ABPSY CHAPTER 5

Question 1

a mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune; may involve, feelings, behaviors, and physiological danger

Answer 1

anxiety

Question 2

the emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies

Answer 2

fear

Question 3

sudden overwhelming terror

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panic

Question 4

abrupt experience of intense fear of discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitation

Answer 4

panic attack

Question 5

brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety

Answer 5

behavioral inhibition system (BIS)

Question 6

brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic

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fight

Question 7

anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncomfortable, uncontrollable and continuous worry tht is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness.

Answer 7

generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

Question 8

recurrent unexpected panic attacks accompanied by concern about future attacks or a lifestyle to change to avoid future attacks

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panic disorder

Question 9

anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety about being in place or situations from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic symptoms or other unpleasant physical symptoms

Answer 9

agoraphobia

Question 10

cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic attack involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them

Answer 10

pain control treatment

Question 11

unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that are markedly interfere with daily life functioning

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specific phobia

Question 12

unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection victims experience fainting and a clop in blood preassure.

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Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia

Question 13

an anxiety involving enclosed places or public transportation

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Situational Phobias

Question 14

fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.

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Natural Environment Phobias

Question 15

unreasonable, enduring fear of animals of insects that usually develops early in life

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animal phobias

Question 16

excessive, enduring fear in some individuals that harm will come to them or their loved ones when they are apart

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Seperation Anxiety Disorders

Question 17

extreme, enduring, irrational.
Fear and avoidance of social or performance situations

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Social Anxiety, Disorder (SAD) / Social Phobia

Question 18

enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to severe helplessness or a fear inducing
threat- the victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with its and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Question 19

severe reaction immediately Following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization’- if symptoms persist beyond one month, victims are dragnesed
with posttraumatic stress disorder

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Acute Stress Disorder

Question 20

prolonged adaptation to loss associated with intense longing for and preoccupation with the deceased, leading difficulty moving on with life even after a year or more has passed

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Prolonged Grief Disorder

Question 21

clinically significant emotional and behavioral
symptoms in response, to one or
more specific stressors

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Adjustment Disorders

Question 22

developmentally inappropriate behaviors in which a child is unable or unwilling to form normal attachment relationships with caregiving adults

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“Attachment Disorders

Question 23

attachment disorder in which a child with disturbed behavier neither seeks aut a garegiver nor. responds to offers of help from one; fearfulness and sadness are often evident

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Reactive Attachment Disorder

Question 24

concition in which a child. shows no inhibitions whatsoever in approaching adults

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Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

Question 25

disorder inuduing urwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.

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• Obsessive - Cumpulsive Disorder

Question 26

recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks. to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by. outside forces.

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Obsessions

Question 27

repetitive, ritualistic, time consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform to suppress obsessions

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Compulsions

Question 28

disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance (“ imagined ugimess”) - now classified among obsessive -compulsive and related disorders. previously grouped with DSM-IV somatoform disorders

Answer 28

Body Dysmorphie Disorder (BDD)

Question 29

people’s urge to pull out their own hair from anywhere
in the body, including the scalp, eyebrows, and arm

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Trichotillomania

Question 30

recurrent, difficult-tu control picking of one’s skin leading to significant impairment or distress

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Excoriation