Psych Flashcards
Projection vs displacement
Projection: Unacceptable impulse is attributed to someone else (Man who cheated thinks wife is cheating on him). Displacement: Unacceptable feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (yell at kid because you were yelled at)
Reaction formation vs sublimation
Reaction formation: Warded off feeling is replaced by emphasis on its opposite (man with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery). Sublimation: Mature defense –> replace unacceptable wish with course of action similar to the wish but is acceptable (aggression –> sports).
Altruism, according to step 1
Guilty feelings alleviated by generosity toward others
Fixation vs regression
Fixation: partially remaining at a more childish level of development (ex fixating on sports games). Regression: going back to earlier state of development (happens with stressed kids)
Repression vs suppression
Repression is involuntarily withholding idea or feeling from consciousness, suppression is VOLUNTARILY doing that.
Symptoms start age 1-4 –> regression, loss of verbal abilities, MR, ataxia, and stereotyped hand-wringing. Only in girls.
Rett’s disorder. X linked, boys die.
3-4 year olds. Marked regression in multiple areas of functioning after at least 2 years of normal development. More common in boys.
Childhood disintegrative disorder.
NT changes with anxiety
Increased NE, decreased GABA and serotonin
NT changes with depression
Decreased NE, GABA and serotonin
NT changes with Huntingtons
Decreased GABA and ACh, increased DA
NT changes with Parkinsons
Decreased DA, increased serotonin, increased ACh
Which part of mental status exam: Name, place, date
Orientation. Lost time first, then place, then person.
Which part of mental status exam: Follow multistep commands
Comprehension
Which part of mental status exam: Recite months of year backwards
Concentration
Which part of mental status exam: Recall 3 unrelated words after 5 minutes
Short term memory
Which part of mental status exam: Details of significant life events
Long term memory
Which part of mental status exam: Write a sensible sentence with a noun and verb
Language
Which part of mental status exam: Draw a clockface
Visuospatial
Schizophrenia vs schizophreniform
> 6 months
Schizoaffective
Schizo + mood (bipolar or depressive).
Brief psychotic disorder
<1 month
Dissociative identity vs depersonalization vs dissociative fugue
ID: multiple personality. Deperson: detachment. Fugue: can’t recall past
Cyclothymic disorder
Like the dysthymia of bipolar. Lasts at least 2 years and cycles between dysthymia and hypomania
Acute stress disorder cutoff
1 month, then PTSD