Abnormal Psychology

5 Written Questions

1. theory of depression etiology that individuals, through unpleasant experiences and traumas against which their efforts were ineffective, acquire passivity and a sense of being unable to act and to control their lives
2. negative self evaluation - high standards, fear of negative evaluation by others, excessive attention/monitoring internal cues
3. any drug that alleviates depression; also widely used to treat anxiety disorders
4. onset within 4 weeks postpartum
5. sudden attack of intense apprehension, terror, and feelings of impending doom, accompanied by at least four other symptoms (i.e. labored breathing, heart palpitations, nausea, upset stomach, chest pain, feelings of choking and smothering, dizziness, lightheadedness, seating, chills, hot flashes, and trembling)

5 Matching Questions

1. Clarks cognitive therapy
2. orbitofrontal cortex
3. etiology of specific phobias (social factors)
4. PTSD cognitive therapy
5. prepared learning

1. a learn not to focus attention internally, address beliefs of how others will respond (social phobia treatment)
2. b our fear circuit may have been "prepared" by evolution to learn fear of certain stimuli
3. c more likely to see in females because they are more lily to say they fear something than males because of societies views
4. d enhanced beliefs about coping abilities, learn not to self blame, CT+exposure - guilt but not symptom reduction
5. e portion of the frontal lobe located just above the eyes; one of three closely related brain regions that are unusually active in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. state of intense elation or irritability accompanied by other symptoms shown in the diagnostic criteria
   1. phobia
   2. mania
   3. fear
   4. anxiety
2. feeling of the worlds not being real during a panic attack
   1. dissociation
   2. overgeneralization
   3. derealization
   4. overly active
3. entails an extreme response to a severe stressor, including increased anxiety, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and a general numbing of emotional responses
   1. dysthymic disorder
   2. posttraumatic stress disorder
   3. panic disorder
   4. episodic disorder
4. aims to educate the family about the illness, enhance family communication, and develop problem solving skills
   1. family-focused treatment
   2. positive affect
   3. panic control therapy
   4. psych treatment of OCD
5. locus ceruleus- increase activity produces more norepinephrine causing more anxiety (only those susceptible to panic attacks)
   1. etiology of panic disorder (conditioning)
   2. exposure and response prevention
   3. typical places avoided by agoraphobics
   4. etiology of panic disorder (neurobiological )

5 True/False Questions

1. acute stress disorder → chronically depressed - more than half of the time for at least two years, they feel blue or derive little pleasure from usual activities and pastimes

   True        False

2. expressed emotion → family member's critical or hostile comments toward or emotional over involvement with the person with depression

   True        False

3. cognitive behavioral therapy → any behavior therapy procedure that attempts to alter the manner in chick a client thinks about life so that he or she changes overt behavior and emotions

   True        False

4. reward system → system of brain structures involved in motivation to pursue rewards. believed to be involved in depression, mania, schizophrenia, and substance abuse

   True        False

5. social risk factors for anxiety → less able to identify their own neg feelings, allocate attention to sources of threat more readily, borkovec's cognitive model

   True        False