USMLE Step 1 Psychological Disorders — practice questions

1. Psychopathology is the study of psychological disorders, taking in their symptoms, their etiology and their treatment. 2. Etiology means the cause or causes of a disorder, so causation sits inside the definition rather than beside it. 3. Traits that fall within the normal range and rules of public conduct belong to other fields of psychology. 4. Physical illnesses that damage the brain are diseases of the body, so they are not what this term names. _Source: OpenStax Psychology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 15 "Psychological Disorders", section 15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?_

1. Szasz held that genuine illness is defined by detectable abnormalities in bodily structure or function. 2. Because the conditions in question showed no such abnormality, he refused to call them disorders at all. 3. He recast them as problems in living, a phrase that still echoes when people speak of mental health problems. 4. Inherited brain defects run opposite to his argument, and he framed nothing in terms of moral failure or grief. _Source: OpenStax Psychology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 15 "Psychological Disorders", section 15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?_

1. The manual has been revised repeatedly since its first edition and each revision carries its own number. 2. The edition published in 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association is the DSM-5. 3. DSM-III arrived in 1980 and DSM-IV preceded the current edition, so neither matches the year given. 4. DSM-II belongs to the earlier era in which the manual was far shorter and far less detailed. _Source: OpenStax Psychology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 15 "Psychological Disorders", section 15.2 Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders_