt? Males 3:1
(18) Why do we see this in #17? males employ a more lethal means
(19) What are we more likely to see in hippocampus Atropication def:The wasting away or decrease in size of an organ or tissue in
scans of people diagnosed with PTSD? the body. When a body part is affected by paralysis, the muscles may atrophy
through lack of use.
(20) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with the Social Females
Anxiety Disorder?
(21) What is the correlation between social anxiety and Negative Correlation
self esteem?
(22) What type of phobia is more debilitating? Social anxietydisorder
(23) How do agoraphobia and the social anxiety disorder Agoraphobia fear of panic attacks; social anxiety disorder fear of being judged
differ?
(24) What type of correspondence is there between shyness as a child increases the prob of developing social anxiety
social anxiety as an adult and shyness in that person as
a child?
(25) Obsessions are: unwanted intrusive thoughts
(26) Compulsions are: unwanted intrusive displaying of behaviors
(27) Is there a genetic basis to the bipolar disorder? yes, it runs in families
(28) The obsessive-compulsive disorder and the independent disorders
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder seem to be: OCD obsessive compulsive; OCPD time, dirt, money
(29) SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are deptession , panic disorders, OCD
used to treat:
(30) Which is more common—depression or anxiety? Anxiety
(31) Which results in more hospitalization—depression Depression
or
anxiety?
(32) Which theoretical perspective would view the Psycho dynamic theories
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as being the product of
anxiety associated with sexual impulses?
