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Question 1

anxiety disorders

Answer 1

class of disorders in which the primary symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety.

Question 2

free-floating anxiety

Answer 2

anxiety that is unrelated to any specific and known cause.

Question 3

phobia

Answer 3

an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity.

Question 4

social anxiety disorder (social phobia)

Answer 4

fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to a negative evaluation.

Question 5

specific phobia

Answer 5

fear of objects or specific situations or events.

Question 6

claustrophobia

Answer 6

fear of being in a small, enclosed space.

Question 7

acrophobia

Answer 7

fear of heights.

Question 8

agoraphobia

Answer 8

fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible.

Question 9

panic attack

Answer 9

sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying.

Question 10

panic disorder

Answer 10

disorder in which panic attacks occur more than once or repeatedly, and cause persistent worry or changes in behavior.

Question 11

generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 11

disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more.

Question 12

obsessive-compulsive disorder

Answer 12

a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours

Question 13

acute stress disorder (ASD)

Answer 13

a disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety, dissociation, recurring nightmares, sleep disturbances, problems in concentration, and moments in which people seem to “relive” the event in dreams and flashbacks for as long as 1 month following the event.

Question 14

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 14

a disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety, dissociation, nightmares, poor sleep, reliving the event, and concentration problems, lasting for more than 1 month; symptoms may appear immediately, or not occur until 6 months or later after the traumatic event.

Question 15

magnification

Answer 15

the tendency to interpret situations as far more dangerous, harmful, or important than they actually are.

Question 16

all-or-nothing thinking

Answer 16

the tendency to believe that one’s performance must be perfect or the result will be a total failure.

Question 17

overgeneralization

Answer 17

distortion of thinking in which a person draws sweeping conclusions based on only one incident or event and applies those conclusions to events that are unrelated to the original; the tendency to interpret a single negative event as a neverending pattern of defeat and failure.

Question 18

minimization

Answer 18

distortions of thinking in which a person blows a negative event out
of proportion to its importance (magnification) while ignoring relevant positive events (minimization).