chapter 2 test

Question 1

general anxiety disorder

Answer 1

worry about everything, insomnia, fatigue, aches, and pains

Question 2

biological GAD

Answer 2

insufficient GABA and serotonin, cotext is hyperaroused, (valium and SSRI’s help)

Question 3

psychodynamic GAD

Answer 3

psychotherapy: dream analysis and free association. over and under-protected kids are less likely to have effective coping mechanisms.

Question 4

cognitive behavioral GAD

Answer 4

if anxiety is learned it can be unlearned, operant and classical conditioning, GAD is a maladaptive way of thinking, change the way of thinking. The most successful of all approaches

Question 5

humanistic approach GAD

Answer 5

they have too high standards, unrealistic expectations of themselves, they need to have a good relationship with their therapist

Question 6

sociocultural approach GAD

Answer 6

GAD develops in people who live stressful lives, self help groups

Question 7

phobia

Answer 7

intense fear of an object or event

Question 8

specific phobia

Answer 8

heights, spiders, blood

Question 9

agoraphobia

Answer 9

fear of being in places where escaping might be difficult, (stuck in an elevator), terrified of having a panic attack with no escape

Question 10

social anxiety disorder

Answer 10

fear of socializing or performing

Question 11

treatments (phobias)

Answer 11

phobias are learned and can be unlearned

Question 12

cognitive behavioral phobias

Answer 12

Classically conditioned to fear an object, then operationally conditioned to retain the phobia (get bit by a spider, you remember the pain so you avoid them now)

Question 13

systematic desensitization (exposure therapy)

Answer 13

patient learns to relax in the presence of feared stimuli

Question 14

flooding (exposure therapy)

Answer 14

flood the patient with the feared object (place 1000 snaked in the same room as them)

Question 15

exposure and response prevention (exposure therapy)

Answer 15

expose the patient to a stimulus but don’t let them have a reaction. (force someone with cleaning OCD to touch garbage without washing their hands after)

Question 16

aversion therapy

Answer 16

learn to associate something bad with undesirable behavior (put hot sauce on a babies thumb so they stop sucking it)

Question 17

operant conditioning therapies

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positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, extinction, & punishment to eliminate unwanted behaviors

Question 18

modeling (phobia)

Answer 18

samples of appropriate behaviors are demonstrated then the patient attempts to imitate them

Question 19

panic disorder

Answer 19

an anxiety disorder that is characterized by panic attacks

Question 20

panic attack

Answer 20

10 minutes of intense fear or anxiety

Question 21

biological treatment (panic attack)

Answer 21

abnormal levels of noreponephrine, SSRI’s and SNRIs reduce symptoms

Question 22

behavioral (panic attacks)

Answer 22

exposure treatment

Question 23

cognitive (panic attacks)

Answer 23

educated about human physiology

Question 24

cognitive-behavioral OCD

Answer 24

maladaptive thoughts are the root, exposure and response prevention

Question 25

biological (OCD)

Answer 25

SSRIs take 6-12 weeks to see results

Question 26

stress disorder

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traumatic event that triggers the stress response

Question 27

Acute stress disorder (ASD)

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symptoms begin within 1 month of traumatic event and last for less then 1 month

Question 28

PTSD

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occur immediatly after or resurface years later, lasts longer then 1 month

Question 29

treatment (ASD & PTSD)

Answer 29

exposure (sometimes), flooding, antidespressants, support groups

Question 30

conversion

Answer 30

no medical basis for the symptoms, very rare (blindness, tunnel vision, loss of hearing. Causes: psychodynamic suffer from trauma or stress that is not dealt with. Cognitive: behavior it rewarded. Treatments: hypnosis

Question 31

factitious disorder (Munchausen syndrome)

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faking illness, making themselves sick (swallowing objects, very dramatic pathological liars)

Question 32

Munchausen syndrome

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when parents hurt their kids or get them sick to look like the hero. causes: behavioral rewarding, getting attention. hard to treat

Question 33

illness anxiety disorder

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complain all the time, physical complaints, happy to be sick (increased heart rate = heart attack). causes: cognitive suffer from confirmation bias. CBT: always think they have a disease or dying

Question 34

somatic symptom disorder

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2-GI (stomach hurts), 1- sexual (lack of interest, 1-neurological (tingling in limbs). no biological reasoning, patient is upset and worrying about the present. Causes: anxiety, trauma runs in the family, could be rewarding

Question 35

primary vs secondary gain

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primary - psychological protection.

secondary - reward from care

Question 36

predominant pain

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in pain, physically recovered, psychologically brings pain back. treatment: exposure therpay

Question 37

psychophysiological disorders

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stress/trauma causes psychological and physical pain (migrains, increased BP)

Question 38

general adaptation syndrome

Answer 38

1 - alarm phase, hypothalamus. 2- resistance, immune system. 3 - exhaustion

Question 39

anhedonia

Answer 39

not enjoying things you used to

Question 40

artifact theory

Answer 40

women go to the doctor for despression more then men do

Question 41

diagnosis (depression)

Answer 41

at least 5 symptoms, have to be sad, lasts 2 weeks or more

Question 42

major depressive disorder

Answer 42

one episode without mania

Question 43

dysthymia

Answer 43

lasts years, less severe