PSYC 3082 GROS EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
PTSD symptoms - Answers - Reexperiencing, avoidance, numbing, persists for one
month or more
Anxiety and related disorders occur when : - Answers - natural and adaptive processes
become disproportionate to the environment
PTSD etiology - Answers - trauma exposure
Why are trauma and stressor related disorders grouped together in DSM-5 - Answers -
Shared origin (stressful life events)
What plays a role in the development of PTSD? - Answers - Intensity of trauma
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Biological vulnerability
Uncontrollability and unpredictability
Social support
OCD symptoms - Answers - Vicious cycle of obsessions and compulsions
Risks for the development of OCD - Answers - Early life experiences
Learning that some thoughts are dangerous/unacceptable
Thought-action fusion (thinking something will make it more likely to happen
Treatment of OCD - Answers - CBT
Combining CBT with medication is no better than CBT alone
Hoarding disorder - Answers - Used to be considered OCD
Excessive collecting
Trichotillomania - Answers - Hair pulling disorder
Excoriation - Answers - Repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin
Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Answers - Preoccupation with some imagined defect in
appearance (actual defect seems slight to others)
Somatic Symptom disorders - Answers - Preoccupation with health/ body appearance
and functioning
T/F: Body Dismporphic disorders used to be somatic symptom disorder, but is now
obsessive-compulsive - Answers - True
, T/F: Somatic symptom disorders used to be called "somatoform disorders" - Answers -
True
Illness anxiety disorder - Answers - Physical complaints without a clear cause
(Similar to DSM-IV hypochondriasis)
Koro - Answers - Fear of genitals retracting into abdomen
Dhat - Answers - dizziness, weakness and fatigue associated with semen loss
Kyol goeu - Answers - Wind overload
Conversion disorder - Answers - Physical malfunctoning of sensory or motor
functioning.
(La belle indifference)
La belle indifference - Answers - indifferent attitude associated with CD
Factitious disorder - Answers - Purposely faking physical symptoms for no obvious
reason
Dissociative Identity Disorder - Answers - (Formerly multiple personality disorder)
Dissociation of personality
Usually history of horrible child abuse
Alters
Host
Switch
(DID) - Answers - Alters- Different identities or personalities
Host- Identity that keeps other identities together
Switch- Quick transition from one personality to the other
Depersonalization - Answers - Distortion in perception of one's own body or experience
(feeling like your own body isn't real)
Derealization - Answers - Losing a sense of the external world (sense of living in a
dream)
Dissociative amnesia - Answers - Includes several forms of psychogenic memory loss
Generalized type dissociative amnesia - Answers - Inability to recall anything
Localized or selective type dissociative amnesia - Answers - Failure to recall specific
(usually traumatic) events
VERIFIED ANSWERS
PTSD symptoms - Answers - Reexperiencing, avoidance, numbing, persists for one
month or more
Anxiety and related disorders occur when : - Answers - natural and adaptive processes
become disproportionate to the environment
PTSD etiology - Answers - trauma exposure
Why are trauma and stressor related disorders grouped together in DSM-5 - Answers -
Shared origin (stressful life events)
What plays a role in the development of PTSD? - Answers - Intensity of trauma
Learn alarms
Biological vulnerability
Uncontrollability and unpredictability
Social support
OCD symptoms - Answers - Vicious cycle of obsessions and compulsions
Risks for the development of OCD - Answers - Early life experiences
Learning that some thoughts are dangerous/unacceptable
Thought-action fusion (thinking something will make it more likely to happen
Treatment of OCD - Answers - CBT
Combining CBT with medication is no better than CBT alone
Hoarding disorder - Answers - Used to be considered OCD
Excessive collecting
Trichotillomania - Answers - Hair pulling disorder
Excoriation - Answers - Repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin
Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Answers - Preoccupation with some imagined defect in
appearance (actual defect seems slight to others)
Somatic Symptom disorders - Answers - Preoccupation with health/ body appearance
and functioning
T/F: Body Dismporphic disorders used to be somatic symptom disorder, but is now
obsessive-compulsive - Answers - True
, T/F: Somatic symptom disorders used to be called "somatoform disorders" - Answers -
True
Illness anxiety disorder - Answers - Physical complaints without a clear cause
(Similar to DSM-IV hypochondriasis)
Koro - Answers - Fear of genitals retracting into abdomen
Dhat - Answers - dizziness, weakness and fatigue associated with semen loss
Kyol goeu - Answers - Wind overload
Conversion disorder - Answers - Physical malfunctoning of sensory or motor
functioning.
(La belle indifference)
La belle indifference - Answers - indifferent attitude associated with CD
Factitious disorder - Answers - Purposely faking physical symptoms for no obvious
reason
Dissociative Identity Disorder - Answers - (Formerly multiple personality disorder)
Dissociation of personality
Usually history of horrible child abuse
Alters
Host
Switch
(DID) - Answers - Alters- Different identities or personalities
Host- Identity that keeps other identities together
Switch- Quick transition from one personality to the other
Depersonalization - Answers - Distortion in perception of one's own body or experience
(feeling like your own body isn't real)
Derealization - Answers - Losing a sense of the external world (sense of living in a
dream)
Dissociative amnesia - Answers - Includes several forms of psychogenic memory loss
Generalized type dissociative amnesia - Answers - Inability to recall anything
Localized or selective type dissociative amnesia - Answers - Failure to recall specific
(usually traumatic) events
