Exam 3: Anxiety, obsessive-Compulsive, and Trauma-And Stressor-Related Disorders

People rarely meet the diagnostic criteria for more than one anxiety disorder at a time.

Which of the following has NOT been traditionally classified as a neurosis?

Tenino has a driving phobia,and his therapy involves a computerized driving simulator.This is __________.

According to Freud,the various forms of neurotic behaviour all result from the ________ trying to defend itself from anxiety.

People with anxiety disorder are more likely to selectively remember threatening information.

People with phobias tend to fear the extraordinary things in life.

For a fear to become a disorder,it must have a significant impact on a person's lifestyle or functioning.

Our genetic predisposition to fear threatening objects such as large animals and heights is due to __________.

Oversensitivity of ________ receptors in the brain has been implicated in anxiety disorders.

In the classical conditioning model of posttraumatic stress disorder,the traumatic event serves as the ________.

Claire shakes a lot,worries a lot about money,and expects that she will loose her job at any time.She tells her therapist that her finances are stable and that her job is secure.Her therapist would likely diagnose her as having ___________ disorder.

From the behavioural perspective,phobias develop through ________.

Behavioural treatment for social anxiety disorder usually involves ________.

Behaviour therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder usually involves a combination of gradual exposure and ________.

The most widely used cognitive technique is ______ cognitive therapy,which seeks to identify dysfunctional or distorted beliefs and replace them with rational or adaptive alternatives.

Freud's assumptions about neuroses formed the basis of ________ edition(s)of the DSM.

Reports of panic attacks are ________ among college students,and the attacks they report are ________ than those reported by people with diagnosable panic disorder.

From the learning perspective,the fear component of posttraumatic stress disorder is learned through ________.

Tony has an excessive,unrealistic fear of snakes.His phobia is ________.

Panic attacks usually reach a peak of intensity in about ________.