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

Which physiological measure consistently distinguishes individuals with generalized anxiety disorder from nonanxious normal subjects?

Kyla experiences an inability to speak while at school but communicates effectively at home and when with her friends.What disorder would Kyla likely be diagnosed with?

What is the risk of someone with panic disorder attempting suicide?

Which term refers to panic-based cues that become associated with several different internal and external stimuli through a learning process?

What percentage of those with panic disorder have experienced nocturnal panic?

According to research on anxiety, who will most likely perform best in his or her scenario?

Which of the following psychological disorders is anxiety most closely related to?

Describe the triple vulnerability model of generalized anxiety disorder and provide an example of each component.

In a major double-blind NIMH research study looking at the separate and combined effects of both psychological and drug treatments (Barlow et al., 2000), patients were randomized into five different treatment conditions.Which of the following was one of these treatment conditions?

According to British neuropsychologist Jeffrey Gray, what part of the brain regulates the fight/flight system?

Define generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).Compare and contrast GAD with phobic disorders, noting how avoidance behaviour is manifested differently in each.

According to Craske & Barlow (1988), all the evidence points to what conclusion about agoraphobic avoidance behaviour?