PSYCH 2030 WEEK 6

Question 1

Prolonged Grief Disorder

Answer 1

Persistent and intense grief lasting beyond what is considered typical. (1 year plus)

Question 2

Adjustment Disorders

Answer 2

Difficulty coping with life changes or stressors, leading to emotional and behavioral problems.

Question 3

Attachment Disorders

Answer 3

Difficulty forming healthy emotional bonds with caregivers or others.

Question 4

Reactive Attachment disorder

Answer 4

Inability to form emotional attachments due to neglect or inconsistent care in early childhood.

Question 5

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

Answer 5

Overly friendly or familiar behavior with strangers due to a lack of healthy attachment relationships.

Question 6

Dissociative Disorders

Answer 6

experiencing a loss of connection between thoughts, memories, feelings, surroundings, behavior and identity

Question 7

Depersonalization

Answer 7

Feeling detached from one’s own thoughts, feelings, or body.

Question 8

Derealization

Answer 8

feel detached from the world

Question 9

Depersonalization-derealization disorder

Answer 9

When feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the clients life and prevent normal functioning

Question 10

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 10

Inability to recall important personal information, often due to trauma or stress.

Question 11

Generalized Amnesia

Answer 11

Condition in which a person loses memory of all personal information

Question 12

Localized amnesia / Selective Amnesia

Answer 12

Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events

Question 13

Dissociative Fugue

Answer 13

Sudden unexpected travel from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity

Question 14

Dissociative Trance Disorder

Answer 14

Altered state of consciousness in which the person believers firmly that he or she is possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction

Question 15

Dissociative identity disorder

Answer 15

Formally known as multiple personality disorder, a disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind

Question 16

Alters

Answer 16

Different identities or personality states within a person with dissociative identity disorder.

Question 17

Schizophrenia

and who coined it

Answer 17

• Eugen Bleuler
  Psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior

Question 18

Catatonia

Answer 18

State of unresponsiveness or abnormality in movement and behavior.

Question 19

Hebephrenia

Answer 19

Silly and immature emotionality

Question 20

Dementia Praecox

Answer 20

Older term for schizophrenia, emphasizing early onset and cognitive decline.

Question 21

Associative Splitting

Answer 21

Separation of thoughts and emotions, characteristic of schizophrenia.

Question 22

Psychosis

Answer 22

Loss of contact with reality, often including delusions or hallucinations.

Question 23

Positive Symptoms

Answer 23

More obvious symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations

Question 24

Delusion

Answer 24

False belief held despite evidence to the contrary.

Question 25

Negative Symptoms

Answer 25

Less obvious symptoms, such as flat affect and poverty of speech

Question 26

Avolition

Answer 26

Lack of motivation or inability to initiate and persist in important activities

Question 27

Alogia

Answer 27

Poverty of speech, often seen as a symptom of schizophrenia

Question 28

Anhedonia

Answer 28

Inability to experience pleasure from normally enjoyable activities.

Question 29

Asociality

Answer 29

Lack of interest in social interactions or relationships.

Question 30

Flat Affect

Answer 30

Lack of emotional expression, even in situations that typically evoke emotions.

Question 31

Disorganized Symptoms

Answer 31

Erratic behaviors that affect speech, motor behaviors, and emotional reactions

Question 32

Disorganized Speech

Answer 32

Incoherent or illogical speech patterns.

Question 33

Inappropriate Affect

Answer 33

Emotional displays that are improper for the situation

Question 34

Catatonic Immobility

Answer 34

Disturbances of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in an awkward posture for extended periods of time

Question 35

Schizophreniform Disorder

Answer 35

Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months

Question 36

Schizoaffective Disorder

Answer 36

Combination of schizophrenia symptoms and mood disorder symptoms.

Question 37

Delusional Disorder

Answer 37

Presence of delusions without other schizophrenia symptoms.

Question 38

Shared Psychotic Disorder

Answer 38

Delusional beliefs of one person transmitted to another who is close to them.

Question 39

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Answer 39

Sudden onset of psychotic symptoms lasting less than one month.

Question 40

Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome

Answer 40

Disorder involving the onset of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions which put a person at high risk for schizophrenia

Question 41

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Answer 41

a person might have unusual beliefs, behaviors, and difficulties in social situations

Question 42

Prodromal Stage

Answer 42

Early stage of an illness, characterized by nonspecific symptoms preceding the full onset of the disorder.

Question 43

Schizophrenogenic

Answer 43

A cold, dominating, rejecting parent, who was thought to cause schizophrenia in his or her offspring

Question 44

Double Bind

Answer 44

A double bind is a dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more reciprocally conflicting messages. Used to be thought to cause schizophrenia

Question 45

Expressed Emotion

Answer 45

Family members’ critical or hostile attitudes toward a person with a psychiatric disorder.

Question 46

Token Economy

Answer 46

Behavioral therapy technique using tokens or points as rewards for desired behaviors, often used in institutional settings.