Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Psyc 105 > Chapter 15 > Flashcards

Chapter 15 Flashcards

1
Q

Criteria for abnormality

A

Deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Statistical rarity

A

Someone who is considered a typical in someway
Can be positive or negative

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Impairment

A

Any type of abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure, or function

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Biological disfunction

A

Disturbances in a persons, thinking, emotional regulation, or behaviour that reflects significant disfunction in a biological developmental process

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

DSM 5

A

The diagnostic and statistical manual for mental illness
Reference book on mental health and brain related conditions

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Prevalence

A

How common is specific disorder is for a given time.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Comorbidity

A

More than one mental disorder, exists along side, a primary diagnosis, or the reason that the patient is referred in the first place

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Categorical

A

Assumes each personality disorder is a separate and distinct category

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Dimensional

A

Views, various personality features a long several continuous dimensions

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

GAD

A

Generalized anxiety disorder
Continual feeling of worry, anxiety, physical attention, and irritability across many areas of life functioning

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Panic disorder

A

Repeated an unexpected panic attacks along with either persistent concerns about future attacks or a change in personal behavior, to attempt to avoid them

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Panic attack

A

Breeze, intense episode of extreme fear, characterized by sweating, dizziness, lightheadedness, racing heartbeat, and feeling of impending death or going crazy.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Phobias

A

Intense fear of an object or situation that’s greatly out of proportion to its actual threat

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Agoraphobia

A

Fear of being in a place or situation, from which escape is difficult or embarrassing, or which help is unavailable from the event of a panic attack

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

PTSD

A

Marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

OCD

A

Condition, marked by the repeated and lengthy immersion in a obsessions compulsion or both

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Obsessions

A

Persistent idea, thought, or impulse that has unwanted and inappropriate causing marked distress

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Compulsions

A

Repetitive behaviour and mental act performed to reduce or prevent stress

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Major depressive disorder

A

Mood disorder that causes persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest, and can interfere with daily life
Weight loss and sleep difficulties

20
Q

Bipolar 1

A

Presence of one or more manic episodes

21
Q

Bipolar two

A

Similar to bipolar one
Mood cycled between highs and lows overtimes
The lows are less traumatic and called hypomanic episodes

22
Q

Learned helplessness

A

Tendency to feel helpless in the face of events we can’t control

23
Q

Depressive episode

A

State in which a person experiences, a lingering depressed mood or diminished interest in pleasurable activities, along with symptoms that include weight loss and sleep difficulties

24
Q

Manic episode

A

Marked by inflated self-esteem, greatly decreased need for sleep, much more talkative than usual, racing thoughts, distractibility, increased activity, increased agitation, excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that can cause problems

25
Q

Hypomanic episode

A

Less intense and disruptive version of a manic episode
Feeling of elation, grouchiness, irritability, distractibility, and talkativeness

26
Q

Mood episode

A

Intense emotional states that typically occur during the stink periods of days to weeks

27
Q

Borderline personality disorder

A

Condition marked by extreme instability in the mood, identity, an impulse control

28
Q

Psycho, pathic personality

A

Condition, marked by superficial charms, desteny, manipulative, ness, self-centeredness, and risk-taking

29
Q

Dissociative disorder

A

Condition involving the disruption in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception

30
Q

Dissociative amnesia

A

Inability to recall, important personal information
Usually related to a stressful experience

31
Q

Dissociative Fuge

A

Sudden, unexpected, travel away from home, are the workplace, accompanied by amnesia for significant life events

32
Q

Dissociative identity disorder

A

Condition, characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality States that recurrently take control of the persons behavior.

33
Q

Post traumatic model for DID

A

Considered early life trauma to be the distinct cause of the creation of ultra identities, and assumes that working directly with alter identities should be the core of therapeutic work

34
Q

Socio cognitive model for DID

A

Believe that the ID is created by therapist using techniques to recover memories on suggestible individuals

35
Q

Schizophrenia

A

Severe disorder of thought, an emotion associated with a loss of contact with reality

36
Q

Delusions

A

Strongly held fixed belief that has no basis in reality

37
Q

Hallucinations

A

Sensory perception that occurs in the absence of an external stimulus

38
Q

Catatonic symptoms of schizophrenia

A

Motor problem, including extreme resistance to complying with simple suggestions, holding the body in a bizarre , or rigid posture, curling up in a fetal position

39
Q

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

A

Hallucinations, delusions, repetitive movements that are hard to control

40
Q

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

A

Reduction in quality of words, spoken, reduced goal-directed activity, due to decreased motivation, reduced experience, a pleasure

41
Q

Enlarged ventricles

A

The ventricles of patients with schizophrenia, or approximately 130% the size of a normal controls

42
Q

Diathesis stress model

A

Proposes that stress, through its affects on cortisol production acts upon a pre-existing vulnerability to trigger or worse than the symptoms of schizophrenia

43
Q

ADHD

A

Childhood condition marked by excessive in attention, impulsivity, and activity

44
Q

Symptoms of ADHD

A

Unable to sit, still, fidgeting, unable to concentrate, excessive movement, acting without thinking, interrupting conversation

45
Q

Symptoms of autism

A

Issues with social interaction and restricted behaviours and interests
How different ways of learning, moving, and paying attention

Psyc 105 (8 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions