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exam 1: mod. 1-3 Flashcards

for the first exam! make sure i can discuss the ones marked for discussion

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-violating societal norms
- maladaptive
-rare given cultural or environmental context
-causes distress in daily life
**discuss

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Abnormal Behavior

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The societal judgment of a person or group of people because they do not fit the community’s “norms.”
**discuss

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Stigma

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The internalization and eventual belief that negative views about oneself from outside sources are true.

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Self-Stigma

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Referring to people as “individuals with mental illness” rather than “mentally ill individuals.” Focus on emphasizing the subject’s humanity.

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Person-Centered Speech

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Doctrine or belief that an evil being or spirit can dwell within a person and control his mind or body.

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Demonology

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The ritual of casting out evil spirits (from a person).

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Exorcism

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The earliest proponent of the biological paradigm. Believed illness had a natural cause and that bodily fluids (bile, blood, and phlegm) were the cause of mental or emotional disturbances.

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Hippocrates

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Establishment for the confinement and care of the mentally ill. Treatment was often non-existent or harmful.

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Asylum

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One of the first mental institutions. The wealthy would pay to ‘peer’ at the ‘insane’ for entertainment. Origin of the word bedlam.’

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St. Mary of Bethlehem’s Hospital

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Pioneer of humanitarian treatment. Fundamental in the development of a higher standard of care among psychological patients.

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Philippe Pinel

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Treatment conducted in a calming environment that involved patients engaging in relaxing, purposeful activities.

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Moral Treatment

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Crusader for prisoners and the mentally ill. Worked to reform and improve existing institutions while opening 32 public hospitals.

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Dorothea Dix

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Practice of forceful sterilization with the goal of removing ‘undesirable’ characteristics from the population

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Eugenics

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Personality tests not influenced by the examiner’s beliefs. Ex: self-reporting.

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Objective Personality Tests

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Personality tests influenced by the examiner’s beliefs. Ex: Rorschach Test

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Projective Personality Tests

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Tendency to endorse vague generalizations. Ex: believing in horoscopes.

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Forer Effect

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A significant limitation in an individual’s cognitive functioning and daily adaptive behaviors.
Ex: limited language, impaired speech, difficulty performing academically

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Intellectual Disability

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Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Standard classification manual in the United States.

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DSM

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Avoiding the occurrence of a disorder or disease altogether. Ex: population-based health promotions.

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Primary Prevention

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Diagnosing and treating a disorder in its early stages; before significant distress is caused. Ex: rape crisis counseling

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Secondary Prevention

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Reducing the negative impact of existing disorders or diseases by reducing complications and restoring lost function. Ex: AA

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Tertiary Prevention

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The extent to which variability in a particular behavior in a population can be accounted for by genetic factors.

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Heritability

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The study of how the environment can alter gene expression or function

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Epigenetics

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Integrative model that incorporates multiple casual factors in order to identify underlying predisposition and environmental events.

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Diathesis-Stress Paradigm

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The study of the distribution of disorders in a population

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Epidemiology

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The proportion of the population that has the disorder at a given point in time.

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Prevalence

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Proportion of the sample that has ever experienced the disorder, up to the time of the interview

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Lifetime Prevalence

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of new cases of the disorder within a given time period, typically a year.

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Incidence

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Conditions or variables that increase the likelihood of developing the disorder.

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Risk Factors

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The study of the effects psychotropic substances have on mood, sensation, thinking, and behavior.

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Psychopharmacology

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The medical application of psychotropic substances.

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Psychopharmacotherapy

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Medications used to treat schizophrenia, mania, or delusion disorders. Ex: chlorpromazine, and haloperidol

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Antipsychotics

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Medications used to treat major and bipolar depression, panic attacks, phobias, and OCD. Ex: Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil

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Antidepressants

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Medications used to treat bipolar disorder. Ex: Lithium

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Anti-Cycling Agents

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Medications used to calm and alleviate anxiety. Includes antianxiety agents, hypnotics, etc.

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Hypoanxiolytics

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Method used to treat major depression, mania, schizophrenia, and catatonia when medications and therapies have been exhausted.

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ECT

37
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Treatment in which brain tissue is destroyed with the aim of alleviating the symptoms of a psychological disorder.

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Psychosurgery

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Surgical procedure that severs the supracallosal fibers of the cingulum bundle. Used to treat OCD and depression

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Cingulotomy

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Surgical procedure to sever the fibers connecting the orbitofrontal cortex to the hypothalamus. Used for depression and OCD

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Subcaudate Tractotomy

40
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Surgical procedure in which the corpus callosum is severed.

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Corpus Callostomy

41
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Procedure in which a pacemaker-like device in implanted into the brain in order to send electrical impulses.

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DBS (Deep-Brain Stimulation)

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Therapy that is focused on unconscious conflicts and how they present themselves. Especially interested in early childhood experiences. Typically uses free association.
PPL: Freud, Klein, Adler, Jung, Erikson

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Therapy and treatment based on the idea that abnormal behavior is learned and can be unlearned. Applies operant and classical conditioning, as well as observational learning.
PPL: Pavlov, B.F. Skinner

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Behavioral Therapy

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Therapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors, and cognitive processes through goal-oriented procedures.
PPL: Watson, Hull, Pavlov

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

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Therapeutic approach that holds the idea that people are inherently good. It encourages the view of ourselves as a “whole person” greater than the sum of our parts.
PPL: Maslow, Rogers

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Humanistic Therapy

46
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Therapeutic approach in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together at the same time.
PPL: Pratt, Burrow, and Schilder

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Group Therapy

47
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Mood disorder characterized by a pervasive and persistent low mood that is accompanied by low self-esteem and by a loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.

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Major Depressive Disorder

48
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Disorder in which an individual is chronically sad and melancholy but does not meet the criteria for MDD.

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Pervasive Depressive Disorder (PDD)

49
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Disorder that presents as a severe from of PMS, following a predictable, cyclical pattern.

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Premenstrual Dysphoria Disorder (PMDD)

50
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Distinct period of an elevated or irritable mood that can take the form of euphoria

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Manic Episode

51
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Disorder characterized by the occurrence of one or more manic or mixed episode that lasts at least a week.

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Bipolar I

52
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Disorder characterized by the occurrence of one or more hypomanic episodes and one or more major depressive episodes.

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Bipolar II

53
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Disorder characterized by the occurrence of hypomanic episodes with periods of milder depression (dysthymia) for 2 years.

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Cyclothymic Disorder

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