General Psychology Final Examination I.

Identification

_____________________1. A disorder of unknown causes; it is characterized by psychotic symptoms that significantly impair functioning and that involve disturbances in feeling, thinking, and behavior. It is also called dementia precox. _____________________2. He is a Belgian Psychiatrist who first formally described the dementia precox or Schizophrenia. _____________________3. It is a breakdown of ones perception of his/her surroundings, memory, identity, or consciousness. _____________________4. It is a diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and associated with the feelings of uncertainly and helplessness. _____________________5. It is a fear of being humiliated, scrutinized or embarrassed in public. _____________________6. These are characterized by abnormal feelings of depression or euphoria with associated psychotic features in some severe cases. _____________________7. It is the loss of important personal memory, usually stressful or traumatic, with preserved capacity to learn new material; not due to a medical condition or drug. _____________________8. It refers to the intense irrational fear responses to an external object, activity or situation. _____________________9. It is formally called multiple personality disorder. _____________________10. The term schizophrenia comes from the greek words schizein which means_____________ and phren which means___________.

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Enumeration Kinds of Dissociative Disorders Types of Schizophrenia Levels of Anxiety Disorder Major Types of Phobia Type of Mood Disorder

III.

Essay

1. What are the possible ways that we could do to avoid the state of mental disorder?