Exam 6: Disorders of Trauma and Stress

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

The people MOST likely to develop stress disorders lived their childhood in:

What do we know about the inheritance of PTSD?

Just after doing well in an intramural basketball game-something which left me very happy, and in a high state of excitement-I sat down and studied for my abnormal psychology test. Research shows I would perform best on that test if, at the time of the test, I was:

Variations in the types of situations that people find threatening are referred to as differences in _____ anxiety.

Feeling that your hands and feet are smaller or bigger than usual or that you are in a dreamlike state is called:

When we encounter a stressor, the _____ nervous system accelerates the automatic processes in our body, and after the stressor is over, the _____ nervous system returns us to normal functioning.

Gwendolyn is held up at knifepoint and her young son is kidnapped. Eventually, her son is found and returned. However, she is unable to recall events that occurred since the attack, although she remembers some new experiences; worse still, she finds that she is forgetting events that occurred even before the attack. This is a classic example of:

A student who turns pale and feels nauseated when called on to speak in class is experiencing a(n) _____ response to stress.

Which is an accurate statement about the effectiveness of psychological debriefing in the aftermath of a disaster (based on research studies)?

The group of hormones that appear to be MOST involved in arousal and the fear reaction are the:

The best example of the subpersonalities in dissociative identity disorder differing in their vital statistics occurs when:

Imagine that a friend of yours has been a victim of sexual assault (rape). What are the short-term and long-term courses of her stress response to being raped likely to be?

Compare and contrast dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue.

According to DSM-5, the most common diagnosis for those receiving outpatient therapy for experiencing stress is:

Combat veterans are likely to report symptoms of

Dissociative fugues usually:

In a case of dissociative identity disorder, Pat is aware of the existence of Jerry and Chris, but Jerry and Chris are not aware of the existence of the other personalities. This form of subpersonality relationship is called:

A personality change that often accompanies dissociative fugues is that people become:

When all of the subpersonalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder are aware of one another, it is termed a: