Latest AP Psych Psychological Disorders and Treatment Practice Questions |100% Correct Answers|

Latest AP Psych Psychological Disorders and Treatment Practice Questions |100% Correct Answers| Agoraphobia *Ans*fear of open spaces Anorexia nervosa *Ans*an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve Antianxiety drugs *Ans*drugs used to control anxiety and agitation antidepressant drugs *Ans*drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety; different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters antipsychotic drugs *Ans*drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder antisocial personality disorder *Ans*psychological disorder in which one demonstrates a lack of conscience Anxiety Disorders *Ans*psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety aversion therapy *Ans*A behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response. behavior therapies *Ans*therapies that apply the principles of classical and operant conditioning in the treatment of psychological disorders biomedical therapies *Ans*the use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat the symptoms associated with psychological disorders Bipolar Disorder *Ans*a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression Catatonic Schizophrenia *Ans*Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor. client-centered therapy *Ans*A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in the way. clinical psychologists *Ans*evaluate and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders cognitive therapy *Ans*therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions Comorbidity *Ans*the presence of two or more unrelated disease conditions at the same time in the same person Concordance Rate *Ans*indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder Conjunction Fallacy *Ans*when people think that two events are more likely to occur together than either individual event conversion Disorder *Ans*a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found counseling psychologists *Ans*counsel people with milder problems than clinical psychologists counterconditioning *Ans*a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. Culture-bound disorder *Ans*Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultures; mult personality disorder only in US Cyclothymic Disorder *Ans*a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time deinstitutionalization *Ans*policy of reducing the population of mental hospitals by shifting care from inpatient facilities to community-based outpatient facilities delusions *Ans*false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders diagnosis *Ans*identifying the nature or cause of some ph