Clinical/Abnormal Psychology (Unit 14) Flashcards
Behavior that is disturbing, distressing, maladaptive, and often the result of distorted thoughts:
Abnormal Psychology
A psychological disorder is marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s _____, _____ regulation, or _____:
Cognition, emotion, behavior
Internal conflict in the unconscious from childhood traumas:
Psychoanalytic Perspective
Maladaptive responses learned through reinforcement of the wrong kinds of behavior:
Behavioral Perspective
Results from conditions of worth society placed on the individual which causes a poor self-concept:
Humanistic Perspective
Comes from irrational and illogical perceptions and belief systems:
Cognitive Perspective
Evolution Dysfunctions:
Evolutionary Perspectives
Malfunctions or problems in the brain or nervous system:
Biological Perspective
Today’s psychologists content that all behavior arises from the interaction of nature and nurture:
Bio-Psycho-Social Disorder
American Psychiatric Association produced the ______; text revision came out 2022:
DSM-5
Conducted to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis when participants faked hallucinations to enter a psychiatric hospital but acted normally afterwards:
Rosenhan Study (1973)
Personality disorders divided into three clusters:
-“Odd” or “Eccentric” Reactions
-Dramatic/Emotionally Problematic/Erratic Reactions
-Chronic anxiety, fearfulness, and avoidant
High levels of suspiciousness of the motives or intentions of others but without the outright paranoid delusions associated with paranoid schizophrenia. Rarely seeks help:
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Aloof and distant from others with shallow or blunting emotions; considered cold; does not get involved in social affairs and often involves excessive daydreaming:
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Odd thinking and experiences standing oddities or eccentric in thought, perception, speech, behavior; often suspicious and hostile. Difficulties in establishing close social relationships:
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Disregard for rights and property of others without guilt of remorse. Manipulative, exploitative self-indulgent, irresponsible. Warning signs are lying, truancy, stealing, fighting:
Antisocial Personality
Emotionally unstable, impulsive, unpredictable, irritable, prone to bored; no dominant pattern of deviance:
Borderline Personality Disorder
Excessively dramatic, seek attention, and tend to overreact. Likes to draw attention to self. Seeks excitement and avoids routines:
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Unrealistically self-important; manipulative, lacks empathy, can’t take criticism. Sets unrealistic goals. Displays the need for affection, admiration, attention and in many ways has a childish level of behavior:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Excessively sensitive to potential rejection and humiliation; unwilling to enter into relationships and devastated by disapproval. Wants to have social relationships:
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Excessively lacking in self-confidence; subordinates own needs; allows others to make all the decisions due to poor self image or lack of confidence. Sees self as helpless or stupid:
Dependent Personality Disorder
Usually preoccupied with rules, schedules, and details; a perfectionist who becomes anxious about getting the job done; extremely conventional and serious:
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Resistance to the demands of others; passive; tendency to procrastinate and forgetfulness; often tends to whine, complain, and moan:
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder
Feeling of impending doom or disaster from specific or unknown source that is characterized by symptoms of tension, agitation, and apprehension and bodily symptoms of sweating, muscular tension and increased heart rate:
Anxiety
- Persistent anxiety for at least 6 months
- Unable to specify the reason for the anxiety
- Tense of anxious for more than one-half of their lives
- Freud called this “free floating anxiety”
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Main feature is recurrent panic attacks
- Marked by the sudden onset of intense apprehension
- Severe palpitations
- Extreme shortness of breath
- Chest pains
- Trembling
- Sweating
- Dizziness
- Feeling of helplessness
- Victims feel they will die, go crazy, or do something they cannot control
- Can occur anytime and last minutes to hours
Panic Disorder
- Has an irritation, overwhelming, persistent fear of a particular object or situation
- Dread it so much, they are willing to go to any length to avoid it
Phobic Disorders
Fear of open spaces or being in a crowded public space:
Agoraphobia
Fear of being negatively evaluated in social situations to the point where you avoid social actions like eating out:
Social Anxiety Disorder
- Individual has anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away
- May have in addition or alone: repetitive, ritualistic behaviors usually designed to prevent or produce a future situation
- Characteristic behaviors: checking, washing, hoarding, harming, counting, performing rituals
- Obsessions are repetitive thoughts
- Compulsions are repetitive behaviors
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)