Quiz 4

A  rational emotive therapy

B  relaxation training

C  antianxiety drugs

D  biofeedback

A  the ability to escape threatening events

B  the awareness to know why you forget

C  the awareness that something has been forgotten

D  the inability to forget

A  neurological studies.

B  family pedigree studies.

C  drug studies.

D  clinical interviews.

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

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

C  different subpersonalities have shown different brain response patterns.

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

A  panic attack.

B  obsessive-compulsive response.

C  phobia.

D  posttraumatic disorder.

A  The hypothalamus produces corticosteroids, which stimulate the pituitary to produce a stress hormone that causes 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 stimulates the pituitary to produce corticosteroids that cause 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  Two subpersonalities rapidly changed back and forth several times.

C  The person has changed from one personality to another.

D  The person has faked a change in personality.

A  a specific fear response.

B  a hormonal imbalance.

C  a generalized anxiety disorder.

D  no specific problem; she just likes to worry.

A  lasts between one and three weeks.

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

C  begins immediately after the stress occurs.

D  lasts longer than a month.

A  conditions of worth.

B  moral anxiety.

C  empathy.

D  unconditional positive regard.

A  misinterpret bodily sensations.

B  have relatives who are atypically anxious.

C  experience more stress than average.

D  are prone to allergies and have immune deficiencies.

A  how intense the anxiety-linked symptoms are.

B  how long the anxiety symptoms last.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Compulsions are a way to prevent obsessions from occurring.

B  Compulsions help people control their obsessions.

C  Obsessions are not related to compulsions.

D  Obsessions generally lead to violent or immoral compulsions.

A  jamais vu.

B  the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

C  absentmindedness.

D  déjà vu.

A  multiple personalities.

B  amnestic fugue.

C  body dysmorphic disorder.

D  depersonalization.

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

B  the associated reduction in serotonin levels in the brain.

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

D  both medications and cognitive-behavioral therapies.

A  abdomen

B  face

C  legs

D  arms

A  Evoked potentials can be elicited iatrogenically by therapists.

B  Only those with traumatic backgrounds produce evoked potentials.

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

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

A  1 in 4

B  1 in 2

C  1 in 8

D  1 in 6