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PSYC 510 Final Exam Questions with 100% VERIFIED
Answers UPDATED!!!
Characterized by preoccupations (thoughts) and repetitive
behaviors or mental actions - ANSWER obsessive-compulsive
disorder
- Recurrent thoughts, impulses, images
- Attempts to ignore or suppress
- Recognition that these are one's own thoughts - ANSWER
obsessions
- Repetitive behaviors in response to obsessions
- Aimed at reducing distress or preventing event, but not
realistic - ANSWER compulsions
What are some common obsessions? - ANSWER -
contamination
- harm to self/others
- symmetry
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What are some common compulsions? - ANSWER - washing
- repeating
- checking
- touching
- arranging
· Epidemiology and Course of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
o Prevalence about _____%
o More common in boys during _______________, but girls
catch up in _______________
o Mean age of onset _____-_____
o Fewer than _____% show complete remission - ANSWER - 1%
- childhood; adolescence
- 9-12
- 10%
What is the treatment approach for OCD? - ANSWER Exposure +
response prevention
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What are two related disorders to OCD? - ANSWER 1. tic
disorders
2. trichotillomania
· Tic disorders
o _____-_____% of youth; 3x more likely in __________
o Onset around age _____
o Tics typically _______________ in complexity over time, but
are also likely to __________ and __________
o May last a __________ or __________, or __________ to
__________ - ANSWER - 6-20%; males
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- increase; wax and wane
- second or two; minutes to hours
· Trichotillomania
o _____% of youth; 2x more likely in _______________
o Generally _______________ course - ANSWER - 1%; females
- chronic
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What is the treatment course for OCD-related disorders? -
ANSWER · Habit reversal
o Identify triggers (antecedents)
o Reinforce youth resisting the urge
o Provide an alternate/competing response
o Reinforce the alternate/competing response
o Lots of practice!
o Exposure to trauma (actual or threatened death or injury)
o Re-experiencing
- Intrusive memories, nightmares, reenactment
o Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli
o Changes in arousal/reactivity
- Hypervigilance, exaggerated startle, difficulties with
sleep/concentration
o Changes in thoughts/mood
- Difficulty remembering, self-blame, negative beliefs about
self/world - ANSWER post-traumatic stress disorder
· PTSD - Epidemiology
PSYC 510 Final Exam Questions with 100% VERIFIED
Answers UPDATED!!!
Characterized by preoccupations (thoughts) and repetitive
behaviors or mental actions - ANSWER obsessive-compulsive
disorder
- Recurrent thoughts, impulses, images
- Attempts to ignore or suppress
- Recognition that these are one's own thoughts - ANSWER
obsessions
- Repetitive behaviors in response to obsessions
- Aimed at reducing distress or preventing event, but not
realistic - ANSWER compulsions
What are some common obsessions? - ANSWER -
contamination
- harm to self/others
- symmetry
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What are some common compulsions? - ANSWER - washing
- repeating
- checking
- touching
- arranging
· Epidemiology and Course of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
o Prevalence about _____%
o More common in boys during _______________, but girls
catch up in _______________
o Mean age of onset _____-_____
o Fewer than _____% show complete remission - ANSWER - 1%
- childhood; adolescence
- 9-12
- 10%
What is the treatment approach for OCD? - ANSWER Exposure +
response prevention
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What are two related disorders to OCD? - ANSWER 1. tic
disorders
2. trichotillomania
· Tic disorders
o _____-_____% of youth; 3x more likely in __________
o Onset around age _____
o Tics typically _______________ in complexity over time, but
are also likely to __________ and __________
o May last a __________ or __________, or __________ to
__________ - ANSWER - 6-20%; males
-9
- increase; wax and wane
- second or two; minutes to hours
· Trichotillomania
o _____% of youth; 2x more likely in _______________
o Generally _______________ course - ANSWER - 1%; females
- chronic
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What is the treatment course for OCD-related disorders? -
ANSWER · Habit reversal
o Identify triggers (antecedents)
o Reinforce youth resisting the urge
o Provide an alternate/competing response
o Reinforce the alternate/competing response
o Lots of practice!
o Exposure to trauma (actual or threatened death or injury)
o Re-experiencing
- Intrusive memories, nightmares, reenactment
o Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli
o Changes in arousal/reactivity
- Hypervigilance, exaggerated startle, difficulties with
sleep/concentration
o Changes in thoughts/mood
- Difficulty remembering, self-blame, negative beliefs about
self/world - ANSWER post-traumatic stress disorder
· PTSD - Epidemiology
