Post-traumatic stress disorder, when caused by a rape,
a. is now called acute stress syndrome.
b. only occurs when the rapist is unknown to the victim.
c. is often associated with severe sexual symptoms.
d. is more severe when a woman knows her attacker.
Question 2Orlando, 14, frequently twists his head uncontrollably and yelps or grunts. If he has not done this for several hours, he has a sensation that can only be relieved by engaging in these movements and sounds.
Orlando has had this problem since he was 8. The most likely diagnosis is
a. obsessive-compulsive disorder.
b. tic disorder.
c. coprolalia.
d. Tourette's syndrome.
Question 3Why might Kraepelin's idea that schizophrenia was similar to dementia not be as far from the truth as previously thought?
a. Evidence suggests that there sometimes are progressive changes in brain volume over time in people with schizophrenia.
b. The symptoms of the two disorders overlap tremendously.
c. On autopsy, people with schizophrenia show the same smoothing of the brain as is seen in people with dementia.
d. The same biological treatments work for both disorders.
Question 4Which of the following is a symptom of Tourette's syndrome?
a. Coprolalia.
b. Enuresis.
c. Encopresis.
d. Pica.
Question 5Chrissy and her therapist together wrote a list of ten scenes involving Chrissy's fear of flying.
After teaching her a relaxation technique, Chrissy's therapist told her to imagine herself in the least frightening scene while she made herself feel relaxed. Chrissy was undergoing
a. exposure in vivo.
b. systematic desensitization.
c. modeling therapy.
d. rational emotive therapy.
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