PSY 381 Ch 06 Answers- Anxiety Disorders

PSY 381 Ch 06 Answers- Anxiety Disorders 1. Anxiety can be _____ at low levels but _____ at high levels. adaptive; incapacitating excessive; emotionally arousing debilitating; socially acceptable rarely seen; invisible 2. Acrophobia is the fear of insects. social situations. animals. heights. 3. Compulsions can best be defined as irrational fears of situations. emotional states derived from environmental threats. repetitive behaviors that reduce anxiety. unwanted intrusive thoughts or images. 4. Sylvia, an attractive woman in her thirties, was preoccupied with perceived defects in her personal appearance. She thought that she saw a slight difference in the size of her two ears, and that the right eyebrow was higher than the left. Others people would not have noticed or cared about these perceived defects. What disorder would DSM-5 indicate that Sylvia had? Trichotillomania Checking compulsion Body dysmorphic disorder Excoriation 5. In terms of classifying mental disorders, “lumpers” are experts who argue that anxiety is a generalized condition without subdivisions. all anxiety is chronic. various types of anxiety have individual etiologies. emotional responses to anxiety fall into only two categories. ....Continued....