Exam 4: Anxiety, obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders

What are the persistent thoughts,ideas,impulses,or images that seem to invade a person's consciousness called?

Which statement about the use of antidepressants to treat panic disorders is MOST accurate?

If a therapist gave a client homework that required the client to challenge faulty assumptions and replace them with healthier ones,the therapist would be using:

A therapist treating a person for generalized anxiety disorder works with the client to help the person understand his or her irrational assumptions and suggests alternative assumptions.This is an example of Ellis's technique,called _______ therapy.

What is one important way obsessions and compulsions are related?

Which descriptor would be LEAST appropriate for someone experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder,according to the cognitive perspective?

Which statement describes how phobias and common fear differ?

Which of the following is the phobia MOST often associated with panic disorder?

Psychodynamic therapies as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorders:

Danique is never sure of the right thing to do.She married Anthony and has wondered for hours every day for years if that was the right decision.She is exhibiting:

Nicholas has an intense fear of dogs that won't go away.He avoids looking at pictures of dogs,and sometimes he can't even leave the house when neighbors are walking their dogs.This kind of fear would be classified as which kind of disorder?

Which statement is TRUE about drug and cognitive treatments for panic disorder?

A professor's office is a mess; graded tests are in piles on the desk,overflowing bookshelves line the walls,and research materials from years ago occupy boxes on the floor where there is only a narrow pathway to walk.If the professor is experiencing a diagnosable disorder,it would MOST likely be in which category?

Therapists who use the technique of _______ believe that people with phobic disorders must be forced to confront what they fear in its full intensity so they will see that no real danger exists.

Agoraphobia is the fear of:

Benzodiazepines are believed to be effective in treating generalized anxiety disorder because they mimic the effect of what neurotransmitter at certain receptor sites in the brain?

People who experience a positive event,get excited,breathe harder,and have an increased heart rate,and subsequently interpret the symptoms as a heart attack,are experiencing what cognitive theorists call:

When would religious rituals and superstitious behavior (such as not stepping on cracks)be considered compulsive behaviors?

Disorders that involve particular patterns of repetitive and excessive behavior that greatly disrupt a person's life and can cause shame are called:

DSM-5 includes a category called obsessive-compulsive-related disorders.List and describe the four patterns in that group.What is the underlying commonality in all of these disorders?