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An Integrative Approach to Psychopathology Flashcards

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Define Multidimensional integrative approach

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Psychological disorders are always the products of multiple interacting causal factors

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What is a gene?

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Molecules of DNA at various locations on chromosomes, within the cell nucleus

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What is a ‘dominant gene’?

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One of a pair of genes that strongly influences a particular trait

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What is a ‘recessive gene’?

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Must be paired with another (recessive) gene to determine a trait, otherwise it wont have any effect

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What is the ‘Diathesis-stress model’?

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An inherited tendency and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder

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Define Vulnerability

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Susceptibility or tendency to develop a disorder

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What is the ‘reciprocal gene-environment model’?

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People with genetic predisposition for a disorder may also have a genetic tendency to create environmental risk factors that promote the disorder

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Define neuroscience

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Study of the nervous system and it’s role in behavior, thoughts, and emotions

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What are the two nervous systems the human body is made up of?

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  1. The Central Nervous System

2. The Peripheral Nervous System

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What does the Central nervous system consist of?

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  • The Brain

- The Spinal Cord

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What does the Peripheral Nervous System consist of?

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  • The Somatic Nervous System

- The Autonomic Nervous System

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What are neurons?

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Individual nerve cells responsible for transmitting information

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What are the two branches on a neuron’s cell body?

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  • Dendrite

- Axon

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Define a Dendrite

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Dendrites have numerous receptors that receive messages in the form of chemical impulses from other nerves

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Define an Axon

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Axon’s transmit these chemical impulses to other neurons

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What is a Synaptic Cleft?

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The space between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another

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What is a neurotransmitter?

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Chemical that crosses the synaptic cleft between nerve cells to transmit impulses fro one neuron to the next

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Define a hormone

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Chemical messenger produced by the endocrine glands

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What is a brain circuit?

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Neurotransmitter current in the brain

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What are ‘agonists’?

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A chemical substance that INCREASES the activity of a neurotransmitter by mimicking it’s effects

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What are ‘antagonists’?

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A chemical substance that DECREASES, or blocks, a neurotransmitter

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What are ‘inverse agonists’?

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A chemical substance that produces effects OPPOSITE those of a particular neurotransmitter

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What is a ‘reuptake’?

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Action by which a neurotransmitter is quickly drawn back into the discharging neuron after being released into a synaptic cleft

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Define Glutamate

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Amino acid neurotransmitter that excites many different neurons, leading to action

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What is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)?

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Neurotransmitter that regulates the transmission of information and action potentials

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Define Serotonin

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Neurotransmitter involved in processing information and coordination of movement, as well as inhibition and restraint

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Define ‘norepinephrine’

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Neurotransmitter active in the central and peripheral nervous systems, controlling heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration

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Define ‘dopamine’

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Neurotransmitter whose function is to activate other neurotransmitters and aid in pleasure-seeking behaviours

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What is cognitive science?

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A study that examines how humans and other animals acquire, process, store and retrieve information

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What is learned helplessness?

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Theory that people become anxious and depressed when they make an attribution that they have no control over the stress in their lives

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What is modeling?

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Learning through observation and imitation of the behavior of other individuals

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What is prepared learning?

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allowing certain associations to be learned more readily than others because such knowledge contributes to a species survival

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What is implicit memory?

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Condition of memory in which a person cannot recall past events

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Define emotion

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Pattern of action elicited by an external event and a feeling state accompanied by a characteristic physiological response

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What is a flight or fight response?

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Biological reaction to alarming stresser’s that muster the body’s resources to resist or flee a threat

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Define mood

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Enduring period of emotionality

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Define affect

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Subjective aspect of an emotion that accompanies an action at a given time

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What is equifinality?

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A principle that a behavior or disorder may have several causes

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