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