SET SOLUTION QUESTIONS WITH FULL
ANSWERS
◉ A psychosocial theory of aggression is defined by Answer:
Aggressive behaviors are learned responses.
◉ Escalation stage Answer: Frustration and anger increase. Intense
emotions also make aggression escalate. Intervention is crucial at
this stage if violence is to be prevented.
◉ Intermittent Explosive Disorder Answer: episodes during which a
person acts on aggressive impulses that result in serious assaults or
destruction of property
◉ Pyromania Answer: impulse-control disorder that involves having
an irresistible urge to set fires
◉ Battery Answer: unlawful use of force on a person without his or
her consent is
,◉ interpersonal model Answer: child develops anxiety when his
father continually disapproves of his friends and interests. This
situation is consistent with which model related to anxiety
◉ Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD) Answer: A form of anxiety
disorder in which the individual displays age-inappropriate,
excessive, and disabling anxiety about being apart from his or her
parents or away from home.
◉ Autism Answer: a disorder that appears in childhood and is
marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and
understanding of others' states of mind
◉ Personality disorder Answer: condition in which personality
traits, appearing first in adolescence, are inflexible, stable, expressed
in a wide variety of situations, and lead to distress or impairment
◉ Common signs of depression Answer: anhedonia (loss of interest),
unintentional weight loss/gain, fatigue, change in appetite, insomnia
and hypersomnia, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, suicide.
◉ major depression Answer: severe depression that comes on
suddenly and seems to have no external cause
, ◉ persistent depression Answer: never mania and
duration/frequency symptoms of lower severity. 2 years or more
and 2 or more symptoms
◉ post partum depression Answer: depression that occurs after the
birth of a child
◉ symptoms of mania Answer: Active powerful emotions in search
of an outlet
Everything is rapid and impulsive
◉ Purpose of compulsions Answer: - Compulsions are used to
reduce anxiety; otherwise person becomes very uncomfortable
- Compulsions are not usually delusional because person knows they
are nonsensical - paradox of OCD
- Compulsions do not produce pleasure (gambling and drinking are
not compulsions)
- Compulsive rituals are associated with experiencing diminished
control not complete loss of control
◉ SSRIs Answer: take about 3 weeks to work
Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
Headache.
Drowsiness