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AP Psych Unit 10 Flashcards

Mental illness

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Psychoanalytic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Humanistic, Biological

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Theoretical Models of Abnormality

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a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in a person’s cognition, emotion, regulation, behavior

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psychological disorder

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marked by the appearance of ab age 7 of extreme inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

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Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)

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Concept that psych disorders have physical. Causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and mostly cured often through hospital treatment

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Medical model

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APA’s Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; widely used for classifying psych disorders; used to diagnose, describes symptoms

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DSM-5

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Reformed French asylums in late 18th century

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Pinel

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distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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anxiety disorder

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a person continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of ANS(automatic nervous system) arousal

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generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable panic attacks

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panic disorder

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Persistent irrational fear and avoidance of specific object activity or situation

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phobias

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Intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such

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social anxiety disorder

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Extreme fear of crowded spaces or enclosed public spaces

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Agoraphobia

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Unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions; intrusive thoughts

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OCD

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positive psych changes resulted from struggling w life circumstances and crisis

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post-traumatic growth

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haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4+ weeks after a trauma experience

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PTSD

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Fear of dogs

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cynophobia

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Fear of death

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thanatophobia

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fear of strangers

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xenophobia

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fear of heights

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acrophobia

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Conditioning
Evolution
Genetics
Physiological

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anxiety’s explanations

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psych disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or inappropriate emotional expression

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Schizophrenia

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Symptom in which one loses contact w/ reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

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Psychosis

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False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that accompany psych disorders

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Delusions

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Jumbled words put into sentences

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Word salad

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False sensory experiences, such as seeing something that is not there

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Hallucinations

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Emotionless state that those w/ schizophrenia experience

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Flat affect

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State of remaining motionless for hours and then growing agitated

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Catatonia

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Hallucinations, disorganized speech, inappropriate laughter, tears, rage

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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Toneless voice, expressionless face, mute/rigid body

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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure

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major depressive disorder

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a mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (Formerly called manic-depressive disorder.)

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bipolar disorder

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Marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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Mania

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Psych disorders characterized by emotional extremes (MDD; bipolar)

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Mood disorders

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Compulsive fretting; overthinking ab problems and their causes

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Rumination

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a psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. (See conversion disorder and illness anxiety disorder.)

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Somatic symptom disorder

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a disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. (Also called functional neurological symptom disorder.)

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Conversion disorder

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a disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. (Formerly called hypochondriasis.)

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illness anxiety disorder

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dissociative disorders

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disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.

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dissociative identity disorder

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characterized by a preoccupation with defects in one’s body, can be imagined or real

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body dysmorphic disorder

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characterized by complaints of severe pain without the presence of any particular physical condition

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Pain disorders

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an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise

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Bulimia nervosa

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mental illness characterized by patient’s deliberate production or exaggeration of symptoms (formerly called Munchausen Syndrome)

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Factitious disorders

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characterized by a patient traveling away from home, turning up as a “John/Jane Doe” in a distant community

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Dissociative fugue (fatigue)

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an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight

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Anorexia nervosa

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significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa

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Binge-eating disorder

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people within this cluster demonstrate dramatic or impulsive behavior, inappropriate, volatile emotionality and often unpredictable behavior (aspd, bpd, npd ex.)

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Cluster B

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psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Personality disorder

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people within this cluster exhibit odd or eccentric behavior (odd, cold, distant, unable to form close relationships ex. Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal)

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Cluster A

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people within this disorder cluster exhibit anxiety-related behavior (DPD, OCPD)

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Cluster C

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characterized by consistent pattern of discomfort w close relationships; unusual thoughts, speech, behaviors

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others; paranoid of their intentions

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Paranoid personality disorder

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characterized by emotionless detachment from others, dislike close-relationships

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Schizoid personality disorder

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a personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing even towards friends and family members; lack regard for safety

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Antisocial personality disorder

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characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and marked impulsivity, splitting, self-harm behaviors

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borderline personality disorder

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