Anxiety Disorders

In any given year, what percentage of the adult population in the United States suffers from one of the six anxiety disorders identified by DSM-IV-TR?

What is the key characteristic of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) according to the DSM-IV-TR checklist?

According to the sociocultural perspective, what is the relationship between poverty and the rate of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?

In the psychodynamic perspective, what did Sigmund Freud believe was the cause of generalized anxiety disorder?

What is the core idea of Adrian Wells's metacognitive theory of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?

The biological perspective links generalized anxiety disorder to the inactivity of which neurotransmitter?

What is the most widely applied method of biofeedback for treating anxiety, which provides feedback about the level of muscular tension in the body?

What percentage of individuals with a specific phobia develop it at some point during their lives?

What is the behavioral-evolutionary explanation for why phobias of certain things like animals, heights, and darkness are more common than others?

In the treatment of specific phobias, which behavioral approach involves learning to relax while gradually facing feared objects or situations?

What is the annual prevalence of social phobia (social anxiety disorder) in the United States, and what is the female-to-male ratio?

According to cognitive theorists, people with social phobia hold a group of social beliefs and expectations that work against them. Which of the following is NOT one of those beliefs mentioned in the text?

What type of therapy helps people with social phobia learn or improve social skills and assertiveness through modeling, role-playing, and rehearsing desirable behaviors?

A panic attack, as described in the chapter, must feature at least how many symptoms of panic?

According to the biological perspective, which brain area, rich in neurons that use norepinephrine, is believed to be irregular in people who suffer from panic attacks?

In family pedigree studies of panic disorder, what is the concordance rate for the disorder among identical twins if one twin has it?

Cognitive theorists believe that panic-prone individuals misinterpret their bodily sensations as signs of a medical catastrophe. What is the term for the high degree of focus on, and illogical interpretation of, bodily sensations?

What percentage of clients with panic disorder have become free of panic after undergoing cognitive treatments, according to research mentioned in the chapter?

What is the key difference between an obsession and a compulsion in obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Which ego defense mechanism, described in the psychodynamic view of OCD, involves a person disowning their unwanted thoughts and experiencing them as foreign intrusions?

What is the name of the behavioral treatment for OCD where clients are repeatedly exposed to anxiety-producing stimuli and told to resist performing their compulsive acts?

Cognitive theorists suggest that people with OCD try to perform certain thoughts or behaviors to 'put matters right' or 'make amends' for their intrusive thoughts. What is this process called?

Biological research has linked obsessive-compulsive disorder to abnormal functioning in specific brain regions. Which two regions are particularly highlighted in the text?

Antidepressant drugs like clomipramine and fluoxetine are helpful in treating OCD because they increase the activity of which neurotransmitter?

According to the 'Call for Change: DSM-5' section, the task force recommended moving Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) into a new grouping. What is the name of this proposed new grouping?

Close to what percentage of all people develop an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives?

In Albert Ellis's cognitive theory, what are the inaccurate and inappropriate beliefs that he claimed people with generalized anxiety disorder often hold?

According to Thomas Borkovec's avoidance theory, people with generalized anxiety disorder worry repeatedly in order to accomplish what?

What percentage of the relatives of people with generalized anxiety disorder are also found to have the disorder, according to family pedigree studies?

The key to the success of exposure treatments for specific phobias appears to be what?

The culture-bound disorder 'taijin kyofusho', which is particularly common in Asian countries like Japan and Korea, is similar to social phobia but with a key difference. What is the primary fear in taijin kyofusho?

What is the annual prevalence rate of panic disorder in the United States?

In studies of people who scored high on anxiety sensitivity surveys, how much more likely were they to develop panic disorder than other people?

Between what percentage of people in the United States suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder in any given year?

What is the concordance rate for obsessive-compulsive disorder among fraternal twins?

The DSM-5 task force proposed that agoraphobia be listed as a distinct category rather than as a special type of panic disorder. What was the reason for this proposed change?

What is a central difference between fear and anxiety as defined in the chapter?

What percentage of individuals with an anxiety disorder seek treatment?

According to the humanistic perspective of Carl Rogers, what childhood experience leads to the development of generalized anxiety disorder?

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, which has been applied to GAD, helps clients to do what with their thoughts?

What is the main danger associated with taking benzodiazepines for an extended time?

In the famous study of Little Albert, what was the unconditioned stimulus (US) that elicited the unconditioned response (UR) of fear?

When treating social phobia, clinicians recognize two distinct features that may feed upon each other. What are these two features?

In the biological view of panic disorder, the 'alarm-and-escape' response is thought to be produced by a brain circuit that includes the amygdala and which other structures?

According to the cognitive explanation of panic disorder, what is the role of biological challenge tests in research and therapy?

What is the lifetime prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

In the psychodynamic view of OCD, which defense mechanism involves performing an act to cancel out an unacceptable impulse, such as repetitive hand washing to cancel out 'dirty' thoughts?

What percentage of clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder improve considerably with exposure and response prevention therapy?

According to the biological perspective, the brain circuit involved in OCD begins in the orbitofrontal cortex, where primitive impulses arise. These impulses then move to which structures that act as filters?

One of the final proposed changes for DSM-5 mentioned in the chapter is the creation of a new category for cases where symptoms of anxiety and depression are so intermixed that it is virtually impossible for a diagnostician to distinguish between them. What is this new category called?