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A tendency to experience chronic negative emotions is called
Neuroticism
The most effective treatment in anxiety disorder is?
psychotherapy
Change the stressor or one relationships to it through direct actions or problems is
Problem direct coping
Which theory of personality say that behaviour is motivated by powerful inner forces?
None of these: Humanistic theory, Trait theory, Cognitive theory
Mental disorders marked by physiological arousal - feeling of tension and intense apprehension without apparent reason are
Anxiety disorders
A behavioural technique in which is taught to prevent the arousal of anxiety of confronting the feared stimuli while relaxed - called?
Systematic desensitization (panic order, part of counterconditioning)
The most traumatic event leading to developing PTSD is
Rape
Attributing uncomfortable feelings to others is psychological defines mechanism
Projection
Which model describe stress as an automatic response to external stressors?
Fight or flight theory ,
Alterations in thinking; mood or behaviour associated with distress and/or impaired functioning as well as increased mortality rate are specific for
Mental disorders
Positive reinforcement is a technique in
behavioural psychotherapy
Resistance and vulnerability factor influencing stress and health relation are:
Coping responses, Personality characteristics and social support
Type A behaviour describe by freedman and dosenhan is a risk factor for
Coronary heart disease
True or false: Gad occurs at a 1:2 male-to-female ratio
False
True or false: Attacks of GAD usually last a few minutes
False (panic attacks)
True or false: Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by unrealistic concerns about that subject and physical symptoms of permanent arousal
True
OCD male-to-female ratio?
1-1
A disorder characterized by the physical results of phonological factors is
Psychosomatic disorder
The assumption that mental and behavioural reactions are determined by pervious expenses is
Psychic determinism
True or false: About half of those suffering form an anxiety disorders receive treatment?
True
The concept of “primacy effect” means that:
Patients have tendency to remember the first thing they are told
True or false: Social withdrawal is a part of ASD characteristic?
False
Rosenhans research “Being sane is an insane place” has not shown that:
its very difficult to get rid of schizophrenia diagnosis while it was once diagnosed
A smoker concluded that the evidence linking cigarette use to health problems is scientifically worthless. Which psychological defends mechanisms is this=
Denial
Which of these describe systematic desensitization therapy:
training in relation, hierarchy construction and counterconditioning¨
An enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual culture is:
Personality disorder
Talking to friends about problems is which kind of coping:
Emotion focused coping (behavioural)
The reason for the manipulative behaviour in personality disorders is:
Poor functioning of frontal lobe(personality in frontal lobe - think lobotomy)
True or false: PTSD is twice common in men?
False
Intrusions – Avoidance and hyper arousal are typical in:
Panic attacks
Chronic feeling emptiness – substance abuse – unstable interpersonal relationships – lack of control over anger – impulsive sexual behaviour and suicidal behaviour are typical in personality disorder:
Borderline
In which psychotherapy is genogram the basis psychotherapeutic tool?
Systemic psychotherapy
The term “psychotic defences” refers to unconscious attempt to:
establish new reality by avoiding conflict situations
Aversion therapy is a technique in
Behavioural psychotherapy (behavioural - counter conditioning)
Which stress theory examines stress as a response to life experiences?
General adaption syndrome
“Koro” means:
An episode of sudden and intense anxiety that the penis will recede into the body and possibly cause death
According to the research the sources of shyness are not connected with?
Brain damage
A student who unconsciously dislikes his teacher this that the teacher doesn’t like him – which psychological defends mechanism is this?
Projection
Which model describe stress as an automatic response to external stressor?
Fight or flight theory
The function of the defences is:
To protect the ego for the anxiety as the individual is able to think
Contemporary assumption in health psychology stated that?
Mind and body interact with each other
The study of human body language including facial expressions-gesture-posture and eye contact is:
kinesics
Which model states that the causes of psychopathology are located inside the person?
psychodynamic
Genetic predisposition – poverty – low educational level and lack of social support are factors responsible for?.
Being vulnerable for trauma