AP Psych: Module 73 Vocab
To help an adult client overcome fears of venturing out of his own home, Dr. Ricci plans to use behavior therapy in combination with drug therapy. Which of the following drugs would Dr. Ricci be most likely to prescribe?
Ativan
Which drug enhances the benefits of exposure therapy and helps relieve the symptoms of PTSD and OCD?
D-cycloserine
Edith, a 45-year-old journalist, alternates between extreme sadness and lethargy and extreme euphoria and over-activity. The drug most likely to prove beneficial to her is
Lithium
Alex feels so hopeless and depressed that he has recently thought about taking his own life. The drug most likely to prove beneficial to him is
Prozac
Which drug has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia?
Thorazine
The double-blind procedure involves
a procedure in which neither patients nor health care staff know whether a given patient is receiving a drug or a placebo.
One good alternative to antidepressant drugs is
aerobic exercise
Xanax and Ativan are ________ drugs.
antianxiety
Which drugs are designed to depress central nervous system activity?
antianxiety drugs
Melissa suffers from auditory hallucinations and falsely believes that her former high school teachers are trying to kill her. Melissa's symptoms are most likely to be relieved by ________ drugs.
antipsychotic
Sluggishness, tremors, and twitches similar to those of Parkinson's disease are most likely to be associated with the excessive use of certain ________ drugs.
antipsychotic
Antidepressant drugs are increasingly being prescribed for the treatment of
anxiety disorders
Treating the mind and body as independent entities seems especially inappropriate to those who take a ________ approach to therapy.
biopsychosocial
Lithium has been found to be especially effective in the treatment of
bipolar disorder
Which drug dampens responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli in schizophrenia patients with positive symptoms?
chlorpromazine
Chlorpromazine is an antipsychotic drug that reduces paranoia and hallucinations by
dampening responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli
Electroconvulsive therapy has proven to be effective in the treatment of
depression
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are frequently prescribed for the treatment of
depression
Tardive dyskinesia is often associated with long-term use of drugs that occupy certain ________ receptor sites.
dopamine
Newer atypical antipsychotics, such as Clozaril, target both
dopamine and serotonin receptors
Dr. Genscher believes that most psychological disorders result from chemical abnormalities. In her work as a therapist, Dr. Dahlman is most likely to make use of
drug therapies
Psychopharmacology involves the study of how
drugs affect mind and behavior
Some antidepressants block the reuptake or breakdown of both serotonin and another neurotransmitter, norepinephrine. These antidepressants are called
dual-action drugs
Which of the following treatments is most likely to be used only with severely depressed patients?
electroconvulsive therapy
Deep-brain stimulation involves the implantation of ________ into the cortex.
electrodes
SSRIs are prescribed to
elevate arousal and mood
Compared with ECT, rTMS is ________ likely to produce seizures and ________ likely to produce memory loss.
less and less
Cognitive therapy works, top-down, by changing thought processes. Antidepressant drugs work, bottom-up, on the emotion-forming
limbic system
Which of the following procedures has typically resulted in patients becoming permanently lethargic?
lobotomy
Which psychosurgical procedure was designed to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients?
lobotomy
One possible explanation for the delayed effect of antidepressant drugs is that the increased availability of serotonin seems to promote
neurogenesis
D-cycloserine helps relieve the symptoms of
obsessive-compulsive disorder
MRI-guided precision surgery is occasionally done to cut the brain circuits involved in severe cases of
obsessive-compulsive disorder
Inflated estimates of the value of antidepressant drugs are in large part due to the fact that patient recovery often results from
placebo effect
The least used biomedical intervention for changing behavior is
psychosurgery
A possible explanation for the effectiveness of ________ is that it may reduce depression by triggering the long-term potentiation of frontal lobe nerve cells.
rTMS
Which of the following biomedical treatments provides some of the benefits of ECT without triggering seizures or memory loss?
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
Antipsychotic drugs have proved helpful in the treatment of
schizophrenia
Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are called SSRIs because they
slow the normal reabsorption of excess serotonin from synapses
Long-term use of certain antipsychotic drugs can produce involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. This menacing condition is known as
tardive dyskinesia
Aerobic exercise, adequate sleep, light exposure, and social engagement are important components of
therapeutic life-style change
After discontinuing heavy use of an antianxiety drug, Angela experienced increased anxiety and difficulty sleeping. Angela was experiencing symptoms of
withdrawal