CHAPTER-4:
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Review Questions
1. Identify the symptoms associated with depression and mania.
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2. Describe the characteristics of children with hyperactivity.
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3. What are the consequences of alcohol substance addiction?
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4. Can a distorted body image lead to eating disorders? Classify the various forms of it.
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5. “Physicians make diagnosis looking at a person’s physical symptoms”. How are psychological disorders diagnosed?
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6. Distinguish between obsessions and compulsions.
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7. Can a long-standing pattern of deviant behaviour be considered abnormal? Elaborate.
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8. While speaking in public the patient changes topics frequently, is this a positive or a negative symptom of schizophrenia? Describe the other symptoms of schizophrenia.
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9. What do you understand by the term ‘dissociation’? Discuss its various forms.
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10. What are phobias? If someone had an intense fear of snakes, could this simple phobia be a result of faulty learning? Analyse how this phobia could have developed.
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11. Anxiety has been called the “butterflies in the stomach feeling”. At what stage does anxiety become a disorder? Discuss its types.
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