PSYC 3082 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
PTSD - Answers - requires exposure to an event resulting in fear, person re-
experiences the event, avoidance, hyperarousal, cannot be made earlier than 1 month
after event
intensity of the trauma and one's reaction, uncontrollable and unpredictable, social
support, direct conditioning and observational learning - Answers - causes of PTSD
Acute PTSD - Answers - PTSD duration of symptoms is 1 to 3 months
chronic PTSD - Answers - PTSD duration of symptoms is more than 3 months
Delayed onset PTSD - Answers - PTSD onset of symptoms 6 months or more post-
trauma
Acute stress disorder - Answers - diagnosed within first month post-trauma; importance
of dissociation; only up to 1 month of symptoms
obsessions - Answers - intrusive and nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that one
tries to resist or eliminate; can lead to an anxiety increase
compulsions - Answers - actions to suppress the thoughts and provide relief
worry - Answers - person with OCD must have obsessions and/or compulsions; and
they must constantly __ about the obsessions/compulsions
other anxiety disorder, early life experiences, thought-action fusion - Answers - causes
of OCD
Exposure with response prevention - Answers - 65-75% success rate with symptom
decrease, involves overloading patient with obsession
cognitive-behavrioal - Answers - most effective treatment for OCD
relapse - Answers - some medication work for OCD but __ is common with medication
discontinuation
hypochonriasis - Answers - physical complaints without a clear cause; severe anxiety
focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease; medical
reassurance doesn't help; onset at any age; chronic
, somatization disorder - Answers - extended history of physical complaints before age
30; impairment in social functioning; concerned over symptoms not what they mean; not
concerned with developing a disease, just minor symptoms; rare, adolescence, chronic
conversion disorder - Answers - physical malfunctioning without any physical pathology;
malfunction involves sensory motor areas (vision, hearing, motor paralysis); retain most
normal function; chronic intermittent, females, adolescence, culture/religious group
conversion disorder - Answers - treated by removing sources of secondary gain,
reducing supportive consequences of talk about physical symptoms
dissociative identity disorder - Answers - involves adoption of several new identities;
formerly known as multiple personality disorder; blood pressure and resting heart rates
change between identities; new identities develop from repeated dissociations from the
person; alters, host, switch
alters - Answers - DID: refers to the different identities or personalities in DID
host - Answers - DID: the identity that seeks treatment and tries to keep identity
fragments together
switch - Answers - DID: often instantaneous transition from one personality to another-
could be seconds or minutes
major depression - Answers - extremely sad mood state lasting at least 2 weeks; effects
mood, thinking, feelings, body; feel hopelessness, worthless, indecisiveness; loss of
pleasure/interest; changes in appetite/sleep; untreated episode could last 9 months,
treatment prevents future episodes
unusual; common - Answers - a single depression episode is __ while a recurrent
episode is _
dysthymia - Answers - chronic low-grade depression; depressed mood for at least 2
years; symptoms of depression are mild; person is not happy; symptoms can persist
unchanged for long period of time
late onset - Answers - dysthymia occurring in the early 20s
early onset - Answers - dysthymia occurring before age 21, greater chronicity, poorer
prognosis
Bipolar I - Answers - alterations between full manic episodes and depressive episodes;
manic: elevated mood, racing thoughts, pressured speech, decreased need for sleep,
increase in goals, risk taking, paranoia; go could months without experiencing a manic
episode; average age 18 onset; chronic; suicide is common
ANSWERS
PTSD - Answers - requires exposure to an event resulting in fear, person re-
experiences the event, avoidance, hyperarousal, cannot be made earlier than 1 month
after event
intensity of the trauma and one's reaction, uncontrollable and unpredictable, social
support, direct conditioning and observational learning - Answers - causes of PTSD
Acute PTSD - Answers - PTSD duration of symptoms is 1 to 3 months
chronic PTSD - Answers - PTSD duration of symptoms is more than 3 months
Delayed onset PTSD - Answers - PTSD onset of symptoms 6 months or more post-
trauma
Acute stress disorder - Answers - diagnosed within first month post-trauma; importance
of dissociation; only up to 1 month of symptoms
obsessions - Answers - intrusive and nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that one
tries to resist or eliminate; can lead to an anxiety increase
compulsions - Answers - actions to suppress the thoughts and provide relief
worry - Answers - person with OCD must have obsessions and/or compulsions; and
they must constantly __ about the obsessions/compulsions
other anxiety disorder, early life experiences, thought-action fusion - Answers - causes
of OCD
Exposure with response prevention - Answers - 65-75% success rate with symptom
decrease, involves overloading patient with obsession
cognitive-behavrioal - Answers - most effective treatment for OCD
relapse - Answers - some medication work for OCD but __ is common with medication
discontinuation
hypochonriasis - Answers - physical complaints without a clear cause; severe anxiety
focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease; medical
reassurance doesn't help; onset at any age; chronic
, somatization disorder - Answers - extended history of physical complaints before age
30; impairment in social functioning; concerned over symptoms not what they mean; not
concerned with developing a disease, just minor symptoms; rare, adolescence, chronic
conversion disorder - Answers - physical malfunctioning without any physical pathology;
malfunction involves sensory motor areas (vision, hearing, motor paralysis); retain most
normal function; chronic intermittent, females, adolescence, culture/religious group
conversion disorder - Answers - treated by removing sources of secondary gain,
reducing supportive consequences of talk about physical symptoms
dissociative identity disorder - Answers - involves adoption of several new identities;
formerly known as multiple personality disorder; blood pressure and resting heart rates
change between identities; new identities develop from repeated dissociations from the
person; alters, host, switch
alters - Answers - DID: refers to the different identities or personalities in DID
host - Answers - DID: the identity that seeks treatment and tries to keep identity
fragments together
switch - Answers - DID: often instantaneous transition from one personality to another-
could be seconds or minutes
major depression - Answers - extremely sad mood state lasting at least 2 weeks; effects
mood, thinking, feelings, body; feel hopelessness, worthless, indecisiveness; loss of
pleasure/interest; changes in appetite/sleep; untreated episode could last 9 months,
treatment prevents future episodes
unusual; common - Answers - a single depression episode is __ while a recurrent
episode is _
dysthymia - Answers - chronic low-grade depression; depressed mood for at least 2
years; symptoms of depression are mild; person is not happy; symptoms can persist
unchanged for long period of time
late onset - Answers - dysthymia occurring in the early 20s
early onset - Answers - dysthymia occurring before age 21, greater chronicity, poorer
prognosis
Bipolar I - Answers - alterations between full manic episodes and depressive episodes;
manic: elevated mood, racing thoughts, pressured speech, decreased need for sleep,
increase in goals, risk taking, paranoia; go could months without experiencing a manic
episode; average age 18 onset; chronic; suicide is common
