1. According to Dr. Herman, "disasters" is the common name used for trau-
matic occurrences derived from human design: false
2. Childhood abuse includes neglectfully withholding medical care or other
necessities to sustain life: true
3. Throughout human history, hysteria was believed to be caused by: A wan-
dering uterus
Substance Being retained in the uterus
Unbearable emotions stemming from psychological trauma
Sexual deprivation
4. Jean-Martin Charcot was a student of Sigmund Freud.: false
5. The feminist movement helped officially recognize that post-traumatic
stress disorder can result from the hideous acts of perpetrators (e.g., rape,
domestic violence, etc: true
6. Who proposed that the symptoms of hysteria were caused by perverted acts
of childhood sexual abuse but later recanted: Sigmund Freud
7. Who was one of the first to humanely treat soldiers suffering from war
neurosis: William Rivers
8. During World War II, what was the primary goal of treatment?: Return the
soldier to the battlefield
9. From World War I to Vietnam, soldiers who exhibited trauma-induced symp-
toms were considered psychologically ill or predisposed to be mentally ill,
even weak and cowardly, by mental health professionals: true
10. During what decade did the DSM recognize post-traumatic stress disorder
as an actual condition: The 1980s
11. The sympathetic nervous system manages the body's :-
Energy and survival systems
12. The parasympathetic nervous system manages the body's : Rest
and relaxation systems
13. The Sympathetic-Adrenomedullary System is built to deal with what type
of stressors: Immediate
14. functions as the ignition system that activates the body's se-
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, curity system: Periaqueductal gray
15. is the brain's unconscious process of scanning the environment
for clues of safety or danger: Neuroception
16. Cells that fire together wire together" is known as the : neuronal
ensembles
17. The body's alarm system determines if we are safe or in danger.: true
18. The sympathetic nervous system prepares or supplies the body with
energy for and : Fight or flight
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