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

According to your text, which physiological measure consistently distinguishes individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) from non-anxious normal subjects?

Phobias characterized by fear of public transportation or enclosed places are called?

DSM criteria of panic attacks include all of the following symptoms EXCEPT

Benjamin and Geraldine are considering adopting a child from an unstable, war torn, and undeveloped country. The country recently experienced a catastrophic natural disaster that left many children orphaned. They are seeking feedback from you on your knowledge of attachment disorders. Based upon your reading of the text, provide Benjamin and Geraldine a written summary of attachment disorders.

Regarding pharmacological treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder, the most effective drugs are those that inhibit the reuptake of the neurotransmitter called

The compulsions that an individual with OCD uses to suppress disastrous consequences or ward off intrusive thoughts can be either

The posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence rates of U.S. veterans returning home from the war in Vietnam was directly related to their

_____________ is characterized as the label implies by repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin, leading to tissue damage.

Name the professor whose cognitive theories explicate in detail, the cognitive processes that may be ongoing in panic disorder.

According to your textbook, there are at least three ways of developing a phobia. Which is NOT one of these ways?

Following the 9/11/2001 attacks, among the sample of respondents who lived closest to the World Trade Center, the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was _________ percent.

The most prevalent psychological disorder in the general population is

When the term "magical" is used to refer to OCD-related compulsive acts, it means

The typical age of onset for both animal and natural environment phobias peaks at around ___ years.

For generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), the typical pharmacological treatment of choice has been the category of drugs known as

. _______ is when a change in the stages of sleep to slow wave sleep produces a physical sensation of "letting go" that frightens an individual.

A vulnerability to stress, which is a tendency to be generally ___________overactive to the events of daily life.

The main difference between situational phobia and panic disorder (PD) is that

Activating a massive response from the automatic nervous system which along with our subjective sense of terror, motivates us to escape or attack is known as ______.