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Intro: Review of Psych Flashcards

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Definition: situations that cause marked distress to individual, and/or severe disruption of personal, social, and occupational functioning

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Mental illness

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True or false: Socially deviant behavior and conflicts that are primarily between individual and society are NOT mental disorders

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True (unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individual)

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Definition: ability to mange, self-regulate, and control conditions that lead to stress

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resilience

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What factors foster resilience?

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Supportive, Cohesive family
External support systems
Intelligence
Hardiness (strong genetic endowment)
Autonomy (risk taking with a safety net)
Positive social orientation.
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What is a risk factor for lack of resilience?

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growing up in chaos

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Definition: normal reaction caused by disrupted attachment with fluctuating arousal, protest, agitation, withdrawal, agression and eventual reorganization of behavior

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normal grief

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Definition: feelings of intense guilt, prolonged anhedonia, inability to find any meaning in life, and suicidal ideation

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complicated grief

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Definition: grief that occurs before a death or occurrence has actually happened (addressed by palliative care)

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anticipatory grief

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Definition: form of patterned maladaption in circumstances that overwhelm normal coping (feel trapped, experience subjective incompetence, and believe they cannot master what troubles them)

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demoralizaiton

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Who gets demoralization?

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Especially common with serious chronic medical disorders.

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How do you help a demoralized patient?

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giving the person more control of their situation and treating aversive symptoms

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What is the difference between mood and affect?

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Mood is subjective (reported by patient); Affect is how the emotional state comes across to the observer

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Definition: preoccupation with distressing thoughts as seen in depression and anxiety

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rumination

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Definition: unwanted concerns, ideas, images or impulses intruding into consciousness

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obsessions

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Definition: false beliefs foreign to the individual’s sociocultural or religious background that persist despite evidence to the contrary

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deulsions

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Definition: thought form with wandering from a topic

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tangentiality

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Definition: thought form with providing excessive detail

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circumstantiality

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Definition: thought form with “loose associations” with complete loss of logical connectedness

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derailment

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Definition: thought form with inability to move from one idea to the next

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perseveration

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Definition: perceptions that are misinterpreted

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illusions

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Definition: sensory experiences that occur without external stimulation

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hallucinations

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Who has a developmental theory of Intellectual Development?

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Piaget

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Who has a developmental theory of Psychosexual Development?

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Freud

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Who has a developmental theory of Psychosocial Development?

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Erickson

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Who has a developmental theory of Moral Development?

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Kohlberg

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According to Piaget, children are born with what 2 cognitive functions?

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organizational ability

adaptive ability

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What two strategies are used by children to make sense of the evironment?

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Assimilation

Accommodation

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What is assimilation?

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experiences are interpreted and acted upon within the framework of an existing schema (ex. if it can fit in mouth, it can be eaten)

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What is accommodation?

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schemas are altered to fit disconfirming experiences that cause disequilibrium between cognitive understanding and external reality (ex. a thumb in my mouth does not provide food)

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What are the 4 major stages of cognitive development? What ages?

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Sensorimotor Stage (birth to 2)
Preoperational Stage (2-7)
Concrete Operational Stage (7-12)
Formal Operational Stage (12-adulthood)

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What kind of thinking occurs in the sensorimotor stage?

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Preverbal; progress from inborn reflexive actions to combining acts to solve simple problems

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What kind of thinking occurs in the preoperational stage?

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Prelogical; children learn to use language and symbols (semiotic functioning), problem solving is intuitive rather than logical/rational, and analytic thinking poorly developed

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What kind of thinking occurs in the concrete operational stage?

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Logical; child is able to conceptualize world from an external point of view, can only solve problem if elements are physically present

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What kind of thinking occurs in the formal operational stage?

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Abstract; comprehension of purely abstract or symbolic content; development of advanced logical operations

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What specific “skill” occurs in sensorimotor stage?

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object permanence

36
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When do children develop compensation? What is a specific example of this?

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  • Concrete operational stage (7)

- Compensation is ability to consider multiple dimensions of problems 9ex. understanding law of conservation)

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What is transivity? When does it develop?

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mental arrangement of dimensions of objects (develops in concrete operational)

38
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When does hypothesis formation occur?

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formal operational stage

39
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What is seriation? When does it develop?

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appreciation of relationships in serial order (develops in concrete operational)

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What are the 5 Freudal stages of Psychosexual development? What ages?

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  • Oral stage (birth-1)
  • Anal stage (1-3)
  • Phallic Stage (3-6)
  • Latency Stage (6-puberty)
  • Genital Stage (puberty to adulthood)
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What are characteristics of oral stage?

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Libidal energy concentrated in mouth, lips and tongue (infant’s need to take in nutrition)

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What are characteristics of anal stage?

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Libidal energy concentrated in anal sphincter and bladder (toilet training demands)

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What are characteristics of phallic stage?

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Awareness of male-female differences, pleasure from masturbation, Oedipal conflict

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What are characteristics of latency stage?

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Sexual strivings largely suppressed, libidal energy channeled to socially acceptable behaviors (study, sports, etc.)

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What are characteristics of genital stage?

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Reinvestment of libidal energy in sex organs, physiological maturation

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What are characteristics of fixation in the oral stage?

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Excessive smoking, eating, craving social contact

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What are characteristics of fixation in the anal stage?

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Excessive orderliness or obstinate, retentive behaviors

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What are characteristics of fixation in the phallic stage?

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Difficulties with sexual relationships

49
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What is the underlying goal in the genital stage?

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to reproduce through sexual relationship

50
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According to Erikson, what happens from birth to 1 yo?

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Basic Trust should develop

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What happens if basic trust does not develop?

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relationships are too disappointing or dangerous to rely upon

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According to Erikson, what happens from 1-3 yo?

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autonomy should develop (independence in rudimentary aspects of living)

53
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What happens if autonomy does not develop?

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self doubt

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According to Erikson, what happens from 3-6?

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initiative (mastery over environment, balance desires of self and others, set internal limits)

55
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What happens if initiative doesn’t develop?

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can lead to conflicts with others (parents) producing guilt

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According to Erikson, what happens from 6-12?

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industry (learning to meet school and social demands)

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What happens if industry does not develop?

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feelings of inequality, inferiority, and worthlessness

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According to Erikson, what happens from 12-20?

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identity (establish sense of self and a physical, sexual and vocational being)

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What happens if identity does not develop?

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Failure leads to indecision, vacillation, sense of purposelessness

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According to Erikson, what happens from 20-40?

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Intimacy (moves from self-centered focus to affiliation and partnership with others)

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What happens if intimacy does not develop?

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isolation (loneliness, if you do not develop intimate relationships)

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According to Erikson, what happens from 65-death?

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ego integrity (acceptance of one’s life with successes and failures)

63
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What happens if ego integrity does not develop?

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hopelessness and despair

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What are the 3 basic levels of morality?

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  • Preconvential (premoral) (0-2)
  • Conventional (moral) (2-12)
  • Postconvential (principled) (12+)
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What drives behavior during Kohlberg’s preconvential stage?

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Punishment-obedience: basis of moral judgment based on consequences (reward or punishment) and conformity to imposed rules

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What drives behavior during Kohlberg’s conventional phase (from 2-6 years old)?

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Instrumental-relavistic (satisify own needs)

Good-Boy/Nice girl (desire to please others)

67
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What drives behavior during Kohlberg’s conventional phase (from 6-12 years old)?

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law and order (basis of moral judgment based on principles, rights, values)

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What drives behavior during Kohlberg’s postconventional phase (12+)?

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Social contract (legalistic)
Universal (ethical-principled)
69
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What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?

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performance and adaptive learning are optimal under moderate rather than either high or low stress (arousal) conditions.

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According to Yerkes-Dodson Law, when is learning of new or difficult tasks optimal?

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low/moderate stress conditions

71
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According to Yerkes-Dodson law, when is performance of well-learned tasks optimal?

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high stress conditions

72
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Chronic stress leads to persistent activation of what brain portion?

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amygdala

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