Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
Viewpoints on Abnormal Personality
Normative View
Statistical View
Social Viewpoint
Generally Speaking
Anybody who is different from the one making the judgment is said to be abnormal.
Normative View
Anybody is abnormal who diverges very much from the average. The average is presumed to be the most normal one.
Statistical View
The normal person is the one who is adjusted to his environment, to such an extent that he finds life enjoyable –and the abnormal one is the unadjusted –the one who would like to escape from reality.
Social Viewpoint
The individual is recognized as normal if he has some socially accepted goals around which his activities are integrated, if he finds the pursuit of goal worthwhile and if in general, he gets pleasure out of living.
Generally Speaking
A serious psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality; a condition often referred to as psychosis
Schizophrenia
a psychological disorder marked by loss of contact with reality and a seriously impaired ability to function.
Psychosis
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Hallucination
Delusions
imaginary sensation
Hallucination
false beliefs not generally shared by others in the culture
Delusions
Delusions
Delusion of Grandeur
Delusion of Persecution
Lack of associations/derailment
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Loss of/deficiency in thoughts & behavior
Social Withdrawal
Apathy
Loss of motivation
Lack of goal-directed activity
Very limited speech
Slowed movements
Poor hygiene & grooming
Poor problem-solving ability
Distorted sense of time
Flat affect
Act and move like robots
Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Catatonic Schizophrenia
suffers from delusions of grandeur or persecution.
Paranoid schizophrenia
most serious type
marked by extreme social withdrawal, hallucinations, delusions, silliness, inappropriate laughter and other bizarre behavior.
Disorganized schizophrenia
may display complete stillness and stupor, or great excitement and agitation.
Catatonic schizophrenia
Involve moods or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted.
Mood ranges from the depth of severe depression to the height of extreme mania
Mood disorders
Mood disorders
Depressive disorders
Bipolar disorders
overwhelming sadness, despair, and hopelessness, and usually lose their ability to experience pleasure.
Depressive disorder
patients exhibit two radically different moods, extreme highs (Manic episodes), and extreme loss or major depression
Bipolar disorders
Characterized by severe anxiety, a vague, general uneasiness or an ominous feeling that something bad is about to happen.
Sometimes, anxiety is free-floating or not associated with anything specific.
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
–chronic excessive worry for 6 months or longer.
These unfortunate people expect the worst, their worry is either unfounded or greatly exaggerated and thus, difficult to control.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
–a person experiences recurrent unpredictable attacks of overwhelming anxiety, fear or terror.
Pounding heart, uncontrolled trembling/shaking, and sensation of choking something.
Panic Disorder
a persistent, irrational fear of an object, situation, or activity that the person feel compelled to avoid.
Phobias
an intense fear of being in a situation which immediate escape is not possible.
Agoraphobia
an irrational fear and avoidance of social situations.
Social Phobia
a marked fear of a specific object/situation.
Specific Phobia
Categories of Specific Phobia
Situational Phobias
Fear of the natural environment
Animal phobia
Blood-injection-injury phobia
an anxiety in which people suffer from recurrent obsessions/compulsions or both.
Obssesive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
are persistent, recurring, involuntary thoughts, images, or impulses that invade consciousness and cause a person distress.
Obsessions
a persistent, irresistible, irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly.
Compulsions
involves bodily symptoms that cannot be identified as any known medical condition.
Somatoform Disorders
a person is preoccupied with her health and convinced that she have some serious disorder eventhough there is no evidence of any medical problem.
Hypochondriasis
a person suffers a loss of motor/sensory functioning in some part of the body; the loss has no physical cause but solves some psychological problem.
Conversion Reaction Disorder
disorders in which under stress, one losses the ability to integrate one’s consciousness, identity, and memories, of important personal events.
Dissociative Disorders
a complete/partial loss of the ability to recall personal information/identity past experiences.
Dissociative Amnesia
one has a complete loss of memory of one’s entire identity.
Dissociative Fugue
two or more distinct personalities occur in the same person each taking over at different times.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
The personality in control of the body and the largest percentage of the time
host personality
Alternate personality
alter personality
Involves a problem in accepting one’s identity as male or female. Children either express a desire to be or insist that they are of the other gender.
Gender-Identity Disorders
Gender-Identity Disorders
Paraphilia Fetishism Exhibitionism Pedophilia Voyeurism Sexual Masochism Sexual Sadism
Recurrent sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving objects, children, either non-consenting persons or the suffering, or humiliation of the individual or his or her partners.
Paraphilia
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving an inanimate object such as women’s undergarments or shoes.
Fetishism
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger
Exhibitionism
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children
Pedophilia
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving watching unsuspecting people naked, undressing, or engaging in sexual activity
Voyeurism
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving being beaten, humiliated, bound or otherwise made to suffer
Sexual Masochism
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving inflicting physical or psychological pain or suffering to another
Sexual sadism
Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving among other things, animals, feces, urine, and corpses
Other Paraphilias
Low sexual desire; the inability to attain or maintain sexual arousal; a delay or absence of orgasm; premature ejaculation; or genital pain associated with sexual activity
Sexual Dysfunctions
A continuing, inflexible, maladaptive patterns of behaving and relating to others that causes great distress or impaired functioning and differs significantly from the patterns expected in the person’s culture.
Personality Disorders
Callous disregard for the rights and feelings of others; behavior that is manipulative, impulsive, selfish, aggressive, irresponsible willingness to break the law, he cheats or exploit others for personal gain w/o remorse
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Behavior characterized as suspicious, entrusting, guarded, hypersensitive, easily slighted, lacking emotion, holding grudges
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Seeking for attention and approval; overly dramatic; self-centered; demanding, manipulative, easily bored, craving for excitement, often attractive and seductive person
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement, behavior that is self-centered and arrogant; demanding, exploitative, envious, craving for admiration and attention, lack of empathy
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Unstable in mood, behavior, self-image, and social relationships; intense fear of abandonment, impulsive and reckless behavior, inappropriate anger, suicidal gestures
Borderline Personality Disorder
