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

Several learning theories explain the development and maintenance of phobias. How would different learning theories explain the development and maintenance of a university student in Canada's fear of dogs?

Genetic studies in Canada by Rothe and colleagues (2006) have shown that:

Regarding anxiety disorders among Canadian university students, Norton et al. (2008) found that university students who meet the DSM-IV criteria for a panic attack had experienced _____ panic attacks on average over the previous year.

In 1994, an Ontario provincial survey found that ____ of women and ____ of men suffered from anxiety disorders in the previous year.

EMDR is a controversial treatment of PTSD. Research suggests that:

In studying the hypothesis that individuals with OCD have memory deficits, Cuttler and Graf (2009) identified retrospective memory as:

In her recent study of high- versus low-anxiety sensitive participants, McCabe found that high-anxiety sensitive participants were more likely to recall words that were:

Sally and her brother Sam were both administered the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), and both had high scores. In terms of their processing of cues, the results could be interpreted to mean that:

What percentage of Canadian veterans who had participated in the Vietnam War experienced PTSD symptoms?

Erica is constantly pre-occupied by worry; worry is the ________________ component of anxiety.

In regard to panic, the locus ceruleus

"This patient has a phobia of elevators rather than animals because he is really afraid of achievement (rising up in the world)." This statement would most likely be made by a clinician from which paradigm?

What diagnosis is most appropriate for Nicole? She is constantly concerned with symmetry, often spending hours arranging items in her room so that the room appears even on the left and right. She also feels that when she eats, the items on the plate must be arranged symmetrically. All of this effort interferes with her work.

In traditional psychoanalysis, direct attempts to have a phobic person confront the feared situation

The study of CCK injection in healthy participants (Eser et al., 2009) demonstrated that:

In their study of adults with a history of childhood abuse, York University researcher Robert Muller and associates found that __________ was a risk factor for PTSD.

Fears can be broken down into two factors - specific fears and social fears.

Antidepressants can help treat PTSD by treating comorbid disorders as well.

Regarding anxiety disorders among Canadian university students, Norton et al. (2008) found that 1 in 25 students met the DSM-IV criteria for _____.

Rachman and his colleagues have identified the importance of thought-action fusion in OCD, which refers to: