abnormal psyc

Question 1

positive symptoms of schizophrenia are?

Answer 1

named positive because they refer to symptoms that were not present before the person developed schizophrenia and thus are added to their experience.
hallucinations
delusions
diagnosed speech and behaviour

Question 2

schizophrenia has the highest heritability of any psychological disorder? true or false?

Answer 2

true

Question 3

to be diagnosed with major clinical depression, the person must experience?
low mood
loss of pleasure or enjoyment
disturbed sleep
loss of appetite
thoughts of death or dying?

Answer 3

low mood - loss of pleasure or enjoyment

Question 4

how common is major clinical depression?
45%
1.5%
10-20%
2.5%

Answer 4

10-20%

Question 5

on average how long is a person depressed before seeking help?
10 years
1 year
2 weeks
6 months

Answer 5

10 years

Question 6

panic attacks are common in which of the following?
PTSD
GAD
OCD
SAD
or all?

Answer 6

all above

Question 7

panic attacks often occur due to misrepresentation of normal physical responses, such as increased heart rate or shortness of breath?
true or false?

Answer 7

True

Question 8

fear prompts the amygdala to stimulate the sympathetic nervous system to release adrenaline… this results in physical symptoms of anxiety known as flight, fright or flight mode?
true or false?

Answer 8

true

Question 9

what is specific phobia and give examples?

Answer 9

fear of particular objects or events -
situations - flying or enclosed spaces
natural environment - storms or the dark
animals or insects
blood needles or injury

Question 10

what is abnormal psychology?

Answer 10

study or psychological/ mental health and illness

Question 11

what is psychological disorder made up of?

Answer 11

thoughts, feelings, behaviours +interactions and bodily sensations

Question 12

what is psychological abnormality?

Answer 12

not expected reactions even if strong emotion
not merely distressing
not merely statistical likelihood

Question 13

what are the 3 causations of mental illness according to etiological theories?

Answer 13

supernatural
so native if
psychogenic

Question 14

why is etiology important?

Answer 14

it is the casual description of all of the factors that contribute i the development of a disorder or illness

Question 15

what did Hippocrates do?

Answer 15

separate superstition and religion from medicine.

Question 16

what was his theory on mental illness?

Answer 16

deficiency in or especially and excess of one of the four essential bodily fluids - blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm - was responsible for mental and physical illness

Question 17

what were the treatments available?

Answer 17

blood letting
emetics you induce vomiting
changing diet, occupation, climate
administering medicines

Question 18

what are maladaptive patterns in behaviour?

Answer 18

behaviours that cause people who have leaned them physical or emotional harm, prevent them from functioning in daily life, and/or indicate that they have lost touch with reality and/or cannot control their thoughts and behaviour. also called dysfunctional

Question 19

what was the little Albert experiment?

Answer 19

demonstrated that classical conditioning could be used to create a phobia.

Question 20

can learned maladaptive thought patterns cause metal disorder?

Answer 20

yes

Question 21

what was the biopsychosocial model of mental illness?

Answer 21

accounted for multiple factors that affect health including - psychological, biological and sociology-cultural

Question 22

what is Whare tapa wha?

Answer 22

Model for understanding Māori health

Question 23

what is an example of gendering issues in diagnosis?

Answer 23

men = more likely aggressive
women = more likely histrionic or dramatic

Question 24

what its the DSM?

Answer 24

diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. used by healthcare professionals in the US and much of the world as the author active guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders

Question 25

what is comorbidity?

Answer 25

co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual

Question 26

name 3 psychological disorder categories

Answer 26

anxiety disorder
mood disorder
psychotic disorder

Question 27

what can Anxiety be defined as?

Answer 27

negative mood state that is accompanied by bodily symptoms

Question 28

what is the difference between fear and anxiety?

Answer 28

anxiety = emotional response to anticipated future threat
fear = emotional response to imminent threat

Question 29

what is GAD?

Answer 29

excessive, uncontrollable worry about a number of events or activities - the worry seriously interferes with functioning

Question 30

what are some physical symptom of GAD

Answer 30

restlessness, fatigue, poor concentration, muscle tension, ire ability, sleep disturbance

Question 31

what are phobic disorders?

Answer 31

anxiety about specific things that are not currently dangerous - objects, situations, experience

Question 32

what happens when someone suffers from specific phobia?

Answer 32

avoidance of the object, situation or experience because of intense fear and anxiety

Question 33

what is social anxiety disorder/ social phobia

Answer 33

marked fear or anxiety in one or more social situations in which person is exposed to possible scrutiny

Question 34

examples of social anxiety disorder

Answer 34

public speaking
fear of crowds, strangers, unfamiliar people
eating, writing, peeing in public

Question 35

what is panic disorder?

Answer 35

recurrent unexpected/ unpredictable panic attacks

Question 36

what are some symptoms of panic attacks

Answer 36

heart pounding
trembling
nausea
derealisation
sweating
shortness of breath
feelings of chocking
depersonalisation

Question 37

what is Agoraphobia

Answer 37

marked fear of not being able to escape

Question 38

what are some examples of anxiety disorder treatments

Answer 38

medication
psychological interventions
cognition focused CBT

Question 39

what are most commonly known used antidepressants today that block the trip take of serotonin on the brain?

Answer 39

SSRIs

Question 40

What is electroconvulsive therapy? ECT

Answer 40

shock therapy

Question 41

placebo effects are the???

Answer 41

improvement in and individuals condition due to the belief that he/she is being treated

Question 42

by the 18th century, mentally i’ll individuals were?

Answer 42

placed in hospitals and asylums

Question 43

the technique frequently used by cognitive therapists of teaching clients to question automatic beliefs, assumptions and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace them with more realistic beliefs is called?

Answer 43

cognitive reconstructing

Question 44

taking anxiety medication is part of cognitive behavioural therapy, true or false?

Answer 44

false

Question 45

cognitive approach focussed on the idea that peoples ingrained, habitual ways of thinking affect their mood? true or false?

Answer 45

true

Question 46

what is countertransference?

Answer 46

when an analyst begins to assume a major significance in a clients life and the client reacts to the analyst in the basis of unconscious childhood fantasies

Question 47

any treatment for an unwanted fear or phobia that involves having patient experience the feared stimulus in order to habituate or extinguish the fear response is referred to as?

Answer 47

an exposure treatment

Question 48

what is in vivio exposure

Answer 48

directly facing fear

Question 49

operant techniques of behaviour therapy can help bipolar individuals, true or false?

Answer 49

false