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