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6. What disorder is OCD often accompanied by?

  • Post-natal depression
  • Phobias
  • Depression
  • Bipolar

7. Negative of drugs?

  • long term effects
  • pain
  • side effects. like indegestion and blurred vision
  • compromising surgery

8. What does the drug do?

  • gives out serotonin so increased levels in synapse
  • prevents signal from passing so increased levels in synapse
  • prevent reabsorption of serotonin so increase levels in synapse
  • absorbs serotonin so decreased levels in synapse

9. What does the diathesis stress model say?

  • OCD can be said to be polygenic
  • The model specifically says that OCD is mainly genetic.
  • That certain genes mean that a person is more liekly to suffer OCD but its not certain bc environmental stress is needed to trigger it.
  • Genes determine whether or not the individual is vulnerable to OCD and the environment has no influence on its triggering

10. Taken for?

  • 1-3weeks
  • 3-4m
  • 3-4yrs
  • 2days

11. Different types of OCD are caused by....

  • different eating and sleeping patterns
  • different groups of genes in different people
  • different environmental experiences
  • different IQs

12. Why are antidepressants supporting the neural explanation?

  • because they work on serotonin system.
  • cure OCD.
  • because they help the frontal lobes.
  • because they stop abnormality.

13. There is good supporting evidence for the gentic explanation through....

  • it doesnt have good supporting evidence
  • Antidepressant Drugs
  • Nestadts Twin Studies
  • Taylors Research into candidate genes

14. Postive about drugs?

  • most effective
  • cost effective and non disruptive
  • quick
  • no side effects

15. Which is a behavioural characteristic of OCD?

  • Avoidance
  • Panic
  • Endurance
  • Guilt

16. Bias from .....

  • sponsored drug companies
  • doctors, resreacher bias
  • patients, social desirbality bias
  • developers

17. Why dont we know which neural mechs are involved?

  • Neural mechs don' exist in humans
  • Different ones are involved somtimes and none are allways involved.
  • Brain scanning is not advanced enough
  • We can't identify brain parts.

18. Compulsions are..........

  • Repetive
  • Cause anxiety
  • Singular
  • Long Lasting

19. For 90% of sufferes the major cognitive element of their condition is?

  • Obsessive Thoughts
  • Insight into excessive anxiety
  • Cognitive strategies to deal with obsession
  • Compulsions

20. Which treatment are these drugs cobined with?

  • Pills
  • CBT
  • Systematic Desensitisation
  • Flooding