Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)-primary symptoms
What will be an ideal response?
a. Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in > 1 ways:
Direct experience
Witnessed
Learned about s/t happening to close family member / friend
Repeated / extreme exposure to adverse details of traumatic event
b. Event persistently re-experienced (memories, dreams, flashbacks) ... or intense / prolonged distress ... or marked physiological reactions
c. Avoids stimuli associated with trauma/ responsive numbing
d. Alteration in cognitions and mood (memory problems; negative beliefs / expectations; distorted thoughts about event; negative emotional states; anhedonia; feelings of detachment; inability to feel positive emotions)
e. Alteration in arousal and reactivity
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The way we think about our social position and others in our collective world is:
A) self-esteem. B) social cognition. C) self-representation. D) self-image.
The familiarity effect is the tendency of people to:
a. be unable to distinguish between actual experiences and what they have been told. b. believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times. c. feel more positive toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus that they have seen often. d. overestimate their abilities to have predicted an event once the outcome is known.