Exam 4: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

By completing rituals, individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder believe they can neutralize the threat of something bad. This behavior is maintained through which of the following behavioral mechanisms?

Most people with panic disorders with or without agoraphobia seek treatment because symptom-free periods are rare.

Exposure to trauma alone automatically leads a person to develop PTSD.

Persons with panic "false alarms" would be more likely to visit a hospital ER after an attack than would someone diagnosed with panic disorder with agoraphobia.

Agoraphobia literally means fear of

Animal studies have demonstrated that when animals are placed in conditions of high stress, they respond with heightened and persistent CRF activity in both the hypothalamus and the amygdala.

Provide evidence to support the concept of a diagnostic grouping termed "obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder."

Freud believed that free-floating anxiety resulted from conflicts between the

Select the statement below that best illustrates the concept of functional impairment.

In the U.S., the average age of onset for an anxiety disorder is

In reviewing the findings of inherited components of anxiety disorders, what appears to be inherited?

"I have to worry about the future. It's always been a good strategy. If I worry, I'm able to avoid problems and negative consequences. It's kind of like trouble-shooting." A statement of this sort would most likely come from someone who has

SSRIs are the most effective drug treatment for anxiety disorders, with the exception of specific phobia.

Provide an example of the cognitive restructuring technique as applied to a phobic disorder of your choice.

Social anxiety disorder has the distinction of being one of the earliest occurring psychological disorders in the developmental life span.

Patients who take benzodiazepines for anxiety disorders for extended periods of time may risk

The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning on the use of SSRIs with regard to children, adolescents, and young adults with depression. This message warned of an increased risk for

Anxiety disorders are one of the most common types of disorders among adults in the U.S.

An expanded definition of the traumatic event that triggers PTSD has been proposed. The use of expanded criteria to define trauma has led epidemiologists to estimate that ____ of adults could meet the standard for experiencing a traumatic event.

A factor to be considered in discriminating normal anxiety from abnormal anxiety is