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“Dissociative amnesia (loss of memory) is about the sudden loss of important information (knowledge) due to stressful and traumatic incidents although the capacity to learn new information is not deteriorated.

Self-actualization is on the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.Maslow suggests that one cannot achieve self-actualization before meeting certain needs, which are organized in a hierarchical pyramid system: the hierarchy of needs. The correct answer is C.

Health is not a physiological need but a need of safety. The correct answer is D.

The majority group is evaluated as “normal” and the ones on the extreme points are considered “abnormal”. The correct answer is E.

Id wants immediate gratification of its desires. The correct answer is A.

Sudden whole memory loss is called dissociative fugue. The patient sets off for an unplanned sudden travel to a far place because of a refusal, loss, failure, marriage problems or financial problems. He/she does not remember an important portion of his/her previous identity and often adopts a new one. This travel is often an idle one, and the individual suffers from serious memory loss. More interestingly, he/she is not aware of this situation. He/she looks quite normal –not weird-with the new identity. Sometimes, the individual may experience confusion and control problems.

There are four different concepts regarding human cognition and these are:

• Cognitive structures: how an individual organizes information; for example, do they see a spider as just another daily object that they need to live with or do they see that spider as an object of fear?

• Cognitive content: whether a person thinks negatively or positively about certain situations

• Cognitive processes: how individuals then process this information and operate on it and whether they do so in a rational or irrational way

• Cognitive products: this refers to the conclusion that the individual will draw from the processed information

The correct answer is C.

Hebephrenia schizophrenia: The most characteristic symptoms of hebephrenic schizophrenia are as follows: childish talk, giggling, disconnected talk, gestures and mimics, self-talking, crying jags following reasonless laughters, too much interest in feces and urine, smearing feces on clothes or walls, showing sexual organs with no feeling of shame, tantrums and bad temper.

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According to Humanist-Existentialist approach, individuals are born with a tendency to behave ideally in terms of psychological development, growth and healthy balance. This tendency is called self-realization. In this approach, the individual consistently expresses his wishes and needs according to his own psychological development needs. The correct answer is B.

Anxiety disorder subcategory includes problems in which anxiety impedes daily functioning generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic disorder. The correct answer is D.

Homosexuality, which was once listed as one of the psychosexual disorders, was removed from the list by American Psychatry Association (APA) in 1973. It is not considered as a mental disorder or illnesses anymore.

People with this disorder live in fear of having a panic attack. You may be having a  panic attack when you feel sudden, overwhelming terror that has no obvious cause. You may experience physical symptoms, such as a racing heart, breathing difficulties and sweating. Panic disorder is characterized by persistent fear of having another panic attack after you have experienced at least one month (or more) of persistent concern or worry about additional panic attacks (or their consequences) recurring. The correct answer is B.

Nyctohylophobia is the fear of darkness. The correct answer is C.

Hypocondriasis Hypochandriasis refers to the situation when an individual is too much interested in his/her body functions and develops irrational beliefs about disorders or illnesses affecting the functions of his/her internal organs. The correct answer is A.

“Dissociative amnesia (loss of memory) is about the sudden loss of important information (knowledge) due to stressful and traumatic incidents although the capacity to learn new information is not deteriorated. Such a memory loss cannot be considered a simple forgetfulness problem." The correct answer is D.

Paranoid Schizophrenia: Feeling superior and bullying are the characteristics of paranoid schizophrenia. They always suspect that others bully them and talk behind them or deceive them. The correct answer is B.

The answer is D.

The answer is B.

Stereotype behavior patterns of all the species are called instinct. The migrations of storks and spiders’ spinning their webs are unique behaviors to a species.