ch 7

Question 1

body dysmorphic disorder

Answer 1

preoccupied with one or more imagined or exaggerated defects in their appearance

Question 2

caudate nucleus

Answer 2

part of the basal ganglia; unusually active in people with OCD

Question 3

compulsion

Answer 3

repetitive clearly excessive behaviors or mental acts, feels driven to perform to reduce the anxiety

Question 4

obsessive compulsion

Answer 4

repetitive thoughts and behaviors that are so extreme that they interfere with everyday life

Question 5

trauma-related disorder

Answer 5

PTSD, ASD

Question 6

OCD

Answer 6

repetitive thoughts and urges; irresistible need to engage in repetitive behaviors and mental acts

Question 7

hoarding disorder

Answer 7

spend a good deal of their time repetitively thinking about their current and potential future possessions; intense efforts to acquire new objects

Question 8

disorders have

Answer 8

repetitive thoughts, behaviors are distressing, feel uncontrollable, considerable amount of time, thoughts and behaviors feel unstoppable; can co-occur

Question 9

obsessions

Answer 9

intrusive and recurring thoughts, images or impulse, persistent and uncontrollable; often appear irrational

Question 10

hoarding disorder

Answer 10

the need to acquire is clearly excessive, abhor parting with their objects; extremely attached to their possessions; very resistant to get rid of them

Question 11

genetic contribution to OCD, hoarding, BDD

Answer 11

heritability is estimated to be 40-50% of the variance in whether they develop

Question 12

orbitofrontal cortex

Answer 12

an area of the medial prefrontal cortex located just above the eyes; unusually active in people with OCD

Question 13

anterior cingulate

Answer 13

right behind the frontal lobe; unusually active in people in OCD

Question 14

when BDD appears

Answer 14

hyperactivity of the orbitofrontal cortex and caudate nucleus

Question 15

hoarding disorder appears

Answer 15

hyperactivity in the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate

Question 16

yedasentience

Answer 16

subjective feeling of knowing that you have though enough, cleaned enough, or in other ways done what you should to prevent chaos and danger from low-level threats in the environment; deficit in people with OCD

Question 17

thought suppression

Answer 17

attempted when obsessions are trying to be suppressed, may make situation worse; believe that thinking about something can make it occur

Question 18

anti-depressants

Answer 18

most commonly used medications; for OCD- clomipramine; BDD- clomipramine and fluoxetine

Question 19

ERP

Answer 19

exposure and response prevention; most widely used psychological treatment for OCD and related disorders

Question 20

deep brain simulation

Answer 20

implanting electrodes into the brain for people with chronic OCD