Chapter 12

Question 1

What is the generalized anxiety disorder?

Answer 1

A person is uneasy for no apparent reason.

Question 2

What is a psychological disorder?

Answer 2

Continued thoughts that are deviant, distressful, and, disfunctional

Question 3

Medical model

Answer 3

Looks at physical symptoms and diagnosis’s, and treatment

Question 4

Biopsychosocial

Answer 4

Daily life problems

Social environment

Question 5

Panic disorder

Answer 5

Experience sudden episodes of intense dread

Question 6

Phobia

Answer 6

Feels afraid of a specific object or situation

Question 7

OCD

Answer 7

Troubled by repeated thoughts or actions

Question 8

PTSD

Answer 8

Like when soldiers come back from war but have trouble adjusting to normal life again

Question 9

What does learning contribute?

Answer 9

Fear conditioning

- bad experience

Question 10

What is observationally learning?

Answer 10

We learn from others

Question 11

The biological perspective

Answer 11

• Temperament predispose some to be anxious

- inherited survival

Question 12

Deviant

Answer 12

Different behavior

Question 13

Distressful

Answer 13

Stressing you and others

Question 14

Disfunction

Answer 14

Interferes with your life

Question 15

What are dissociative disorders?

Answer 15

Awareness becomes separate from painful thoughts, feelings and memories

Question 16

Why is it controversial?

Answer 16

You can fake it by acting like you have different personalities

• outside North America it’s not common
• very short history

Question 17

What characteristics are typical of personality disorders in general?

Answer 17

Disruptive- loud and disorderly

Flexible- you don’t go with the flow

Question 18

What biological and psychological factors are associated with antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 18

Psychological-impulsive, no feelings of reget, don’t think before actin

Bio- you can be born being prone to being fearless

Question 19

What is substance related disorder?

Answer 19

Using drugs until your impaired/ brain damage

Question 20

Tolerance

Answer 20

Body gets use to the same dose and you have to use more

Question 21

Addiction

Answer 21

Drug craving

Question 22

Dependence

Answer 22

Brain changes from always having drug

Question 23

What are mood disorders

Answer 23

Major depression
-sadness, despair, mostly women
Bipolar disorder
-alternating mania & despression

Question 24

Symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 24

Positive-inappropriate behaviors are seen, hallucinations

Negative- no emotions, timeless voices

Question 25

Chronic schizophrenia

Answer 25

Chronic- slow developing, positive & negative symptoms, hard to treat

Question 26

Acute schizophrenia

Answer 26

• Develops quickly
• As a reaction to stress
• Prognosis is good

Question 27

Biological and Sociological perspective

Answer 27

Biological influences- runs in family
Norepinephrine & serotinine
Psychosocial- negative thinking about past and future

Question 28

Brain chemistry

Answer 28

Brain abnormalities
- low activity in frontal lobe, more dopamine
Mid pregnancy viral infection

Question 29

Psychotherapy

Answer 29

Actually talks to you and helps with their problems

Question 30

Biomedical

Answer 30

Using drugs for treatment

Question 31

Eclectic

Answer 31

Combo of psychotherapy and biomedical

Question 32

Psychoanalysis goals

Answer 32

To bring unconscious thoughts and feelings to the surface.

Question 33

How are psychodynamic and psychoanalysis similar

Answer 33

Both focus on childhood experiences

Question 34

How are psychodynamic and psychoanalysis different

Answer 34

Psychoanalysis looks at Id, ego, superego, laying on couch

Psychodynamic meets face to face

Question 35

What are types of depressants

Answer 35

Alcohol

Barbiturates