Deck 9: Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders

Question 1

Exposure treatment describes:

A)Therapies designed to help people change their overestimations of danger and to adopt alternative, less self-undermining ways of construing events
B)When people directly perform their avoided activities
C)Verbal elements including dialogue aimed at conveying that obsessions are normal
D)Treatments based on imagining, watching, or actually doing phobia-related activities

Answer 1

Treatments based on imagining, watching, or actually doing phobia-related activities

Question 2

Obsessions are defined as:

A)The likelihood from 0% to 100%, that doing a task would result in a panic attack.
B)Intrusive unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that can be experienced as aversive, alien, or frightening
C)Sudden rushes of intense anxiety or discomfort in DSM-5)that can be disturbing and can leave a lasting residue of dread and disability.
D)The perceived likelihood, from 0% to 100%, of a harmful outcome resulting from a given action

Answer 2

Intrusive unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that can be experienced as aversive, alien, or frightening

Question 3

Panic attacks are defined as:

A)The likelihood from 0% to 100%, that doing a task would result in a panic attack.
B)Intrusive unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that can be experienced as aversive, alien, or frightening
C)Sudden rushes of intense anxiety or discomfort in DSM-5)that can be disturbing and can leave a lasting residue of dread and disability.
D)The perceived likelihood, from 0% to 100%, of a harmful outcome resulting from a given action

Answer 3

Sudden rushes of intense anxiety or discomfort in DSM-5)that can be disturbing and can leave a lasting residue of dread and disability.

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT an example of a psychosocial problem?

A)Obsessive-compulsive disorder
B)Phobic behavior
C)Anxiety
D)Panic

Question 5

Perceived danger is defined as:

A)The likelihood from 0% to 100%, that doing a task would result in a panic attack.
B)Intrusive unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that can be experienced as aversive, alien, or frightening
C)Sudden rushes of intense anxiety or discomfort in DSM-5)that can be disturbing and can leave a lasting residue of dread and disability.
D)The perceived likelihood, from 0% to 100%, of a harmful outcome resulting from a given action

Question 6

Anticipated panic is defined as:

A)The likelihood from 0% to 100%, that doing a task would result in a panic attack.
B)Intrusive unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that can be experienced as aversive, alien, or frightening
C)Sudden rushes of intense anxiety or discomfort in DSM-5)that can be disturbing and can leave a lasting residue of dread and disability.
D)The perceived likelihood, from 0% to 100%, of a harmful outcome resulting from a given action

Question 7

In vivo exposure refers to:

A)Treatments based on imagining, watching, or actually doing phobia-related activities
B)When people directly perform their avoided activities
C)Therapies designed to help people change their overestimations of danger and to adopt alternative, less self-undermining ways of construing events
D)Verbal elements including dialogue aimed at conveying that obsessions are normal