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Personality & Abnormal Psychology: Understanding Mental Disorders Flashcards

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DSM-5

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Neurosis is not a category in the DSM-5

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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A goon of disorders associated to the development of the nervous system. Learning and communication disorders as well as ADHD and autism.

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ADHD

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Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. It is characterized by atypical inattention and/or impulsivity-hyperactivity. It is more prevalent in males than females.

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Autism spectrum

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A range of neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairment in social skills and communication skills as well as repetitive behaviors.

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Tourette’s disorder

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A the disorder which is characterized by multiple motor tics such as eye-blinking, skipping or deep knee bends; it also has one vocal tic such as grunt, bark. sniff or snorts. The tics are sudden and recurrent and the disorder is for life.

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Schizophrenia

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Demetia Praecox. Renamed by Eugen Bleater. Literally means split mind by which the mind is split from reality

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Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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Behaviors, thoughts or affects added to normal behavior such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behaviors.

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Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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symptoms that involve the absence of normal or desirable behavior such as flat affect or blunted emotional expression

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Delusions

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False beliefs, discordant with reality, that are maintained in spite of contrary evidence.

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Common Delusions

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  1. Reference- Others are talking about them.
  2. Persecuton person is deliberately interfered with or discriminated against.
  3. Grandeur. He or she Is a remarkable person
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hallucinations

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Perceptions that are not due to external stimuli but have a compelling sense of reality

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Disorganized Thought

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A symptom of schizophreniawhere an individual has loosened their associations. It may appear as shifting from one subject to another unrelated topic.

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Disturbance of Affects

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Blunting, Flat Affect, Inappropriate Affect

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Catatonic Motor Disorder

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A common symptom of schizophrenia where A person exhibits various extreme behaviors such as rigid movements to useless and bizarre movements

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Prodromal Phase

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The 1st phase in schizophrenia where deterioration, social withdrawal role functioning impairments peallar behaviors, inappropriate affect and woman experiences.

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Active Phase

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The 2nd phase of schizophrenia where symptoms develop.

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Process Schizophrenia

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the process where symptom development is slow and recovery is poor.

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Reactive Schizophrenia

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The process where symptoms quickly develop and recovery is better

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Dopamine Hypothesis

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The theory that the delusions and hallucinations

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Double Blind Hypothesis

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The belief that as q child they relieved contradictory and mutually incompatible messages from their primary caregiver thus not trusting their reality

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Major Depressive Disorder

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At least I mayor depressive episode in 2 week period.

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Bipolar Disorder

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Characterized by both depression and mania. Bipolar 1 disorder has manic episodes. Bipolar 2 has hypomania

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Hypomania

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Does not have impaired functioning and presents more energetic and optimistic.

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Neurotransmitters associated to Mood Disorders

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Norepinephrine and serotonin

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Catecholamine Theory of Depression

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The thought that too much norepinephrine and serotonin leads to mania and too little causes depression.

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Phobia

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An irrational fear of something that results in a compellinf desire to and it.

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Examples of Specific Phobias

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  1. claustrophobia - A fear of closed spaces
  2. Acrophobia - A fear of heights
  3. Cynophobia -A fear of dogs.
  4. Agoraphobia -A fear of open spaces
  5. Social Anxiety -Anxiety due to social situations.
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Panic Disorders

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This manifests in frequent panic attacks-periods of intense fear or foreboding accompanied with a fight-or-flight response.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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A low sense of constant anxiety.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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A group of disorders where persistent irrational thoughts produce tension or irrational and repetitive impubesthat cause significant impairments.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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A reaction to a traumatic event.

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Somatoform Disorder

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The presence of physical symptoms that suggest a medical condition but which are not fully explained by a medical condition.

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Dissociative Disorder

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When an individual avoids stress by dissociating.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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An inability to recall past experiences.

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Dissociative Fugue

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Amnesia that accompanies a sudden, unexpected move away from one’s home or location.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Where 2 or more personalities that recurrently take control of a person’s behavior.

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Depersonalization Disorder

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The person feels detached.

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Anorexia Nervosa

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A refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight.

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Binge-eating accompanied by excessive attempts to compensate for it by purging, fasting or excessive exercising.

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Most Common Personality Disorders

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  1. Schizoid Personality Disorder
  2. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
  3. Borderline Personality Disorder
  4. Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationship and restricted range of emotional expression.

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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A grandiose sense of self-importance or uniqueness and have fragile self-esteem and care about how others view them.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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A pervasive instability in interpersonal behavior, mood and self-image.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others.

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