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Psy 3010 CH 7,12,13,14 Flashcards

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Mental disorders that affect specific areas of functioning.

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Neurotic disorder

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Mental disorders that affect many areas of functioning and involve emotions, thoughts, and behaviors so bizarre a person cannot function in most areas of life.

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Psychotic disorder

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Lack of emotion even in situations that call for great joy or sadness.

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Flat affect

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Delusions and hallucinations

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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Lack of speech or emotion and failure to care for oneself.

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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Excessive or overt symptoms

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positive symptoms

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deficit or covert symptoms

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negative symptoms

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Type of delusion most commonly seen in people with schizophrenia. Represent irrational beliefs that one is being harmed or harassed in some way

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Persecutory delusions

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Type of delusion in which a person believes that others are deliberately placing thoughts in their mind without their permission, transmitting their thoughts so everyone knows them, and stealing thoughts creating memory loss.

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Control delusions

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Delusion that represents irrational beliefs that one is especially powerful or important when it is actually not so.

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Grandiose delusions

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Irrational beliefs that events in everyday life have something special to do with oneself.

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Referential delusions

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Irrational belief that one’s physical body is affected by an outside source. Usually in a negative way.

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Somatic delusions

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First phase of schizophrenia which is marked by particular disturbances in speech or thought process, odd or withdrawn social interactions, attention and memory problems. Resembles depression and makes determination of the issue difficult.

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Prodromal Phase of schizophrenia

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Second phase of schizophrenia. Full blown positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Often admitted for treatment and symptoms can be triggered for a particular stressor.

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Psychotic Prephase

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Third phase of schizophrenia. 6 month period includes a 1-month phase in which symptoms are acute and experience full-blown positive and negative symptoms.

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Active Phase of schizophrenia.

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Following treatment people advance to a phase that usually involve symptoms very similar to the prodromal phase. Many remain in this phase for much of their life.

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Residual Phase of schizophrenia

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DSM-5 provides a rating scale for how many dimensions of schizophrenia?

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Hallucinations, Delusions, Disorganized speech, abnormal psychomotor behavior, negative symptoms, impaired cognition, depression, mania. (8)

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People who show features of schizophrenia for 1 month to 6 months and whose daily life functioning may not yet be greatly impaired. AKA first-episode psychosis.

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Schizophreniform disorder.

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Includes characteristic features of schizophrenia and a depressive or manic episodes.

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Schizoaffective disorder.

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Delusion with the mistaken belief that a special person, such as a celebrity loves the person from a distance.

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Erotomanic delusion

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Involves key features of schizophrenia occurring for 1 day to 1 month. Includes hallucinations, disorganized speech, and disorganized behavior.

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Brief psychotic disorder.

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Children of people with schizophrenia are ____ more likely to develop schizophrenia.

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12 times

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Do twin studies indicate that schizophrenia has a genetic component?

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True. 50-53 percent higher in identical twins than fraternal twins.

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Conducted a false study where normal people were hospitalized for claiming to hear voices.

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Rosenham

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Is excessive use of substances (PCP, LSD) common in people with schizophrenia symptoms?

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True/YES

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Problems with antipsychotics for psychotic disorders

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Patients do not respond well.
Useful in treating positive symptoms but not negative ones.
Side effects are unpleasant/irreversible.

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One or more manic episodes in a person

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Bipolar I disorder

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Episodes of hypomania that alternate with episodes of major depression.

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Bipolar II disorder

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Depression during the fall or winter months

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Seasonal depression

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Comprises the same symptoms as a manic episode but may not result in severe impairment in daily functioning and last at least 4 days.

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Hypomanic episode

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Period of time which a person feels highly euphoric or irritability.

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Manic episode

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Thoughts about death, killing oneself, funerals, or other morbid ideas related to ones death.

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Suicidal ideation

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Deliberate self harm

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Parasuicidal behavior/suicidal behavior

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Common methods of suicide attempts

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firearms, hanging, alcohol/substance/medication overdose, carbon monoxide, and jumping from a high place.

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Theory related to depression that people act in a helpless passive fashion upon learning that actions have little affect on the overall environment.

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Learned helplessness

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Studies of bipolar disorder indicate that identical twins share the disorder __ to ___ percent of the time.

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38.5 and 62

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Bipolar disorder medication

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Mood-stabilizing drugs. Lithium is an example.

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Short term memory problems being in our

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30’s and 40’s.

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Temporary and reversible memory and thinking changes that occur under certain circumstances.

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Delirium

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Nuerocognitive problem marked by usually chronic, progressive, and irreversible problems in thinking and memory.

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Dementia

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When a person has difficulty remembering personal information, where they are, or what time it is.

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Disorientation

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Dementia cognitive deficits

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Chronic, develop slowly, show progressive course, and irreversible.

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Most prominent for of dementia

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Alzheimer’s disease.

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Onset of dementia symptoms before the age of 65

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Presenile dementia

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Impaired ability to use or comprehend spoken language, as when a person had difficulty speaking or cannot understand what is being said to him.

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Aphasia dementia

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Impaired ability to recognize people or common objects.

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Agnosia dementia

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Occurs when a blood vessel is blocked or bursts, which denies oxygen to parts of the brain; various areas of the brain, especially the cortex can potentially suffer severe damage.

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Vascular dementia

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Often caused by blood clots that block a key artery to the brain

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ischemic stroke

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Symptoms of a stroke

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History of a stroke
faster, abrupt, onset of dementia symptoms
better retention of overall cognitive function
stepwise deterioration
focal neurological signs
patchy distribution of deficits

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A progressive neurological disorder marked by abnormal movements that may lead to a neurological disorder.

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Parkinson’s disease

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Problem associated with chronic alcohol abuse. Engage in confabulation, or the creation of fables or stories to fill memory gaps and hide memory problems.

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Korsakoff’s syndrome

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Deterioration of key areas related to thinking, memory, personality, and other important functions.

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Atrophy

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Risks for developing dementia

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Diet, alcohol and tobacco us, aluminum, cultural factors, and biological factors.

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Involves detailed questioning and observation of key areas of functioning such as appearance, mood, orientation, and odd behaviors, speech, or thoughts.

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Mental Status Examination

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Where people are first referred to with a cognitive disorder and why.

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referred to a neurologist or neuropsychiatrist for assessment

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what do people with end-of-life stages of dementia benefit from

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if everyone understands that there is no cure, then plans for the end of life can be made before thinking and speaking abilities fail and people can no longer legally complete documents

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Delay in normal maturity, especially with respect to intelligence, cognition, learning, and methods of self care.

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Developmental disorder

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Showing noncompliance and aggression during and after elementary school.

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Disruptive behavior disorders.

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Intellectual disability subtypes

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mild, moderate, severe, and profound severity.

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Support when needed, such as moving, shopping for groceries or seeking a job

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Mild severity of Intellectual disability

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Consistent support, such as transportation, employment training, or paying bills.

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Moderate severity of Intellectual disability

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Regular, daily support, such as preparing food, getting dressed, or bathing

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Severe severity of Intellectual disability

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Constant, intense support, such as ongoing medical attention or complete care.

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Profound severity of Intellectual disability

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Repeat others words

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Echolalia

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Socially inappropriate behavior such as excessive rocking, hand flapping, or walking on their toes

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Self-stimulatory behavior

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Involved impairment in social interactions with some unusual behavior patterns but not major deficits in language, cognitive development, or adaptive functioning.

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Asperger’s disorder

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Asperger’s disorder is now referred to as

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Autism spectrum disorder at L1

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Learning disorder where letters can be reversed when reading or spelling

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Dyslexia

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Problems with fine motor movements such as trouble buttoning a shirt

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Dyspraxia

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Condition that results when the FMRI gene of the X chromosome narrows, breaks, or otherwise becomes mutated.

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Fragile X syndrome

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Caused by genetic mutation on chromosome 12.

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phenylketonuria PKU

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How is PKU inherited

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PKU is inherited from both parents if the problem occurs.

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Conditions that negatively impact physcial development of a child during prenatal or perinatal periods.

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Teratogens

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Children tend to have smaller heads facial and heart defects, and have lower intelligence which may last for years.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome

75
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Testing used if brain damage is suspected in a person with a developmental disorder

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Neuropsychological testing

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Due to an extra chromosome. Results in a large tongue, upward slanting eyes, short fingers, brittle blonde hair, visual, hearing, and cardiac problems.

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Down syndrome

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Person violating the rights of others

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Conduct disorder

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Four symptoms of conduct disorder

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Aggression, destruction of property, lie to avoid punishment, violation of law/rules

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Primary biological treatment for youths with disruptive disorders

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stimulant medication such as methylphenidate.

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when a person experiences four or more mood swings or episodes in a twelve-month period

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Rapid cycling bi-polar disorder

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