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Autonomic Nervous System

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The network of fibers that connect the central nervous system to all the other organs of the body.

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Endocrine system

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The system of glands located throughout the body that help control important activities such as growth and sexyal activity

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Sympathetic nervous system

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The nerve fibers of the autonomic Nervous system that quicken the heart beat and produce other changes experienced as arousal and fear

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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The nerve fibers of the autonomic Nervous system that help return bodily process to normal

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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) pathway

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One route by which the brain and body produce arousal and fear.

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Corticosteroid

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A group of hormones including cortisol, released by the adrenal glands at times of sress.

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Acute stress disorder

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A disorder in which a person experiences fear and related symptoms soon after a traumatic event but for less than a month

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PTSD

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A disorder in Erich a person continues to experience gear and related symptoms long after a traumatic event.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

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A exposure treatment in which clients move their eyes in a rhythmic manner from side to side while flooding their minds with images of objects and situations they ordinarily avoid.

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Rap grounds

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The initial term from group therapy sessions among veterans, in which members meet to talk about an problems in an atmosphere of mutual support

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Psychological debriefing

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A form of Crisis Intervention in which victims are helped to talk about their feelings and reactions to traumatic incidents. Also called critical incident stress debriefing.

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Dissociative disorders

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Disorders marked by major changes in memory that do not have clear physical causes

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Memory

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The Faculty for recalling past events and past learning

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Dissociative amnesia

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A disorder marked by an inability to recall important personal events and information

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which a person develops two or more distinct personalities. Also known as multiple personality disorder.

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Subpersonalities

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The two or more distinct personalities found in individuals suffering with dissociative identity disorder. Also known as alternate personalities.

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State dependent learning

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Learning that becomes associated with the conditions under which it occurred, so that it is best remembered under the same condition.

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Self hypnosis

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The process of hypnotizing oneself, sometimes for the purpose of forgetting unpleasant events.

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Hypnotic therapy

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Treatment in which a patient goes under hypnosis and is invited to recall forgotten events or perform other therapeutic activities. Also known as hypnotherapy.

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Fusion

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The final merging of two or more sub personalities in dissociative identity disorder

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Depersonalization derealization disorder

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A dissociative disorder marked by the presence of persistent and recurrent episodes of depersonalization, derealization, or both

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Looking for rainbows while walking the dog in the rain is an example of

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Stress response

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In the face of fear, a person is unable to concentrate and develops a disordered view of the world. This person is showing which fear response?

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Cognitive

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A student who turns pale and feels nauseated when called on to speak in class is experiencing a what kind of response to stress?

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Physical

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In response to a threat we perspire breathe more quickly get goosebumps and feel nauseated. These responses are controlled by the

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Sympathetic nervous system

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The features of arousal and fear are set in motion by the brain area called

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Hypothalamus

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Imagine that you had a close call while driving, but now you feel your body returning to normal. Which part of your nervous system that is controlling this return to normalcy?

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The parasympathetic nervous system

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How would you describe the sympathetic nervous system pathway of the stress response

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The parasympathetic nervous system excites the sympathetic nervous system, which one excites body organs to release hormones that serve as neurotransmitters, producing even more arousal.

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How would you accurately the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal pathway of the stress response?

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The hypothalamus stimulate the pituitary gland to produce corticosteroids that cause the adrenal gland to release adreno corticotropic hormone.

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I am generally a calm, relaxed person. If you are generally a tense, excitable person, we differ in what kind of anxiety

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Trait anxiety

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Situation or state anxiety

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Anxiety that is produced by specific events

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A person with post-traumatic stress disorder who is upset by what she or he had to do to survive and perhaps even feels Unworthy of surviving is

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Experiencing increased anger, anxiety, and guilt.

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Based on recent research, it can be concluded that the impact of repeated combat deployments

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Significantly increases one's risk of developing PTSD

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How concerned should we be about victims of sexual assault and Terror? Is there a very great risk that they will experience PTSD?

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Best, the risk is great more than a third of sexual assault victims and about half of Terror victims experience PTSD

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In which racial group is a woman's risk of being raped the greatest, relative to the group's percentage of the population?

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The first highest is Indian American women but the question is going to ask for African Americans

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A torture victim who is subject to threats of death, mock execution comma and degradation is experiencing what type of torture?

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Psychological torture

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Physiological torture

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Meetings, waterboarding, and electrocution are all examples

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Psychological

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Threats of death, mock executions, verbal abuse, and degradation are all examples

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Sexual torture

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Rape, violence to the genitals, sexual humiliation are all examples

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Torture through deprivation

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Sleep, Century, social, nutritional, medical, or hiding deprivation are all examples

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What do we know about the inheritance of PTSD

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Pregnant women with higher cortisol levels also have children with higher cortisol levels

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According to research which person would be most likely not to develop a stress disorder following trauma?

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Someone who believes that events are generally under his or her control

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A flash flood hits a small Appalachian Community. It was providing critical incident stress debriefing intervention would

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Provide short-term counseling services

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Which is an accurate statement about the effectiveness of psychological debriefing in the aftermath of the disaster based on research studies?

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Debriefing doesn't work too well that might even make victims worse

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Dissociative disorders

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Involve major changes in memory

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In the most common type of dissociative Amnesia a person loses memory for

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All events beginning with the trauma but within a limited period of time

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Shawn experiences a mugging and robbery in which his dog gets kidnapped. Eventually the dog is found and returned. However, he is still unable to recall events immediately following the attack, up until the safe return of the dog. This is a classic example of

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Localized amnesia

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A client who is talking calmly and rationally all of the sudden begins whining and complaining like a spoiled child. If that client suffers from to dissociative identity disorder the client just experienced

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Switching

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Research on evoked potential with people with dissociative identity disorder has revealed that

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Difference of personalities have shown different brain response patterns

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How to results from evoked potential study supports the idea of the existence of multiple personality disorders?

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Difference in personalities have been found to show different brainwave patterns

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"An abused child thoughts occasionally drift to the other, less anxiety arousing, topics; this anxiety reduction that serves to strengthen other thoughts, while weakening the thoughts about abuse." A psychologist with which theoretical background would be most likely to offer this quotation as an explanation for the development of dissociative disorders?

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Behavioral

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Which hypothesis to use to explain dissociative disorders is shared by psychodynamic and behavioral therapist?

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They serve to help.someone escape something unpleasant

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If the state-dependent learning explanation that disassociative disorders is correct, a person may not remember stressful events because he or she is

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Add a different arousal level after the stress is over

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Individual is experiencing disassociate of the Amnesia sometimes are given sodium amobarbital or sodium pentobarbital because those drugs:

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Calm people and reduce their inhibitions

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One of the sub personalities of a person receiving treatment for dissociative identity disorder has just become a protector. How far along in therapy has the person probably progressed?

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Moderately far because of protector usually emerges before sub personality integration

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The effects of taking hallucinogens accompanied by feelings that objects are changing size, that other people are distorted, and that one might be mechanical is most similar to

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Depersonalization

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A feeling of Detachment from oneself could be diagnosed as PTSD or depersonalization disorder. How could one decide which diagnosis is best?

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By considering which symptoms are predominant

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If a person's mental functioning of body feels unreal or foreign this person is most likely suffering from

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Depersonalization

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When a person feels the external world is removed, Mechanicville, just ordered, or even dead, he or she is experiencing

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Derealization