Deck 11: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Question 1

Which brain area is usually NOT implicated in OCD?

A)Hippocampus
B)Orbital-frontal cortex
C)Cingulate gyrus
D)Thalamus

Answer 1

Hippocampus

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a cognitive distortion often shown by youths with GAD?

A)Catastrophizing
B)Overgeneralizing
C)Oversimplifying
D)Personalizing

Answer 2

Oversimplifying

Question 3

Which of the following is usually NOT considered a compulsion?

A)A child who avoids walking on cracks in the sidewalk.
B)A child who counts to 70, seven times, many times each day.
C)A child who washes his hands repeatedly.
D)A child who insists on keeping his room very neat and organizeD)

Answer 3

A)A child who avoids walking on cracks in the sidewalk.
B)A child who counts to 70, seven times, many times each day.
C)A child who washes his hands repeatedly.
D)A child who insists on keeping his room very neat and organized.

Question 4

Which is usually NOT regarded as a risk factor for Social Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents?

A)Genetics
B)Temperament
C)Parenting behavior
D)Separation/death of a parent

Question 5

Agoraphobia is best described as…

A)fear of public places.
B)fear of places where escape is difficult or embarrassing.
C)fear of enclosed places.
D)fear or situations in which the person might be judged or criticized by others.

Question 6

Which of the following statements regarding Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is true?

A)SAD is fairly common among prepubescent children but rare among adolescents.
B)Children and adolescents with SAD report different fears, depending on their level of development.
C)Most data indicate that SAD is a persistent disorder that usually develops into GAD or other anxiety problems.
D)Insecure attachment causes SAD)

Question 7

PANDAS theory asserts…

A)Children with GAD avoid thinking about catastrophic events, thereby maintaining their disorder over time through negative reinforcement.
B)Exposure with response prevention stops negative reinforcement, which underlies most cases of OCD)
C)OCD can develop after streptococcus infection.
D)Black-and-white colored bear-like animals can cause anxiety disorders in children.

Question 8

According to Mowrer's two-factor theory, phobias develop through ___ and are maintained through ___.

A)classical conditioning; positive reinforcement
B)classical conditioning; negative reinforcement
C)classical conditioning; punishment
D)classical conditioning; observational learning

Question 9

According to Barlow's (2002) triple vulnerability model, which of the following is NOT a primary risk factor for the development of an anxiety disorder?

A)Genetic susceptibility toward anxiety
B)Early experiences that make one feel out of control
C)Specific environmental experiences that elicit specific disorders
D)Ethnicity and socio-cultural background

Question 10

Which of the following provides the best example of apprehensive expectation?

A)A girl is nervous the night before she takes the SAT.
B)A boy is frightened by a large dog that barks at him on the way home from school.
C)A girl believes other are criticizing her as she plays her piano in a recital.
D)A boy is afraid that he will be embarrassed if he has a panic attack at the shopping mall.

Question 11

Which type of phobia is associated with a unusually sensitive vasovagal response?

A)Fear of animals
B)Fear of natural disasters
C)Fear of injections
D)Fear of enclosed places

Question 12

According to DSM-5, which of the following conditions is NOT an anxiety disorder?

A)Specific Phobia
B)Agoraphobia
C)Panic Disorder
D)Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Question 13

In a review of the treatment for pediatric phobias, ___ and ___ were shown to be most effective in reducing children's anxiety symptoms.

A)contingency management; participant modeling
B)participant modeling; systematic desensitization
C)systematic desensitization; imaginal exposure
D)systematic desensitization; contingency management

Question 14

Which of the following brain areas is part of the amygdo-cortical neural circuit, a brain pathway that underlies many anxiety disorders?

A)Hippocampus
B)Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
C)Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
D)Cingulate gyrus

Question 15

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is different from the other anxiety disorders because…

A)GAD is usually diagnosed later in life than the other anxiety disorders.
B)GAD is less responsive to medication than the other anxiety disorders.
C)GAD is characterized by worry more than the other anxiety disorders.
D)GAD is treated with interoceptive exposure, unlike the other anxiety disorders.