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Question #1

Research on the cognitive explanation for the development of generalized anxiety shows that people with generalized anxiety symptoms:

A fail to pay attention to threatening cues.

B are more likely to have fast and strong physical reactions to stress.

C show little physiological arousal to stress.

D respond more fearfully to predictable than to unpredictable events.

Question #2

Pairing the thought of feared objects and relaxation training is an aspect of:

A systematic desensitization.

B implosive therapy.

C experimental extinction.

D self-instruction training.

Question #3

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:

A “Exposure therapies and antidepressant drugs.”

B “Antidepressant drugs and biofeedback.”

C “Client-centered therapies and exposure therapies.”

D “Biofeedback and relaxation training.”

Question #4

Which would a combat veteran receiving the best treatment for a stress disorder NOT be likely to experience?

A exposure therapy

B antipsychotic medication

C rap groups

D family therapy

Question #5

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:

A social anxiety disorder.

B agoraphobia.

C panic disorder.

D specific phobia.

Question #6

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

A client-centered therapy.

B cognitive-existential therapy.

C rational-emotive therapy.

D interpersonal-physiotherapy.

Question #7

A person diagnosed with a dissociative disorder has recovered almost completely, even though the person had not received any therapy. That person was LEAST likely to have been diagnosed with:

A malingering.

B dissociative identity disorder.

C dissociative fugue.

D dissociative amnesia.

Question #8

Which statement is true about drug and cognitive treatments for panic disorder?

A Cognitive treatments have proven to be at least as effective as medication, if not more so.

B Neither drug treatments nor cognitive treatments show much promise.

C Drug treatments are significantly more effective, especially early in the disorder.

D The effectiveness of cognitive treatments is reduced over time.

Question #9

Which treatment is a nonchemical biological treatment for anxiety that is in general use today?

A behavior modification

B psychoanalysis

C relaxation training

D rational-emotive therapy

Question #10

Salina was terrified during the San Francisco earthquake of 1989—who wouldn’t be? For a couple of weeks after, she did not sleep well or feel comfortable inside a building. However, the fears gradually diminished, disappearing within a month. Her reaction to the earthquake would MOST likely be diagnosed as a(n):

A acute stress disorder.

B posttraumatic stress disorder.

C panic attack.

D phobic reaction.

Question #11

How do results from evoked potential studies support the idea of the existence of multiple personalities?

A Nonpatients are able to fake results just like those diagnosed with multiple personalities.

B Evoked potentials can be elicited iatrogenically by therapists.

C Different subpersonalities have been found to show different brain wave patterns.

D Only those with traumatic backgrounds produce evoked potentials.

Question #12

Feeling that your hands and feet are smaller or bigger than usual or that you are in a dreamlike state is called:

A doubling.

B distrusting.

C doubting.

D dumbing down.

Question #13

Agoraphobia is the fear of:

A spiders.

B flying.

C speaking.

D going to public places.

Question #14

Dissociative disorders:

A usually have a precise physical cause.

B are a type of anxiety disorder.

C involve major changes in memory.

D must involve the presence of multiple personalities

Question #15

GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter believed to be involved in reducing the excitability of neurons in the brain, has been implicated in the etiology of:

A schizophrenia.

B conversion disorder.

C panic disorder.

D generalized anxiety disorder.

Question #16

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

A humanistic-existential

B psychodynamic

C sociocultural

D cognitive

Question #17

A person with dissociative identity disorder has just experienced “switching.” What MOST likely has happened?

A The person has faked a change in personality.

B The host personality has put in a relatively rare appearance.

C Two subpersonalities rapidly changed back and forth several times.

D The person has changed from one personality to another.

Question #18

An individual has been diagnosed with a dissociative disorder. However, the individual has very good recall of previous life events and has a strong sense of self. The MOST likely diagnosis for this individual is:

A multiple identity disorder.

B depersonalization disorder.

C dissociative fugue.

D dissociative amnesia.

Question #19

Devon is being treated for 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:

A self-instruction training.

B relaxation training.

C biofeedback training.

D EMG training.

Question #20

Psychodynamic theorists believe that dissociative amnesias and fugues result from:

A repression.

B regression.

C projection.

D sublimation.

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