Abnormal Psychology ch. 5

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A person experiencing a panic disorder is most likely to also have a...

Fear of leaving home

A person who is restless, keyed up, and on edge for no apparent reason is experiencing

Free-floating Anxiety

One of the drawbacks of exposure and response prevention as a therapy is that it...

Is less effective with clients with obsessions but no compulsions

Behaviorists believe that compulsive behavior...

Is reinforced because engaging in it reduces anxiety

If a person were taking an antidepressant that increases level of serotonin and improves brain function for symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder, that person could expect that...

It would lead to short-term relief, but relapse would occur if the person stopped the medication

Cognitists believe that generalized anxiety disorder is induced by...

Maladaptive assumptions

Benzodiazepines are believed to be effective in treating generalized anxiety disorder because they mimic the effect of ____ at certain receptor sites in the brain

GABA

GABA is related to...

Inhibiting neuronal firing in the brain

A person who believes that it is awful and catastrophic when things are not the way he or she would like them to be is displaying

Irrational Assumptions

An abnormal-psychology instructor asks in class, "what kinds of treatments are commonly used to treat obsessive-compulsive-related disorders?" Confidently (and accurately), a student replies..

"Exposure therapies and antidepressant drugs"

Which behavior pattern is not listed in the DSM-5 as an obsessive-compulsive-related disorder?

Agoraphobia

A person who has body dysmorphic disorder is considering plastic surgery. Based on available research, what is the best advice for this person?

"Be careful. Often, people who have plastic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder actually feel worse afterward"

A person says, "I've been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, and my therapist wants me to use drug therapy, not psychological therapy. I don't know which to chose." Based on current research, the best answer would be...

"Some therapists think psychological therapy should always be used, even with drug therapy; there's less chance of relapse."

The proportion of panic-attack sufferers who are helped at least somewhat by antidepressant drugs is about...

80%

If a person lives in a city, owns a home, and pays taxes, that person is least likely to experience which event next year?

A cancer diagnosis

Sam can't leave for work without going back into his house and making sure that he has taken all of his writing materials. He does this several times before he allows himself to start the car and drive to work. He is frequently late for work because he is so unsure about remembering everything. Sam is displaying...

A checking compulsion

Steve is afraid of eating in public, expecting to be judged negatively and to feel humiliated. As a result, he makes up excuses when asked out to eat. His diagnosis would probably be...

A social phobia

Generalized Anxiety disorder is more common in...

African Americans than in white Americans

According to Freud, obsessive-compulsive disorders have their origin in the ___________ development

Anal

The most common mental disorders in the United States

Anxiety Disorders

People who experience a positive event, get excited, breath harder, and have an increase in their heart rate, then interpret the symptoms as a heart attack, are experiencing what cognitive theorists call...

Anxiety sensitivity

Which theoretical position explains the origin of phobias as due to classical conditioning?

Behavioral

Cognitive theorists have found that people who develop obsessive-compulsive disorder also...

Believe their thoughts are capable of causing harm to themselves or others

Which medications work primarily by enhancing the effectiveness of GABA?

Benzodiapines

What type of drug is alphrzolam (Xanax)?

Benzodiazepine

According to current research, using relaxation training to treat generalized anxiety disorder is...

Better than nothing and about as effective as mediation

Devon is being treated by anxiety. He is connected to an instrument that records muscle tension. His job is to try to reduce muscle tension. This is an example of...

Biofeedback training

In terms of cognitive theories explaining generalized anxiety disorder, a good deal of research supports

Both metacognitive theory and intolerance of uncertainty theory

A neurologist who was working with a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder would be suspicious of abnormality in what region of the brain?

Caudate Nuclei

Teaching people to accept their worries and live in the present moment-- mindfulness therapy-- is most consistent with which theoretical approach?

Cognitive

Which therapy is an effective long-term, non pharmacological treatment for panic attack that involves teaching patients to interpret their physical sensations accurately?

Cognitive

Which group emphasizes the beliefs and expectations that lead someone with a social anxiety disorder to overestimate how bad a social interaction went?

Cognitive Theorists

When someone who is about to leave for work checks the stove 10 times to make sure ti is turned off, that person is exhibiting a(n)...

Compulsion

If a person criticized everything that he did, looking for flaws, and never could measure up to his personal standards, he would be exhibiting what Rogers called...

Conditions of worth

A phobic person is taught to imagine the feared items as part of desensitization training. This is an example of the _____ technique.

Covert

The drug treatment that is most effective in treating panic disorders is like that used to treat...

Depression

People who have a biological vulnerability for anxiety that is brought to the surface by social/psychological factors develop generalized anxiety disorders, according to the...

Diathesis- Stress model

What is true about specific phobias?

Each year about 12 percent of people in the United States suffer from a phobia

An obsessive-compulsive person who was told that everyone was required to wear shoes at all times in the house and not to vacuum for a week would be experiencing what therapy procedures?

Exposure and response prevention

Antidepressants that are effective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder serve to..

Increase serotonin activity in the brain

The cognitive explanation for panic disorders is that people who have them...

Misinterpret bodily sensations

"Experience of observation teach us early in life that certain objects are legitimate sources of fear", The person who believes this espouses the ____ explanation of the development of phobias.

Modeling

A person is being treated for a social anxiety disorder. A therapist watches the person act out a social scene, points out what she did correctly and incorrectly, and praises her for what she did well. Which behavioral technique did the therapist not use?

Modeling

If a person were afraid of dogs and his therapist treated him by interacting with dogs while he watched, he would be receiving...

Modeling

According to Freud, children who are punished or threatened for expressing their id impulses may develop...

Moral Anxiety

People with panic disorder experience body sensations...

More intensely than those with panic disorders

According to Freud, children who are experiencing id impulses-- making mud pies, playing war and exploring their genitals are at risk for developing:

Neurotic Anxiety

According to cognitive theorists, compulsive acts serve to...

Neutralize

Antidepressant drugs are frequently effective in treating panic attacks. The disorder is related to levels if neurotransmitter...

Norepinephrine

How strong is the evidence supporting the usefulness of client-centered therapy for those with generalized anxiety disorder?

Not very strong

In modeling, the client...

Observes the therapist confronting the feared object

A clinician who is not up-to-date uses the term "excessive behaviors" to describe a category of disorder. According to the DSM-5, that category is now called...

Obsessive-compulsive-related disorders

Sally is never sure of the right thing to do. She married Tod and has been wondering for years if that was the right decision. She is exhibiting...

Obssesive Doubts

A person is sweating, experiencing shortnes of breath, choking, feeling dizzy, and is afraid of dying. If it is not a heart attach, but an indicator of anxiety disorder, it is probably a...

Panic Attack

Every once in a while, Ona feels nervous to the point of terror. It seems to come on suddenly and randomly. Her experience is an example of a(n):

Panic disorders

What statement accurately reflects what we know from recent studies?

Phobias ordinarily are a result of classical conditioning

An intense, persistent, and irrational fear that is accompanied by a compelling desire to avoid the object of fear to the point of interfering with the life of the person is called...

Phobic Disorder

Apparently, people develop phobias more readily to such objects as spiders and the dark than they do to such objects as computers and radios. This observation supports the idea of...

Preparedness

Agoraphobia is the fear of...

Public places

What is NOT a biological treatment for generalized anxiety?

Rational Emotive Therapy

If a therapist gave a client homework that required the client to challenge his fault assumptions and replace them with healthier ones, the therapist would be using...

Rational-emotive therapy

The biological understanding of generalized anxiety is supported by the finding that...

Relatives of people with generalized anxiety are more likely to have it than non relatives are

The first step in systematic desensitization treatment is...

Relaxation training

Jan is very fearful of speaking in public and will do everything she can to avoid being evaluated by others, which causes her significant impairment. The most accurate diagnosis would be...

Social Anxiety Disorder

Someone interested in effects of social change, poverty, and race on the risk for generalized anxiety disorders represents the ___________ perspective

Sociocultural

Sal is suffering from arachnophobia. His therapist first has him go through relaxation training and then has him construct a fear hierarchy. Finally, the therapist has him go through a phase of graded pairings of spiders and relaxation responses. This approach is called...

Systematic desensitization

Psychodynamic and humanistic therapies have in common...

Their lack of strong support from controlled studies

People who experience obsessions show...

Thoughts that are intrusive and foreign to them

A professor who puts on rubber gloves before grading papers and religiously avoids any contact with the hands of the students is exhibiting a...

Touching compulsion

What is not a component of social anxiety disorder, according to research by cognitive theorists?

Underestimating how badly a social event went

A phobic person exposed to computer graphics that simulate real-world situations. This is an example of the _____ technique.

Virtual Reality

What is an example of meta-worry?

Worrying about worrying


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