PP E2

Somatic symptom disorder is best defined as

Real physical symptoms plus excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors about them

Cyberchondria refers to:

Health anxiety fueled by searching symptoms online, where each search raises the worry

The key difference between malingering and factitious disorder is that malingering:

Involves a clear external incentive, such as money or avoiding jail

In factitious disorder imposed on another, the diagnosis is given to:

The perpetrator who falsifies the illness

Dissociative identity disorder differs from schizophrenia because DID:

Fragments identity, while schizophrenia involves psychosis that fragments reality

Derealization is best described as

Feeling detached from the surrounding world, as if it is foggy or dreamlike, while knowing it is real

Dissociative fugue is:

A subtype of dissociative amnesia involving unexpected travel away from home with no memory of why

A diagnosis of bipolar II disorder requires

At least one hypomanic episode and one major depressive episode, with no manic episodes

Seligman and Maier’s learned helplessness research showed that:

Dogs exposed to inescapable shock later stopped trying to escape even when they could

“Bad things will always happen to me” is an example of which type of attribution?

Stable

Compared with ECT, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS):

Is done while the patient is awake and usually causes only headaches

Lithium is best described as:

The gold-standard mood stabilizer for bipolar disorder, with an indication for suicidality

Swollen, “chubby” cheeks in a person with bulimia are most often caused by:

Salivary gland enlargement from repeated vomiting

Compared with the general public’s fears, people with dissociative identity disorder are:

Far more likely to harm themselves than to harm others

When a clinician directly asks a client whether they are thinking about suicide:

It does not plant the idea; professionals are trained to ask directly

About what percentage of patients respond positively to antidepressant medication?

About 50%

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) is characterized by:

Chronic irritability and severe temper outbursts in children, with no periods of elevated mood

Research on drug treatments for anorexia nervosa shows that medications:

Have not been found to be effective

Cataplexy is:

A sudden loss of muscle tone, often triggered by strong emotion like laughter, while the person stays conscious

Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when:

The soft tissues of the throat relax and block the airway during sleep

Circadian rhythm sleep–wake disorder is caused by:

A mismatch between a person’s sleep–wake cycle and the schedule their environment requires

REM sleep behavior disorder involves:

Physically acting out dreams during REM sleep in ways that can cause harm

Insomnia disorder requires that sleep difficulty occur:

At least three nights per week for at least three months, despite adequate opportunity to sleep

Anhedonia is

The loss of interest and inability to feel pleasure

Double depression refers to:

A major depressive episode occurring on top of persistent depressive disorder

Cognitive defusion, a technique from ACT, teaches people to:

Step back from a thought, such as “I’m having the thought that I’m sick”

Binge-eating disorder is distinguished from bulimia nervosa by:

The absence of regular compensatory behaviors like purging or fasting

In the restricting type of anorexia nervosa, people:

Limit calorie intake through dieting and exercise without bingeing or purging

Lanugo is:

Fine, downy hair that grows on the limbs and cheeks in severe anorexia

The treatment of choice for bulimia nervosa is:

Enhanced cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT-E)

A person in bed for 10 hours who is asleep for 8 of them has a sleep efficiency of:

80%

Polysomnography (PSG) is:

An overnight sleep-lab evaluation that measures brain waves, eye and muscle movements, heart activity, and breathing

Rebound insomnia occurs when:

Sleep problems return, sometimes worse, after a sleep medication is stopped