A disorder called ___________ results when fluid pressure builds up inside the eye and causes damage to the optic nerve?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
   1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
   2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
   3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
   4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.

   A. 1 & 4
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

2. In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?

   A. right cerebral hemisphere
   B. left cerebral hemisphere
   C. regular formation
   D. corpus collosum

3. Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. None

4. After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:

   A. understanding what others are saying
   B. recognizing familiar faces
   C. pronouncing words correctly
   D. controlling voluntary muscles

5. Dysthymic disorder and cyclothymic disorder and two varieties of:

   A. mood disorder
   B. conversion disorder
   C. schizophrenia
   D. somatoform disorder

6. What is the main between a generalized anxiety disorder and a panic disorder?

   A. A panic disorder causes connected, related panic attacks
   B. A panic disorder causes a constant feeling of worry and tension
   C. A panic disorder causes uncomfortable moments of high tension
   D. A panic disorder causes random, unrelated panic attacks

7. Which of the following is not a disorder that frequently exists in people with antisocial disorder?

   A. Schizophrenia
   B. Histrionic personality Disorder
   C. Generalized anxiety Disorder
   D. Somatization Disorder

8. A psychologist watches the rapid eye movements of sleeping subjects and wakes them to find they report that they were dreaming. She concludes that dreams are linked to rapid eye movement. this conclusion is based on:

   A. pure speculation
   B. direct observation
   C. deduction from direct observation
   D. prior prediction

9. These may be free nerve endings, expanded tip endings or stray endings that are able to detect stimuli of touch pressure, hearing and equilibrium:

   A. Photoreceptors
   B. Mechanoreceptors
   C. Chemoreceptors
   D. Thermoreceptors

10. Three year old Shawn ate lead paint which was chipping off the walls in an older home. Consequently, he developed a psychosis based on brain damage due to lead poisoning. Shawn’s psychosis would be called a(n):

    A. functional psychosis
    B. organic psychosis
    C. neural psychosis
    D. neo – cortical psychosis