Abnormal Behavior Flashcards

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Believing that hidden messages being sent

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Delusions of reference

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Believing you are someone powerful or important

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Delusions of grandeur

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Believing that spies/aliens/government or even neighbors are plotting against you

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Delusions of persecution

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4
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Hallucinations, delusions, word salad, inappropriate emotions

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Positive Schizophrenia symptoms

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Flattened emotion and speech, apathy, disinterest in life

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Negative Schizophrenia symptoms

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Elated mood, irritability, racing thoughts, feelings of undue power

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Mania symptoms

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Sadness, lack of interest in activities, disinterest interacting with others, frequent crying, guilt and worthlessness

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Depression symptoms

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8
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One experienced repeated episodes of mania and depression

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Bipolar I disorder

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One doesn’t develop severe mania, instead hypomania: a more moderate form - hypomania and depression alternate

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Bipolar II

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10
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Inability to recall past experiences/information - response to a traumatic or stressful situation

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Dissociative amnesia

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Suddenly leaving home and taking on a new identity with no memory of a former life

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Dissociative fugue

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Paralysis, blindness, deafness, or other loss of sensation with no discernible physical cause

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Conversion disorder

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High levels of suspicion around motives and intentions of others, but without paranoid delusions

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Paranoid personality disorder

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14
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Bring aloof and distant from others with shallow or blunted emotions

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Schizoid personality disorder

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15
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Excessive dramatic and egocentric, attention seeking behavior

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Histrionic personality disorder

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16
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Emotionally unstable, impulsive, unpredictable, prone to boredom

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Borderline personality disorder

17
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French man who said the medical model should be applied to people with mental disorders

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Philipe Pinel

18
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Applied medical model for the people with mental disorders in US

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Dorothea Dix

19
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Conducted pseudo patient experiment studying the influence of diagnostic labels

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David Rosenhan

20
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MRI surgery that cuts brain circuits is involved in severe cases of

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OCD

21
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May reduce depression by triggering long term potentiation of frontal lobe

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rTMS

22
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Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil are called SSRI’s because

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They slow normal reabsorption of excess Seratonin

23
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Xanax and Ativan are what kind of drug

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Anti anxiety

24
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Parkinson’s Disease symptoms are associated with

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Antipsychotic drugs

25
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What drug dampens responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli in schizophrenia patients

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Chlorpromazine

26
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Belief that disorders result from stressful social situations rather than disturbances within individual personality

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Preventive mental health

27
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Personal strengths that help people cope with stress

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Resilience

28
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Shared cultural values between counselors and clients

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Therapeutic alliance

29
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Relief for those suffering from seasonal affective disorder

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Light exposure therapy