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Part 1 Flashcards

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Mal Adaptive Behavior

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what will define a disorder. Inability to cope. Sometimes it is a concern for the patient.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)

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List of psychiatric disorders and the symptoms you need to have and how long you have to have these symptoms
fluctuates over time
DSM 5 - every 15-20 years, there is a new edition that comes out.
Homosexuality- DSM 2 i.e. - research brings new light and proves that it is not a psychological disorder.

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Psychiatrist vs. Psychologist

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medication vs. psychotherapy

  • Better likelihood of curing the patient when you find the cause/origin of the anxiety and or depression.
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Low Socioeconomic Status (SES) ; Correlational studies.

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Increase psycho disorders.

Environment in poverty,

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Risk Factor

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Statistical association - increases likelihood of disorder.
Looks at stat significance between a psych disorder and a particular factor.
I.e. what are the chances of developing lung cancer

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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no regards to society, aggressive, violent, raised in a family that does not provide support or consistent nurturing. No structure, warmth, consistency.

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Hippocrates

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What caused abnormal behavior - diseases disorders of the brain. (not evil spirits)

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Plato

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The families involvement in why patient has disorder

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Biological Approach

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Psycho disorders are caused by physiological factors

Chemical imbalances

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Psychological Approach

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Disorders are caused by internal things
Low self esteem
Caused by low self esteem,
Unresolved loss, lack of attachment to parents

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Freud/ Psychoanalysis

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Unconscious conflicts that originated from childhood.

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Id/ Ego/ Superego

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Id - part of personality that wants immediate gratification.
Ego - aware of outside reality, figure out a plan to delay immediate gratification.
Superego - Develops by the time a child is 5 years old
- Represents society’s & parent’s values and standards
- Superego places more restrictions on what we can and cannot do
- Could cause moral anxiety (ever present feeling of shame and guilt) for failing to reach standards no human can meet

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Defense Mechanisms

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Normal ways to deal with stress, short term is healthy.

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Repression

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Unconsciously block painful feelings from your awareness

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Suppression

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Consciously block painful feelings from your awareness

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Reaction Formation

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Unconsciously block painful feelings from your awareness by exaggeration the opposite effect. (gays, when you’re gay)

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Projection

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Attribute something that’s going on with you and you see it on other people. (quality or behavior, it causes it when you see it in yourself so you see it on other people.)

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Intellectualization

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When you’re uncomfortable with emotion, so you interact in a very overly logical way.

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Regression

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Revert to an earlier stage of development

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Sublimation

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When you work of frustrated impulses in an acceptable way.

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Psychosexual Stages

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The idea that at certain stages of your development, there are 5 stages. Freud felt that at different stages, ages, different parts of your body become a source of frustration.
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

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Psychoanalysis

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make the unconcious, concious

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Behaviorism / Skinner

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You’be learned it from the environment

Reinforcement

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Vicarious Learning

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Learn through the action of others

Rewards and punishments don’t have to happen to you, to learn.

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Cognitive Model

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The way you think about things, your perception.

Not the event, but the way you think about the event.

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Hummanistic

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People are generally good, natural strive to reach their potential. Grow.
How you perceive things is what matters
Maslow- Self actualization- inbreed to reach this potential. With provided support this is able to be reache.

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Biopsychosocial

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Chemical imbalances, physio issues.

  • 1950s - psychiatric drugs were introduced to control mental illness.
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Human Genogram

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Collection of DNA that exists in human beings

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X and Y Chromosomes

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X - mother

Y - father

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Dominant/ Recessive Genes

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Dominant - that gene/ trait is expressed in the offspring.

Recessive - not expressed in the offspring unless it is paired with another recessive gene.

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Central Nervous

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Brain and spinal cord

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System/ Peripheral

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Carries info to and from CNS

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Hindbrain (brainstem/reptilian)

Medulla

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Heart rate, breathing, swallowing, injury to this is critical

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Hindbrain -Cerebellum

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Posture, motor skills, muscles

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Hindbrain - Pons

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Function and control in sleep, integrates right side and left halves of your body.

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Midbrain - Reticular Activating System

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Alertness and being awake. Controls how much stimulation gets into your brain.

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Forebrain - Thalamus

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Relays sensory info to the cerebral cortex

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Forebrain - Hypothalamus

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Hormones, eating and drinking

Adrenaline and other stress hormones

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Forebrain - Limbic System / Amygdala

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Where you feel rage,
Amygdala - in charge of strong emotion. Immediate and quick .
Feel first, think later.
If amygdala is overly sensitive - easily irritated and angered, express strong emotion.

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Corpus Callosum / Left vs. Right side of brain

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Connects left and right side of the brain - thick band of fibers do this.

Left - language, more logical side of the brain
Right - non verbal, patterns, reading a map, visual -spacial.

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Cerebral Cortex

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Part of your brain that allows you to think things through, consider different alternatives, work out a plan

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Occipital, Parietal, Temporal, Frontal

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Vison, touch/sensation, hearing, voluntary movement

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Pituitary Gland

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Regulates growth

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Pineal Gland

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releases melatonin - sleep

45
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Thyroid Gland

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Rate of metabolism

Inactive - overweight

46
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CT Scan

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Xray- clear image.
Take different angles of the brain, cross section of the brain
Diagnose stroke, any abnormality of the brain

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MRI Scan

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Use magnetic rays, 3 dimensional model,

More detailed image, does not use radiation.

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PET Scan

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Radioactive substance is injected into the bloodstream, can see where radioactive material goes.
Which part of the brain is using more energy, if found that is so, usually signifies a problem or abnormality. Using less energy is ideal.

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fMRI

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Identifies increases in the blood flow.

Isolate specific brain activity.

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Case Study

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a process or record of research in which detailed consideration is given to the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time.

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Single Case Study

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is a research design most often used in applied fields of psychology, education, and human behavior in which the subject serves as his/her own control, rather than using another individual/group.

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Experimental Studies

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Determine cause and effect. Need comparison group

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Experimental Group / Control Group

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Group that gets it

Group that doesn’t

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Dependent Variable

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What you actually are measuring.

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Independent Variable

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Something that you change or manipulate

Smooth Jazz -

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Prevalence / Incidence

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Prevalence - Total number of cases of a disorder in a given population at a given time.
How many people in Hayward are suffering from skitzo now
Incidence - how many people will develop in the next “x” years.

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Emotions and different lobes of your brain

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Negative emotions - right frontal lobe. (fear, disgust)

Positive emotions - left side (happiness, etc). - depressed people have less function on left side.

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