Quiz 4

A  antianxiety drugs

B  rational emotive therapy

C  relaxation training

D  biofeedback

A  the inability to forget

B  the awareness to know why you forget

C  the awareness that something has been forgotten

D  the ability to escape threatening events

A  drug studies.

B  family pedigree studies.

C  neurological 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  different subpersonalities have shown different brain response patterns.

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

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

A  panic attack.

B  posttraumatic disorder.

C  phobia.

D  obsessive-compulsive response.

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

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 corticosteroids that cause the adrenal gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone.

A  The person has faked a change in personality.

B  The person has changed from one personality to another.

C  Two subpersonalities rapidly changed back and forth several times.

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

A  a generalized anxiety disorder.

B  no specific problem; she just likes to worry.

C  a specific fear response.

D  a hormonal imbalance.

A  lasts longer than a month.

B  lasts between one and three weeks.

C  begins immediately after the stress occurs.

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

A  conditions of worth.

B  unconditional positive regard.

C  moral anxiety.

D  empathy.

A  are prone to allergies and have immune deficiencies.

B  have relatives who are atypically anxious.

C  experience more stress than average.

D  misinterpret bodily sensations.

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

B  how long the anxiety symptoms last.

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

D  how intense the anxiety-linked symptoms are.

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

A  Obsessions are not related to compulsions.

B  Compulsions are a way to prevent obsessions from occurring.

C  Compulsions help people control their obsessions.

D  Obsessions generally lead to violent or immoral compulsions.

A  jamais vu.

B  the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

C  déjà vu.

D  absentmindedness.

A  depersonalization.

B  body dysmorphic disorder.

C  multiple personalities.

D  amnestic fugue.

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  legs

C  arms

D  face

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

B  Evoked potentials can be elicited iatrogenically by therapists.

C  Only those with traumatic backgrounds produce evoked potentials.

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 6

D  1 in 2