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Neurotic disorders - correct answer Psychodynamic term for anxiety driven mental-health conditions that are manifested through avoidance patterns and defensive reactions Fear - correct answer A basic emotion that involves the activation of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system Panic attack - correct answer A severe, intense fear response that appears to come out of the blue; it has many physical and cognitive symptoms such as fear of dying or losing control Anxiety - correct answer A general feeling of apprehension about possible danger Anxiety disorders - correct answer An unrealistic, irrational fear or anxiety of disabling intensity. DSM-IV-TR recognized seven types of anxiety disorders Phobia - correct answer Persistent and disproportionate fear of some specific object or situation that presents little or no actual danger Specific phobia - correct answer Persistent or disproportionate fears of various objects, places or situations such as fears of situations (airplanes or elevators), other species (snakes or spiders) or aspects of the environment (high places or water) Blood-injection-injury phobia - correct answer Persistent and disproportionate fear of the sight of blood or injury, or the possibility of having an injection. Afflicted persons are likely to experience a drop in blood pressure and sometimes faint Prepared learning - correct answer The view that people are biologically prepared through evolution to more readily acquire fears of certain objects or situations that may have once posed a threat to our early ancestors Exposure therapy - correct answer A technique in psychological treatment of anxiety disorders that involves exposing the patient to the feared object or context without any danger in order to overcome the anxiety Social phobias - correct answer Fear of situations in which a person might be exposed to the scrutiny of others and fear of acting in a humiliating or embarrassing way Cognitive restructuring - correct answer Cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques that aim to change a person's negative or unrealistic thoughts and attributions Panic disorder - correct answer Occurrence of repeated unexpected panic attacks, often accompanied by intense anxiety about having another one Agoraphobia - correct answer Fear of being in places or situations where a panic attack may occur and from which escape would be physically difficult or psychologically embarrassing, or in which immediate help would be unavailable in the event that some mishap occurred Amygdala - correct answer A collection of nuclei that are almond shaped and that lie in front of the hippocampus in the limbic system of the brain. It is involved in regulation of emotion and is critically involved in the emotion of fear Panic provocation procedures - correct answer A variety of biological challenge procedures that provoke panic attacks at higher rates in people with panic disorder than in people without panic disorder Interoceptive conditioning - correct answer This term refers to a learning process that is similar to classic conditioning. There are two conditioned stimuli and one unconditioned response Exteroceptive conditioning - correct answer Modifying the perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body Anxiety sensitivity - correct answer A personality trait involving a high level of belief that certain bodily symptoms may have harmful consequences Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) - correct answer Chronic excessive worry about a number of events or activities, with no specific threat present, accompanied by at least three of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance Obsessive-compulsive disorder - correct answer Anxiety disorder characterized by the persistent intrusion of unwanted and intrusive thoughts or distressing images; these are usually accompanied by compulsive behaviors designed to neutralize the obsessive thoughts or images or to prevent some dreaded event or situation Obsessions - correct answer Persistent and recurrent intrusive thoughts, images or impulses that a person experiences as disturbing and inappropriate but has difficulty suppressing Compulsions - correct answer Overt repetitive behaviors (such as hand washing or checking); or more covert mental acts (such as counting, praying, saying certain words silently or ordering) that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession Exposure and response prevention - correct answer A method of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder that combines intense exposure of the patient to feared conditions and then they are asked not to respond by engaging in their usual rituals to the feared stimuli