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Abnormal Psych Ch. 5

Pregunta 1 de 35

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In fight-or-flight he features of arousal and fear are set in motion by the HIPPOCAMPUS

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 35

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What two systems are activated in fight-or-flight responses?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Autonomic Nervous and Endocrine System

  • Lymphatic and Endocrine System

  • Lymphatic and Cardiovascular System

  • Autonomic Nervous and Cardiovascular System

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 35

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Which system when activated, stimulates some organs and inhibits others
 with the result of a state of general arousal.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Autonomic Nervous System

  • Endocrine System

  • Lymphatic System

  • Cardiovascular System

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 35

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SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM excited by dangerous situation
PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM facilitates return of bodily processes to normal

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 35

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When facing stressors, the hypothalamus signals the pituitary gland, which stimulates the adrenal cortex to release

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dopamine

  • Corticosteroids

  • Adrenaline

  • Cortexiphan

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 35

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With POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) symptoms begin immediately or soon after the traumatic event and last for less than one month

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 35

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Which is true of Acute and Posttraumatic 
Stress Disorders

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Reexperiencing the traumatic event

  • Avoidance

  • Reduced responsiveness

  • Increased arousal, negative emotions, and guilt

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 35

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Which of the following is FALSE about rape and PTSD?

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  • Research suggests that more than one-third of all victims of physical or sexual assault develop PTSD.

  • Rape is defined as forced sexual intercourse or another sexual act committed against a nonconsenting person or intercourse between an adult and an underage person

  • Around 1 in 6 women is raped at some time during her life; 29% are in college

  • Victims had poorer physical well-being for at least 5 years after the crime and made twice as many visits to physicians.

  • Ongoing victimization and abuse in the family—specifically child and spouse abuse—may also lead to psychological stress disorders.

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 35

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To understand the development of these disorders, researcher focus includes

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Survivors’ biological processes

  • Personalities

  • Childhood experiences

  • Social support systems

  • Cultural backgrounds

  • Severity of traumas

  • Education

  • Relationships

  • Age

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 35

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Trauma-related physical changes in the brain and body
Abnormal neurotransmitter and hormone activity (NOREPINEPHRINE and CORTISOL)
Biochemical arousal and damage may also occur (HIPPOCAMPUS and AMYGDALA)

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 35

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Which is NOT a factor of why people develop Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Biological and genetic factors

  • Personality factors

  • Risk factors like preexisting high anxiety and negative worldview

  • Experiences through life

  • Weak social support

  • Severity of the trauma

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 35

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What a set of positive attitudes protective against developing stress disorders

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Resiliency

  • Fight-or-Flight

  • Therapeutic thinking

  • Avoidance

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 35

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Mutilation and severe injury and witnessing the injury or death of others carry low risk of developing PTSD

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 35

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About half of all PTSD cases improve within a year; remainder may persist for years
 after that

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 35

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General goals for all PTSD programs include all BUT

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  • End lingering stress reactions

  • Return to constructive living

  • Gain perspective on painful experiences

  • Medicate to get rid of pain

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 35

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Treatment for combat veterans include all but

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Drug therapy

  • Cognitive exposure techniques

  • Insight therapy

  • Couple, family, or group therapy; rap groups

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 35

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What are a group of disorders in which some parts of one’s memory or identity seem to be dissociated, or separated, from other parts of one’s memory or identity

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • PTSD

  • Dissociative Disorders

  • Anxiety Disorders

  • Bipolar Disorders

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 35

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The key to our identity – the sense of who we are and where we fit in our environment is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Memory

  • Thoughts

  • Personality

  • Biology

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 35

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Individuals with dissociative disorders typically experience the significant arousal, negative emotions, and other symptoms associated with the stress disorders

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 35

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Which is not a Dissociative Disorder

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dissociative amnesia

  • Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

  • Depersonalization-derealization disorder

  • Dissociative personality

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 35

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Characteristics include inability to recall important information, usually of a stressful, personal nature and loss of memory not caused by physical factors, but directly triggered by a specific upsetting event

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dissociative Amnesia

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

  • Depersonalization-derealization disorder

  • Dissociative Fugue

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 35

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All forms of the disorder interferes mostly with memory for personal material but memory for abstract or encyclopedic information usually remains intact

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dissociative Amnesia

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

  • Depersonalization-derealization disorder

  • Dissociative Fugue

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 35

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Personal identities and details of their past are forgotten and fleeing to an entirely different location occurs. For some, the it is brief – a matter of hours or days for others, it is more severe: people may travel far from home, take a new name and establish new relationships, and even a new line of work; some display new personality characteristics. Tend to end abruptly

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dissociative Amnesia

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

  • Depersonalization-derealization disorder

  • Dissociative Fugue

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 35

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Two or more distinct subpersonalities develop with a unique set of memories, behaviors, thoughts, and emotions for each. One subpersonality dominates at any given time and transition to next personality is usually abrupt (switching)

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dissociative Amnesia

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

  • Depersonalization-derealization disorder

  • Dissociative Fugue

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 35

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Cases of this disorder were first reported almost three centuries ago
. Most cases are first diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood
. Women receive the diagnosis three times as often as men

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dissociative Amnesia

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

  • Depersonalization-derealization disorder

  • Dissociative Fugue

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 35

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Most common type of Dissociative Amnesia; loss of all memory of events occurring within a limited period

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Localized

  • Selective

  • Generalized

  • Continuous

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 35

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Type of Dissociative Amnesia dealing with loss of memory for some, but not all, events occurring within a period

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Localized

  • Selective

  • Generalized

  • Continuous

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 35

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Type of Dissociative Amnesia that involves loss of memory beginning with an event, but extending back in time; may lose sense of identity; may fail to recognize family and friends

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Localized

  • Selective

  • Generalized

  • Continuous

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 35

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Type of Dissociative Amnesia when forgetting continues into the future; quite rare in cases of dissociative amnesia

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Localized

  • Selective

  • Generalized

  • Continuous

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 35

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What is a mutually cognizant pattern?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Subpersonalities have no awareness of one another

  • Each subpersonality is well aware of the rest

  • Most common pattern; some personalities are aware of others, but the awareness is not mutual

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 35

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How do sub-personalities differ?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Identifying features

  • Abilities and preferences

  • Physiological responses

  • Age, sex, race, and family history

  • Hair color

  • Height

  • Smell

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 35

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Dissociative amnesia is a single episode of massive repression
DID is thought to result from a lifetime of excessive repression, motivated by very traumatic childhood events

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 35

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Which view states dissociative amnesia is a single episode of massive repression, while DID is thought to result from a lifetime of excessive repression, motivated by very traumatic childhood events


Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • psychodynamic

  • behavioral

  • humanistic

  • cognitive

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 35

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Which view states dissociation grows from normal memory processes and is a response learned through operant conditioning and dissociation is an escape behavior

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • psychodynamic

  • cognitive

  • behavioral

  • humanistic

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 35

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People with dissociative amnesia often recover on their own
 and people with DID usually require treatment to regain their lost memories and develop an integrated personality

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

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