PSYCH 100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026

PSYCH 100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026 Abnormal Behavior/Mental Disorder - Answers actions, thoughts and feelings that are outside of cultural norms, cause emotional distress, cause dysfunction in living, are dangerous to self or others The DSM - Answers Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, medical model, describes symptoms and typical age of onset or other characteristic of the disorder Problems with DSM - Answers over diagnosis, labeling, serious problems vs normal problems, subjective nature of determining a disorder Diathesis Stress Model - Answers biological factors (genetics, brain, chemistry, and others) that are paired with environmental stressors to create a psychological disorder Insanity - Answers a LEGAL term, not a medical term or diagnosis Insanity's three different meanings - Answers a persons ability to tell right from wrong, not guilty by reason of insanity, a person's ability understand the legal proceedings, competency to stand trial (mentally retarded) whether the person is a direct danger to self or others, involuntary commitment to a mental hospital Anxiety Disorders - Answers excessive levels of negative emotions, such as nervousness, tension, worry, fright and anxiety phobias - Answers an intense, irrational fear of anything specific phobia - Answers a fear of one specific thing social phobia or social anxiety disorder - Answers a fear of social interactions, particularly those with strangers or those in which the person might be viewed negatively agoraphobia - Answers a fear of leaving one's home generalized anxiety disorder - Answers a vague, uneasy sense of general tension and apprehension that lasts for years panic disorder - Answers a pattern of anxiety in which long periods of calm are broken by intensely uncomfortable attacks of anxiety (panic attack, anxiety attack) panic attacks - Answers involve sudden changes in respiration, heart beat, blood pressure, and a feeling of intense fear of dying or fear that of going crazy, 5% women, 2% men, but 12% have experienced it post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Answers experiencing anxiety, irritability, upsetting memories, dreams, and realistic flashbacks of a traumatic event symptoms of PTSD - Answers extreme avoidance of things that remind them of event, associated with war but can be anything traumatic obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - Answers involves obsessions, intense anxiety provoking thoughts, and or compulsions, irresistible urges to engage in specific irrational behaviors example of OCD - Answers intrusive thoughts about germs leads to compulsive hand washing dissociative disorders - Answers rare conditions involving sudden cognitive changes, such as change in memory, perception or identity depersonalization/dissociation - Answers feeling of unreal or out of your body, feeling of head floating, hands enlarged dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality - Answers where an individual appears to shift abruptly and repeatedly from one personality to another, may be caused by severe child abuse major depression - Answers characterized by episodes of deep unhappiness, loss of interest in life, and other symptoms, mood shifts downward, episodic meaning symptoms are experienced for a period of time and then dissipate mood disorders - Answers psychological disorders involving depression and or abnormal elation cognitive factors in depression - Answers Aaron Beck believe that our thoughts/cognitions are an important factor in emotional problems, our beliefs about ourselves and our relationships make us more or less vulnerable to depression, negative vs positive thoughts example of major depression - Answers failing test internally would be its all my fault, externally would be my professor sucks, stable would be I was born stupid, global wold be I'll fail all of my classes post partum depression - Answers episodes of major depression that affect women after the birth of a child seasonal affective disorder - Answers episode of depression that only occurs in winter months bipolar affective disorder - Answers periods of mania that alternate with periods of severe depression mania - Answers a disturbance in mood in which the individual experiences a euphoria characterized by unrealistic optimism and heightened sensory pleasures, dangerous because it leads to risky behavior psychotic disorders - Answers psychological disorders characterized by becoming out of touch with reality schizophrenia - Answers disorder involving severe cognitive disturbance and disorganization of thought, makes normal living impossible, 1% of population of men and woman characteristics of schizophrenia - Answers Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized thinking, emotions and behavior including fragmented thoughts, incoherent speech, inappropriate behavior, and flat emotions except for anger delusions - Answers distorted or bizarre beliefs that have no basis in reality delusions of grandeur - Answers distorted sense of own importance, "I am Jesus" delusions of persecution - Answers distorted sense of paranoia, "The government is watching me" hallucinations - Answers false perceptual experiences such as seeing, hearing, feeling things that are not there most common hallucination - Answers hearing voices, but can involve other senses Causes of Schizophrenia - Answers genetic predisposition, structural brain abnormalities, neurotransmitter abnormalities, prenatal or birth problems, adolescent abnormalities in brain development personality disorder - Answers believed to result from personalities the developed improperly during childhood, being in early life, have hard time in relationship with others, disturbing to others, difficult to treat borderline personality disorder - Answers characterized by impulsive and unpredictable behavior, unstable relationships, anger, constant need to be with others and a lack of identity, frequent suicidal gestures like cutting narcissistic personality disorder - Answers characterized by unrealistic sense of self-importance, preoccupied with fantasies of future success, requires constant attention and praise, reacts very negatively and aggressively to criticism, lacks a genuine concern for others, liking yourself antisocial personality disorder - Answers characterized by a lack of guilt about violating social rules and laws and taking advantage of others, formerly known as psychopath or sociopath antisocial personality biological links - Answers central nervous system functions differently, problems with frontal lobe functioning, genetic factors psychotherapy - Answers a specialized process in which a trained professional uses psychological methods to help a person with psychological problems psychoanalysis - Answers Freud, the root of all psychological problems are unconscious conflicts free association - Answers talk about whatever comes to mind, uncensored dream analysis - Answers "royal road to the unconscious" psychodynamic therapy - Answers modern day freudian therapy, explores the deeper reasons for a clients problems like childhood issues unconscious processes transference - Answers client transfers emotions from inner life, usually feelings towards parents, onto therapists resistance - Answers any unconscious attempt to subvert the therapy process Humanistic Therapy - Answers anti freud, Rogers and Maslow, included client-centered therapy which emphasis the relationship between the client and therapist, very empathetic, warmth unconditional positive regard - Answers therapist must always respect and like the client, build clients self esteem behavior therapy - Answers helping clients unlearn self-defeating behaviors, classical and operant conditioning behavioral treatment of phobias - Answers systematic desensitization, skills training, flooding systematic desensitization - Answers a complex procedure involved progressive relaxation and graded exposure to phobic stimuli progressive relaxation - Answers learning to deeply relax the muscles of the body graduated exposure - Answers exposing mildly fearful stimuli and then gradually exposing more and more fearful stimuli, like using spiders Flooding - Answers confronting the client with high levels of fearful stimuli until the fear response is extinguished, can't escape, feathers Skills Training - Answers teach skills (such as social skills) that someone may be lacking Role playing - Answers a therapeutic technique in which the therapist and client act out different scenarios that might be problematic to the client Cognitive Therapy - Answers teaches individuals new cognitions, thoughts, adaptive beliefs, expectations, and ways of thinking in order to eliminate abnormal emotions and behavior Rational Emotive Therapy - Answers Albert Ellis, challenge a person's unrealistic thoughts or irrational beliefs catastrophize - Answers when a person blows things out of proportion overgeneralize - Answers when a person thinks in all or nothing terms benefits of cognitive therapy - Answers works well with a variety of anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and major depression when combined with medication family systems therapy - Answers emphasizes an understanding of the roles of each family member and how the family functions as a system, usually with all members of family but can be done individually drug therapy - Answers the most widely used medical treatment for psychological disorders antidepressants - Answers mood elevators, but also used for a variety of other disorders, elevates levels of serotonin and norepinephrine tranquilizers, anti anxiety - Answers to treat mild anxiety, not to be used for long time periods antipsychotic drugs - Answers used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, inhibits dopamine, reduces delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorganization Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) - Answers people are shocked which produces a convulsive brain seizure, used with severely depressed or psychotic individuals, may alter brain neurotransmitters, used with anesthesia and muscle relaxants Psychosurgery - Answers not done anymore, prefrontal lobotomy prefrontal lobotomy - Answers surgically cutting the neural fibers that connect the frontal lobes with the limbic system, thought to prevent disturbing thoughts and perceptions from reaching the brain and prevent emotional outbursts Which of the following is described in the video as a consequence of Debra's severe depression? - Answers She begins to withdraw from her husband, children, and friends, She has to leave her job as a high-level lawyer Which of the following conclusions, based on Debra's story, can be drawn about people who experience depression? - Answers A person's inability to combat depression is not caused by a lack of desire to stop the depression, Depression is a damaging disorder that can affect even people who seem to have everything