STRESS TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE
EXAM 2025 WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Total lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV disorders in the ottal NCS-R - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔any
anxiety disorder = 28.8%
Everyday anxiety examples - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔worry about paying bills, landing a job, a
romantic breakup, or other lifetime events; embarrassment of self-consciousness in an
uncomfortable or awkward social situation; case of nerves or sweating before a big test,
business presentation; realistic fear of dangerous object, anxiety after traumatic event
Anxiety disorder examples - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔constant/unsubstantiated worry that causes
significant distress/interferes with daily life; avoiding social situations for fear of being judged;
seemingly out of the blue panic attacks; irriational fear of an object; recurring nightmares
related to traumatic event
Fight response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔stand your ground, defend your position, attack, dig in,
persevere
Flight response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔give way, retreat, discard, remove yourself, give up,
move on
Before learning--->Weak Stimulus--->Amygdala/Defensive survival circuit---> - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔--->no fear response
During learning--->weak stimulus or strong stimulus--->amygdala/defensive survival circuit---> -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--->moderate fear response
,After learning--->strong stimulus--->amygdala/defensive survival circuit---> - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔--->strong fear response
Generalized Anxiety: Physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔sleep disturbances,
fatigue, GI disturbances, aches, pains, headaches
Generalized anxiety: Behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔worry,
avoidant behaviors and thoughts, overvaluation of threat significance and likelihood; failure to
distinguish safety from danger
Generalized anxiety: Subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Feeling tense, worried, and
unable to relax or concentrate
PTSD: Physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sleep disturbances, exaggerated startle
PTSD: Behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Irritability; negative beliefs
and thoughts about oneself, recurrent memories of the trauma, hypervigilance, focus on
threats; avoidant behaviors and thoughts
PTSD: Subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feelings of fear, anger, guilt, shame,
alienation, lack of positive affect
Specific Phobia: Physiological Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pounding heart, trembling,
sweating, GI disturbances
Specific Phobia: Behavioral and Cognitive Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔behavioral and
mental freezing, avoidant behaviors and thoughts
, Specific Phobia: Subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feeling frightened and concerned
about being physically harmed by specific objects or situation
Social phobia: physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pounding heart, sweating,
blushing, GI disturbances, trembling, shaky voices
Social Phobia: behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Behavioral and
mental freezing, avoidant behaviors and thoughts
Social Phobia: subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feeling embarrassed or reject, or of
being observed
Panic disorder: physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔shortness of breath, choking
feeling, chest pains, GI disturbances, dizziness
Panic disorder: behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔avoidant behaviors
and thoughts
Panic Disorder: subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feelings of being out of control,
losing your mind, or that you will die
Threat (fear) conditioning can be what and modified how? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔can be
learned... and modified by new learning
Acute phase can be characterized by a range of stress reactions: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔intrusive memories, avoidance reactions, sleep disturbance, concentration
problems, irritability, emotional numbing, derealization, and depersonalization, and agitation
Longitudinal studies suggest that most of these responses are only for a short time period
EXAM 2025 WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Total lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV disorders in the ottal NCS-R - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔any
anxiety disorder = 28.8%
Everyday anxiety examples - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔worry about paying bills, landing a job, a
romantic breakup, or other lifetime events; embarrassment of self-consciousness in an
uncomfortable or awkward social situation; case of nerves or sweating before a big test,
business presentation; realistic fear of dangerous object, anxiety after traumatic event
Anxiety disorder examples - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔constant/unsubstantiated worry that causes
significant distress/interferes with daily life; avoiding social situations for fear of being judged;
seemingly out of the blue panic attacks; irriational fear of an object; recurring nightmares
related to traumatic event
Fight response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔stand your ground, defend your position, attack, dig in,
persevere
Flight response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔give way, retreat, discard, remove yourself, give up,
move on
Before learning--->Weak Stimulus--->Amygdala/Defensive survival circuit---> - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔--->no fear response
During learning--->weak stimulus or strong stimulus--->amygdala/defensive survival circuit---> -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--->moderate fear response
,After learning--->strong stimulus--->amygdala/defensive survival circuit---> - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔--->strong fear response
Generalized Anxiety: Physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔sleep disturbances,
fatigue, GI disturbances, aches, pains, headaches
Generalized anxiety: Behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔worry,
avoidant behaviors and thoughts, overvaluation of threat significance and likelihood; failure to
distinguish safety from danger
Generalized anxiety: Subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Feeling tense, worried, and
unable to relax or concentrate
PTSD: Physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sleep disturbances, exaggerated startle
PTSD: Behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Irritability; negative beliefs
and thoughts about oneself, recurrent memories of the trauma, hypervigilance, focus on
threats; avoidant behaviors and thoughts
PTSD: Subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feelings of fear, anger, guilt, shame,
alienation, lack of positive affect
Specific Phobia: Physiological Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pounding heart, trembling,
sweating, GI disturbances
Specific Phobia: Behavioral and Cognitive Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔behavioral and
mental freezing, avoidant behaviors and thoughts
, Specific Phobia: Subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feeling frightened and concerned
about being physically harmed by specific objects or situation
Social phobia: physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pounding heart, sweating,
blushing, GI disturbances, trembling, shaky voices
Social Phobia: behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Behavioral and
mental freezing, avoidant behaviors and thoughts
Social Phobia: subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feeling embarrassed or reject, or of
being observed
Panic disorder: physiological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔shortness of breath, choking
feeling, chest pains, GI disturbances, dizziness
Panic disorder: behavioral and cognitive symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔avoidant behaviors
and thoughts
Panic Disorder: subjective symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔feelings of being out of control,
losing your mind, or that you will die
Threat (fear) conditioning can be what and modified how? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔can be
learned... and modified by new learning
Acute phase can be characterized by a range of stress reactions: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔intrusive memories, avoidance reactions, sleep disturbance, concentration
problems, irritability, emotional numbing, derealization, and depersonalization, and agitation
Longitudinal studies suggest that most of these responses are only for a short time period
