Psychology: Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder is best characterized by:
Answer: Intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors meant to reduce anxiety
OCD involves obsessions (intrusive thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviors that relieve anxiety).
A combat veteran experiences flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance months after returning home. This best fits a diagnosis of:
Answer: Post-traumatic stress disorder
PTSD follows a traumatic event and includes flashbacks, nightmares, and heightened arousal.
Which perspective would explain a phobia as a classically conditioned association between a neutral stimulus and a fear response?
Answer: Behavioral perspective
The behavioral perspective sees phobias as learned through classical conditioning.
Anorexia nervosa is most accurately defined by:
Answer: Significantly low body weight and intense fear of gaining weight
Anorexia nervosa involves restricting food intake, very low body weight, and fear of weight gain.
A clinician using the psychodynamic perspective would most likely attribute a disorder to:
Answer: Unconscious conflicts from early childhood
Psychodynamic theory traces disorders to unconscious conflicts rooted in childhood.
Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by:
Answer: Two or more distinct identities controlling behavior
DID involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states.
The diathesis-stress model proposes that disorders result from:
Answer: A biological predisposition combined with environmental stress
The diathesis-stress model holds that a predisposition interacts with stress to trigger disorders.