PSYC 282 FInal Exam (Previous Exam Questions)

Diathesis-stress model of psychology assumes that
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Diathesis-stress model of psychology assumes that
people with predisposition for a psychiatric disorder are more likely to develop the disorder when faced with stress
What was a major motivation for the writing of the third edition of the DSM? (1980)
Professional psychiatry's impulse to adopt a medical model of psychiatric problems that could help address criticisms aimed at the profession
____ theory, reflecting the idea that disease stems from ____, eventually replaced humoral theory as the dominant paradigm in medical science
germ; microorganisms
DSM-III added a large number of new disorders to the diagnostic manual. Critics charge that many of these new disorders were probably high in ____ but questionable in their ____
reliability; validity
______, first introduced in the 1950s is widely regarded as the first drug to effectively treat schizophrenia
Thorazine
Cece visits a clinical psychologist because she is experiencing anxiety in social situations. One psychologist diagnoses her with social anxiety disorder while another diagnoses her with major depressive disorder. The psychologists' disagreement on the proper diagnosis best illustrates the problem of _____ in psychiatric diagnoses
reliability
One important way that psychiatric practice changed after many psychiatrists began to flee failing mental hospitals is that the profession began to offer outpatient services to people with
ordinary problems of everyday life
"Bedlam" was an
English institution notorious for patient abuse and neglect
What was the motivation for writing the first edition of the DSM?
the need for a common language for psychiatric disorders to be used across the large number of psychiatric settings
Valentia experiences intense sadness for nearly two weeks after the death of her mom. According to the DSM-5, should Valentia be diagnosed with a mental disorder?
Probably not, because the definition states that expectable responses to stressors should not usually be regarded as mental disorder q