BHS 175 Final Exam Questions And Answers
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According to Dr. Herman, "disasters" is the common name used for traumatic occurrences derived from
human design - answer✔false
Childhood abuse includes neglectfully withholding medical care or other necessities to sustain life -
answer✔true
Throughout human history, hysteria was believed to be caused by - answer✔A wandering uterus
Substance Being retained in the uterus
Unbearable emotions stemming from psychological trauma
Sexual deprivation
Jean-Martin Charcot was a student of Sigmund Freud. - answer✔false
The feminist movement helped officially recognize that post-traumatic stress disorder can result from
the hideous acts of perpetrators (e.g., rape, domestic violence, etc - answer✔true
Who proposed that the symptoms of hysteria were caused by perverted acts of childhood sexual abuse
but later recanted - answer✔Sigmund Freud
Who was one of the first to humanely treat soldiers suffering from war neurosis - answer✔William
Rivers
During World War II, what was the primary goal of treatment? - answer✔Return the soldier to the
battlefield
From World War I to Vietnam, soldiers who exhibited trauma-induced symptoms were considered
psychologically ill or predisposed to be mentally ill, even weak and cowardly, by mental health
professionals - answer✔true
During what decade did the DSM recognize post-traumatic stress disorder as an actual condition -
answer✔The 1980s
The sympathetic nervous system manages the body's ______________ - answer✔Energy and survival
systems
The parasympathetic nervous system manages the body's _______ - answer✔Rest and relaxation
systems
The Sympathetic-Adrenomedullary System is built to deal with what type of stressors -
answer✔Immediate
_________ functions as the ignition system that activates the body's security system -
answer✔Periaqueductal gray
________ is the brain's unconscious process of scanning the environment for clues of safety or danger -
answer✔Neuroception
Cells that fire together wire together" is known as the _________ - answer✔neuronal ensembles
The body's alarm system determines if we are safe or in danger. - answer✔true
The sympathetic nervous system prepares or supplies the body with energy for _________ and
__________ - answer✔Fight or flight
Which component of the body's alarm system has a low road pathway to quickly activate the body's
stress and defense systems - answer✔Amygdala
The shut-down process is part of what system in the body - answer✔Dorsal vagal system
What causes the body's alarm system to become hypersensitive long after the traumatic event? -
answer✔Structural and functional changes in the brain
Trauma-induced symptoms only occur if someone experiences a traumatic even firsthand -
answer✔false
What is the meaning of the concept traumagenesis - answer✔The etiology or cause of trauma
Trauma refers to an event that causes psychological harm - answer✔false
Traumatic stress has the potential to rewrite the neurocircuitry in the nervous system - answer✔true
Trauma-informed professionals view trauma-induced symptomatic behaviors caused by disease,
disorder, or intentionality. - answer✔false
If someone personally experienced a traumatic event, what classification would it be - answer✔Primary
traumatic stress
If someone heard about a friend's traumatic experience, what classification would it be -
answer✔Secondary traumatic stress
Emotional contagion occurs through a process known as somatic empathy - answer✔True
___________ is passed on to future generations - answer✔Epigenetic trauma
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