Abnormal Psychology

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when behavior is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional

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abnormal psychology

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to be disturbing to others

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deviant

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harm, worry

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distressful

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impairs your life

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dysfunctional

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lose touch with reality

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psychotic

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how did people in ancient Times explain mental illness

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moons, gods

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how did people in the middle ages explain mental illness

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evil spirits

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treatments of mental illness in ancient times

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exorcism, caging, beaten, burning, blood transfusion, trephining

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cutting a hole in the skull to release evil spirits

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trephining

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in this hospital, the patients were gained and locked away

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barbaric prisons

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mental illness can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured. (Pinel)

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current medical model

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america’s pinel, psychiatrist

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Dorothea Dix

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conduced the pseudo patent experiment in 1973

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rosenhan

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rosenhan went into institution to see treatment to see how doctors and nurses labeled them

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pseudo patient experiment

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diagnosing, American book of how we access mental illnesses, has 5 chapters , 1st was in 1950

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DSM-V

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chronic anxiety, exaggerated/ongoing worry and tension without a cause

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generalized anxiety

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response to anxiety, intense dread, fighting sensation, may experience chest pain, sweating, etc

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panic attack

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persistant, irrational fear

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phobia

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specific fear of an object or event

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specified phobia

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fear of open spaces

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agoraphobia

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unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions); often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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three types of OCD obsessions and their compulsions

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dirt and germs - wash
symmetry - organizing, arranging
safety - check locks, alarms

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flashbacks or night mares following involvement in to observing an extremely troubling event (war, abuse, natural disaster)

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post traumatic stress disorder

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characterized by emotional extremes

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mood disorders

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2+ weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness with no cause, losing joy in things previously enjoyed, affect mood and hunger

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major depressive disorder

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depression during the winter months, lack of sunlight, treated with light therapy

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seasonal affective disorder

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alternates between the depression and mania, aka manic- depressive disorder

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bipolar disorder

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hyperactive, wildly optimistic, increase in epinephrine

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mania

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psychotic illness with a distorted reality; spilt Brain

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schizophrenia

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happens fast during young adulthood years (18-25); story-line/hallucinating

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acute onset for schizophrenia

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common among males; distancing self from others progresses into

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chronic onset for schizophrenia

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presence of inappropriate/ unusual behaviors

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postive symptoms for schizophrenia

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fragmented/ bizzarre thoughts, no connection

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disorganized thoughts

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prosecution thoughts, false belief of a story line

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delusions

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thinking you're more powerful/important , ex im jesus

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Grandiose

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4 types of positive symptoms for schizophrenia

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disorganized thoughts, delusion, Grandiose, hallucinations, inappropriate actions

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perception without sensation

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hallucination

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laughing at sad stories, pacing

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inappropriate actions

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absence of appropriate behaviors

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negative symptoms for schizophrenia

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flat affect

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lack of emotion

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frozen

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catatonia

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2 negative symptoms for schizophrenia

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lack of emotion, catatonia

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schizophrenia affects ___ % of population

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1%, 1 in 100 ppl

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hallucinations and delusions, affects 85% of schizophrenia patients

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paranoid

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inappropriate actions and emotions, bizarre fragmented thoughts

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disorganized

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frozen body

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catatonic

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combinations of all types of schizophrenia

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undifferentiated

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remission patient

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residual

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causes of schizophrenia

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genetic (twin studies); physical (dopamine excess, huge increase of activity in the thalamus); mid-pregnancy viral infections

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how to diagnose schizophrenia

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increase of fluid around corpus callosum

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person with multiple distinct personalities

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dissociative identity disorder

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identifying dissociative identity disorder

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personalities know about each other but original does not, realize when you're back in original and things are different

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cause of dissociative identity disorder

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traumatic event

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treatment for dissociative identity disorder

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therapy