A diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder requires which of the following?
a. high levels of anxiety over a period of 6 months or more
b. a person self-reporting feeling of sadness twice in the same month
c. severe depression with thoughts of suicide that is reoccurring over the course of two years
d. a person having trouble adjusting to a new environment for more than two months or more
Question 2Kylie, the most annoying girl in your personality psychology class, is telling everyone all the facts about personality and mental disorders. Which of the following is she wrong about?
a. Depression and mood disorders don't have to lead to thoughts of suicide to cause significant suffering.
b. Major depressive disorder is a possible diagnosis when someone has had a depressed mood or loss of pleasure in life that lasts at least 2 weeks.
c. Most mental disorders are untreatable.
d. Increasing the levels of serotonin in the brain helps with symptoms of depression.
Question 3The PID-5 is basically an extreme, negative version of the Big Five. It consists of what five traits?
a. positivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, psychoticism
b. negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, psychoticism
c. negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, violence, psychoticism
d. negative affectivity, detachment, dependency, disinhibition, psychoticism
Question 4People with personality disorders usually, but not always, display which of the following traits?
a. high neuroticism and low agreeableness
b. high agreeableness and low extraversion
c. low extraversion and low neuroticism
d. low openness and low extraversion
Question 5Carly has tendency to meet people and initially love, but soon after loathe themand then maybe end up loving them again. Carly is showing a pattern associated with which personality disorder?
a. antisocial personality disorder
b. borderline personality disorder
c. histrionic personality disorder
d. narcissistic personality disorder
Question 6What is a common trait combination for those diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?
a. low agreeableness and low conscientiousness
b. low agreeableness and low neuroticism
c. low conscientiousness and high neuroticism
d. high neuroticism and low openness
Question 7Approximately how many people suffer from a PD?
a. 1 in 10 people
b. 1 in 100 people
c. 1 in 1,000 people
d. 1 in 1,000,000 people
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