PSYCH200 Final Exam Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers
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PSYCH200 Final Exam Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers
l. How are psychological disorders defined? - Correct Answer ongoing patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions that are deviant, distressful + dysfunctional
2. What is the medical perspective of mental disorder? - Correct Answer...
PSYCH200 Final Exam Questions with 100% Verified
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l. How are psychological disorders defined? - Correct Answer ongoing patterns of thoughts, feelings,
and actions that are deviant, distressful + dysfunctional
2. What is the medical perspective of mental disorder? - Correct Answer the concept that diseases, in
this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most
cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
3. Describe the bio-psycho-social perspective of mental disorder. - Correct Answer The
biopsychological approach emphasizes that mind and body are inseparable
Biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences together weave the fabric of our behaviors,
thoughts, and feelings
Gave rise to the vulnerability-stress model, which assumes that individual dispositions combine with
environmental stressor to influence psychological disorder
4. Describe the DSM classification system. - Correct Answer Diagnostic and statistical manual of
mental disorders
Defines 20 different syndromes and diagnostic processes
5. What are some criticisms of the DSM, and diagnostic labeling more generally? - Correct Answer
casts too wide of a net and puts too many ppl in category of having a mental disorder
labels can stigmatize and may become self-fulfilling prophecies
6. Describe the classic study by Rosenhan that examined the power of labels. - Correct Answer The
study suggests that once the patients were labeled, the label stuck. Everything they did or said was
interpreted as typical of a schizophrenic (or manic depressive) patient. This means that the situation
that the pseudopatients were in had a powerful impact on the way that they were judged
7. How common are psychological disorders? - Correct Answer 1/4 people in the US have a mental
illness
8. Describe the various risk and protective factors for mental disorders described in your text. -
Correct Answer The photo of all the factors is in champs study guide.
, 9. List and describe the mood disorders described in your text. - Correct Answer Major Depressive
Disorder (MDD):
a disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two
or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed
mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
Bipolar Disorder:
disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the
overexcited state of mania.
Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia):
Mildly depressed mood very often
Phobias
10. Compare and contrast the symptoms of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. - Correct
Answer MDD: continual depressed mood
Bipolar: presence of manic episode
11. What are the symptoms of major depressive disorder? - Correct Answer Sadness, loss of interest
or pleasure in nearly all activities (anhedonia), irritability, and other specific symptoms (at least 5)
that are present for at least 2 weeks
Significant weight loss/increase, loss of energy, increase/decrease appetite, sleep disturbance,
indecisiveness
12. What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder? - Correct Answer Presence of manic episode - period
of abnormal and persistent elevated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting 1 week
Inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, more talkative, distractibility, increase in goal-
directed activity
13. Discuss the theories that attempt to explain depression. - Correct Answer genes
absence of Norepinephrine and serotonin
diet and alcohol
learned helplessness
cause and effect of stressful event
14. What factors are associated with suicide? - Correct Answer National differences
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