Key terms

Question 1

Sexual orientation

Answer 1

Describes the sex or gender that the person is attracted to

Question 2

Dopamine hypothesis

Answer 2

The theory than an excess of dopamine causes schizophrenia

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Brain volume

Answer 3

The amount of space the brain occupies measured in 3D

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Mental health continuum

Answer 4

A way of defining mental health by looking at it on a scale

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Prevalence

Answer 5

How common something is

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Attitudes

Answer 6

Feelings of dislike or like towards something

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Stigma

Answer 7

A strong sense of disapproval for something

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Mental health act (1959)

Answer 8

A set of laws and declarations to address issues around mental health

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 9

When an individual behaves in the way an assumption about them expects them to

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Discrimination

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To treat people differently (normally less favorably) based on a perceived issue or problem

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Care in the community

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Administering health and social care outside of hospitals and instead treating people in their homes and living in their normal communities

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Conflict

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A serious disagreement

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Schizophrenia

Answer 13

A psychotic disorder where people lose their sense of self and reality

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ICD

Answer 14

A manual listing hundreds of mental disorders with their associated symptoms used by medical professionals to diagnose mental health problems

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Clinical characteristics

Answer 15

Symptoms or features of a disorder

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Ethnicity

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Reference to a group of people with a common culture or nationality

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Recovery rate

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The number of people that get better after suffering from a disorder

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Disengagement of individuals

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When people withdraw from groups and activities

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Rejection by society

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When the majority doesn’t accept and actively excludes certain individuals

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Neurotransmitter

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A chemical that passes messages around the brain from neuron to neuron

Question 21

Dopamine

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A neurotransmitter associated especially with schizophrenia

Question 22

Temporal lobe

Answer 22

Corresponding parts of the brain that are responsible for functions such as sensing information, understanding speech and generating language

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Hippocampus

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The part of the brain responsible for making new memories. It is important for forming semantic and autobiographical memories

Question 24

Brain dysfunction

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When the brain is not working as normal

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Brain function

Answer 25

The role or activity of the brain

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Placebo

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A fake drug designed to have no effect (so it can be tested against a real drug)

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Cerebral blood flow

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Supply of blood to the brain at any one given time

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Primary care trust

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A part of the NHS in England covering different parts of the country

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Evolutionary psychology

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A branch of psychology that theorises that our behaviour has adapted over thousands of years to help us to survive

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Free will

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The idea that we have control over our own destiny and can change our behaviour and ways of thinking

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Determinism

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The idea that how we think and behaviour is determined by outside forces such as genetics or environmental influences such as our upbringing

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Envy

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A negative emotion created by seeing other people having things that you don’t have but wish to have

Question 33

Anti-psychotics

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Medication designed to help people who are experiencing psychotic episodes such as with illnesses like schizophrenia

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Anti-depressants

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Medication that is used to help people who are depressed

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Psychotherapy

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Talking therapy designed to help people with their problems using psychology rather than medicine

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Neuropsychological tests

Answer 36

These are tests designed by psychologists to measure how well the brain is functioning. They are often used with people who have experienced some form of brain injury to allow the psychologists to understand what damage has occurred to the patient’s cognitive function.

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Brain imaging

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Machinery that allows us to scan people’s brain to see what activity is occurring or see differences in structure