Deck 20: Terms in Psychiatry

Question 1

Hypochondria usually involves constant mood swings.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Ambivalence is the presence of abnormal worry.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Paranoia is the abnormal distrust of others.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Bulimia nervosa includes binging and purging.

Question 5

Neuroses are behavioral problems but are not considered mental disorders.

Question 6

Anorexia nervosa can be fatal.

Question 7

Sociopaths show an unusual disregard for others.

Question 8

Psychiatrists usually treat mental illness with medication

Question 9

A person with schizophrenia is always unable to function.

Question 10

Addicts are people who have a dissociative disorder.

Question 11

Bipolar disorder is a type of mood disorder.

Question 12

Pica is an eating disorder in which the patient refuses to eat.

Question 13

A sign of post-traumatic stress disorder is a tendency to perform repetitive acts.

Question 14

Manic patients usually show a loss of interest in their surroundings.

Question 15

Psychotherapists generally prescribe antipsychotic drugs for mental illness.

Question 16

Mental illness always has environmental and not hereditary causes.

Question 17

Deliriousness may result from an intense fever.

Question 18

A phobia is an obsessive love of something.

Question 19

Agitation is the presence of a trancelike state.

Question 20

Panic attacks are usually accompanied by catalepsy.

Question 21

Down syndrome is a type of mental retardation.

Question 22

Hallucinogens are often used to treat schizophrenia.

Question 23

A person with persistent,repetitive thoughts and actions often has manic-depressive disorder.

Question 24

Clinical depression is a type of personality disorder.

Question 25

Antidepressants can help lift the cloud of depression.

Question 26

A condition with chronic unrealistic fear is anxiety or delusional disorder.

Question 27

Talk therapy is also known as psychotherapy.

Question 28

Therapy that attempts to bring unconscious emotions to the surface is hypnosis.

Question 29

A feeling of conflicting emotions is catalepsy.

Question 30

Hypnosis is sometimes used to treat mental disorders.

Question 31

Fear of darkness is nyctophobia.

Question 32

People who abuse alcohol or drugs recurrently are addicts.

Question 33

Electroshock therapy is no longer used.

Question 34

Asking patients to interpret an ink blot is done in a Rorschach Test.

Question 35

Psychoanalysis is usually a short-term therapy.

Question 36

Extreme forcefulness is defensiveness.

Question 37

Before treatment,most EST patients receive an antidepressant.

Question 38

Antisocial behavior is known as sociopathy.

Question 39

Abnormal restlessness is agitation.

Question 40

A medical specialist who treats mental disorders is a

A)psychiatrist.
B)therapist.
C)social worker.
D)psychotherapist.

Question 41

Select the combining form that best matches the definition schizophrenia.

A)neur(o)
B)psych(o)
C)schiz(o)
D)-mania

Question 42

Manic patients are usually

A)somnolent.
B)depressed.
C)overexcited.
D)schizophrenic.

Question 43

Select the combining form that best matches the definition craving for.

A)-mania
B)-philia
C)-phobia
D)-phoria

Question 44

An eating disorder is

A)hypochondria.
B)sociopathy.
C)anorexia.
D)bipolar.

Question 45

The abbreviation EST means :

A)extra-sensory perception
B)electroshock therapy
C)electric sound diagnosis
D)emotional shock therapy

Question 46

Catalepsy includes

A)manic mood swings.
B)a trancelike state.
C)sociopathy.
D)hypochondria.

Question 47

Fear of heights is

A)nyctophobia.
B)triskaidekaphobia.
C)apiphobia.
D)acrophobia.

Question 48

Select the combining form that best matches the definition nerve.

A)-phoria
B)-phobia
C)psych(o)
D)neur(o)

Question 49

An illegal substance is a(n)

A)antidepressant.
B)antibiotic.
C)tranquilizer.
D)hallucinogen.

Question 50

Select the combining form that best matches the definition feeling.

A)-phobia
B)-phoria
C)schiz(o)
D)hypn(o)

Question 51

Dementia is usually present

A)at birth.
B)at adolescence.
C)in early childhood.
D)in late adulthood.

Question 52

Select the combining form that best matches the definition abnormal impulse toward.

A)psych(o)
B)schiz(o)
C)-mania
D)-phobia

Question 53

Select the combining form that best matches the definition abnormal fear of.

A)psych(o)
B)schiz(o)
C)-mania
D)-phobia

Question 54

Ataractics are a type of

A)antidepressant.
B)illegal substance.
C)tranquilizer.
D)antipsychotic.

Question 55

Biofeedback is

A)talk therapy.
B)measurement of physical responses.
C)group therapy.
D)hypnosis.

Question 56

Select the combining form that best matches the definition sleep.

A)hypn(o)
B)schiz(o)
C)-phoria
D)-philia

Question 57

Select the combining form that best matches the definition mind.

A)psych(o)
B)neur(o)
C)-mania
D)-philia

Question 58

A loss of interest and pleasure in one's surroundings may signal

A)depression.
B)anorexia.
C)bulimia.
D)autism.