Exam 8: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

As one example, anxiety might serve a useful purpose in keeping us

Social phobia has been shown to be highly heritable, with heritability in the 75% to 80% range.

According to your text, the anxiety disorder that emerges earliest in a child's development is ______ disorder.

Physiologically, the fainting that is sometimes seen in cases of blood-injection-injury phobias MOST immediately reflects a rapid ______.

In order to qualify for a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder, both obsessions and compulsions must be present.

A 20-year-old man comes to see you for therapy. During your initial clinical interview, the man describes feeling very anxious when around people he doesn't know and preoccupied with thoughts that he might do something embarrassing or humiliating around others. He recently dropped a course required for his college major because it required several oral presentations in front of the class. This man MOST likely has ______.

Shane cannot stop thinking that he might hurt the people he loves. This is an example of a(n) ______ obsession.

Which statement is NOT true regarding the findings of Öhman and Mineka (2001)?

Which class of drugs is currently MOST often used in the treatment of social anxiety disorder?

In Öhman and Mineka's (2001) study, rhesus monkeys that had lived in captivity for 24 years but had been reared in the wild showed

With respect to the comorbidity, generalized anxiety disorder

The amygdala helps us

An individual taking longer to name the color of the letters in the word inferior MOST likely means that the individual

______ therapy is generally considered the MOST effective treatment for specific phobia.

Approximately 1 in ______ adolescents will experience an anxiety disorder during a given year.

According to Öhman and Mineka (2001), ______ would result in a lab-reared rhesus monkey beginning to fear snakes.

Among individuals with social anxiety disorder, the ______ is underactive while the ______ is overactive.

Jack is often worried that he comes in contact with dangerous germs, so much so, in fact, that he always tries to sit near the restroom so that he has easy access to a sink and always carries hand sanitizer around with him. Which choice BEST categorizes Jack's obsession and his compulsion, respectively?

MOST people with social anxiety disorder

As compared with its lifetime prevalence in other nations, the lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders in the United States is ______.