Abnormal Psych

Question 0

What IQ is the usual cutoff for mental retardation?

Answer 0

a score of 70

two SD below the mean

Question 1

What is abnormal psychology?

Answer 1

the study of behavior that is considered not normal ie mental disorders

Question 2

What are example disruptive behavior disorders?

Answer 2

• oppositional defiant disorder

- conduct disorder

Question 3

What are the signs and symptoms of delirium?

Answer 3

disturbed

• consciousness (awareness, attention, focus)
• cognition (memory and disorientation)

Question 4

What are the four famous dementias?

Answer 4

• Alzheimer’s
• Huntington’s
• Parkinson’s
• Pick’s

Question 5

What are the areas affected by Pick’s disease, and the cognitive effects?

Answer 5

frontal and temporal lobes

changes in personality

Question 6

What is an example of a mental disorder due to a general medical condition?

Answer 6

depression due to hypothyroidism

Question 7

What are the features of substance dependence?

Answer 7

• continued use despite related problems
• desensitization and need for more
• desire but inability to stop use
• withdrawal
• decrease in outside interests
• sig time spent getting/using/recovering from the substance

Question 8

What are the features of substance abuse?

Answer 8

recurrent over-use despite substance related problems or danger

Question 9

What is an older name for schizophrenia?

Answer 9

dementia praecox

Question 10

Who named schizophrenia?

Answer 10

Eugene Bleuler

Question 11

What disorder did Eugene Bleuler study?

Answer 11

schizophrenia

Question 12

What are the positive signs and symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 12

• delusions
• perceptual hallucinations
• disorganized speech & thought
• disorganized behavior

Question 13

What are the negative signs and symptoms of schizophrenia?

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• flat affect
• restricted thought, speech, & behavior
• catatonia

Question 14

What is a delusion?

Answer 14

false ideas believed by the patient but not by other people in their culture and which cannot be corrected by reason.

Question 15

What are the two types of schizophrenia based on history of sumptoms?

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• process schizophrenia

- reactive schizophrenia

Question 16

How do process and reactive schizophrenia differ from each other?

Answer 16

process is developed slowly over time, has a poor recovery outlook
reactive develops suddenly, has a better recovery outlook

Question 17

What is the diathesis-stress theory of mental illness?

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it posits that non-biological or genetic traits (diatheses) interact with environmental influences (stressors) to produce disorders

Question 18

According to the book, what is the predominate theory about the biological origin of schizophrenia?

Answer 18

excessive dopamine in the brain

Question 19

What are the five types of schizophrenia according to symptom profiles?

Answer 19

• paranoid
• disorganized
• catatonic
• undifferentiated
• residual

Question 20

What is an alternative label for disorganized schizophrenia?

Answer 20

hebephrenic schizophrenia

Question 21

What symptoms characterize hebephrenic/disorganized schizophrenia?

Answer 21

• disorganized speech & behavior

- flat affect

Question 22

What symptoms characterize catatonic schizophrenia?

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• psychomotor disturbance
• catalepsy
• excessive motor activity & prominent posturing
• echolalia
• echopraxia

Question 23

What is catalepsy?

Answer 23

motor immobility or waxy figure

Question 24

What is echolalia?

Answer 24

parroting back words and questions

Question 25

What is echopraxia?

Answer 25

imitating the gestures of others

Question 26

What are the two components of a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis?

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- schizophrenic symptoms | - depressive episode

Question 27

What is the folie de deux?

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aka shared psychotic disorder - two people share delusions/reinforce each other's delusions

Question 28

How does dysthymic disorder differ from major depressive disorder?

Answer 28

same symptoms | but dysthymic waxes & wanes - symptoms must be present more days than not over a period of at least 2 years

Question 29

What are obsessions?

Answer 29

persistent slash intrusive thoughts

Question 30

What are compulsions?

Answer 30

repetitive behaviors (could be cognitive) that must be carried out to relieve anxiety

Question 31

What are the two main somatoform diagnoses?

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- conversion disorder | - hypochondriasis

Question 32

What is a conversion disorder?

Answer 32

psychological distress is 'converted' to bodily symptoms - eg paralysis

Question 33

What is another term for the dissociative disorders?

Answer 33

the psychogenic disorders

Question 34

What are the three main dissociative disorders?

Answer 34

- amnesia - fugue - identity disorder

Question 35

What are the characteristics of schizoid personality disorder?

Answer 35

detachment | small range of emotion

Question 36

What are the characteristics of schizotypal personality disorder?

Answer 36

eccentricity | distorted perception of reality

Question 37

What are the characteristics of borderline personality disorder?

Answer 37

instability in relationships and emotions | impulsivity

Question 38

What are the characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?

Answer 38

excess of emotion | attention seeking

Question 39

What is a neuroleptic?

Answer 39

an older term for antipsychotic drugs

Question 40

What is the main method of action for neuroleptic drugs?

Answer 40

blocking dopamine receptors | atypical antipsychotics can also affect 5-HT pathways

Question 41

What is the term for the involuntary motor symptoms caused by neuroleptics?

Answer 41

extrapyramidal symptoms spec. tardive dyskinesia

Question 42

What two disorders can be caused by excessive alcohol consumption?

Answer 42

- Korsakoff's syndrome | - Wernicke's syndrome

Question 43

What are the symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome?

Answer 43

loss of memory and orientation | sufferers often confabulate to fill in gaps

Question 44

what are the three classical symptoms of Wernicke's disease?

Answer 44

- eye problems (poor eye muscle control) - muscle control problems associated with cerebellum disfunction (ataxia) - confusion slash memory loss

Question 45

What genetic abnormality leads to Klinefelter's syndrome?

Answer 45

the possession of XXY karyotype

Question 46

What was Thomas Szasz's contribution to abnormal psychology?

Answer 46

criticized treatment of schizophrenic patients - believed they were unique but not disordered

Question 47

What was Fromm & Reichman's contribution to abnormal psychology?

Answer 47

coined the terrible term schizophrenic mother

Question 48

What was David Rosenhan's contribution to abnormal psychology?

Answer 48

studied effect of diagnostic labels on perception of behavior sent normal patients into hospitals