Chapter 7 Vocab

Question 1

What are mood disorders?

Answer 1

Characterized by gross deviations in mood

Question 2

What is a major depressive episode?

Answer 2

Most commonly diagnosed and most severe depression

Question 3

What is a hypo manic episode?

Answer 3

Less severe version of a manic episode and usually lasts four days and doesn’t cause impairment in social or occupational functioning

Question 4

What is anhedonia?

Answer 4

Loss of energy and inability to engage in pleasurable activities or have any “fun”

Question 5

What is mania?

Answer 5

Individuals find extreme pleasure in every action

Question 6

What is flight of ideas?

Answer 6

Speech becomes rapid and incoherent bc their trying to express so many exciting ideas at once

Question 7

What is unipolar mood disorder?

Answer 7

Individuals who only experience either depression or mania only

Question 8

What are mixed features?

Answer 8

when individuals experience manic symptoms but feel somewhat depressed or anxious at the same time

Question 9

What is dysphoric?

Answer 9

Anxious or depressive

Question 10

What is major depressive disorder?

Answer 10

The absence of manic or hypomanic episodes before or during the disorder

Question 11

What recurrent?

Answer 11

Two or more major depressive episodes occurred and were deprecated by at least two months when the patient is not depressed

Question 12

What is persistent depressive disorder?

Answer 12

Depression remains relatively unchanged overdoing periods of time 20-30 years

Question 13

What is double depression?

Answer 13

Experience major depressive episodes and persistent depression with fewer symptoms

Question 14

What is hallucinations?

Answer 14

Seeing or hearing things that aren’t there

Question 15

What are delusions?

Answer 15

Strongly held but inaccurate beliefs

Question 16

What is mood congruence

Answer 16

Hallucinations directly related to depression

Question 17

What are delusions of grandeur?

Answer 17

Believing they see supernatural or specially gifted

Question 18

What is anxious distress specifier?

Answer 18

Presence and severity of accompanying anxiety; most important additional specifier

Question 19

What is a melancholic features specifier?

Answer 19

More severe somatic symptoms

Weight loss, loss of sex drive

Question 20

What are catonic feature specifiers?

Answer 20

A sense of movement, where the muscles are waxy and they can be placed somewhere and remain there

Question 21

What are Atypical feature specifiers?

Answer 21

Constantly oversleeping or overeating that causes weight gain

Question 22

What is a peripartum onset specifier?

Answer 22

Depression that follows 1 day-6months after birth

Question 23

What are baby blues

Answer 23

Minor reactions in adjustment to childbirth

Question 24

What is seasonal affective disorder?

Answer 24

Episodes accompany certain seasons for at least 2 years

Question 25

What is cabin fever?

Answer 25

SADis more extreme I high and low attitudes because they receive little light during the winter

Question 26

What is integrated grief

Answer 26

The finality of death and it's consequences are acknowledged and the individual adjusts to their loss

Question 27

What is complicated grief?

Answer 27

Feelings of loss and emotions so painful that a person has trouble resuming a normal life

Question 28

What is premenstrual dysphoric disorder?

Answer 28

Severe mood swings and anxiety

Question 29

What is disruptive mood disregulation disorder?

Answer 29

When a child has chronic moods such as anger and idea tabulate without accompanying mania

Question 30

What is bipolar II disorder?

Answer 30

Major depressive episodes alternate with hypomanic episodes rather than full mania episodes

Question 31

What is bipolar I disorder?

Answer 31

Major depressive episodes alternate with full mania episodes

Question 32

What is cyclothymic disorder?

Answer 32

Milder, more chronic version of bipolar disorder

Question 33

What is neurohormones

Answer 33

Hormones that affect the brain and are increasingly the focus of study in psychopathology

Question 34

What is learned helplessness theory of depression?

Answer 34

When people feel as though they have no control over their lives

Question 35

What is arbitrary inference?

Answer 35

When an individual emphasizes the negative aspects in life rather than the positive

Question 36

What is depressive cognitive triad?

Answer 36

Thinking negatively about themselves, immediate world and future

Question 37

What is a mood stabilizing drug?

Answer 37

Lithium

Question 38

What transcribing magnetic stimulation?

Answer 38

Works by placing a magnetic cool over the individuals head to generate a precisely localized electromagnetic pulse

Question 39

What is interpersonal psychotherapy?

Answer 39

Focuses on resolving problems in existing relationships and learning to form important new interspersing relationships