Edexcel A-Level Psychology Clinical psychology overview quiz quiz

The DSM and the BPS

The ICD and the WHO triad

The DSM and the ICD

The MMPI and the IQ scale

Behaviour that is statistically rare and far from the population average

Breaking the unwritten social rules and expectations of a particular culture

Lacking one or more features of ideal mental health such as self-actualisation

Not coping with the demands of everyday life

Its validity

Its cost

Its speed

Its popularity

Avolition and flat affect

Hallucinations and delusions

Low serotonin and high cortisol

Test-retest and inter-rater reliability

Low serotonin

High testosterone

Excess dopamine activity

Damage to the phonological loop

SSRIs that raise serotonin completely remove the hallucinations seen in patients

Cognitive behavioural therapy on its own reliably cures schizophrenia in most cases

Identical twins always share the disorder, proving dopamine is the only cause

Dopamine-blocking antipsychotics reduce symptoms

The negative triad

The agentic state

The phonological loop

The diathesis-stress model

By blocking dopamine receptors in the brain to dampen overactive pathways

By increasing serotonin at the synapse

By enhancing the inhibitory action of GABA across the whole nervous system

By raising testosterone levels to improve the patient's overall mood

Caused only by irrational thinking patterns that can be challenged through talking therapy

Learned entirely from the environment through conditioning and observation of others

Illnesses with biological causes treated medically

Best left untreated and ignored until the symptoms eventually pass on their own

The multi-store model

The working memory model

The theory of planned behaviour

The diathesis-stress model

Treat symptoms rather than causes

Are always completely ineffective and never bring any relief at all to patients

Cannot be measured or compared in properly controlled randomised clinical trials

Have no side effects whatsoever, which makes them difficult to take seriously