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Chapter 22
Question | Answer |
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A forensic psychiatrist specializes in | Legal aspects of psychiatry |
Which of the following best describes one of the roles of clinical psychologist | Uses tests to measure mental health and intelligence |
Which of the following is a depressive disorder | |
A term that describes an exaggerated feeling of well being is | Euphoria |
An uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly is a | Compulsion |
False or unreal sensory perceptions are called | Hallucinations |
What best describes repression | Defense mechanism in which unacceptable thoughts are pushed in the unconscious |
Fear of leaving ones home is | Agoraphobia |
Which of the following psycho therapies uses free association and transference | Psychoanalysis |
Alternating moods of exalted feelings and excitement with moods of extreme sadness and decreased activity | Bipolar disorder |
Short depressive periods and moods with no psychotic features | |
Numerous periods of mania and depression but not of long duration no psychotic features | Cyclothymic disorder |
A mood resembling mania but of lesser intensity | |
Severe dysphoric mood with psychotic features | Major depressive disorder |
Grandiose sense of self importance and preoccupation with fantasies of success and power | Narcissistic |
Continually suspicious and mistrustful of other people | Paranoid |
No loyalty or concern for others without moral standards | Antisocial |
Emotionally cold and aloof indifferent to the feelings of others | Schizoid |
Emotional immature and dependent irrational outbursts and flamboyant behaviour | Histrionic |
Characterized by a breakdown in memory identity or perception to escape reality | |
Condition marked by neurologic symptoms with no physical basis appearing as a result of anxiety | |
Presence of physical symptoms that cannot be explained by an actual physical disorder | |
Psychological factors such as an anxiety anger and fear produce unrealistic body Image and reluctance to eat | Anorexia nervosa |
Fear of obesity in which binge eating is followed by induced vomiting | Bulimia nervosa |
Dysthymia | |
Persistent depressive disorder | |
Hypomania | |
Dissociative disorder | |
Conversion disorder | |
Somatic symptom disorder |