This is about Abnormal Psychology
Leila always feels threatened and anxious-imagining something awful is about to happen. But she is able to work and care for her family, although not as well as she would like. Leila is probably experiencing:
A) no specific problem; she just likes to worry.
B) a specific fear response.
C) a hormonal imbalance.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.
College students who always become so anxious when taking a test that they cannot remember even simple things that they know quite well are experiencing a(n):
A) phobia.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) panic disorder.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.
"Phobic and generalized anxiety disorders arise when people stop looking at themselves honestly and with acceptance and instead deny and distort their true thoughts, emotions, and behavior." This explanation for anxiety disorders would most likely be offered by:
A) behaviorists.
B) cognitive theorists.
C) sociocultural theorists.
D) humanistic theorists.
A person who believes that one should be thoroughly competent, adequate, and achieving in all possible respects is displaying:
A) condition of worth.
B) metaworry.
C) irrational assumption.
D) compulsion.
People who experience a positive event, get excited, breathe harder, and have an increase in their heart rate, then interpret the symptoms as a heart attack, are experiencing what cognitive theorists call:
A) biological challenge.
B) exposure relapse.
C) anxiety sensitivity.
D) behavioral inhibition.
The drug treatment that is most effective in treating panic disorder is like that used to treat:
A) schizophrenia.
B) generalized anxiety.
C) depression.
D) bipolar disorder.
Antidepressant drugs are frequently effective in treating panic attacks. This may mean that the disorder is related to levels of the neurotransmitter:
A) GABA.
B) dopamine.
C) acetylcholine.
D) norepinephrine.
Which of the following is true about specific phobias?
A) Each year about 9% of people in the United States suffer from a phobia.
B) Most people with phobias seek treatment.
C) There do not appear to be racial differences in the incidence of phobias.
D) Men are more likely than women to have phobias.
In order to determine if a person's fear of snakes is severe enough to be categorized as a phobia, you could:
A) ask him if anxiety about snakes interferes with daily living; if he says "yes," he most likely has a fear.
B) show him a snake; if he appears to be very uncomfortable, he most likely has a fear.
C) ask him if anxiety about snakes interferes with daily living; if he says "yes," he most likely has a phobia.
D) show him a snake; if he appears to be very uncomfortable, he most likely has a phobia.
If you were afraid of dogs and your therapist treated you by interacting with dogs while you watched, you would be receiving:
A) flooding.
B) systematic desensitization.
C) vicarious conditioning.
D) biofeedback.
If someone leads a life of service to others in order to counter his hatred and contempt for the poor and destitute, this person is exhibiting what psychodynamic theorists would call:
A) isolation.
B) undoing.
C) denial.
D) reaction formation.