Exam 6: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders

Because only 40-60% of OCD sufferers do not respond to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), current research (Van Nieuwerburgh et al., 2009) is now concentrating on:

Relaxing the diagnostic criteria for GAD would likely result in:

Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire has disclosed that he suffered from:

The etiology of phobias, according to behavioural theories, involve

The estimated prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among rape victims is:

Research indicates that people high in social anxiety, relative to people low in social anxiety, tend to have:

In 2009, Toronto-born star baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds disclosed that he suffered from:

Abuse can trigger symptoms of PTSD.

Describe the psychoanalytic theory of Adler and the behavioural theory of the etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Explain how these views may be unified using the cognitive perspective.

Researchers studying the psychometric adequacy of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) allege the following criticism:

A rare condition exhibited by some Inuit of the Northwest Territories and Greenland, involving concerns about drowning and disorientation, has come to be known as:

Depersonalization and derealization are common symptoms for which disorder?

Felix feels the urge to turn a light switch on and off 12 times before leaving a room. This would be referred to as

The Swissair disaster off the coast of Eastern Canada led to probable post-traumatic stress disorder in:

Compulsive checking may be caused by memory deficits.

After viewing tapes of monkeys apparently showing fear of snakes, lambs, and flowers, monkeys who viewed these tapes were only fearful of snakes. This provides only partial support for ________ but better support for ________.

An adolescent monkey observes its mother responding fearfully to a snake. Later, the adolescent monkey responds with fear when shown a snake. This is an illustration of the _________ theory of phobia.

According to the psychoanalytic view, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a result of

People with which disorder are least likely to seek treatment?

Ted exhibits intense fear of loud noises. According to psychoanalytic theory, Ted's phobia would be