Exam 6: Disorders of Trauma and Stress

Years after the U.S. Civil War was over, many veterans diagnosed with "melancholia" or "soldier's heart" still experienced vivid flashbacks of their combat experiences, as well as nightmares and guilt about what they had done. Today, their MOST likely diagnosis would be:

The state of stress has two components:

Psychodynamic theorists believe that dissociative amnesias and fugues result from:

A friend says, "If we could just eliminate combat traumas, we could eliminate a great deal of posttraumatic stress disorder." Your response would MOST likely be:

Which group had the highest substantial reaction to the events of September 11, 2001?

When people are confronted with stressors, the hypothalamus signals the _____ gland to release the adrenocorticotropic hormone.

Based on current research, what is the BEST conclusion about the cause of acute and posttraumatic stress disorders? Is nature or nurture more responsible for these disorders?

Almost every night, Cara wakes up terrified and screaming for the boys to get off her. Two years later she still can't get the gang rape out of her mind. The fear, anxiety, and depression are ruining her life. This is an example of a(n):

A person with posttraumatic stress disorder who has symptoms of derealization is:

About 30 percent of those receiving outpatient therapy are diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. Some experts say adjustment disorders are:

At a workshop about dissociative identity disorder, a therapist says, "In my experience, once integration begins, the need for therapy is practically over, and later dissociations just don't happen." This therapist's experience is:

What proportion of women are the victims of rape at some point during their lives?

How concerned should we be about victims of sexual assault and terror? Is there a very great risk that they will experience PTSD?

A person experiencing multiple personalities would MOST accurately be diagnosed with dissociative:

Dissociative amnesia characterized by forgetting, for a short time, some but not all events following a traumatic episode is called _____.

A person with posttraumatic stress disorder who is upset by what she or he had to do to survive and perhaps even feels unworthy of surviving is:

The neurotransmitter(s) associated with the fight-or-flight response is

One very interesting study investigated the physiological responses of subpersonalities of those with dissociative identity disorder, and the physiological responses of the "subpersonalities" of those instructed to fake dissociative identity disorder. The study showed that the physiological responses of subpersonalities of those with dissociative identity disorder:

What conclusion does research on hypnosis and hypnotic amnesia support?

An individual who had suffered from dissociative fugue likely would have experienced all of the following EXCEPT: