Nur 102 / Nur102 Psych Exam 3. Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

84. Depression can often be alleviated by drugs that increase supplies of the neurotransmitters ____ and _____. 85. Psychologists who emphasize the importance of negative perceptions, beliefs, and thoughts in depression are working within the _____ - ______ perspective. 86. A person with positive symptoms of schizophrenia is most likely to experience a. catatonia b. delusions c. withdrawal d. flat emotion 87. People with schizophrenia may hear voices urging self-destruction, an example of a(n) _____. 88. Chances for recovery from schizophrenia are best when a. onset is sudden, in response to stress b. deterioration occurs gradually, during childhood. c. no environmental causes can be identified. d. there is a detectable brain abnormality 89. Dissociative identity disorder is controversial because a. dissociation is actually quite rare b. it was reported frequently in the 1920s but rarely today c. it is almost never reported outside North America d. its symptoms are nearly identical to those of obsessive-compulsive disorder 90. Which of the following statements is true of bulimia nervosa? a. people with bulimia continue to want to lose weight even when they are underweight b. bulimia is marked by weight fluctuations within or above normal ranges c. bulimia patients often come from middle-class families that are competitve, high achieving, and protective d. if one twin is diagnosed with bulimia, the chances of the other twin's sharing the disorder are greater if they are fraternal rather than identical 91. A personality disorder, such as antisocial personality, is characterized by a. depression b. hallucinations c. enduring and inflexible behavior patterns that impair social functioning d. an elevated level of autonomic nervous system arousal 92. PET scans of murderers' brains have revealed a. higher-than-normal activation in the frontal lobes b. lower-than-normal activation in the frontal lobes c. more frontal lobe tissue than normal d. no differences in brain structures or activity 93. One predictor of psychiatric disorders that crosses ethnic and gender lines is ______. Poverty 94. The symptoms of _______ appear around age 10; _____ tend to appear later, around age 25. a. schizophrenia; bipolar disorder b. bipolar disorder; schizophrenia c. major depression; phobias d. phobias; major depression