Exam 4 Flashcards
Selye
Studied how we react during a stressful event. Came up with a 3 step adaptation syndrome.
General Adaptation Syndrome
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
Type A Personality
Anal Retentive, Setting Deadlines, More Prone to Stress and Heart Disease
Type B Personality
More Laid Back, not keeping consistent schedules.
Stress on Cardiovascular
BP problems, Heart Attack
Stress on Respiratory
Upper Respiratory Infection, Colds, Asthma
Stress on Gastrointestinal
IBS
Stress on Muscular
Tension
Stress on Skin
Acne, Psoriasis
Stress on Immune System
Suppressed
Stress on Metabolic
Increases cortisol, loses or gains weight.
Social Support
The belief that others understand your needs and will try to help you.
Instrumental Support
Offering assistance in a tangible way.
P.T.S.D.
Started becoming in the lime light after Vietnam. Happens because of violent circumstances.
Symptoms of P.T.S.D.
Recollections, nightmares, flashbacks, Startling, memory impairment, difficulty sleeping
Survivor Guilt
Theorized by Marzo, ‘How did I get out and not my friends?’ Can cause irrational thoughts.
How to treat Survivor Guilt
Talk about it, Routines, Look at strengths, Make meaning from it, have a support network.
Personality Disorder
Maladaptive patterns of behavior.
Types of Personality Disorders
Passive Agressive, Paranoid, Narcissistic, Borderline, Anti-Social, Avoidant
Passive Agressive Personality Disorder
People acting kind, but in hostile ways.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Thinking that people are out to get them.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Someone who things that they are considerably important
Borderline Personality Disorder
Can be very manipulative, like drama
Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Disregard for others
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Extremely withdrawn
Etiology
What the cause is of something
Prognosis
How you see the client coping with the diagnosis
Phobic Disorders
Irrational fears
DSM
Book that emphasizes observable behaviors and can help give a diagnosis.
OCD
Repetitive, persistant thoughts, with compulsive actions or ritualistic behavior.
DSM Format
- Diagnosis, 2. Personality Disorders, 3. General Medical Conditions, 4. Psychosocial Evaluation, 5. Global Assessment of Function (0-100)
Somatoform Disorders
Experiencing symptoms without physical reason
Types of Somatoform Disorders
Conversion Disorders, Hypochondriasis
Conversion Disorders
Having physical symptoms without any sort of reason (hysterical pregnancy)
Hypochondriasis
Person interprets any symptoms they have to be a severe illness.
Symptoms of Major Depression
Change in appetite, fatigue, loss of interest, change in sleep, suicidal thoughts.
Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
Super high energy into a low depression.
Hallucinations
Experiencing something without the stimuli. Most common is auditory.
Delusions
False belief of reality.
Agoraphobia
Fear of the outside world and becoming house bound.
Schizophrenia
Disorders that make people out of touch with reality, can be chronic
Catatonic Schizophrenia
Unresponsive
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Feeling persecuted, severe
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Becoming withdrawn and babbling
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
All other symptoms
Gestalt Psychology
Perception of the whole being.
Psychoanalytic Psychology Treatments
Free Association, Interpreting Dreams, Transference, Counter-Transference, On a couch with a blank wall
Resistance
When client starts fighting and sabotaging treatment.
How long to treatments last in Psychoanalytic?
Several times a week for many years
What do psychoanalytic treatments focus on?
The unconscious
Cognitive Therapy
Aaron Beck, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected.
Aversion Therapy
Associating Habit with something negative
Behavioral Therapy
Awareness is not the key, behave as if things are okay and they will be.
Systematic Desensitization
Wolpe, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Prioritized list of fears, Break fear into small parts
Client-Centered Therapy
Humanist view, Client decides what to talk about.
By-Stander Effect
If someone needs assistance, the more people are around, the less likely someone is to help.
Milgram
Shocking of individual to prove obedience between teachers and students.
Asch
Lines on the board, participants conformed to the actors in front of them.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Tend to explain other’s by saying that it’s their fault, but when we explain ours, its situational.
Social Facilitation
Well learned behaviors are performed better in front of an audience.
Zimbardo
Role play, people put in a powerful role treat others non-respectfully. Prisoners and Guards.
Stereotypes
A negative trait we think that every member of some group has.
Mere Exposure Effect
If you’re around someone more, the more likely you are to fall in love with them.
Social Loafing
Group members don’t work as hard on group work.
Gestalt technique
Uses 2 chairs for clients to talk to rejected parts of themselves.
Transactual Analysis
Analyzes communication styles, looking for complimentary or crossed transactions.
Drugs that are used for depression
Zoloft and Prozac
Aaron Beck
Looks at how clients distort cognition so about self, the world, and the future.
