Unit 12 (Modules 66-67)

Question 1

What psychological disorders are characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety?

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Answer 1

anxiety disorders

Question 2

What disorder is characterized by intense fear and avoidance of social situations (formerly called social phobia)?

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Answer 2

social anxiety disorder

Question 3

What disorder is characterized as an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal?

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Answer 3

generalized anxiety disorder

Question 4

What disorder is characterized as an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minute-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other sensations; often followed by worry over a possible next attack?

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Answer 4

panic disorder

Question 5

What disorder is characterized as a fear of avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic?

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Answer 5

agoraphobia

Question 6

What disorder is characterized as an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, acitivty or situation?

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Answer 6

phobia

Question 7

What disorder is characterized by unwanted, repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both?

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Answer 7

obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd)

Question 8

What disorder is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience?

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Answer 8

post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Question 9

What disorder is characterized by, in the absence of drugs or another medical conidition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure?

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Answer 9

major depressive disorder

Question 10

What disorder is characterized as a person who alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania (manic-depressive disorder)?

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Answer 10

bipolar disorder

Question 11

What symptom is characterized as a hyperactive, wildly optimistc state in which dangerously poor judgement is common?

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Answer 11

mania

Question 12

What symptom is characterized as compulsive fretting; overthinking problems and their causes?

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Answer 12

rumination