Exam 5: Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

________________is a technique used with persons with panic disorder that aims at restoring a normal ? level of carbon dioxide in the blood by having clients __________________.

People with generalized anxiety disorder tend to be chronic, lifelong worriers.

Social anxiety tends to follow a ______ course in life.

Which of the following represents a significant limitation of drug treatment for panic disorder?

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that is_____________.

Practitioners of cognitive-behavioral therapy combine ______ with cognitive restructuring to treat social phobia.

People with social anxiety often try to "medicate" themselves with________ when preparing for social interactions.

Generalized anxiety disorder affects about ______ of the adult population at some point in their lives.

Cognitive-behavior therapists are likely to treat generalized anxiety with which of the following treatments?

In one study, 92% of subjects overcame a fear of ______ with virtual reality therapy.

With your new knowledge of abnormal psychology, your roommate, who has a panic disorder, asks you about which medications are used to treat panic disorder. She mentions four Medications; which one is used to treat panic disorder?

Women are ______ as likely as men to be afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Some anxiety in unfamiliar social situations is normal and adaptive.

The most accurate description of the prognosis for individuals with body dysmorphic disorder is that __________ .

Tony has an excessive, unrealistic fear of snakes. His phobia is ______.

Antidepressants can be helpful in treating some anxiety disorders.

Phobias usually involve fears of the ordinary events in life, not the extraordinary.

About ______ percent of otherwise healthy people may experience an isolated panic attack in a given year.

With Mowrer's two-factor model, the fear component is acquired through _______.

Abnormal activity in the ______ lobes of the brain has been implicated in obsessive- compulsive disorder.