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Abnormal Psychology Flashcards

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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

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Generalized Psychological Vulnerability

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

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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

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Specific Psychological Vulnerabilty

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The relationship between genetic vulnerability and life stress is indirect

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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.

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Thyroid

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

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Greater

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

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Deviating from average

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ABCs of observation in Behavioral Assessment

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Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

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What happened before

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Antecedent

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What occured

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Behavior

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What Happened afterwards

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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

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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.

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Equifinality

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

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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.

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Introceptive Avoidance

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Direct experience
Vicarious experience
Experiencing a false alarm

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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

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Hippocampus

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The devastating culmination of anxiety disorders

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OCD

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Autohypnotic

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

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Reciprocal Model

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

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Baby Blues

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

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Negative self evaluation schema

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

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Cognitive Errors

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

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Negative Schema

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

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Retail theraphy

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

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Altruistic

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

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Egoistic

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

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Anomic

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

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Fatalistic

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

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Autogynephilia

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(Stage of Alcoholism)
Drinking occasionally with few serious consequences

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Prealcoholic

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

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Prodormal

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

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Crucial

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

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Chronic

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

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Opponent Process Theory

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

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Opponent Process Theory

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

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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I cannot trust people

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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It’s better to be isolated from others

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Relationships are messy and undesirable

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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People are there to serve or admire me

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Histrionic PD

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Since I am special, I deserve special rules

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Narcissistic PD

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I deserve to be punished

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Borderline PD

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I am entitled to break rules

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Antisocial PD

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

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Avoidant PD

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I need people to survive and be happy

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Dependent PD

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People should do better, try harder

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Obsessive Compulsive

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

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Fearlessness Hypothesis

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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.

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Underarousal Hypothesis

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

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Fearlessness Hypothesis

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

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Impressionistic

57
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Eugen Bleuler coined the term schizophrenia which means

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Splitting of mind

58
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The belief that delusions are attempts to deal with relieve anxiety and stress

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Motivational View

59
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When a person believes someone he or she knows has been replaced by a double or clone

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Capgras Syndrome

60
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Inability to initiate and persist in activities and little interest in performing the basic day to day functions

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Avolition

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

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Better recovery rates

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

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Derealization

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

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Derealization

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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.

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Depersonalization

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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

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Taijin kyofusho

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

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Self direction

67
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Detachment
Negative affect
Antagonism
Disinhibition
Psychoticism

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Five broad domains of pathological traits

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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.

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3;12

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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.

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True;True

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

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True

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DMDD and bipolar disorders are both episodic conditions.

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False

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