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Chapter 12: Abnormal Psychology Flashcards

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criteria for abnormality

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harmful to the individual, disturbing to others, unusual and irrational

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DSM

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological DIsorders; 5 axises

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Axis I

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clinical diagnosis. General diagnosis; generalized anxiety disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, major depressive disorder

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Axis II

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personality and mental disorders, long term disorders

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Axis III

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Medical ailments, caused by cancer and other stuff

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Axis IV

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Psychosocial conditions; caused by environmental stressors

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Axis V

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Global Assesment of Functioning, how well someone functions from 1 to 100

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Anxiety disorders

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disorder characterized by anxiety

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specific phobia

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agoraphobia, claustrophobia, arachnophobia

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generalized anxiety disorder

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constant state of low-level anxiety

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panic disorder

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punctuated panic attacks

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OCD

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compulsion to do a particular thing, i.e. clean

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PTSD

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flashbacks or nightamres following an extremely troubling event, memories of the event cause increased anxiety

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somatoform disorders

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manifesting a psychological problem physically;

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hypochondriasis

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constant small pains that people believe are indicative of really bad physical disorders, when in reality they aren’t and have no sourc but psychological

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conversion disorder

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people report blindness or paralysis without a cause

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dissociative disorders

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disruption in the conscious process

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psychogenic amnesia

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amnesia without a physiological cause

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organic amnesia

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biologically induced amnesia

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fugue

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psychogenic amnesia + wandering

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dissociative identity disorder

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an individual has multiple fragmented identities rather than a collective one

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affective disorder/mood disorder

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experience extreme or inappropriate emotions

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major depressive disorder

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unipolar depression; most common mood disorder

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seasonal affective disorder

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changes in mood as a result of the seasons

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manic depression

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bipolar disorder, with depressive or happy episodes

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dysthymic disorder

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a depressive period lasting more than two years, like major depressive disorder but not as intense

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Aaron Beck

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cognitive theorist that created the cognitive triad

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cognitive triad

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people are depressed because they have negative ideas about themselves, their world and their futures

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Martin Seligman

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experiment wtih dogs, shocking and learned helplessness

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learned helplessness

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people who have been downtrodden will remain so even when provided an exit

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delusions

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delusions of persecution (paranoia) delusions of grandeur

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types of schizophrenia

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paranoid, disordered, unaffected, catatonic

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neologisms

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creating words; disorganized schizophrenia

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clang associations

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strings of words put together for no reason; disorganized schizophrenia

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flat affect

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no emotion; disorganized schizophrenia

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inappropriate affect

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inappropriate reaction to situation; laugh when they find out someone has died; disorganized schizophrenia

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paranoid schizophrenia

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delusions of persecution

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disorganized schizophrenia

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clang associations, neologisms, flat/inappropriate affect

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catatonic schizophrenia

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waxy flexibility, awkward/jerky motion or body positions

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undifferentiated schizophrenia

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disordered thinking without symptoms of the other schizophrenias

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dopamine hypothesis

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schizophrenia results from elevated dopamine levels

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tardive dyskinesia

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tremors and stiffness resulting from dopamine-lowering antipsychotics

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double binds

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conflicting views of reality that could cause schizophrenia due to inability to rationally resolve their exsperiences

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diathesis-stress model

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environmental stressors can provide a situation in which a biological basis for illness may reveal itself

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antisocial personality disorder

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little regard for other people’s feelings, view hte world as hostile, insensitivity

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histrionic personality disorder

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overly dramatic behavior (histrionics)

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David Rosenhan study

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said they were hearing voices, admitted as schizophrenics, released as schizophrenics in remission, every action while in mental hospital was treated as a symptom

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