Exam 5: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Trauma -Related Disorders

To qualify for a diagnosis of PTSD the individual must display symptoms for longer than _______ following a traumatic event.

Anxiety and anxiety-related related disorders are the third most common mental disorder, second only to mood disorders and eating disorders.

The rationale underlying systematic desensitization is that

According to DSM-5, which of the following is not included as a core symptom of a panic attack?

Anxiety is distinguished from fear and panic because of the emphasis on __________.

Researchers contend that body dysmorphic disorder is actually a subtype of eating disorder.

If the equipotentiality premise concerning specific phobias is true, then it must also be true that

Support for the two-factor theory of fear was found in the case of __________, who developed a fear of ________.

Which of the following is true regarding the memory of individuals with OCD who experience persistent doubting:

Both cognitive restructuring and exposure appear to be useful in the treatment of __________ disorder.

__________ was the first psychological treatment to be thoroughly validated for anxiety and anxiety-related disorders.

The term __________ refers to the fact that people prone to panic attacks tend to catastrophically misinterpret arousal-related bodily sensations.

Briefly define obsessions and compulsions as they relate to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Provide two examples of each.

Clark's model of panic postulates that panic attacks arise from

Panic could be described as a "false alarm."

Behavioural or mental acts of neutralization appear to be

The behavioural avoidance test (BAT) is used to measure and assess

The non-associative model of phobias claims that

Which of the following is NOT one of the four clusters of symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress disorder?

__________ has a prevalence rate comparable to unipolar depression.