Psychiatry/Quiz

Psychiatry is a lecture from the school of medicine and the psychology department.

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Quiz
{ True or False, Psychiatry involves the study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Yes or No, The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions is called psychiatry. + Yes - No
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{Name a form of counseling akin to psychiatric. { psychological (i) }
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{Yes or No, There was a significantly higher level of plasma testosterone in the aggressive group as compared with the nonaggressive group. + Yes - No
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{There is two responses to stress, one is the fight or flight response, the other is the tend and befriend response + True - False
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{Yes or No, The primary condition of racism refers to the psychological mechanisms and psychiatric problems which arise from this issue of power and will be found in the dominant group. + Yes - No
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{Psychiatry contains which of the following characteristics of a dominant group? - improved in their performance on verbal tests employed + racism - social disadvantage - spends much time reflecting on nondominant group colleagues - clinical psychologists - migrants
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{Zak, Stanton, and Ahmadi (2007) found that volunteers who received a dose of oxytocin were ______. - The same as the control group - Less generous than the control group + More generous than the control group - Very affectionate towards the researchers
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{A low level of oxytocin seems to be related to social impairment in a number of psychiatric disorders + True - False
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{Oxytocin has what effect on stress? - It makes the organism sleepy - It increases stress and activates the fight or flight response - It has no effect + It reduces stress by inhibiting the production of stress hormones
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{Oxytocin is similar to but seems to have effects opposite to which other hormone? { Vasopressin|vasopressin }
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{What part of the brain is largely associated with the experience of fear? - The prefrontal cortex + The amygdala - The medulla - The temporal lobe
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{_______ is/are a benefit of fear, ________ is/are a disadvantage of fear - Cardiovascular damage, poor ethical decisions - Improved ethical decisions, future predictions + Improved ethical decisions, cardiovascular damage - cardiovascular damage, future predictions
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{Which of these is an effective fear reduction technique? - Memory manipulation - Cognitive therapies - Emotion regulation + All of the above
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Hypotheses

 * 1) A dominant group is almost never humane.