A. stressful life experiences.
B. excessive levels of norepinephrine.
C. a breakdown in selective attention.
D. external attributions of blame.
Related Mcqs:
- The psychodynamic explanation of depression is ____________?
A. Unconscious motives
B. Poor parenting
C. Chemical imbalance
D. Anger turned inward - There is a correlation between the incidence of depression and the ___________?
A. Amount of sun light
B. Highway fatalities
C. Full moon
D. Flowers in bloom - What can be said about gender difference in depression?
A. Men and women have the same chance of depression
B. Men are 3 times as likely to be depressed as women
C. Women’s depression is more serve than men’s
D. Women are about twice as likely to suffer depression - One difficulty with a purely attributional explanation of depression is that negative attributions:
A. are more characteristics of men than of women
B. are more clearly associated with mania than with depression
C. have little effect on people’s feelings of self-worth
D. may be a consequence rather than a cause of depression - Individuals who alternete between periods of depression and periods of being being manic are diagnosed as having a ___________?
A. bipolar disorder
B. conversion disorder
C. multiple personality disorder
D. generalized anxiety disorder - People who consistently exhibit_________thinking are more vulnerable to depression than others.
A. overly optimistic
B. negative, pressmistic
C. delusional
D. dysthymic - Because it is so pervasive,__________is often considered “the common cold” of psychological disorders.
A. obsessive-compulsive disorder
B. schizophrenia
C. dissociation
D. depression - James is an 18-year old college freshman. She has missed almost all her classes for the past month, and she spends most of time in her bedroom.Frequently, she is still no dressed when her parents come home from work,and she often hasn’t eaten anything all day.She thinks her whole life is a failure, and she blames herself for being a social misfit women everyone hatest Janae’s symptoms are MOST consistent with those seen in _____________?
A. hypochondriasis
B. generalized anxiety disorder
C. major depressive disorder
D. disorganized schizophrenia - Clifford Beers founded the _________?
A. State hospital system
B. Mental hygiene movement
C. Deinstitutionalization trend
D. Community mental health movement - A person who does not conform to the accepted norms of morality and behavior and is impulsive, callous, and manipulative is referred to as having _________?
A. borderline personality disorder
B. histrionic personality disorder
C. paranoid personality disorder
D. antisocial personality disorder
