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1
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What is abnormal psychology

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The study of mental emotional and behavioural aberrations

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2
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What’s the most common requirement for abnormality according to davey

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Symptoms must cause clinically significant distress and impairment in social academic or occupational functioning

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What are comers 4 ds of abnormality

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Deviance

Dysfunction

Distress

Danger

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Why do we classify abnormality

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  • give clinicians a language - agreed terminology
  • help in choice of treatment
  • AIDS scientific understanding
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5
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What year did the WHO add psychological disorders to the ICD

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1939

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6
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What year did the APA publish its first DSM

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1952

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7
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What is unipolar depression

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Extended periods of clinical depression

Impairment in social or occupational functioning

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8
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How prevalent is unipolar depression

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10-25% for women

5-12% for men

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What is MDD?

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Sad mood/ loss of pleasure in usual activities

5 symptoms ATLEAST

Eg sleeping, weight loss, loss of energy, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal thoughts, difficulty concentrating

Symptoms present everyday for ATLEAST 2 weeks

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What is bipolar

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Periods of mania that alternate with periods of depression

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What is the prevalence of bipolar

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0.4-4.6%

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What is schizophrenia

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Disturbances in

thought and language

Sensory perception

Emotion regulation

Behaviour

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Symptoms of schizophrenia

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Delusions

Hallucinations

Disorganised speech and behaviour

Flattened affect

Anhedonia

Alogia

Avolition

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14
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What is the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia

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0.5-2%

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15
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How many people suffer with schizophrenia worldwide

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24 million

  • no gender difference
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16
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What stages does schizophrenia go through

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Prodromal

Active

Residual

17
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What age is schizophrenia most common between

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15 and 35

18
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What does the biomedical model involve

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Brain anatomy

Brain chemistry

Hormones

Genetics

Viral infection

19
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Biological treatments for abnormality

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Drug therapy

Ect

Neurosurgery

20
Q

What are concordance rates for mono and dizygotic twins

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Mono- 44%

Di- 12%

21
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What do amphetamines do

A

Produce symptoms that mimic psychosis

Increase brain dopamine activity

22
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What did brain imaging studies find by carlsson

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Increased levels of dopamine in the schizophrenic brain

23
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What do psychological models argue

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Problems are the result of the individual acquiring dysfunctional ways of thinking and acting

24
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What is external attribution

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More likely to attribute thoughts ideas and stimuli to an external source

25
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What does inefficient executive functioning lead to

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Difficulties filtering irrelevant info from attention

26
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What do sociocultural models suggest

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Behaviour is shaped by social forces

We must examine a persons social and cultural surroundings to understand abnormal behaviour

27
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What’s the sociogenic hypothesis

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Life stressors lead to psychopathology

28
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What’s the social selection theory

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Psychopathology leads to lower economic status

29
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What’s the David rosenhan study about nurses

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8 researchers- admission to one of 12 psych hospitals

All admitted- all but one had diagnosis of schizophrenia

Despite acting normally after, normal behaviour was ignored

Failure to detect sanity

30
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What is social labelling theory

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Symptoms are influenced by diagnostic labels

31
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What is systems theory

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Attempts to understand the family as a social system

32
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What is the diathesis stress model

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Explains behaviour as a result of biological and genetic factors - nature n nurture

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