Abnormal Psychology Flashcards by Briar Rose

In triple vulnerability theory on the development of anxiety, it refers to believing the world is dangerous and you might not be able to cope when things go wrong

Generalized Psychological Vulnerability

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Inherited tendency to exhibit anxiety, not sufficient to produce anxiety itself

Generalized Biological Vulnerability

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You can lean from early experience, such as being taught by parents, that some situations or objects are fraught with danger

Specific Psychological Vulnerabilty

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The relationship between genetic vulnerability and life stress is indirect

Stress Diathesis Model

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Studies have found that depressed patients may respond better to an antidepressant medication if it is administered combination with a ____ hormone.

Thyroid

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Incidence of schizophrenia was_____ in men raised in cities compared to those rural areas.

Greater

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Eccenticities become tolerated when one is productive in the eyes of society

Deviating from average

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ABCs of observation in Behavioral Assessment

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

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What happened before

Antecedent

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What occured

Behavior

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What Happened afterwards

Consequence

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When Sheryl was brought to Dr. Skywalker’s office, he asked if she knew the date and time, her identity, and where she was. This are inquires to explore Sheryl’s

Sensorium

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The principle of _____ is used in developmental psychopathology to indicate that we must consider a number of paths to given outcome.

Equifinality

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Unexpected attacks are important in panic disorder. Expected attacks are more common in specific phobia or social phobia.

Both statements are true

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These behaviors involve removing oneself from situations or activities that might produce the physiological arousal that somehow resembles the beginning of pannic attack.

Introceptive Avoidance

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Direct experience
Vicarious experience
Experiencing a false alarm

Possible causes or ways of developing a phobia

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Evidence of damage to the _____ has appeared in groups of patients with war related PTSD

Hippocampus

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The devastating culmination of anxiety disorders

OCD

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A subtype of dissociative amnesia with fugue literally meaning flight causing an unexpected trip.

Dissociative Fugue

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A conversion symptom characterized by a sensation of a lump in the throat which makes it difficult to swallow

Globus hystericus

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Physical malfunctioning, such as paralysis, blindness, or difficulty speaking, without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.

Conversion Disorder
Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder

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“Beautiful ignorance”: a paradoxical absence of pschological distress despite having a serious medical illness or symptoms related to a health condition.

La Belle Indifference

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Patients with DID do the switch in a less fluid fashion
Malingerers are usually eager to demonstrate their symptoms
Patients with DID are more likely to attempt to hide their symptoms

Suggested by Kluft (1999) on distinguishing a malingerer from patients with DID

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People who are suggestible may be able to use dissociation as a defense against extreme trauma

Autohypnotic

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Suggests that stress may trigger depression and depressed individuals create or are drawn to stressful events

Reciprocal Model

Minor reactions in adjustment to child birth that typically last a few days, between 1 and 5 days after delivery

Baby Blues

According to Aaron Beck, this refers to believing that one can never do anything correctly

Negative self evaluation schema

(Aaron Beck's Negative Cognitive Styles) Arbitrary Inference, Overgeneralization

Cognitive Errors

(Aaron Beck's Negative Cognitive Styles) Negative Self-Evaluation, Self Blame

Negative Schema

Term used for shopping or collecting things as a response to feeling down or depressed

Retail theraphy

Type of suicide due to bringing dishonor to self or family (Durkheim)

Altruistic

Type of suicide provoked by loss of social supports (Durkheim)

Egoistic

Type of suicide that is a result of marked disruptions or untoward events, such as loss of job (Durkheim)

Anomic

Type of suicide loss of control over one's own destiny or freedom (Durkheim)

Fatalistic

A specifier of transvestic disorder described as a pattern of sexual arousal associated with thoughts or images of oneself as a female

Autogynephilia

(Stage of Alcoholism) Drinking occasionally with few serious consequences

Prealcoholic

(Stage of Alcoholism) Drinking heavily; few outward signs of the problem

Prodormal

(Stage of Alcoholism) Loss of control; with occasional binges

Crucial

(Stage of Alcoholism) Primary daily activities involving getting and drinking alcohol

Chronic

The point at which the motivation for drug taking shifts from desiring the euphoric high to alleviating an increasingly unpleasant crash is described in

Opponent Process Theory

Holds that an increase in positive feelings will be followed shortly by an increase in negative feelings

Opponent Process Theory

A persuasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects and control over impulses

Borderline Personality Disorder

I cannot trust people

Paranoid Personality Disorder

It's better to be isolated from others

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Relationships are messy and undesirable

Schizoid Personality Disorder

People are there to serve or admire me

Histrionic PD

Since I am special, I deserve special rules

Narcissistic PD

I deserve to be punished

Borderline PD

I am entitled to break rules

Antisocial PD

If people knew the "real me, they will reject me

Avoidant PD

I need people to survive and be happy

Dependent PD

People should do better, try harder

Obsessive Compulsive

According to _____, psychopaths possess a higher threshold for experiencing fear than most other individuals

Fearlessness Hypothesis

Having abnormally low levels of cortical arousal, which becomes the primary cause of their antisocial and risk taking behaviors. They seek stimulation to boost their chronically low level of arousal.

Underarousal Hypothesis

Possessing a higher threshold for experiencing fear than most other individuals. This gives rise to all other major features of the syndrome.

Fearlessness Hypothesis

Cognitive style associated with histrionic pd which is characterized by a tendency to view situations in black and white.

Impressionistic

Eugen Bleuler coined the term schizophrenia which means

Splitting of mind

The belief that delusions are attempts to deal with relieve anxiety and stress

Motivational View

When a person believes someone he or she knows has been replaced by a double or clone

Capgras Syndrome

Inability to initiate and persist in activities and little interest in performing the basic day to day functions

Avolition

George Brown and colleagues, lower expressed emotions (EE) within the family of former patients with Schizophrenia may be associated with

Better recovery rates

Experience of feeling as if one is an outside observer of one's surroundings

Derealization

Your senses of the reality of the external world is lost. Things seem to change shape or size. People seem dead or mechanical.

Derealization

Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality, as if you were in a dream or you were watching yourself.

Depersonalization

Cultural syndrome characterized by anxiety about and avoidance of interpersonal situations due to the thought, feelings or conviction that one's appearance and actions may be offensive to others

Taijin kyofusho

An element of personality functioning which includes the pursuit of coherent and meaningful short term life goals

Self direction

Detachment Negative affect Antagonism Disinhibition Psychoticism

Five broad domains of pathological traits

The DSM requires that the diagnosis for intermittent explosive disorder is only given if the symptoms are active for ____ months. Gambling disorder is diagnosed if the symptoms last for atleast ____ months.

3;12

The diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder is not given to individuals younger than 18 years. For individuals older than 18 years, a diagnosis of conduct disorder is given only if the criteria for antisocial personality disorder are not met.

True;True

DMDD is distinguished with bipolar disorder based on absence of elevated and expansive mood which is essential in bipolar disorder.

True

DMDD and bipolar disorders are both episodic conditions.

False