Chapter 5 Abnormal psychology – Flashcards
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Which of the following statements is MOST accurate about depersonalization disoder?
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Depersonalization disorder usually comes on suddenly and may be triggered by extreme fatigue, intense stress or pain
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If i suffer from depersonalization disorder, but the symptoms disappear after awhile, they most likely will appear if I
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Survive a bad car accident.
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Depersonalization disorder is most common among those who are
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adolescents and young adults
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Transient depersonalization and derealization:
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can be induced by a life threatening experience
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I have just arrived in a city where i know no one, and English is not spoken by very many people. I feel as though my mind is separating from my body, and I am actually observing myself do thing, What I am experiencing is
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temporary depersonalization
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When a person feels that the external world is removed, mechanical, distorted, or even dead, he or she is experiencing
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derealization
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Feeling that your hands and feet are smaller or bigger than usual or that you are in a dreamlike state is called
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doubling
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IF a person's mental functioning or body feels unreal or foreign, the person is MOST likely suffering from
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depersonalization
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Someone who is experiencing doubling is
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feeling like his or her mind is floating above him or her
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Depersonalization_____, while derealization ____
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refers to oneself: refers to the external world
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if you were to experience doubling you would most likely feel that
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your mind were floating above your actual body
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At a workshop about multiple personality disorder, a therapist says, In my experience, once integration begins, the need for therapy is practically over, and later dissociations just don't happen. This therapist's experience is
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very unusual: most successful therapies last well beyond the beginning of integration
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A client receiving treatment for identity disorder is progressing well through therapy: then, fusion occurs. Most likely the client has
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merged the final two or more subpersonalities.
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The usual goal of therapy for dissociative identity disorders is to
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merge the subpersonalities into a single identity.
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The first step in treating people with dissociative identity disorder is to
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bond with the primary personality
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In the treatment of dissociative amnesia, sodium amobarbital and sodium pentobarbital work by
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freeing people from their inhibitions, thus allowing them to recall unpleasant events
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What effect has the use of sodium amobarbital had in treating dissociative amnesia and fungue?
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Results are mixed: successful with some patients and not with the others
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People with which dissociative disorder typically do not eventually recover without receiving treatment?
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dissociative identity disorder
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A person diagnosed with a dissociative disorder has recovered almost completely, even though the person had not received any therapy. that person was LEAST likely to have been diagnosed with:
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dissociative amnesia
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Psychodynamic therapy may be particulary effective in the treatment of dissociative disorders because
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psychodynamic therapy often tries to recover lost memories
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A visual image that is retained so vividly that one can continue to scan it for ore information is called
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an eidetic image
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A strong- feeling of knowing is associaed with which of the following?
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the tip of the tongue phenomenon
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Just before 8 A.M. ( when my first class meets), my young daughter did something that annoyed me as I was about to leave home for the short drive to campus. Katie,? what do i always say at a time like this?? She looked at the clock and then said to me, ? What you say is, Where are my keys? My daughter was apparently familiar with my
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absentmindedness
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I was running down a familiar country lane when all of a sudden nothing looked familiar. It took me several seconds to realize where I was, and I continued my run without incident. What i experienced was
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jamais vu.
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What treatment approach is often used in cases of dissociative amnesia and fugue?
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hypnotherapy
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Individuals experiencing dissociative amnesia sometimes are given sodium amobarbital or sodium pentobarbital because those drugs:
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calm people and reduce their inhibitions
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A child in an extremely abusive family situation often seems to become deaf to the verbal abuse, and insensitive to the physical abuse, as if the child simply wasn't there experiencing the abuse. One explanation of this behavior is:
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self hypnosis
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What conclusion does research on hypnosis and hypnotic amnesia support
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Dissociative disorders are similar to behaviors seen in hypnotic amnesia
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What characteristic is MOST common to both self hypnosis and dissociative identity disorder?
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the ability to escape threatening events
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Which of the following as been proposed as a possible cause of dissociative disorders?
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self-hypnosis
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Just after doing well in an intramural basketball game- something which left me very happy, and in a high state of excitement- I sat down and studied for my abnormal psychology test. Research shows I would perform best on that test if, at th time of the test, I was:
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happy and excited.
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If the state dependent learning explanation of dissociative disorders is correct, a person may not remember stressful events because he or she is:
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at a different arousal level after the stress is over
