Abnormal Psych Test 3

Question 1

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Answer 1

persuasive distrust and suspiciousness of others
thinks everyone is hostile and nasty to them
trying to hurt, unloyal, lie

Question 2

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Answer 2

Persuasive detachment from social relationships and restricted range of interpersonal emotions
• Will always stay by themselves, no relationship, flat emotion, uninterested in other people
• Prof. PERSONALLY doesn’t think this is a personality disorder (the person is fine with it/no distress)
o But in DSM it’s a disorder

Question 3

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Answer 3

 Sort of like very low-level schizophrenia symptoms
 Person may have delusions of odd belief from their culture, illusions, mixed speak, may appear dress/different looking
• Ex: the Professor from Harry Potter who did shit with the glass globe with the thick glasses. Act crazy toward Harry

Question 4

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Answer 4

 Person that has disregard for and violation of the rights of others
 Could do a lot of illegal ish, lies to others, cons others, high in uses others for their cause, will talk about illegal ish like it’s a game/fun.
• Fail to plan, fight, reckless, late remorse
 Looks at others as a way to get what they want (doesn’t need others)
• THEY ARE NOT DISTRESSED ABOUT THEIR BEHAVIOR but they are experiences risk and getting into jail

Question 5

Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 5

 Most deadly to the person than others, are more prone to hurt themselves and toxic life
 Has a pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships and self-image and marked impulsivity
• Symptoms: person constantly worry about ppl leaving them, switch from loving others to hating, suicidal (pills, cutting, etc), affect instability in mood
• Most distressed disorder
• Uses mental tx more often than any other
FEELS DISTRESS ALLLL THE TIME

Question 6

Histronic Personality Disorder

Answer 6

 Excessive dramatic or emotional, and attention-seeking
 Happens at early adulthood
 Symptoms: uncomfortable were they aren’t center of attention, alters physical appearance to get more attention, show self-gravitation, suggestible, think relationships are a lot closer than they appear

Question 7

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Answer 7

 Grandiosity, reed for admiration, and lack of empathy (asshole)
 Looking for admiration: needs to be valuated
 Symptoms: thinks special, needs admiration, take advantage of others, thinks others are envy of them
 Not usually distressed about it, but had impaired social relationships

Question 8

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Answer 8

 View of world in that everyone thinks they hate or “boo-ing” at them
• Social inhibition, feelings of inadequately, hypersensitivity to neg. evaluation
 Symptoms: Try to avoid other people as much as possible, unwilling to get involved with others, afraid of getting shamed and rejected, inhibited to new situation due to fear of not being liked

Question 9

Dependent Personality Disorder

Answer 9

 Excessive need to be taken care of (petty af), submissive, clingy, fears separation
 Symptoms: Helpless alone, must have a relationship (aka a jump sinking ship hoe), would do ridiculous acts to keep a relationship together

Question 10

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Answer 10

 Has a pattern of orderliness, perfection, control
 Lack of flexibility, openness, and efficiency
 Symptoms: has detailed list, devoted to work instead of social demands, cant work with others, bitchy and stubborn
• Live in an ordered world, super productive (in work), work spaces are super neat, make time to fix

Question 11

ADHD

Answer 11

a. Persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity/impulsivity that must affect their developmental growth
i. These must be present before the age 12
ii. Symptoms: loses focus, often disengage in activities that require attention

Question 12

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Answer 12

i. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction
ii. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities

Question 13

Intellectual Disabilities

Answer 13

i. Deficits in intellectual functions
1. Trouble in school, thinking, judgment, learning from experience
2. Standardized testing helps determine ID
ii. Deficits in adaptive functioning,
1. Trouble in social, independent functioning (ex: house living stuff)
iii. Caused by genetic conditions and environmental

Question 14

Language Disorders

Answer 14

: trouble w/ language in order

i. Limited vocab, trouble talking, not trouble in hearing, trouble in understanding other languages

Question 15

Speech Sound Disorder

Answer 15

trouble w/ sound production (lisp, or trouble being understood by others

Question 16

Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder (stuttering)

Answer 16

i. Has silent locking, stuttering, talk around words that can’t pronounce, repeating
1. Stuttering is not caused by anxiety

Question 17

Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

Answer 17

i. Trouble w/ language and other forms of communication
1. Communications in social context, cant change pitch, don’t follow rules in story telling, difficulty in understanding that isn’t direct

Question 18

Specific Learning Disorder

Answer 18

a. Difficulties in learning, and using an academic skill

b. Used in only one area (intellectual is overall, as this is specific in one area like reading, math)

Question 19

Tic Disorder

Answer 19

can’t control saying something out loud

Question 20

Development Coordination Disorder

Answer 20

i. Having a specific learning disorder but with motor skills
1. Ex: doesn’t have coordination that affects daily living

Question 21

Stereotypical Movement Disorder

Answer 21

Have patterns of a movement

banging head on the wall or cant control feet banging

Question 22

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Answer 22

a. When a person (usually a child) has a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior and/or vindictiveness
i. This includes kids getting angry and resentful
ii. Often blame others for their behavior
iii. Acted lasts for at least 6 months
People can grow out of this

Question 23

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Answer 23

a. Person has recurrent behavioral outbursts representing a failure to control aggressive impulses (more likely to happen during adults)
c. Symptoms: repeated aggression to others that doesn’t call for injury for self for 3 months
i. Or person has smaller amounts of aggression to property, person, and injury to self
d. Does not do this for reward, or it is not premeditated

Question 24

Conduct Disorder

Answer 24

a. Repetitive and persistent pattern of ignoring the rights of others or rules
i. Aggression to people and animals
ii. Deceitfulness or theft
iii. Serious violations of the rules
Usually proud by this

Question 25

Pyromania

Answer 25

a. Deliberately and purposefully sets fire on more than 1 occasion
i. Has tension or affective arousal before the action
ii. Attraction, fascination with, interest in, curiosity about fire
iii. Pleasure and release by setting fire
b. Not setting fire to get a reward

Question 26

Kleptomania

Answer 26

a. Recurrent failure to resist the urge to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or their monetary value
b. Steals for the thrill of it (increasing sense of tension before theft)

Question 27

Suicide risk factors

Answer 27

o	Feeling like a burden 
o	Hopelessness 
o	Loneliness 
o	Emotional/physical pain
o	Excessive alcohol/drugs

Question 28

Suicide Warning Signs

Answer 28

	Feeling trapped or in unbearable pain 
	Wanting to die or to kill oneself
	Being a burden to others
o	Looking for ways to kill oneself: searching online or guns 
o	Access to self-destructive means

Question 29

Building skills to respond to Suicidal individuals

Answer 29

o Responding to individuals
 Be direct, relational, nonjudgmental, accepting.
 You can promise privacy, but not always promise confidentiality
o Emphasize:
 Paraphrasing to the other, questioning, active listening