PSYC 304 ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉How is anxiety often oriented?. Answer: Future-oriented
responses
◉What part of your brain is responsible to recognizing threatening
situations?. Answer: Hypothalamus
◉Fight-or-Flight. Answer: A group of changes that occur in the body
to help fight or take in stressful or dangerous situations.
◉Does the Sympathetic Nervous System activate or deactivate your
Fight-or-Flight response?. Answer: It activates the Fight-or-Flight
response.
◉Parasympathetic Nervous System. Answer: It returns the body
back to its normal resting state by decreasing your heart rate, blood
pressure, and respiration.
◉What is an intense "burst" of anxiety-related physical symptoms
called?. Answer: Panic Attack
,◉Emotions have what three components? (Specifically emotions of
anxiety and fear). Answer: A physiological response, cognitive
symptoms or subjective distress, and avoidance/escape.
◉Worry. Answer: Apprehensive expectations about the future that
are considered to be unreasonable in light of the actual, or current,
situation.
◉In the general population anxiety are more common among males
or females?. Answer: Females
◉What group or groups have the highest risk of developing an
anxiety disorder?. Answer: Females and transgender and gender-
nonconforming individuals.
◉What are the somatic and cognitive symptoms of a panic attack? (
Try to List at least 5). Answer: Heart palpitations, sweating,
trembling, shortness of breath, choking, chest pain, nausea or
abdominal distress, dizziness, depersonalization or derealization,
fear of losing control or going crazy, fear of dying, tingling in the
hands or feet, and chills or heat sensations.
◉What are the defining characteristic of panic disorder?. Answer:
Panic Attacks
, ◉Panic Disorder. Answer: Experienced recurrent, unexpected panic
attacks. Which is then followed by one month of persistent concern
or worry about additional panic attacks or their consequences; a
significant maladaptive change in behavior related to the attacks.
◉Symptoms for panic disorder vary across racial groups and
cultural contexts (True or False). Answer: True
◉Agoraphobia. Answer: Anxiety disorder characterized by an
intense fear of places or situations.
◉What is the Criteria for Agoraphobia?. Answer: Individual must
have anxiety in two or more situations: public transportation,
standing in line or being in a crowd, open spaces, enclosed spaces, or
being outside the home alone.
◉Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Answer: Excessive worry occurring
more days than not and lastng for at least 6 months.
◉Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms. Answer: Restlessness or
feeling keyed up or on edge, being easily fatigued, difficulty
concentrating or mind going blank, irritability, muscle tension, sleep
disturbance.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉How is anxiety often oriented?. Answer: Future-oriented
responses
◉What part of your brain is responsible to recognizing threatening
situations?. Answer: Hypothalamus
◉Fight-or-Flight. Answer: A group of changes that occur in the body
to help fight or take in stressful or dangerous situations.
◉Does the Sympathetic Nervous System activate or deactivate your
Fight-or-Flight response?. Answer: It activates the Fight-or-Flight
response.
◉Parasympathetic Nervous System. Answer: It returns the body
back to its normal resting state by decreasing your heart rate, blood
pressure, and respiration.
◉What is an intense "burst" of anxiety-related physical symptoms
called?. Answer: Panic Attack
,◉Emotions have what three components? (Specifically emotions of
anxiety and fear). Answer: A physiological response, cognitive
symptoms or subjective distress, and avoidance/escape.
◉Worry. Answer: Apprehensive expectations about the future that
are considered to be unreasonable in light of the actual, or current,
situation.
◉In the general population anxiety are more common among males
or females?. Answer: Females
◉What group or groups have the highest risk of developing an
anxiety disorder?. Answer: Females and transgender and gender-
nonconforming individuals.
◉What are the somatic and cognitive symptoms of a panic attack? (
Try to List at least 5). Answer: Heart palpitations, sweating,
trembling, shortness of breath, choking, chest pain, nausea or
abdominal distress, dizziness, depersonalization or derealization,
fear of losing control or going crazy, fear of dying, tingling in the
hands or feet, and chills or heat sensations.
◉What are the defining characteristic of panic disorder?. Answer:
Panic Attacks
, ◉Panic Disorder. Answer: Experienced recurrent, unexpected panic
attacks. Which is then followed by one month of persistent concern
or worry about additional panic attacks or their consequences; a
significant maladaptive change in behavior related to the attacks.
◉Symptoms for panic disorder vary across racial groups and
cultural contexts (True or False). Answer: True
◉Agoraphobia. Answer: Anxiety disorder characterized by an
intense fear of places or situations.
◉What is the Criteria for Agoraphobia?. Answer: Individual must
have anxiety in two or more situations: public transportation,
standing in line or being in a crowd, open spaces, enclosed spaces, or
being outside the home alone.
◉Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Answer: Excessive worry occurring
more days than not and lastng for at least 6 months.
◉Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms. Answer: Restlessness or
feeling keyed up or on edge, being easily fatigued, difficulty
concentrating or mind going blank, irritability, muscle tension, sleep
disturbance.
