Exam 5: Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

As part of systematic desensitization, the phobic client must learn ______.

Freud believed that an obsession regarding fear of knives may be a projection of one's own destructive impulses.

The idea that some people are genetically predisposed to acquire phobic responses to certain classes of stimuli is called ______.

Jack believes that it is awful and horrible when he is turned down for a date. According to a research finding, Jack would be expected to have more ______ than peers who do not Catastrophize such rejections.

Many compulsives show deficits in memory tasks.

Generalized anxiety responds to medications that specifically target ______.

Len is constantly anxious. To relieve his anxiety, he counts silently to himself. He may count his breaths per minute, or he may just count the seconds as they tick by. Just the act of counting Seems to relieve his anxiety. Len's counting behaviors represent a(n) ______.

Obsessional thinking helps relieve anxiety.

According to the psychodynamic perspective, phobias develop through the use of ______.

People with panic disorder show abnormally low levels of ______ in some parts of the brain.

The term "neurosis" was coined by ______.

Men are ______ as likely as women to experience generalized anxiety disorder.

Define and obsessions, compulsions, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and describe its symptoms and prevalence.

Systematic desensitization was developed by ______.

From a psychodynamic perspective, obsessions represent ______.

Panic attacks usually reach a peak of intensity in about ______.

Drugs that boost levels of the neurotransmitter ______ in the brain have shown effectiveness in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Danielle has an excessive, unrealistic fear of shopping in crowded stores and walking through crowded streets. She has ______.

Agoraphobia is often but not always associated with__________.

People with __________ are preoccupied with an imagined or exaggerated physical defect in their appearance.