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University of California, San Diego PSYC 124 Chapter 6 1)Chronic anxiety can also accompanied by: A

Psychology

University of California, San Diego

PSYC 124

Chapter 6

1)Chronic anxiety can also accompanied by:

A.            Dizziness

B.            Sexual problems

C.            Diarrhea

D.            All of the above

2.            When anxiety disorders are comorbid with each other, they:

3.            Specific phobias are defined as:

4.            Psychodynamic theory as developed by Freud saw phobias as:

5.            Taijin-kyofusho is a common Japanese syndrome characterized by a fear of embarrassing or offending:

6.            According to conditioning theory incubation is a phenomenon that should lead to:

7.            One major criticism leveled at evolutionary theories of phobia acquisition is that:

8.            Recent evidence suggests that at least some phobias are closely associated with the emotion of:

9.            Spontaneous panic attacks are found significantly more often in people with      than in other types of phobias

10.          Specific behavioural treatments can be combined with  to produce integrated short-term therapies that involve cognitive restructuring, intensive exposure, and modeling, and these can be effective in as little as one 3-hour session

11.          Sufferers of social anxiety disorder tend to:

A.            Overcompensate in social situations

B.            Overperform in education and the workplace

C.            Have longer romantic relationships

D.            None of the above

12.          Cross-cultural studies have shown that prevalence rates for social anxiety disorder are significantly lower in South- East Asian countries (e.g. Korea and Taiwan), than in Western societies (Furmark, 2002), but this may be due at least in part to:

13.          Family studies have indicated that offspring with social anxiety disorder are also more likely to have        with social anxiety disorder

14.          The most successful CBT treatments for social anxiety disorder include:

15.          The experience of a panic attack may include a feeling of not being connected to your own body or in real contact with what is happening around you. This is known as:

16.          The aetiology of agoraphobia has rarely received the kind of attention that has been given to panic disorder. This is because:

 

17.          Panic attacks can be medically induced by administering carbon dioxide enriched air (CO2) or by encouraging hyperventilation. These are known as:

18.          An account of panic disorder that alludes to biological differences between those that suffer panic disorder and those that do not is that the disorder may be caused by overactivity in the:

19.          Examples of safety behaviors include:

A.            Holding on to physical objects

B.            Sitting down

C.            Looking for an escape route

D.            All of the above

20.          Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a pervasive condition in which the sufferer experiences:

21.          Neuropsychological perspectives on GAD have implicated which brain regions in the activity of worrying?

22.          Functional theories of GAD suggest that:

A.            Worrying is a necessary process that must be undertaken in order to avoid future

B.            Worrying occurs as a means of trying to anticipate problems

C.            Worry is an internal narrative process that prevents the person from processing oth

D.            All of the above

23.          In OCD, obsessions are:

24.          Trichotillomania is otherwise known as:

25.          It is a common clinical experience that many individuals with OCD believe that their unpleasant, unacceptable thoughts can influence events in the world. This is known as:

26.          The mood-as-input hypothesis of OCD suggests that perseveration of a compulsive activity is maintained by the accompaniment of which mood state?

27.          The most common, and arguably the most successful, treatment for OCD is:

28.          DSM-5 also emphasizes that PTSD symptoms can be acquired in cases where the stressor has involved simply viewing stressful images of life-threatening traumas. This has generated controversy because:

A.            It makes the symptoms of PTSD easier to fake

B.            It confuses PTSD with experiencing stress

C.            In confuses PTSD with experiencing grief

D.            All of the above

29.          Which of the following is a short-term psychological and physical reaction to severe trauma?

30.          Mania involves:

A.            Boundless, frenzied energy

B.            Feelings of euphoria

C.            Ideas coming too fast and too many

D.            All of the above

31.          Which of the following are common aspects of comorbidity in anxiety disorders?

A.            Physiological symptoms of panic are found not only in panic disorder, but also in the reactions to phobic stimuli in specific phobias

 

B.            Cognitive biases – such as information processing biases that tend anxious people to selectively attending to threatening stimuli – are common to almost all anxiety disorders

C.            Certain specific early experiences can be found in the aetiology of a number of different anxiety disorders (e.g. physical or sexual abuse during childhood), and experiences such as these may increase an individual’s risk of developing several anxiety-based problems

D.            All of the above

32.          In phobia, individuals acquire a strong set of phobic beliefs which:

A.            Information about why they think the phobia is threatening

B.            How to react when they are in the phobic situation

C.            Appear to control their fear

D.            All of the above

33.          In the famous “Little Albert” study by Watson & Rayner, they attempted to condition in him, a fear of his pet white rat. This was done by:

34.          Which of the following is predominant evolutionary theory of phobias?

35.          The disease-avoidance model of animal phobias (Matchett & Davey, 1991) is supported by which of the following?

36.          One important issue in therapy for specific phobias is to address:

37.          It is considered that successful CBT treatments of social phobia include elements of the following:

A.            Exposure therapy

B.            Social skills training

C.            Cognitive restructuring

D.            All of the above

38.          Which of the following is a drug treatment for social phobia:

39.          Which of the following physical symptoms are associated with Panic attacks:

A.            Heart palpitations

B.            Perspiring

C.            Hyperventilating

D.            All of the above

40.          A common feature of panic attacks is Hyperventilation and it is due to:

A.            Dysfunctional breathing patterns

B.            Raising blood pH level

C.            Oxygen is then delivered less efficiently to body cells

D.            All of the above

41.          Sensitivity to increases in CO2 have been suggested as a risk factor for panic disorder, and have given rise to what are known as “suffocation alarm theories” of panic disorder where increased CO2 intake may:

 

42.          In panic disorder anxiety sensitivity refers to:

43.          Clark’s theory of Catastrophic Misinterpretation of Bodily Sensations suggests that individuals:

44.          Pathological and chronic worrying is the cardinal diagnostic feature of GAD, but it may also be accompanied by physical symptoms such as:

A.            Fatigue and trembling

B.            Muscle tension

C.            Headache and nausea

D.            All of the above

45.          Individuals suffering with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, have a series of information processing biases which appear to maintain hypervigilance for threat, create further sources for worry, and maintain anxiety. Which of the following are examples of such biases?

A.            Preferential allocation of attention to threatening stimuli occurs pre-attentively

B.            Preferential allocation occurs to both verbal stimuli and to pictures of threatening emotional faces

C.            The bias towards attending to threatening stimuli in anxious individuals is mirrored by the tendency of nonanxious individuals to attentionally avoid threat, (e.g.) to shift attention away from threatening stimuli

D.            All of the above

46.          Stimulus Control Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder involves:

47.          Treatment for GAD involves Cognitive restructuring, this involves:

A.            Challenging and replacement of dysfunctional beliefs about the advantages of worrying

B.            Generate thoughts that are more accurate

C.            Challenge the biases that GAD sufferers hold about how frequently bad events might happen

D.            All of the above

48.          In Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) compulsions are generally thought to be which of the following:

49.          In OCD, one of the most important dysfunctional beliefs has been defined as inflated responsibility. This is:

50.          Mood is considered to have a role in perseverative psychopathologies such as OCD. One such account is the Mood as input hypothesis, which suggests that OCD suffers persevere with their compulsive activities because:

A.            They use an implicit ‘stop rule’ for the compulsive activity which says they must only stop when they are sure they have completed the task fully and properly

B.            They undertake the task in a strong negative mood

C.            Concurrent mood as ‘information’ to assess whether they have met their strict stop rule criteria

D.            All of the above

 

51.          The most common, and perhaps the most successful, treatment for OCD is exposure and ritual prevention. One such treatment is imaginal exposure. For example, for someone with compulsive washing, this involves:

52.          Sometimes as a last resort Neurosurgery has become an intervention in OCD. The most common procedure is:

53.          Which of the following is considered to be a symptom of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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