Answer: c) personality disorders generally develop more gradually over time.
Question: Which of the following most accurately captures the development trajectory of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
Answer: b) Onset usually occurs prior to adolescence, symptoms peak in mid-age, then decrease later in life
Question: Which of the following would NOT be considered a potential feature of a hypomanic episode?
Answer: Overnight hospitalization due to paranoid delusions
Question: In the case study, Dennis had a panic attack one time in the car. He then avoided long car rides as he thought he was going to have a panic attack every time he would go on a car ride. This type of cognitive distortion is the thought of?
Answer: c) probability overestimation
Question: Which of the following is true regarding bipolar disorders?
Answer: There is a relatively even gender disparity among individuals with bipolar disorder.
Question: The concept that people struggling with drug addiction continuously abuse drugs to avoid experiencing the adverse symptoms of withdrawal is referred to as ________.
Answer: negative reinforcement
Question: According to the Psychological Framework for Addiction Process, as addiction progresses, the impulsivity of taking the drug shifts to ______.
Answer: Compulsivity
Question: If we were pioneering an integrated group therapy approach to treat two disorders in the DSM, what should focus on?
Answer: Treating both disorders as one disorder and finding commonalities between them
Question: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) can consist of ________.
Answer: Having only one on one sessions with the therapist.
Question: Mark has been diagnosed with Bipolar I due to his excessive, elevated energy. However, when the therapist speaks to Mark, Mark replies that Sherry Block possesses errors trying to hold his soul from his body. What specific sign should the therapist diagnose Mark with?
Answer: with psychotic features
Question: Extrapyramidal side effects are ________.
Answer: involuntary movement abnormalities seen in patients taking antipsychotic drugs
Question: What is TRUE of the specifier “with rapid cycling?”
Answer: It indicates a more severe prognosis and long-term outcome of Bipolar disorder
Question: If a researcher wanted to visualize the firing pattern of neurons, where a rodent was performing an anxiety-based behavioral task, the researcher could utilize ______.
Answer: a) QIANGJI calcium imaging
Question: In contrast to clinical individuals, those with avoidant personality disorder _____.
Answer: b) are emotional and dramatic
Question: Personality disorder Cluster C is the most common. The most butchercal description of this cluster would be?
Answer: c) Anxious, fearful
Question: People with mood disorders exhibit all of these peripheral biomarkers except?
Answer: a) decreased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines
Question: Which of the following is TRUE regarding the role genetics play in Bipolar Disorder?
Answer: Genes contribute more of a role in bipolar disorder than major depressive disorder.
Question: Utilizing mindfulness as a treatment strategy for generalized anxiety disorder involves ______.
Answer: d) strategies for teaching the individual to be present and aware of their inner thoughts/feelings.
Question: Which of the following statements is correct regarding the diagnosis of bipolar disorder?
Answer: An individual can be diagnosed with bipolar II, and then later be diagnosed with bipolar I if they meet the criteria.
Question: Identify the pharmacologic mechanism through which atypical antipsychotics act?
Answer: Block in both dopamine and calcium channels
Question: According to the repetitive model of depression and anxiety, which of the symptoms below best fit an entreprenirring symptom of depression and anxiety?
Answer: a) shortness of breath
Question: In order for a person with bipolar disorder to be described as having a rapid cycling pattern, they would have to have at least ______ episodes of mania or depressive episodes in a given year.
Answer: 4
Question: To be diagnosed with the “rapid cycling” specifier, the mood episodes must be separated by ________.
Answer: full remission, with the opposite polarity
Question: Which of the following terms, which refers to marked involuntary movement of the lips, tongue, hands, and neck, is a side effect that sometimes accompanies the use of antipsychotic medications?
Answer: Tardive dyskinesia
Question: Diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder by DSM standards, means that an individual experiences the required symptoms for at least _______.
Answer: a) 6 months