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Chapter 14 Flashcards

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1
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How many people have a diagnosable psych disorder

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1/6

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Insanity

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Legal term

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Disordered

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Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional

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Treatment before 1800s

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Brutal, believed they had brought it upon themselves

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Medical Model (Panell)

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Mental illness was a disease

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Biopsychosocial on disorders

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Genetic links, experiences, and social support matter

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DSM

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Used to diagnose and classify mental illness; quick but perceptions change and people act differently once you’ve been diagnosed

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Anxiety disorder

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Persistant distressing and debilitating nervousness or anxiety

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Generalized anxiety

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Anxiety for no apparent reason

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Panic Attack

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Unpredictable escalation of anxiety to terror

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Phobia

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Intense, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation

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Obsessive-compulsive

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Adolescents and young adults; irresistible, irrational preoccupation with certain thoughts. Actions are repeated over and over to reduce anxiety

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PTSD

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Anxiety is after the traumatic event

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Explanations for anxiety

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Conditioning, cognitive (Learn from observing others), and biological links (Brain responses, evolutionary threats)

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Mood disorders

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Emotional extremes

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Major depression

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Prolonged depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, loss of appetite, insomnia, lethargy, etc..

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Bipolar disorder

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Alternate between depression and mania

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Biological links to mood disorder

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Too little norepinephrine, and serotonin, genetic link

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Social cognitive link with mood disorders

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Cycle of depression; become self defeating; stress to negative thoughts to depression to behavior changes back to stress

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Schizophrenic disorders

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Loss of contact with reality, distorted perceptions, irrational ideas, inappropriate emotions

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Disorganized thinking

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Disorganized, fragmented thinking and speech

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Delusion

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False beliefs

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Paranoia

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Belief people re out to get you

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Distorted perception

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Hallucinations (Sensory experience without sensory stimuli)

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Positive symptoms

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Actually see (Speech, emotions)

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Negative symptoms

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Lack of response (Monotone, catatonic)

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Gradual onset

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Gradual then get stuck

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Rapid onset

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Acute reaction (Short term, go in and out of it)

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Brain abnormalities with schizophrenia

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Too many dopamine receptors, smaller thalamus, high activity in amygdala, low in frontal lobe

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Prenatal factors to schizophrenia

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Mother exposed to virus during pregnancy, interferes with brain development

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Dissociative disorders

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Separate awareness of ourselves

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Dissociate ID Disorder

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Develop two or more distinct personalities to deal with anxiety

33
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Psychoanalytic explanation for multiple personalities

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Defense against unacceptable impulses

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Learning explanation for multiple personalities

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Reinforced because anxiety is reduced

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Stress respinse explanation for multiple personalities

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One personality deals with the stress at the time

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Anorexia nervosa

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Body weight drops below normal, distorted body image, fear weight gain, eat less, exercise, binge/purge

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Bulimia nervosa

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Binge/purge cycle; depression and anxiety after binge, weight fluctuates, preoccupied with food cravings

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Binge-eating disorder

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Binge without purging, followed by regret, may be overweight

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Personality disorders

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Distressing to those around them; impaired social functioning; difficult to change

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Anti-social

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Socio/psychopaths; Lack moral conscious; can’t connect with others

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Histrionic disorder

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Excessive emotionality; dramatic, attention seeking, can’t delay gratification

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Narcissistic disorder

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In love with one’s self, special, self important, think they deserve a lot, preoccupied with fantasies about themselves, can’t take another’s perspective

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