abnormal psych Flashcards
Disorder categories
Anxiety disorders
Personality disorders
Mood disorders
ADHD (attention)
Eating disorders
Psychotic disorder
Psychological disorder
Clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
The appearance of one of more than three key symptoms:
Extreme inattention
Hyperactivity
Impulsivity
Medical model
Diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and sometimes cured through treatment in a hospital
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5)
A book used to classify psychological disorders
Insomnia disorder
Difficulty initiating, maintaining, or returning to sleep
- At least 3 nights per week
Generalized anixety disorder
A person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy
Panic disorder/panic attack
A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread
Phobias
A peson is intensely and irrationally afraid of specific object or situation
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
A person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions
Posttraumatic stress disorder
memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after severely threatening, uncontrollable event
Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)
Intense fear of social situations, leaving to avoidance of being in such situations
Agoraphobia
Fear or avoidance of situations that have crowds or wide open places, where one feels the loss of control and panic
Posttraumatic growth
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises
Mood disorder
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
Major depressive disorder
Prolonged hopelessness and lethargy
two or more weeks with 5 or more symptoms
Bipolar disorder
Manic-depressive disorder
Alternates between depression and mania, an overexcited hyperactive state
Rumination
Compulsive fretting
Overthinking about our problems and causes
Schizophrenia
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression
Acute Schizophrenia
-Symptoms happen quicker
-Harder to recover from
Chronic Schizophrenia
Symptoms happen over several years
Psychosis
A disorder where a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
Delusions
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorder
Positive symptoms
Adding something, adding a belief that isn’t there
Hallucinations
False sensory experience
Flat affect
Emotionless state in schizophrenia
Types of schizophrenia
-Paranoid
-Catatonic
-Disorganized
-Undifferentiated
-Residual
Paranoid schizophrenia
-Positive symptoms
-Hallucinations
-delusions
Persecution
type of delusion
-The government is out to get you
Grandeur
type of delusion
-You’re amazing, you’re gonna do something great like save the world
Catatonic schizophrenia
-Remaining motionless for hours and then becoming agitated
-More negative
Residual
-After treatment
-Still kind of there but better
Somatic symptom disorder
Disorder in which the symptoms take somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause
Conversion disorder
A disorder where a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found (functional neurological symptom disorder)
Illness anxiety disorder
A disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of disease (hypochondriasis)
Dissociative disorder
A disorder in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalities
Personality disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
antisocial personality disorder
-Exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members
-It may be an aggressive and ruthless or clever con artist
-Sociopathic tendencies
Neurosis
Distortion of reality
Borderline personality disorder
-Low self-esteem
-Switch into a personality they think would please other people
narcissistic personality disorder
Thinks they are better than everyone else
Global
i’m stupid and am always gonna do badly
stable
failed because I didn’t study
Somatization disorder
Feeling pain when it doesn’t exist
