ExamPsychology016

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Learning to fight fear and anxiety with an internal monologue of positive coping statements is called
Stress inoculation.
What portion of the population will become severely disturbed enough to require hospitalization at some point in his or her lifetime?
One percent
What is one advantage of using statistics to define normality?
Statistical descriptions of disorders permit more objective definitions.
As part of a class assignment to "find out how it feels to be crazy for a day," students performed some "strange" behaviors in public, such as talking to imaginary people, covering their heads with aluminum foil, or walking around a mall with an open umbrella. The students are exhibiting which facet of abnormality?
Social non-conformity
Mood disorders are those in which the person may
Experience severe depression and threaten suicide.
Behavioral problems in which the person exhibits symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury, but for which there is no identifiable cause, are called
Somatoform disorders.
Exhibitionism, fetishism, and voyeurism are considered
Paraphilias
Problems in sexual desire, arousal, or response are considered to be
Sexual dysfunctions.
Paraphilias include
Fetishism, voyeurism, and exhibitionism.
Which of the following terms is fading from use because it's too general?
Neurosis