Choose any three anxiety disorders and compare and contrast them
What will be an ideal response?
Student responses should include at least three of the following, noting their similarities and differences:
- anxiety disorders involve excessive worry, anxiety, or fear
- panic attacks involve intense physical feelings and thoughts that one will lose control
- panic disorder refers to regular unexpected panic attacks and worry about the consequences of these attacks
- social phobia refers to intense and ongoing fear of potentially embarrassing situations, often in the form of expected panic attacks
- specific phobias refer to excessive, unreasonable fear of an object or situation
- generalized anxiety disorder refers to extreme levels of persistence, uncontrollable worry
- obsessive-compulsive disorder refers to the presence of obsessions, troublesome and recurrent thoughts, and compulsions, or physical or mental acts performed in a response to the obsession to lessen distress
- posttraumatic stress disorder refers to constantly experiencing a traumatic event images, memories, nightmares, flashbacks, illusions, or other ways
- acute stress disorder refers to short-term anxiety and associated symptoms following trauma
- separation anxiety disorder refers to children with excessive worry about being away from home or from close family members
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a. Researchers chose the questions based on influential personality theories. b. Researchers chose the questions based on evidence. c. Researchers chose the questions based on their own intuitions. d. Researchers chose the questions based on ancient wisdom.
After damage to the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the body ____
a. cannot generate biological rhythms b. still has rhythms in synchrony with environmental patterns of light and dark c. still has rhythms, but they are less consistent d. still has rhythms, but they can only be reset by artificial light
Error bars can be misleading when
a. data are normally distributed b. data are skewed c. different groups have different amounts of variability d. Both a and c are true.
Your beliefs about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and acceptable or unacceptable are your
A. Ethics B. Values C. Integrity