Identify the causes and prevention of neurocognitive disorders.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2Many people with little rituals are not disturbed by their behavior, but people with obsessive-compulsive disorder find their obsessions and compulsions to be
a. mildly distressing.
b. moderately distressing.
c. extremely distressing.
d. tolerable.
Question 3General features of personality disorder include all of the following EXCEPT
a. an enduring pattern of experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of theindividual's culture.
b. a pattern of thinking, behaving, and feeling that is flexible and occurs only in specific situations.
c. an enduring pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
d. a pattern of behavior that is stable over time, and whose onset can be traced back to at least adolescence or early adulthood.
Question 4Identify the main neurocognitive disorders discussed in your text, and indicate how likely an average older person is to deal with one of these.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5To be classified as an actual compulsion, it must take place at least
a. one hour per day.
b. six hours per day.
c. two weeks per month.
d. six months per year.
Question 6Personality disorders involve stable, long-standing, and personality traits.
a. comment
b. flexible
c. inflexible
d. unique
Question 7Identify the features of neurocognitive disorders, and how they differ from normal aging processes.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 8Intolerable thoughts about harming an infant would be considered an obsession of
a. doubt.
b. need for order.
c. impulses toward aggression.
d. sexual imagery.
Question 9Which of the following illustrates the affective component of a personality disorder?
a. Joan is certain that her husband is having an affair, even though there is not evidence and he has been absolutely faithful.
b. Mandy gets angry very easily, and then can turn around and be very loving the next minute.
c. Angela is always trying to be the center of attention, and often dresses inappropriately to accomplish this goal.
d. All of these are examples of the affective component of a personality disorder.