Psy exam 2 study guide
How does fear differ from anxiety?
What category of mental disorders is most common in the U.S.?
What behaviors are most characteristic of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and phobic disorder?
Familiarize yourself with the following terms: free-floating anxiety, irrational
assumption, biological preparedness, systematic desensitization, flooding, exposure and
response prevention,state anxiety, trait anxiety, flashback, resiliency (aka hardiness)
How does psychodynamic perspective explaing anxiety disorders? Humanistic? Rogers'
client-centered perspective? Avoidance Theory of Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What evidence, from family studies, do we have for a biological basis for Generalized
Anxiety Disorder?
What biological treatment for anxiety does not involve drugs?
How do obsession and compulsion differ, and how are they related?
How are posttraumatic stress disorder and acute distress disorder alike and what
differentiates these?
What behaviors are most characteristic of conversion disorder, hypochondriasis and
somatization disorder, and how do these somataform disorders differ from on another?
Does any one theory explain the cause of somataform disorders well?
What behaviors are most characteristic of body dysmorphic disorder, dissociative
amnesia, dissociative fugue, and dissociative identity disorder?
How does the psychodynamic perspective explain conversion disorder? Behavioral
perspective? Cognitive? What is the common factor in the explanations offered by the
psychodynamic and behavioral perspectives? According to the psychodynamic
perspective what is primary gain and secondary gain in the somataform disorders?
Familiarize yourself with the following terms: switching and episodic memory.
In the past, dissociative identity disorder may have been misdiagnosed as what?
Why might the psychodynamic perspective be the best treatment for dissociative identity
disorder?
According to the research, is psychological debriefing effective for trauma victims?
According to the psychophysiologica research, how did those with dissociative identity
disorder differ from those who were faking the disorder?