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Chapter 8 Flashcards

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In ancient times holes were cut in an ill person’s head to let out evil spirits in a process called

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TREPHINATION

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Believed that mental illness came from an imbalance in the body’s four humors

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HIPPOCRATES

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In the Middle Ages, the mentally ill were labeled as

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WITCHES

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The study of abnormal behavior

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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

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Any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life

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PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER

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Psychologists often classify behavior as abnormal using 4 D’s:

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DEVIANCE, DISTRESS, DYSFUNCTION, DANGER

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The social or environmental setting of a person’s behavior

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SITUATIONAL CONTEXT

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Emotional distress or discomfort

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SUBJECTIVE DISCOMFORT

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Anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life

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MALADAPTIVE THINKING OR BEHAVIOR

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according to this model psychological disorders
have biological or medical causes

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BIOLOGICAL MODEL

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according to this theorist abnormal behavior stems from repressed conflicts and urges that are fighting to become conscious

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PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORISTS

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According to this perspective abnormal behavior is learned

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BEHAVIORISTS

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According to this theorist abnormal behavior comes from irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought

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COGNITIVE THEORIST

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According to this perspective abnormal behavior is the product of family, social, and cultural influences

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SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

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The need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place

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CULTURAL RELATIVITY

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Disorders found only in particular cultures

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CULTURAL BOUND SYNDROMES

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Incorporates biology, psychology, and culture into a single explanation of abnormal behavior

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BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL

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Manual of psychological disorders and their symptoms

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DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL (DSM-5-TR)

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An international resource published by the World Health Organization (WHO)

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INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES (ICD)

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The DSM-5 describes about ___ different psychological disorders and updated ____ mental disorders in DSM-5-TR

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250 AND 70

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PROS OF Labeling Disorders

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provide a common language to professionals
– establish distinct categories of diagnosis for treatment and understanding

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CONS OF Labeling Disorders

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overly prejudicial
– “psychology student’s syndrome”

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The main symptom is excessive or unrealistic worry and fearfulness

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ANXIETY DISORDERS

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Anxiety that is unrelated to any realistic, known source

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FREE-FLOATING ANXIETY

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An irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity

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PHOBIA

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Fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to a negative evaluation

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Social phobia (social anxiety disorder):

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Fear of objects or specific situations or events

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SPECIFIC PHOBIA

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Fear of being in a small, enclosed space

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CLAUSTROPHOBIA

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Fear of heights

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ACROPHOBIA

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Fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible

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AGORAPHOBIA

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Panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life

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PANIC DISORDER

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Sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying

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PANIC ATTACK

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Intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior (compulsion)

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OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

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Disorder resulting from exposure to a major, traumatic stressor

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ACUTE STRESS DISORDER

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The symptoms associated with ASD last for more than one month

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POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

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symptoms of ______may not develop until
more than 6 months after a traumatic event

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PTSD

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Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, recurring nightmares, sleep disturbances, problems in concentration, and moments in which people seem to relive the event in dreams and flashback

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ACUTE STRESS DISORDER

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Excessive anxieties and worries occur more days than not for at least 6 months

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GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER

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Irrational thinking:

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MAGINIFCATION
ALL OR NOTHING THINKING
MINIMIZATION
OVERGENERALIZATION

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in psychological terms, emotion or
mood

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AFFECT

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Disorders in which mood is severely disturbed

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MOOD DISORDERS

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Severely depressed mood that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause
▪ may include thoughts of death or suicide
▪ most common of diagnosed disorders of mood

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MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

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A mood disorder caused by the body’s reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months

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SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD)

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A period of excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritability

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MANIC EPISODE

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Periods of mood that may range from normal to manic, with or without episodes of depression (bipolar I disorder), or spans of normal mood interspersed with episodes of major depression and episodes of hypomania (bipolar II disorder)

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bipolar disorder

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A condition in which a person reduces eating to the point that their body weight is significantly low, or less than minimally expected

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ANOREXIA NERVOSA

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A condition in which a person develops a cycle of “binging,” or overeating enormous amounts of food at one sitting, and then using unhealthy methods to avoid weight gain

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BULIMIA NERVOSA

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Disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination

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DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER

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Loss of memory for personal information, either partial or complete

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DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA

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Traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trip and possible amnesia for personal information

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DISSOCIATIVE PUGUE

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Disorder occurring when a person seems to have two or more distinct personalities within one body

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DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER

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Dissociative disorder in which sufferers feel detached and disconnected from themselves, their bodies, and their surroundings

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DEPERSONALIZATION/DEREALIZATION

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Severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, and hallucinations, and is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

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The break away from an ability to perceive what is real and what is fantasy

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PSYCHOTIC

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False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness

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DELUSIONS

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TYPES OF DELUSIONS

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  • delusions of persecution
    – delusions of reference
    – delusions of influence
    – delusions of grandeur (or grandiose delusions)
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False sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist

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HALLUCINATIONS

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A lack of emotional responsiveness

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FLAT AFFECT

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Either wildly excessive movement or total lack thereof

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CATATONIA

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Excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior
– hallucinations, delusions, and distorted thinking

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POSITIVE SYMPTOMS

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Less-than-normal behavior or an absence of normal behavior
– poor attention, flat affect, and poor speech production

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NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS

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Biological explanations of ___________focus on dopamine, structural defects in the brain, inflammation, and genetic influences

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

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Assumes a biological sensitivity, or vulnerability, to a certain disorder that will develop under the right conditions of environmental or emotional stress

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STRESS VULNERABILITY DISORDER

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A disorder in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal social interactions

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PERSONALITY DISORDER

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A person has no morals or conscience and often behaves in an impulsive manner without regard for the consequences of that behavior

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ANTISOCIAL PERSONALTY DISORDER

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Maladaptive personality pattern in which the person is moody and unstable, lacks a clear sense of identity, and often clings to others

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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

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