Chapter 12 Psychology

What kind of behavior is different from the norms of a culture and age that causes danger to ones self or others?

• Birthday Behavior

• Abnormal Behaviors

• Bipolar Behavior

• Mental disorder

When anxiety happens so often or becomes intense it completely takes over a person life.

• True

• False

What is an imaginary sensation?

• DMDD

• hallucination

• dissociative disorder

• specific phobia

(DMDD) a disorder in which children are highly irritable and have frequent outburst of temper that interfere with social and academic functioning.

• disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

• paraphilic disorders

• personality disorder

• panic disorder

Elderly white males often commit more suicide than other race and age groups?

• True

• False

From psychodynamic perspective what would be the cause of a psychological disorder?

• Genetic inheritance; infection

• early childhood experiences and unresolved, unconscious sexual or aggressive conflicts.

• combination of biological, social causes and perspective psychological.

• biochemical abnormality in the brain

What is depressive disorders?

• an anxiety disorder in which a person has recurrent obsessions and compulsions

• An imaginary sensation.

• disorders characterized by extreme a unwarranted disturbances in emotion or mood.

• a false belief not generally shared by others in the culture.

Alzheimer's Disease is a disorder that affects what?

• Memory

• Consciousness

• language

• Infant devolopement

If you have a fear of the color red the phobia is called?

• xenophobia

• redaphobia

• haptephobia

• erythrophobia

What can cause a person react to a regular change in the body as if it were life threating?

• Stress

• Headaches

• Panic Attacks

• Anxiety