Describe a person with a major depressive disorder
What will be an ideal response?
A person with a major depressive disorder has at least one major depressive episode that lasts 2 weeks or more "during which there is either depressed mood or the loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities" (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Almost everybody experiences occasional episodes of mild depression or the blues. However, a person with a major depressive episode experiences depressed moods that stretch throughout the day almost every day for at least 2 weeks. Besides depressed mood or loss of interest in pleasurable activities, symptoms of this form of clinical depression include most, but not necessarily all, of the following: almost daily insomnia or hypersomnia (sleeping too much), significant weight loss (not due to dieting) or gain, excessive daily fatigue, feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt, poor concentration, or recurrent suicidal thoughts. As you can see, this is significantly more severe than the blues.
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Which of the following is a symptom of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder?
A. Marked difficulty in obtaining an erection during sexual activity B. Marked difficulty in maintaining an erection until the completion of sexual activity C. Persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual/erotic thoughts or fantasies and desire for sexual activity for at least six months D. Marked fear or anxiety about vulvovaginal or pelvic pain in anticipation of, during, or as a result of vaginal penetration.
Disorders that affect a person’s ability to read, write, speak, or understand language are known as ____
a. ?anomias b. ?aprosodia c. ?aphasias d. ?apraxia
Which type of therapy uses the empty chair technique, which involves role-playing an imaginary exchange between the client and another person?
A) group therapy B) person-centred therapy C) gestalt therapy D) behaviour therapy
By looking over the chapter outline, the summary, the Key Questions, and Core Concepts, you form the impression of the overall meaning of the material. The details are later associated with this overall impression. This is known as
a. distributed learning. b. the whole method. c. the method of loci. d. overlearning. e. repression.