Exam 8: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Distinguish among the four groupings or clusters found when the thoughts of those with obsessive-compulsive disorder are examined. Identify the disorder(s) MOST often comorbid with each OCD grouping.

Benzodiazepines ______ the activity of the neurotransmitter ______.

Panic disorder and specific phobia are two examples of specific ______ disorders.

Based on the textbook's discussion, it is safe to say that an anxiety disorder diagnosed during adolescence will ______ continue into adulthood.

According to Jaak Panksepp (2004), fear canNOT be evoked using ______.

Agoraphobia is BEST described as a fear of ______.

According to Sylvester et al. (2012), people with anxiety disorders

Approximately ______ of adults will experience an anxiety disorder during a given year.

Exposure and response prevention for the treatment of OCD involves

Specific experiences play a smaller role in the development of social anxiety disorder than in the etiology of the other anxiety disorders.

Imagine that you are a psychiatrist or a psychologist with prescription privileges. You are treating a client with generalized anxiety disorder. Identify the three classes of medications you might prescribe, and briefly note their general mechanism of action in the brain. For each class, write one or two sentences reflecting how you might describe its advantages and disadvantages to the client.

The textbook suggests that ______ are the medications MOST often prescribed for the treatment of panic disorder.

Lenore is continually worried and plagued by muscle tension, sleeplessness, and an inability to concentrate. Lenore MOST likely suffers from ______ disorder.

Believing a person you just met probably hates you is an example of a type of distorted sensitivity called a(n) ______.

Medication and therapy are equally effective in resolving the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

The prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder is similar the world around.

A rat that has been properly nurtured by its mother as a pup will show ______ levels of GABA in the brain's ______.

Specific phobia is BEST defined as fear of ______.

One example of a cognitive bias is

The MOST common anxiety disorder among children is ______.