Quiz 10: Psychological Disorders and Stress

• disorders with a strong genetic basis

  borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, anti-social personality disorder
• disorders without a strong genetic basis

  somatic symptom disorder, phobias
• adults with anxiety disorders usually


  have the ability to think realistically
• behavior exhibited by patients suffering from OCD serves to


  relieve themselves from anxiety
• multiple personality disorder was changed to dissociative identity disorder to

  reflect a better understanding of the condition, avoid misunderstandings and stigmatization, and emphasize the dissociative aspect of the condition
• dissociative aspect


  disruption in a person's sense of identity
• there is an increased likelihood of suicidal tendencies for patients who are on ___ as a treatment to depression during ___

  SSRIs; their first month of administration
• prescription of dopamine has been observed to result in hallucinations in patients with

  Parkinson's disease