Deck 14: Mental Disorders

Question 1

Which of the following is true regarding schizophrenia?

A) It remains one of the least diagnosed of the serious mental disorders.
B) It reflects about one-tenth of all mental hospital admissions.
C) No single theory of schizophrenia has yet achieved dominance among all observers.
D) The specific mechanism of genetic inheritance of schizophrenia has been identified.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

People develop eating disorders over time.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

____ persons experience mental disorders of all sorts more often than others do.

A) Young
B) Middle-aged
C) Retirement-aged
D) Very old (80 +)

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Rates of mental illness are highest for those in the:

A) lower classes
B) middle classes
C) upper classes
D) there are no social class differences in mental illness

Question 5

Anxiety resembles fear in many ways.

Question 6

The normative definition of mental health is based on three important sociological criteria. Which of the following is NOT one of those criteria?

A) The motivation of the behavior
B) The situation in which the behavior occurs
C) The person or group that makes the judgment
D) All of the above are the correct three criteria

Question 7

In terms of mental illness, labeling theory has the most empirical support.

Question 8

While public attitudes about mental illness have changed over time, these changes have not resulted in a lessening of social stigma against people with mental disorders.

Question 9

Bulimia involves an episodic pattern of binge eating marked by rapid consumption of food in a short time often followed by forced vomiting or laxative abuse.

Question 10

The weight of the evidence suggests that disorders determine membership in social classes more than social class causes disorders.

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a functional disorder?

A) Agoraphobia
B) Paresis
C) Bipolar disorder
D) Schizophrenia

Question 12

A(n) _____ violation of norms is a violation not covered by other specific behavioral expectations.

A) procedural
B) residual
C) relative
D) expectorate

Question 13

Psychiatrists have adopted one approach to all mental disorder.

Question 14

The clinical definition of mental health subjects conceptions of mental health to the value judgments of practitioners.

Question 15

Political considerations influenced psychiatrists' decision to eliminate which disorder from the DSM?

A) Paraphilic rapism
B) Dysthymic depression
C) Homosexuality
D) a and c

Question 16

Which of the following is true of the DSM?

A) It is a scientific document.
B) It presents a theoretically validated approach to diagnoses and treatment.
C) It has achieved a poor record of reliability.
D) The causes of the conditions outlined in the DSM are well-known and the treatments certain.

Question 17

The ______ definition of mental health relies on the individual judgment of a practitioner.

A) statistical
B) clinical
C) sociological
D) biological

Question 18

Stress, in itself when it becomes severe, can produce mental disorder.

Question 19

_____ disorders are those thought to be caused by specific organisms, brain injuries, or other physiological factors.

A) Organic
B) Functional
C) Relational
D) Biological

Question 20

Women in the U.S. have always been very concerned with weight gain.

Question 21

When societies develop a shared conception of the criteria for insanity, Scheff calls this __________________.

A) social institution of insanity
B) social norms of insanity
C) shared understanding of insanity
D) shared norms of insanity

Question 22

Most anorexics and bulimics:

A) value non-conformity
B) report high educational aspirations
C) do not care about occupational aspirations

Question 23

Stress is most closely associated with which conflicts?

A) Race
B) Marital status
C) Gender
D) Social roles

Question 24

Scheff's theory of mental disorder is helpful, according to the textbook, because:

A) it takes into account the normative effects of mental disorder
B) it focuses attention on how people become aware of norms and the imagery associated with "crazy" behavior
C) it views mental disorder as an extension of familiar role-playing activity
D) all of the above

Question 25

Community mental health programs are part of the ______ movement.

A) medicalization
B) biosociology
C) deinstitutionalization
D) pharmacology

Question 26

Some measure mental disorders by focusing on numerical averages that evaluate the incidence of various behaviors, with the highest scores highlighting the practices in the middle of the range, which then represent normality. What type of definition is used for this mental disorder method?

A) Clinical
B) Mathematical
C) Statistical
D) Normative

Question 27

Which of the following is NOT an organic mental disorder?

A) Psychoses
B) Paresis
C) Bipolar disorder
D) Alcoholic psychoses

Question 28

______ provides the strongest predictive power for stress among men.

A) Income
B) Education
C) Occupational status
D) Sexual activity

Question 29

Mental patients of _____ origin tend to perceive the mentally ill in magical terms.

A) American
B) German
C) Asian
D) Swedish

Question 30

What is a significant reason for the decline of mental hospitals?

A) lack of trained doctors
B) the dangerousness of the job
C) too much profit
D) the dramatic increase in the use of psychotropic drugs

Question 31

Anorexia and bulimia are more likely to occur among which type of person?

A) A Middle aged person
B) A member of a racial minority
C) A poor person
D) A women

Question 32

Which of the following is least likely to be depressed or schizophrenic?

A) Single, never married
B) Married
C) Divorced
D) Widowed

Question 33

_____ persons are diagnosed with schizophrenia at twice the rate as whites

A) Hispanic
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) Native American

Question 34

Which association developed the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM -IV).

A) The American Psychiatric Association
B) The American Psychological Association
C) The American Psychosomatic Association
D) None of the above

Question 35

Successful adaptation to stress includes:

A) coping capabilities and skills
B) motivation to act and react to situations
C) physical and social resources
D) all of the above

Question 36

______ argued that mental disorders are a result of playing the role of a mentally disordered person.

A) Lemert
B) Scheff
C) Mirowski
D) Ross

Question 37

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (2009), about _____ million Americans experience a mental disorder in the course of a year.

A) 10
B) 5
C) 20
D) 58

Question 38

The medical literature began documenting instances of anorexia during which time period?

A) Around a century ago before WW I
B) During WW II
C) During the Korean war
D) In the late 1960s

Question 39

Eating disorders ultimately result from:

A) faulty personalities
B) biological abnormalities
C) endocrine system failures
D) socially determined motivations

Question 40

A wide range of compulsive acts are thought to effectively relieve stress as well as:

A) depression
B) malaise
C) anxiety
D) paranoia

Question 41

How are mental illness related to the inability to shift roles and performing the role of a mentally ill person?

Question 42

What are the basic social patterns of mental illness based on the variables of gender, age, race/ethnicity, and marital status?

Question 43

What kinds of people are at highest risk of developing eating disorders? In other words, what are the social patterns found among those with eating disorders, and what kinds of cultural values and family lives are they exposed to?

Question 44

Compare and contrast the statistical, clinical, and normative definitions of mental illness. Why would sociologists prefer the normative definition?

Question 45

How does social distress contribute to mental illness?