Exam 5: Anxiety Disorders

Selective mutism is a disorder of childhood usually misdiagnosed as an anxiety disorder.

A purely cognitive approach as a form of treatment for a specific phobia is viewed negatively because:

Stein and his colleagues analyzed data from the Ontario Mental Health Supplement and have reported that ________ is associated with an increased likelihood of dropping out of school.

The currently used biological treatments for social anxiety disorder are:

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:

As opposed to high anxiety sensitivity women, high anxiety sensitivity men have been found to be more likely to selectively process threat cues involving:

"This patient has a phobia of elevators because he had a frightening experience in an elevator when he was a young child." This statement would most likely be made by a clinician from which paradigm?

Canadian researcher Jacques Bradwejn and his colleagues have implicated hypersensitivity to the brain peptide cholecystokinin (CCK)in the neurobiology of which of the following anxiety disorders?

Several studies have shown that virtual reality (VR)exposure is just as effective as ___________ for treating phobias.

Panic attacks occur

Koerner and Dugas (2006)developed a two-factor model of GAD. What are these factors?

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.

What is the most common element of treatment for anxiety disorders and why is it considered so important for successful treatment?

One symptom of agoraphobia is fear of loss of bladder control.

People with which disorder are least likely to seek treatment?

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

Implicit and explicit memory tests conducted by University of Toronto researcher McCabe (1999)on high and low anxiety sensitivity scorers have shown:

The first onset of social anxiety disorder is usually during:

Fewer than 20% of university students with anxiety disorders seek treatment.

Symone doesn't go anywhere without her iPhone - she has it with her 24/7 and even bought a waterproof case so she could have it with her when she bathes. She is constantly worried that she will miss out on something if she does not have her phone with her. She is most likely experiencing: