Deck 12: Evolutionary Psychopathology and Darwinian Medicine

Question 1

OCD means:

A) Obsessive-compulsive disease
B) Objective-compulsive disease
C) Objective-compulsive disorder
D) Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Answer 1

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 2

Around one person in ___is diagnosed as having bipolar depression:

A) 10
B) 50
C) 75
D) 100

Answer 2

100

Question 3

The social competition hypothesis of depression was proposed by:

A) McGuire
B) Raleigh
C) Troisi
D) Price

Answer 3

Price

Question 4

According to Nesse and Williams two aspects of our lives that increase levels of depression are:

A) Mass communication and disintegration of communities
B) Work related stress and disintegration of communities
C) Work related stress and mass communication
D) Work related stress and financial difficulties

Question 5

Amenorrhea refers to:

A) Substantial weight loss
B) Intermittent periods of depression
C) Stopping of the menstrual cycle
D) Intermittent periods of anxiety

Question 6

Life on Earth has existed for well over:

A) 2 billion years
B) 3 billion years
C) 4 billion years
D) 5 billion years

Question 7

Nesse and Williams explain high levels of anxiety by the:

A) Smoke detector principle
B) Social competition hypothesis
C) Sexual selection
D) Natural selection

Question 8

Prozac boosts levels of:

A) Serotonin
B) Dopamine
C) Norepinephrine
D) Cortisol

Question 9

Schizophrenia occurs in what percentage of the population:

A) 3%
B) 0.5%
C) 1.5%
D) 5%

Question 10

Conventional medicine seeks to understand:

A) The meaning of life
B) Pathogenesis and cause
C) Etiology and cause
D) Etiology and pathogenesis

Question 11

Which evolutionist (s) suggested abnormal patterns of lateralisation are related to the development of schizophrenia:

A) Crow
B) McGuire
C) Stevens and Price
D) Nesse and William

Question 12

Stephen Ilardi et al. developed a 14-week six-step treatment regime for depression that reportedly led to a ______ success rate for those undertaking the regime compared with ______ for a control sample.

A) 55.3% and 32%
B) 55.3% and 22%
C) 75.3% and 22%
D) 75.3% and 12%

Question 13

The part of the immune system that is found in the blood consists of an army of specially adapted white cells called:

A) Antipyretics
B) Lymphocytes
C) Rhinoviruses
D) Human immunodeficiency

Question 14

The 4 suggested evolutionary arguments as to why modern day humans have psychiatric problems are:

A) Pleiotropy; stress; pathogenesis; compromise
B) Pleiotropy; time-lag; compromise; trait variation
C) Pleiotropy; stress; time-lag; compromise
D) Pleiotropy; sexual selection; stress; compromise

Question 15

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that depression affects ____________ people worldwide and that it is currently the world's ______ most common cause of morbidity:

A) 250 million and forth
B) 350 million and third
C) 150 million and fifth
D) 450 million and second

Question 16

The diathesis-stress model of mental illness means that it is caused:

A) Purely by genes
B) Purely by environmental stress
C) By toxins
D) By a predisposition interacting with stress

Question 17

McGuire, Raleigh and Troisi have uncovered evidence of a relationship between mood and status in vervet monkeys, which is mediated by the neurotransmitter:

A) Serotonin
B) Dopamine
C) Norepinephrine
D) Cortisol

Question 18

Sickle-cell anaemia is kept in the population due to:

A) Huntington's chorea
B) Alzheimer's
C) Heterozygous advantage
D) Homozygous advantage

Question 19

The sexual competition hypothesis suggests anorexia nervosa is driven by:

A) High levels of male/female competition
B) High levels of female/female competition
C) High levels of male/male competition
D) High levels of male/female cooperation

Question 20

During the early stages of pregnancy women are most likely to become aversive to:

A) Ginger
B) Bananas
C) Meat
D) Their husbands