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The passage provides information about various types of anxiety disorders and treatments: - Situationally bound panic attacks are most closely related to phobias. The limbic system is most associated with anxiety. Agoraphobic avoidance is determined by the expectation of future panic attacks. - A teenage girl had a panic attack during an exercise class because the physical sensations from exercise had become an internal cue for panic. - For treating specific phobias, exposure-based exercises are considered necessary, not avoidance which strengthens the phobic response.

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The passage provides information about various types of anxiety disorders and treatments: - Situationally bound panic attacks are most closely related to phobias. The limbic system is most associated with anxiety. Agoraphobic avoidance is determined by the expectation of future panic attacks. - A teenage girl had a panic attack during an exercise class because the physical sensations from exercise had become an internal cue for panic. - For treating specific phobias, exposure-based exercises are considered necessary, not avoidance which strengthens the phobic response.

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Which type of panic attack is most closely related to phobias?

a. unexpected
b. situationally bound
c. situationally predisposed
d. uncued

Which of the following is an accurate statement about anxiety?


a. A single gene makes us vulnerable to anxiety.
b. An inherited tendency can make us tense or uptight.
c. Stress is a direct cause of panic disorder.
d. Panic disorder does not "run in families."

The area of the brain most often associated with anxiety is the:
a. occipital lobe.
b. limbic system.
c. reticular activating system.
d. corpus callosum.

Agoraphobic avoidance behavior appears to be determined by:


a. how recently the last panic attack occurred.
b. the extent to which the person expects another panic attack to occur.
c. the number of panic attacks the person has had in the past.
d. how severe the panic attacks have been.

A teenage girl had recently been having panic attacks while shopping at the mall. She was sitting
in her room feeling very depressed. To cheer her up, a friend suggested that they both go to an
exercise class. Shortly after the warm-up started, however, she had another panic attack. What
is the best explanation for this occurrence?
a. She was angry with the friend for insisting that she go out.
b. The physical sensations experienced during exercise had become an internal cue for
panic to occur.
c. The exercise class was an unconditioned stimulus that resulted in a panic attack.
d. The medication that had been prescribed for her was only treating the depression

In regard to treatment of specific phobias, which of the following statements is correct?


a. Avoiding a phobic situation weakens the phobic response.
b. Many specific phobias can be treated in a single daylong session.
c. Individuals with "blood" phobias must learn to relax their muscles to keep their
blood pressure high enough to prevent fainting.
d. Structured exposure-based exercises are no longer considered necessary.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
a. PTSD occurs in all individuals who experience a traumatic event.
b. Acute stress disorder was included as a DSM-IV diagnosis so early severe reactions
to trauma could receive health insurance coverage for immediate treatment.
c. Most persons diagnosed with acute stress disorder do not eventually develop PTSD.
d. Acute stress disorder is diagnosed instead of PTSD if a person's symptoms begin 6
months or more after the traumatic event.
Which of the following is an accurate statement about factors affecting treatment for PTSD?
a. Victims of PTSD often repress memories of the traumatic event.
b. Psychoanalytic therapists help patients to relive emotional trauma through a
process called free association.
c. Medications effective for other anxiety disorders are ineffective with PTSD.
d. Re-exposure to the trauma should be accomplished quickly to assure the best
therapeutic response.

Which of the following is an example of the treatment technique for OCD called exposure and
ritual prevention (ERP)?
a. Carrie has an obsessive fear of contamination, which has led to compulsive
handwashing rituals. Her therapist is treating her by making her touch dirty laundry but not
allowing her to wash for increasingly longer periods of time afterwards.
b. Kelly has religious obsessions. She stays home all day reading the bible fearing that
if she doesn't, she will do something evil. Her therapist is treating her by having her read the bible
more frequently so that good thoughts will replace the bad ones.
c. Kerry has an obsessive fear of contamination that has led to compulsive
handwashing rituals. Her therapist is treating her by forcing her to wash her hands repeatedly,
even when she doesn't feel anxious.
d. Callie has a hoarding compulsion. She becomes anxious whenever she has to throw
something away; she even keeps stuff that she doesn't need and will never use. Her therapist has
arranged for all Callie's junk to be dumped when she is away from home.
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In the integrative model of the causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (displayed as a diagram


in the textbook), anxious apprehension:
a. leads to "learned alarms".
b. is focused on recurring thoughts.
c. results from biological vulnerability only.
d. becomes associated with unacceptable thoughts.

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