Chapter 3 - OCD

Question 1

Obsessive compulsive disorder

Answer 1

Anxiety disorder characterised by obsessions and or compulsions

Question 2

Obsessions

Answer 2

Uncontrollable persistent thoughts images ideas or impulses that an individual feels intrude upon his or her consciousness that cause anxiety or distress

Question 3

Compulsions

Answer 3

Repetitive behaviours or mental accident individual feels she who must perform

Question 4

Neuro imaging

Answer 4

Range of techniques used to image the structure and all function of the brain such as computerise tomographic patrician emission tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging scans

Question 5

Basal ganglia

Answer 5

Group of large nuclear in the forebrain involved in motor control behaviour and may be relevant to obsessive compulsive disorder

Question 6

Correlational study

Answer 6

Type of study in which researchers assess only the relationship between two variables and do not manipulate one bearable to determine its affect on for another variable as in an experimental study

Question 7

Cognitive behaviour therapy

Answer 7

Type of psychological treatment that combines both cognitive and behavioural concepts and techniques

Question 8

Exposure and response prevention

Answer 8

Behavioural technique in which the client is a exposed to feed stimuli bracket such a possessions in obsessive compulsive disorder bracket and be prevented from utilising any responses such as compulsory in obsessive-compulsive disorder aimed at escaping from his or her anxiety

Question 9

Behavioural experiment

Answer 9

Cognitive technique in which the client participates in the planned activity in order to test the accuracy of his or her beliefs

Question 10

Cognitive restructuring

Answer 10

Cognitive technique in which the client lands to identify challenge and replace his or her’s dysfunctional beliefs with more realistic or helpful beliefs

Question 11

Hoarding disorder

Answer 11

Persistent difficulty in discarding possessions with high level of distress associated with the remaining of the items

Question 12

Body dysmorphic disorder

Answer 12

Disorder involving excessive concern regarding a part of the body the individual believes is defective

Question 13

Clinically significant

Answer 13

Meaning the disorder that causes substantial impairment in social occupational or other areas of functioning

Question 14

Trichotillomania

Answer 14

Condition that involves recurrent pulling out of one’s own hair

Question 15

Excoriation disorder

Answer 15

Condition that involves recurrent skin picking