BPK 140 Final UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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BPK 140
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BPK 140
BPK 140 Final UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What qualities did Abraham Maslow observe as typical in self-actualized mentally healthy
people? - CORRECT ANSWER- - They had a realistic but positive self-image
- Accepted themselves and others for who they were
- acted on a ba...
BPK 140 Final UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What qualities did Abraham Maslow observe as typical in self-actualized mentally healthy
people? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - They had a realistic but positive self-image
- Accepted themselves and others for who they were
- acted on a basis of their own values (autonomous)
- capable of intimacy
- embraced change
Give some examples of psychological defence mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -
fantasize love when it's not there
- repress our feelings, refusing to acknowledge them
- Subliminate (channel these unacceptable urges into socially acceptable activities)
*good for short term, but a more healthy way of coping (if needed) should be determined
What is the most common mood disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Depression
List at least five criteria for a clinical diagnosis of the most common mood disorder -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Depression)
- Depressed most of the day
- Diminished interest or pleasure
- Significant weight loss
- Insomnia
- Fatigue or loss of energy
- Diminished ability to think
- Recurrent thoughts of death
What is the current name for the mood disorder that used to be called manic depression? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bi-polar disorder
,Describe briefly how someone with generalized anxiety disorder will experience life -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - abnormally presistently elevated
- Inflated self-esteem
- decreased need for sleep
- more active and talkative
What is the difference between panic attack and panic disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Panic attack is a specific period of intense fear or discomfort, the person may experience
rapid and strong heart rate, sweating, weakness, faintness or dizziness, the individual may
believe they are having a heart attack or stroke, or loosing their minds
Panic disorder is when people have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with
no warning, unpredictable, treatment should be sought out
What is the most common social phobia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social Anxiety
Disorder (intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations, specifically of
embarrassing yourself in front of other people)
Explain the role of compulsions an rituals in obsessive-compulsive disorder - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Compulsions and rituals in obsessive-compulsive disorder significantly
interfere with the person's routine, the sufferer recognizes the persistent images are a product
of their own mind and are excessive or unreasonable but cannot stop them
How would someone with schizophrenia experience the world? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Schizophrenia may cause the individual to seem confused, not make sense when they are
talking, act inappropriately, have visual or auditory hallucinations, delusions, vulnerable, or
personal mission to save the world
common stereotypes:
- split personalities
- Serial violence
What are the two biggest risk factors for suicide? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the two
biggest risk factors for suicide are mental disorders and substance abuse.
, State at least 4 things that you could do to help someone that you think might be considering
suicide - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - improve societal conditions
- implement school-based programs
- provide general education
- Target interventions and high-risk groups
Psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- medical specialty devoted to study diagnosis,
treatment, and prevention of mental disorders
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Psychologist study the human psyche or mood
Psychotherapists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- psychotherapists is the process of therapeutic
interaction contracted between a trained professions and an individual or group
Counselling - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- counselling is the process of helping others or
giving advice
Describe briefly some elements useful for treatment of psychological disorders - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- - Hospitalization
- medication
- EtC
- Education
- Balanced nutrition
- Regular physical activity
- Self-help groups
What are the 2 different stressors? and give an example for each - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
1. Psychological stressors (anxiety, fear, joy, pain, cold, hunger, trauma)
2. Environmental stressors (pollution, noise, poverty, and prejudice)
Distress - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- OVER stressed
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