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The DSM is designed to help with |
diagnosing mental disorders |
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Dr. P seeks to explain her patients' depression in terms of diseases that affects brain chemistry and requires antidepressant drug. Dr. P is mostly using the |
Medical model |
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Hunter has an inense fear of enclosed spaces. When considering the cause of the anxiety, the learning perspective might hypothesize that Huner: |
has had some negative experiences associated with enclosed spaces |
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Tayana is afraid of going out b/c she might have a panic attack |
phobia |
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Donisha was brutally raped in 1997. Even now, she has dreams and flashbacks about it |
PTSD |
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Jack isn't sorry about killing old couple |
Antisocial personality disorder |
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Opiates are considered to be in which class of drugs? |
depressants |
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Which disorder features two or more personalities? |
Dissociative Identity Disoder |
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Jerry has various personalities. Each has their own name. |
Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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How a particular psychoactive drug affects a person depends on |
-the user's expectations and personality -the dosage and form in which the drug is taken -the situation in which the drug is taken *all of these factors |
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Compared to men, women are more likely to experience |
depression |
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Which neurotransmitters have been implicated in depression? |
serotonin and norepinephrine |
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Most of the hallucinations of schizophrenia patients are: |
auditory |
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Sam has a range of both positive and negative symtomes |
be impossible b/c she lost the good part of her brain |
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A negative symptom of schizophrenia |
auditory hallucination |
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Which type of therapy lets patients relax and say whatever is on their minds? |
psychoanalytic therapy |
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Which type of therapy prescribes drugs? |
biomedical therapy |
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A therapist tell u to relax and state aloud whatever comes to mine no matter how trivial or absurd it seems. What technique is it? |
free association |
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He gets a headache shortly after telling the therapist his childhood story, then ends the story. |
resistance |
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A therapist helps Joe overcome his fear of elevators using different chains of events. |
systematic desensitization |
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To get over his fear of flying, he got in a real plane. |
Expose |
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Which type of therapy concentrates on negative thinking patterns? |
cognitive therapy |
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What is an advantage of group therapy? |
it's inexpensive |
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Receiving psychotherapy is generally more effective at combating psychological problems than: |
staying on a waiting list to receive therapy |
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Mat stopped taking her antianxiety medication. What might she experience? |
increased anxiety |
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Antidepressants typically increase overall levels of: |
Serotonin |
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Deep brain stimulation might be promising treatment for: |
Depression |
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ECT is only used: |
in extreme cases of depression |
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Which treatment uses a magnet? |
rTMS |
