INTRO Flashcards
True about psychopathology EXCEPT
a. infections, aging, heredity are biological factors contributing to psychopathology
b. interpersonal problems are psychological factors
c. poverty and malnutrition can contribute to psychopathology
d. Usually, psychopathology can be attributed to a single cause
D.
From handout: Usually, there’s no single cause, most likely a combination of 2 etiologies
7 Things of Psychiatric symptomatology, All 7 are ego functions, and if disturbed mental illness is possible.
Thinking Perception Affect/Emotions Memory Orientation Personality Intelligence
– self-centered thinking
a. autism
b. dereism
c. schizophrenia
A
out of this world thinking, unrealistic
a. autism
b. dereism
c. schizophrenia
B
– thinking cannot be understood, not logical, can be organic (from the brain) or schizophrenia
a. flight of ideas
b. incoherence
c. delusion
B
connected with one another but said at the same time, very talkative; Bipolar Manic (very talkative)
a. flight of ideas
b. incoherence
c. delusion
A
thinking of the same thing over and over again, you dream about it, you can’t drive the thought away, it distracts you and your concentration
a. delusion
b. preoccupation
c. obsession
C
thinking of the same things, but you can drive it away, you are not distracted by
a. delusion
b. preoccupation
c. obsession
B
Main difference between illusion and hallucination
illusion - with sensory stimulus
hallucination - no external sensory stimulus
Mild exaggeration of affect
a. euphoria
b. ecstasy
c. elation
d. exaltation
A
Most severe form of affect, Bipolar Manic – very happy / high
a. euphoria
b. ecstasy
c. elation
d. exaltation
C
Elation + high position (feeling on top of the world)
a. euphoria
b. ecstasy
c. elation
d. exaltation
D
Elation + a feeling of sexual satisfaction
a. euphoria
b. ecstasy
c. elation
d. exaltation
B
root word meaning memory or remembrance
mnesia
True about memory EXCEPT
a. de ja vu is an example of paramnesia
b. paramnesia means distorted memory
c. females have better memory than males
d. NOTA
D