RST 230 CORRECT EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔generalized anxiety disorder - ✔✔-excessive, unrealistic worry that lasts 6 months or
more and physical symptoms
Amygdala
Fight or flight stress all the time, not being able to calm yourself down
✔✔panic disorder - ✔✔Severe attacks of panic and physical symptoms
Heart attack symptoms:
Trembling
Sweating
Fear of dying
Heart rate goes up
✔✔social anxiety disorder - ✔✔Extreme anxiety about being judged by others or
behaving in a way that may cause embarrassment or ridicule + physical symptoms
Symptoms:
Sweaty
Avoidance features - lack of eye contact
Increased heart rate
Red face - blushing
✔✔phobias - ✔✔Intense fear reaction to a specific object or situation
✔✔obsessive compulsive disorder - ✔✔Persistent, recurring thoughts (obsessions) that
may lead to performing a routine
✔✔body dysmorphic disorder - ✔✔a person cannot stop thinking about a minor or
imagined flaw in his/her appearance. It causes significant distress and impacts a
person's ability to function in daily life
, ✔✔ptsd - ✔✔post traumatic stress disorder
follows an exposure to a traumatic event
Causes:
Combat
Car accidents
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Spousal abuse
Symptoms:
Flinching
Avoid place where it happened
Nightmares / flashbacks
alcohol/substance abuse
✔✔eating disorders - ✔✔Life threatening illness in which people have a preoccupation
with food and an irrational fear of becoming fat
✔✔anorexia nervosa - ✔✔starving yourself
✔✔bulimia - ✔✔Binge eating- eating in a discrete period of time more than most people
would normally eat and a lack of control over eating during the episode
Compensatory behaviors - they make themselves throw up,over exercising, laxatives
✔✔pica - ✔✔-Eating non food substances
-Lint out of their dryers, paper, dirt
✔✔orthorexia - ✔✔Preoccupation with healthy food
Healthy foods take over your life - avoid social situations where unhealthy food is there,
do not go to restaurants that have unhealthy food
✔✔intermittent explosive disorder - ✔✔Extreme expressions of anger, often to the point
of uncontrollable rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand
Prevalence
Diagnostic criteria:
-A1 - high frequency, low intensity
Happens a few times a week, but low intensity. It is bearable, they are not physically
harmful
-A2 - low frequency, high intensity
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔generalized anxiety disorder - ✔✔-excessive, unrealistic worry that lasts 6 months or
more and physical symptoms
Amygdala
Fight or flight stress all the time, not being able to calm yourself down
✔✔panic disorder - ✔✔Severe attacks of panic and physical symptoms
Heart attack symptoms:
Trembling
Sweating
Fear of dying
Heart rate goes up
✔✔social anxiety disorder - ✔✔Extreme anxiety about being judged by others or
behaving in a way that may cause embarrassment or ridicule + physical symptoms
Symptoms:
Sweaty
Avoidance features - lack of eye contact
Increased heart rate
Red face - blushing
✔✔phobias - ✔✔Intense fear reaction to a specific object or situation
✔✔obsessive compulsive disorder - ✔✔Persistent, recurring thoughts (obsessions) that
may lead to performing a routine
✔✔body dysmorphic disorder - ✔✔a person cannot stop thinking about a minor or
imagined flaw in his/her appearance. It causes significant distress and impacts a
person's ability to function in daily life
, ✔✔ptsd - ✔✔post traumatic stress disorder
follows an exposure to a traumatic event
Causes:
Combat
Car accidents
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Spousal abuse
Symptoms:
Flinching
Avoid place where it happened
Nightmares / flashbacks
alcohol/substance abuse
✔✔eating disorders - ✔✔Life threatening illness in which people have a preoccupation
with food and an irrational fear of becoming fat
✔✔anorexia nervosa - ✔✔starving yourself
✔✔bulimia - ✔✔Binge eating- eating in a discrete period of time more than most people
would normally eat and a lack of control over eating during the episode
Compensatory behaviors - they make themselves throw up,over exercising, laxatives
✔✔pica - ✔✔-Eating non food substances
-Lint out of their dryers, paper, dirt
✔✔orthorexia - ✔✔Preoccupation with healthy food
Healthy foods take over your life - avoid social situations where unhealthy food is there,
do not go to restaurants that have unhealthy food
✔✔intermittent explosive disorder - ✔✔Extreme expressions of anger, often to the point
of uncontrollable rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand
Prevalence
Diagnostic criteria:
-A1 - high frequency, low intensity
Happens a few times a week, but low intensity. It is bearable, they are not physically
harmful
-A2 - low frequency, high intensity
