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Which of the following is not required for a diagnosis of PTSD? |
| | A) | reexperiencing of the traumatic event |
| | B) | emotional numbing and detachment |
| | C) | hypervigilance and chronic arousal |
| | D) | persistent and uncontrollable worry |
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Which of the following statements is false about acute stress disorder? |
| | A) | It occurs in response to traumas like PTSD. |
| | B) | It occurs within one month of exposure to a stressor. |
| | C) | It must last longer than four weeks. |
| | D) | It often includes dissociative symptoms. |
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Which of the following is not a way in which children manifest PTSD symptoms differently than adults? |
| | A) | Children tend to express their distress through aches, pains, and other somatic symptoms. |
| | B) | Children try to act more like adults or their older siblings in order to deal with the trauma. |
| | C) | Children tend to generalize their anxiety to more situations. |
| | D) | Children tend to play out the trauma repetitively with dolls or other toys. |
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Which of the following is not a risk factor for PTSD? |
| | A) | Low social support. |
| | B) | Having low stress before the trauma hits (thus going from low to very high stress) |
| | C) | Detaching from the trauma and ongoing events. |
| | D) | Ruminating about one's symptoms. |
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Which of the following statements is true about combat veterans with PTSD? |
| | A) | They tend to have blunted physiological reactions to situations that remind them of their trauma. |
| | B) | When re-imagining combat scenes, they tend to show increased activity in the hippocampus. |
| | C) | They tend to have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. |
| | D) | They tend to show increased activity in the amygdala when imagining combat scenes. |
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Which of the following statements is true about treatment for PTSD? |
| | A) | Some clients are helped most by being exposed to memories of the trauma, whereas others are helped by avoiding memories or thoughts about the trauma. |
| | B) | Repeated exposure to one's memories of the trauma significantly reduces PTSD symptoms, but does not protect against relapse. |
| | C) | To be effective, treatment for PTSD should focus on the trauma rather than the client's other problems, such as marital problems. |
| | D) | Systematic desensitization is effective for phobias but not PTSD. |
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Which of the following appears to help PTSD sufferers avoid alcohol abuse? |
| | A) | tricyclic antidepressants |
| | B) | benzodiazepines |
| | C) | serotonin reuptake inhibitors |
| | D) | barbiturates |
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Which of the following statements about obsessive-compulsive disorder is false? |
| | A) | Compulsions can be either repetitive behaviors or mental acts. |
| | B) | Obsessions can be thoughts, images, ideas, or impulses. |
| | C) | People with OCD are considered to be psychotic because they cannot control their thoughts and behaviors. |
| | D) | People with OCD are aware of how irrational their thoughts and behaviors are. |
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OCD tends to begin: |
| | A) | between 6 and 15 years of age for women and between 20 and 29 years of age for men. |
| | B) | between 6 and 15 years of age for both genders. |
| | C) | between 15 and 20 years of age for men and between 20 and 29 years of age for women. |
| | D) | between 6 and 15 years of age for men and between 20 and 29 years of age for women. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | Most people with OCD are also depressed. |
| | B) | There does not appear to be a consistent gender difference in rates of OCD. |
| | C) | In the countries that have been studied, the rates of OCD do not vary widely. |
| | D) | In the United States, rates of OCD do not differ across ethnic groups. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | People with OCD do not carry out their impulses. |
| | B) | By definition, people with OCD have both obsessions and compulsions. |
| | C) | Compulsions are not functional. |
| | D) | Compulsions tend to quell obsessive thoughts briefly. |
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A brain circuit hypothesized to be dysfunctional in OCD is |
| | A) | orbital frontal cortex (r) caudate nucleus (r) thalamus. |
| | B) | basal ganglia (r) thalamus (r) orbital frontal cortex. |
| | C) | thalamus (r) orbital frontal cortex (r) basal ganglia. |
| | D) | caudate nucleus (r) thalamus (r) orbital frontal cortex. |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
| | A) | People with OCD have reduced activity in a primitive brain circuit thought to be important in the disorder. |
| | B) | The neurotransmitter GABA plays an important role in this primitive brain circuit. |
| | C) | OCD patients who respond to drug therapy show increased activity in this brain circuit. |
| | D) | OCD patients who respond to behavior therapy show decreased activity of the caudate nucleus and thalamus. |
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According to cognitive-behavioral theories of OCD, which is the following is not a reason why people with the disorder have trouble turning off their intrusive thoughts? |
| | A) | They may be generally anxious or depressed. |
| | B) | They have a tendency toward rigid, moralistic thinking. |
| | C) | They believe they cannot control their thoughts. |
| | D) | They equate having their thoughts with actually engaging in the behavior. |
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Which of the following is an effective treatment for OCD? |
| | A) | psychodynamic therapy |
| | B) | serotonin reuptake inhibitors |
| | C) | benzodiazepines |
| | D) | barbiturates |
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Which of the following has been found to significantly decrease PTSD symptoms and help prevent relapse? |
| | A) | Serotonin reuptake inhibitors. |
| | B) | Benzodiazepines. |
| | C) | Exposure therapy. |
| | D) | Tricyclic antidepressants. |
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Some people with PTSD have damage to the: |
| | A) | Hypothalamus. |
| | B) | Frontal lobes. |
| | C) | Hippocampus. |
| | D) | Adrenal cortex. |
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The most common focus of obsessive thoughts is: |
| | A) | Sexual impulses. |
| | B) | Aggressive impulses. |
| | C) | Dirt and contamination. |
| | D) | Repeated doubts. |
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The failure of which type of drug to treat OCD effectively provided a clue that OCD was different from the other anxiety disorders? |
| | A) | Serotonin reuptake inhibitors. |
| | B) | Tricyclic antidepressants. |
| | C) | Benzodiazepines. |
| | D) | Barbiturates. |
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Which of the following is not a diagnostic criterion for PTSD? |
| | A) | Three or more dissociative symptoms. |
| | B) | Reexperiencing the event. |
| | C) | Emotional numbing and detachment. |
| | D) | Exaggerated startle response. |
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