Quiz 4

A  relaxation training

B  antianxiety drugs

C  rational emotive therapy

D  biofeedback

A  the ability to escape threatening events

B  the inability to forget

C  the awareness to know why you forget

D  the awareness that something has been forgotten

A  neurological studies.

B  clinical interviews.

C  family pedigree studies.

D  drug studies.

A  different subpersonalities have shown different brain response patterns.

B  control subjects who were asked to pretend they had different personalities were able to create different brain response patterns for each subpersonality.

C  no differences were found in brain activity between controls and individuals with dissociative identity disorder.

D  people with dissociative identity disorder did not show different brain response patterns for subpersonalities.

A  panic attack.

B  phobia.

C  obsessive-compulsive response.

D  posttraumatic disorder.

A  The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce corticosteroids that cause the adrenal gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone.

B  The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release corticosteroids.

C  The hypothalamus produces corticosteroids, which stimulate the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone.

D  The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes the adrenal gland to release hypothalamic hormone in a feedback loop.

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

B  The person has faked a change in personality.

C  Two subpersonalities rapidly changed back and forth several times.

D  The person has changed from one personality to another.

A  a hormonal imbalance.

B  a specific fear response.

C  no specific problem; she just likes to worry.

D  a generalized anxiety disorder.

A  begins immediately after the stress occurs.

B  lasts between one and three weeks.

C  doesn’t begin until years after the traumatic event.

D  lasts longer than a month.

A  moral anxiety.

B  conditions of worth.

C  empathy.

D  unconditional positive regard.

A  misinterpret bodily sensations.

B  have relatives who are atypically anxious.

C  are prone to allergies and have immune deficiencies.

D  experience more stress than average.

A  how long the anxiety symptoms last.

B  how intense the anxiety-linked symptoms are.

C  what the cause of the anxiety-linked symptoms was.

D  what sort of treatment is contemplated for the anxiety-linked symptoms.

A  not anxious, and think they cannot control negative things that happen to them.

B  anxious, and think they can control negative things that happen to them.

C  not anxious, and think they can control negative things that happen to them.

D  anxious, and think they cannot control negative things that happen to them.

A  Obsessions generally lead to violent or immoral compulsions.

B  Compulsions are a way to prevent obsessions from occurring.

C  Obsessions are not related to compulsions.

D  Compulsions help people control their obsessions.

A  the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

B  jamais vu.

C  déjà vu.

D  absentmindedness.

A  amnestic fugue.

B  multiple personalities.

C  body dysmorphic disorder.

D  depersonalization.

A  the associated reduction in serotonin levels in the brain.

B  an artifact in the research protocol related to the length of time the person has had the diagnosis.

C  one’s initial level of caudate nuclei activity—those with high levels maintain them.

D  both medications and cognitive-behavioral therapies.

A  legs

B  arms

C  abdomen

D  face

A  Only those with traumatic backgrounds produce evoked potentials.

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

C  Evoked potentials can be elicited iatrogenically by therapists.

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

A  1 in 8

B  1 in 4

C  1 in 2

D  1 in 6