1. Which of these is a not a symptom of generalised anxiety disorder?

1. Worry
    
2. Apprehension
    
3. Paranoia
    
4. Palpitations

2. Greenbaum et al. (1988) observed mothers and their children in a paediatric hospital waiting room and found that

1. Anxious behaviour in the mother preceded anxious behaviour in the child
    
2. Anxious behaviour in the child preceded anxious behaviour in the mother
    
3. Anxious behaviour in the mother preceded anxious behaviour in the child, but anxious behaviour in the child preceded anxious behaviour in the mother as well
    
4. Children’s anxiety was predicted by their attachment style

3. Both alcohol and benzodiazepines make people feel less anxious because of their effects on which neurotransmitter?

1. Serotonin
    
2. Dopamine
    
3. GABA
    
4. Acetlycholine

4. Which theory of worry proposes that the purpose of worry is to suppress the emotional processing of fear?

1. Contrast Avoidance Model
    
2. Metacognitive model
    
3. Intolerance of Uncertainly Model
    
4. Cognitive Avoidance Model

5. What is ‘meta-worry’?

1. Worrying about life events
    
2. Worrying about worry
    
3. Worry that is accompanied by depression
    
4. Delusional worry

6. ‘Affective contrast’ refers to the observation that….

1. The impact of an emotional event is influenced by our existing emotional state
    
2. Negative moods tend to be more extreme than positive moods
    
3. Emotional events are more distressing when we are with other people
    
4. Emotional events are more distressing when we are in a strange place

7. How can attentional biases for threatening information be measured?

1. Visual probe task
    
2. Emotional Stroop task
    
3. Eye movement monitoring
    
4. All of the above

8. Which element of attentional bias is linked to hyper-responsiveness of the amygdala?

1. Rapid detection of threat
    
2. Delayed disengagement of attention from threat
    
3. Attentional avoidance
    
4. All of the above

9. MacLeod et al (2002) demonstrated that a single session of attentional bias modification led to….

1. Increased subjective anxiety
    
2. An immediate reduction in subjective anxiety that disappeared after participants were exposed to a stressor
    
3. No immediate effect on subjective anxiety, but it blunted the subjective anxiety response to a stressor
    
4. No change in subjective anxiety

10. Hirsch and Mathews’ (2012) integrated cognitive model of worry states that….

1. Negative thoughts and attentional biases have independent effects on worry
    
2. Negative thoughts, but not attentional biases, lead to worry
    
3. Attentional biases trigger negative thoughts, which lead to worry
    
4. Negative thoughts trigger attentional biases, which lead to worry