Anxiety and OCD Flashcards
Is OCD classified under anxiety in the DSM-V?
No.
What is an obsession?
An intrusive, unwanted, and recurrent thought, image, or urge that seems beyond a person’s ability to control.
What is a compulsion?
A repetitive behaviour or mental act that a person feels compelled or driven to perform.
What is the prevalence of OCD, and which gender is it more likely to occur in?
2-3%, equally common in women and men.
What are adjustment disorders?
Maladaptive reaction to identified stressor(s) that occur shortly following exposure to the stressor(s) and result in impaired functioning or signs of emotional distress that exceed what would normally be expected in the situation.
How can an adjustment disorder reaction be resolved?
If the stressor is removed, or if the individual learns to adopt to it successfully.
According to the psychodynamic perspective, anxiety is a danger signal that ___ impulses of a sexual or aggressive nature are nearing awareness.
Threatening.
How does projection work within the psychodynamic perspective?
Projecting a person’s own threatening impulses onto a phobic object.
How does displacement work within the psychodynamic perspective?
Moving unconscious fears to another object.
The learning perspective on anxety contains the ___ factor model by O. Hobart Mourer.
Two.
What are the two factors of the two factor model by O. Hobart Mourer?
Classical and operant conditioning.
In the two factor model by O. Hobart Mourer, how do the two factors work together to perpetuate anxiety?
Classical conditioning is if you got attacked by a dog, and operant conditioning is avoiding dogs. Classical is the trigger, operant is the avoidance.
What is prepared conditioning within the two factor model by O. Hobart Mourer?
Belief that people are genetically prepared to acquire fear responses to certain classes of stimuli.
Based on the ___ perspective, anxiety can arise from self-defeating or irrational beliefs.
Cognitive.
Women are more likely to have unwanted ___ related thoughts, while men are more likely to have unwanted ___ thoughts.
Harm, sexual.
