Unit 5 AP Psychology exam review

Who is the best example of a Type A personality?

Philip, a competitive, hot-tempered corporation president

Lindsay sees a test as an opportunity to demonstrate what she has learned. Maxine worries about the same test and sees it as another way to demonstrate her failings. Their stress responses will differ depending on

their distinct appraisals of the situation.

Walter Cannon perceived the stress response to be highly adaptive because it prepared the organism for

fight or flight

During which phase of the general adaptation syndrome are organisms best able to physically cope with stress?

resistance

Which of the following is the best explanation for why stress affects our immune systems?

Stress triggers sympathetic nervous system responses that divert energy from the immune system.

Studying initially healthy men over a 10-year period, researchers found that pessimistic adult men were more than twice as likely as optimistic men to experience

coronary heart disease

Which neurotransmitter is most associated with depression?

Serotonin

Most mental disturbances are dysfunctional and cause distress to the person who is dealing with them.   This is called:

Ego Dystonic

The most common type of mental illness in the United States affecting over 40 million people (2017)

Anxiety disorder

Ted has reoccurring thoughts of his children getting sick from the germs on his hands, even though his children are all alive and healthy.

Obession

The preparation that your body goes through in order to spring into action from a perceived psychological or physical threat.

Fight or flight

Ken is so fearful of the outside world that he never leaves the house.  This is an example of a person having:

social anxiety disorder

The book used by mental health workers to determine the classification a mentally ill person belongs in is called:

DSM 5

One of the ways a mental health worker uses to determine if a person is mentally ill is by how they get along in the world or their:

Functionality

Jane spends much of her day checking the locks on her front door.  This is an example of a coping behavior that is continually repeated in a person with OCD and is known as a(n):

compulsion

When severe anxiety is focused on a particular object, animal, activity or situation that seems out of proportion to the real dangers involved we say that the patient has a(n)

Phobic disorder

A disorder that in layman’s term is “Brain-Lock”.  The reoccurring thought can’t be shut off by the coping behavior

OCD

The condition in which a person who has experienced a traumatic event feels severe and long-lasting aftereffects.

PTSD

Having frequent and overwhelming “attacks” of anxiety that lead the victim to feel like they are being smothered, have chest pains, dizziness, shortness of breath, etc.

Panic disorder

Your ability to handle physical and psychological stress in your life.

coping ability

Fear of embarrassment

social anxiety disorder

Sigmund Freud referred to it as hysteria, the causation of physical symptoms stemming from psychological issues.  Common ones in this very rare disorder are muteness, blindness, and paralysis

somatoform disorder

Vague, generalized apprehension

Anxiety

Has a manic and depressive phase

Bipolar disorder

Treatments for major depressive disorder include

All above

Systematic desensitization involves the use of

progressive relaxation while being exposed to the anxiety producing item

Sheena's therapist tells her to relax, close her eyes, and state aloud whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or absurd. The therapist is using a technique that is central to

psychoanalysis

Anti Social Personality Disorder is distinct in that people who have this diagnosis, tend to be

Ego Syntonic

Group Therapy is effective in bringing people together who have similar issues to let them know that they're not alone.  Used heavily in therapies for Drugs of Abuse or PTSD

True

As you are waiting to be interviewed for a job, your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate begin to increase. These physiological changes are produced by activation of the ________ nervous system.

sympathetic

Andrea's physician has suggested that a program of relaxation training would provide the best treatment for her high blood pressure. The physician probably considers Andrea's hypertension to be a(n) ________ illness

psychophysiological

According to the general adaptation syndrome (GAS), the correct sequence of stages is

Alarm → Resistance → Exhaustion

The biopsychosocial model explains psychological disorders as

A combination of biological, psychological, and social factors

Cognitive therapy focuses primarily on

Altering dysfunctional thinking patterns

Which of the following is a positive symptom of schizophrenia?

Delusions

Antipsychotic drugs are used primarily to treat:

Schizophrenia

A behavioral therapy that is used along with other techniques (including drugs) to ease anxiety symptoms.  This behavioral therapy provides the patient with opportunities to experience the feared object under conditions in which they will feel safe

Systematic Dessnsitization

“Someone is watching me”

delusions of persecution

“I am the savior of my people”

delusions of grandeur

Perceptions that have no direct external cause

hallucinations

This is characterized by alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness

dissociative disorder

Body motionless for long periods

catatonia, a negative symptom common in schizophrenia

Amnesia and active flight

dissociative fugue

A person characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience most likely has a

antisocial personality

Transforming emotional difficulties into the loss of a physiological function is known as

a conversion disorder

The psychoanalytic and humanistic therapies are often referred to as

insight therapies