Exam 5: Anxiety Disorders

In regard to treatment of specific phobias,which of the following statements is correct?

Batman is walking down a dark alley in Gotham City.Suddenly,a dark figure jumps out from behind a trash bin and points a gun at him.Batman turns and runs,faster than a speeding bullet.This is an example of

Agoraphobia,which has come to mean "fear of going out," derives from the Greek word agora,meaning ____________.

Rob presented at the clinic with complaints that he is terrified to go anywhere that does not have a bathroom for fear that he will begin vomiting and not be able to stop.He has had one panic attack and reported that a week after that attack,he felt no residual effects from it.Rob would most likely receive a DSM-IV diagnosis of

Which of the following is NOT a basic type of panic attack?

How do individuals with blood-injury-injection phobia differ from those with other phobias?

Research suggests that anxiety and depression frequently

Which of the following neurotransmitter systems is associated not only with anxiety but also with depression?

The behavioral process in which OCD patients are not permitted to carry out their compulsions while in the presence of the anxiety producing stimulus or situation is called

Anxiety is thought to be a____________ state,while fear is more_______.

Panic control treatment

Richard,the patient with OCD described in the textbook,was compelled to take very small steps as he walked and to look back repeatedly.As with other types of checking compulsions,Richard was trying to

In regard to OCD,when the term "magical" is used to refer to compulsive acts,it means

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is often accompanied by all of the following EXCEPT _______.

Define generalized anxiety disorder,and discuss how it differs from panic attacks.

Tony has thoughts about hating his younger brother and wishing he would die.He becomes very anxious about these thoughts because he has developed the idea that if anything really happened to his brother,it would be his fault.For no explainable reason,Tony starts mentally counting by odd numbers each time he walks past his brother's room and discovers that this activity makes him less anxious.Tony's behavior can be described as

According to your textbook,new techniques have made it possible to treat some phobias effectively in one _____.

A young child has thoughts about hating her younger brother and wishing he would die.She becomes very anxious about these thoughts because she has developed the idea that if anything really happened to him,it would be her fault.This pattern of thinking is called _____________.

Panic attack studies suggest that men

One difference between panic disorders and PTSD is