M&M ?'s Flashcards
What is the difference between factitious disorder and conversion disorder?
Factitious disorder- Physical symptoms are faked or intentionally caused to receive attention or get out of something unpleasant or unwanted.
Conversion disorder- physical symptoms are unconsciously created/experienced to relieve psychological distress
What is munchhausen syndrome by proxy?
A type of factitious disorder where a physical illness is intentionally cause in another person t receive vicarious or indirect sympathy or attention
What is exposure and response prevention?
A treatment approach where an individual is forced to experience a fear obsession and not engage in a anxiety reducing compulsion
- can be similar to flooding
What is the difference between an obsession and a compulsion?
An obsession is a cognitive thought, impulse or idea that produces anxiety.
An compulsion is a action (behavior, ritual, thought that reduces anxiety caused by an obsession
How does dissociative amnesia differ from dissociative fugue?
DA
- forgetting specific parts of extreme event; personality intact
- localized, selective, generalized, or continuous
DF
- Extreme form of dissociative amnesia that involves forgetting of identity and past;
- people may movie away and take on a new identity
- new personality characteristics
- new line of work
- .2% of pop experience
What is the difference between transvestic fetishism and cross-dressing
Transvestic fetishism
- dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex for sexual gratification.
Cross-dressing
- Dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex for reasons other than sexual gratification
What are the 4 stages of the human sexual response cycle?
desire, excitement (arousal), orgasm, resolution
What is the difference between sexual sadism and sexual masochism?
Sexual sadism
- refers to a preference for sexual gratification for inflicting pain on others
Sexual masochism
- refers to a preference for sexual gratification for subjecting oneself to pain or humiliation
What is the difference between depersonalization and derealization
depersonalization
- A change in ones experience of self in which ones mental functioning or body feels unreal or detached
Derealization
- The sense that ones surroundings are unreal or detached
What is a token economy?
Behavioral management program used in mental health where patients are rewarded when they behave in socially acceptable ways and not rewarded when they behave unacceptability
- rewards can be accumulated and traded in for desired items and activities
What is tardive dyskinesia?
A side effect of anti psychotic medication involving involuntary tic-like movements usually of the mouth, lips, tongue, body, and legs.
- Also referred to as extrapyramidal effects
- resembles symptoms of parkinsons disease
What is downward drift theory of schizophrenia?
Theory to explain higher proportion of schizophrenic individuals in lower socio-economic status groups
- The severity of the symptoms cause people to fall into lower SES groups
- Alternative to sociogentic theory
What are the main differences in
- schizophrenia
- delusional disorder
- brief psychotic disorder
schizophrenia
- persistant positive and negative symptoms
- slow onset
- symptoms must be 6 months or longer
- do not return to completely normal
delusional disorder
- delusions are persistant but no other schizophrenia symptoms
- slow onset
- symptoms must maintain for 1 month or longer
Brief psychotic disorder
- sudden onset
- symptoms last 1 month or less
- short episodes of positive and negative symptoms followed by return to promidial state
What is the difference between a hallucination and a delusion?
hallucination
- a sensory experience in absence of sensory stimuli
- auditory are the most common
- positive symptoms include disordered thinking
Delusion
- a belief or a belief system
- Faulty interpretations of reality
- variety of bizarre content
- being controlled by others
- persecution
What is the difference between a positive symptom and a negative symptom?
Positive
- behavioral excesses not seen in in non symptomatic patients
- Heightened perceptions
- Loose associations
Negative
- behavioral absences relative to non symptomatic patients
- Pathological deficits
- loss of motivation
- poverty of speech
- social withdrawl
