Exam 6: Disorders of Trauma and Stress

Troy has dissociative identity disorder. All of his subpersonalities talk about and tattle on each other. This is an example of a:

Compared with covert exposure therapy for combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, virtual reality exposure therapy has been shown to be:

Kevin studies his history notes and textbook while he is drinking beer. According to some theorists, Kevin would later do better on his history exam if he also had alcohol in his system while taking the exam. These theorists would be basing their claim on:

In the reaction to fearful and stressful situations, nerves may indirectly affect organs by stimulating the:

In response to a threat, we perspire, breathe more quickly, get goose bumps, and feel nauseated. These responses are controlled by the:

Individuals experiencing dissociative amnesia sometimes are given sodium amobarbital or sodium pentobarbital because those drugs:

Dread and horror are part of the _____ responses to stress.

When a person feels that the external world is removed, mechanical, distorted, or even dead, he or she is experiencing:

Kelly was in a passenger plane. He watched as all four engines quit at once and saw the plane explode. Thrown 5,000 feet in the air, he landed, severely injured, in a heavily wooded area in deep snow. When he regained consciousness several weeks later, he had a stress reaction that lasted for years, and he could never fly again. The factor that probably MOST contributed to his extreme posttraumatic stress reaction was:

A diagnostic criterion for posttraumatic stress disorder is the presence of significant distress or impairment for:

According to developmental psychopathologists, why do children tend to fare worse than adults when faced with an extreme stressor for the first time?

Ever since Paul's car crash, during which he was miraculously unhurt, Paul has not been the same. He forgets appointments, friends' names, and even things done in the past few days. His amnesia is termed:

The effects of taking hallucinogens accompanied by feelings that objects are changing size, that other people are distorted, and that one might be mechanical is MOST similar to:

Which statement BEST describes the long-term effects of exposure to stress during childhood?

If someone asked you about the effectiveness of psychological debriefing following a disaster, you would be correct (based on the research) in saying that:

People with which dissociative disorder typically do not eventually recover without receiving treatment?

Reliving a traumatic event that happened months ago, avoiding things associated with that event, and generally being less responsive are symptoms of _____.

A combat veteran says, "The therapist wants me to imagine scenes where I was in combat and imagine them like I was there. I don't want to do that! How can this possibly help me?" The BEST response is:

Quinn has forgotten who he is. He traveled to a city he has never visited before and is wandering around aimlessly. After a few hours, he "comes to" and discovers his strange surroundings. Unable to recall how he got there or what he has been doing, Quinn appears to be suffering from _____.

In the twenty-first century in the United States, the number of diagnosed cases per year of dissociative identity disorder has: