Abnormal Psychology exam 2
Abnormal Psychology Exam 2
Containing 100 Questions and Answers
Updated 2024-2025.
(Dark Back Ground for better Visibility and eye Care)
1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? - Answer: continuous
(2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? - Answer: Psychogenic
Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
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, Abnormal Psychology exam 2
(3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? - Answer: 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? - Answer: Anxiety
has a more sudden onset then depression
(5) What is anhedonia? - Answer: the inability to experience pleasure from
pleasurable things
(6) What are depersonalization and derealization? - Answer: 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 state? - Answer: Hyper elation
(8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder: males or
females? - Answer: females
(9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of the corticoptrophin
releasing factor (CRF) in the body? - Answer: it increases
(10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a diagnosis of Acute Stress
Disorder and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? - Answer: the duration of the
presence of the symptoms
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Abnormal Psychology Exam 2
Containing 100 Questions and Answers
Updated 2024-2025.
(Dark Back Ground for better Visibility and eye Care)
1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? - Answer: continuous
(2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? - Answer: Psychogenic
Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation
1
, Abnormal Psychology exam 2
(3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? - Answer: 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? - Answer: Anxiety
has a more sudden onset then depression
(5) What is anhedonia? - Answer: the inability to experience pleasure from
pleasurable things
(6) What are depersonalization and derealization? - Answer: 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 state? - Answer: Hyper elation
(8) Who is more likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder: males or
females? - Answer: females
(9) During times of anxiety, what happens to the levels of the corticoptrophin
releasing factor (CRF) in the body? - Answer: it increases
(10) What is the basic fundamental difference between a diagnosis of Acute Stress
Disorder and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? - Answer: the duration of the
presence of the symptoms
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