Exam

Question 0

Explain Zich Rubins’ studies

Answer 0

-study ppl in love for long period of time
-only dating couples
- 40 couples over 20 years
A. Marriage, divorce, death, children, breaking up

Question 1

5 languages of love

Answer 1

1. Words of affirmation
2. Acts of service
3. Receiving or giving gifts
4. Physical touch
5. Quality time

Question 2

5 things couples fight the most about?

Answer 2

Money
Children
Religion
Communication
Chores

Question 3

What is DSM and how is it used?

Answer 3

Diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorder. Used to diagnose mental illness

Question 4

5 axes of DSM and one disorder from each.

Answer 4

1. Dissociative- amnesia
2. Anxiety- OCD
3. Mood- bipolar disorder
4. Somatoform- conversion disorder
5. Schizofrania- paranoid

Question 5

Name the four types of schizophrenia

Answer 5

Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic- immobility
Undifferentiated

Question 6

Difference between obsession and compulsion?

Answer 6

Ob: thought
Com: routine

Question 7

5 types of OCD

Answer 7

Checkers
Washers and cleaners
Orderers
Obsessionals
Hoarders

Question 8

How was mental illness historically treated?

Answer 8

Labotomy
Iron maiden
Spin patients around

Question 9

What are the 4 general types of phobias?

Answer 9

Animal type
Natural environment
Blood-injection -injury
Situational type

Question 10

Now how is mental illness treated?

Answer 10

Humane treatment

DSM

Question 11

Men vs Women: what do they need in a relationship?

Answer 11

M: adequacy
W: intimacy

Question 13

Men vs Women: communication

Answer 13

M: literal
W: figurative

Question 14

Steps in a marridge

Answer 14

Newlywed period- shedding the responsibilities and pressures of your role in your families of origin (happiest time in the marridge)
Children period- starts wuth the new mother experiencing depression in the days immediately following the birth of a child (new responsibilities hard to deal with)
Children’s adolescence- Children are the least manageable and children getting closer to adulthood
Empty nest: When kids leave home and are on their own; more free time
alone again: satisfying period; when death of partner and the increase of illness happen

Question 15

What are the causes of divorce?

Answer 15

• increasing financial independence of working women
• external factors may make it impossible for one or both to live up to their own role expectations
• engrossed in work
• unwilling to fill each others’s needs and role expectations
• infidelity (cheating)
• incompatibility
• Spouse “isnt” the same person I married
• physical/mental abuse

Question 16

Strategies for divorce prevention?

Answer 16

• . Save your words for appreciation of him, not for comments about yourself. Flattery will get you everywhere. Smile at your almost-e. Laugh at the almost-ex’s jokes. Express affection. Share your gratitude for good things your spouse has done.
• Clarify what you need to change
• Look your best
• Clean up all the old hurts