Abnormal Psychology
Chapter 10: Disorders Involving Gender and Sexuality
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1. The term gender identity disorder was replaced in DSM-5 with a new diagnostic term, gender dysphoria, to
emphasize which of the following?
a. The discomfort or distress that transgender people may experience from the mismatch between their gender identity and their designated gender.
b. The loss of cultural interactions privileges associated with their previous sex.
c. The difficulty in choosing the sex of partners to form relationships and become intimate with.
d. The inability for transgender individuals to be able to become comfortable with any aspect of their identity at any point in their lives.
2. Disorders that are characterized by problems with sexual interest, arousal, or response are classified as _______.
a. sexual dysfunctions
b. paraphilias
c. performance disorders
d. response-cycle disorders
3. Sexual dysfunctions that occur in all situations and at all times are labeled ______ dysfunctions.
a. acquired
b. situational
c. lifelong
d. generalized
4. Men with ________persistently have little, if any, desire for sexual activity or may lack sexual or erotic thoughts or fantasies.
a. male hypoactive sexual desire disorder
b. gender dysphoria
c. gender identity disorder
d. erectile disorder
5. Women with ____________have reduced levels of sexual interest or drive as well as absent or reduced sexual arousal during sexual activity.
a. female sexual interest/arousal disorder
b. erectile disorder
c. female orgasmic disorder
d. transgender disorder
6. Paraphilias are ______ diagnosed in women.
a. almost never
b. about a third of the time
c. about two-thirds of the time
d. almost exclusively
7. For a paraphilic disorder to be diagnosed per the DSM-5, the presence of paraphilia must also include personal distress or impairment in important areas of daily functioning or __________.
a. involve behaviors presently or in the past in which satisfaction of the sexual urge involved harm, or risk of harm, to other people.
b. cause legal problems for the individual.
c. result in loss of sexual interest and activity for the rest of the life.
d. involve the joining of a community of like-minded people.
8. A relatively harmless paraphilia is ______.
a. transvestic fetishism
b. exhibitionism
c. pedophilia
d. sexual sadism
9. A most harmful paraphilia is ______.
a. fetishism
b. sexual sadism
c. transvestic fetishism
d. voyeurism
10. Harold has recurrent, powerful sexual urges and related fantasies involving sexual activity with prepubescent children. He is aroused by looking at and fondling children, telling them all the while that he is "educating" them. His disorder is ______.
a. partialism
b. pedophilia
c. necrophilia
d. frotteurism
11. A person with pedophilia must be an individual of at least 16 years of age and at least ______ years older than the victim.
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
12. Phyllis spends hours every day having online sex with people she meets online. When she has tried to stop her online sex, she suffered withdrawal symptoms. Phyllis probably suffers from a new type of disorder called ______.
a. sexual compulsivity syndrome
b. cybersex addiction
c. trichotillomania
d. cyberporn habituation syndrome