Psych Flashcards
What is classical conditioning using an example and naming the stimuli and responses?
- Steak (UNCONDITIONED stimulus) makes a dog drool (NATURAL response).
- Associating a bell (CODITIONAL stimulus) with a steak makes dog drooln absence of steak: the bell has become the CONDITIONED stimulus and drooling at it is the CONDITIONED RESPONSE
How are natural and conditioned response different?
The response is the same, it is just called the conditioned response when it occurs in response to the conditioned stimulus
What are consequences and in what model are they seen?
Outcomes of a behavior influencing the likelihood it will happen again
Difference between stimulus in classical and operant conditioning?
Classical: stimulus is presented before behaviour
Operant: consequence given after behavior to increase or decrease its likelihood
What are positive and negative consequences?
**Remember, a consequence can be a punishment, or a reinforcement:
Positive consequences: involves DOING something
Negative consequences: involve stopping or withholding something
What are reinforcement and punishment?
*Both are consequences to a certain behavior:
Reinforcement: makes behavior more likely
Punishment: makes behavior it less likely
What is negative reinforcement?
Temporarily removing adverse condition when behavior is performed
What is negative punishment?
Temporarily removing a non adverse condition when a behavior is performed
***Taking away a kids toys when they bite you
What is extinction?
Loss of a trained behavior after the stimulus is removed
What is transference?
PATIENT is projecting a past relationship onto the clinician
What is COUNTERtransference?
CLINICIAN is transferring past relationship onto patient
What is the isolation defense?
“Think isolation of affect”
- You are isolating your emotions even when talking about a terrible event
What is identification?
Modeling your identity on someone more powerful?
What is splitting?
Dividing the world into absolutes: everything is either all good, or all bad
**Characteristic of borderline personality disorder
What is splitting characteristic of?
Borderline personality disorder
What is SUBconsciously blocking a painful memory?
Repression
What is repression?
SUBconsciously blocking a painful memory
What is consciously blocking a painful memory?
Suppression
What is suppression?
Consciously blocking a painful memory
- Aware it is going on but you choose not to think about it
- Choosing not to worry about something for now
Most mature of suppression, repression, and denial?
Suppression
What is denial?
You are consciously aware of bad new but you are subconsciously unable to accept
What is projection?
Seeing your shitty qualities in someone else
- Think of a projector machine projecting them onto the wall or someone else
What is displacement?
Taking your anger from one person and acting it out on another person - think, your anger is misplaced!
What is fixation?
Never growing up
- Adults who have been doing something childish for a while such as video games
What is regression?
Have grown up but revert back to old behavior
- Starting to wet bed or such thumb in response to a stressor
What is reaction formation?
Instead of performing and unacceptable action, you perform the exact opposite
- Obsessed with sex so you become a celibate priest
What is sublimation?
Aware of anger but you channel it to something similar but safer:
- I want to punch someone but I am going to play hockey instead
Rates and genetics of schizophrenia?
General population: 1%
First degree relative: 10%
Monozygotic Twin: 50%
Effects of infant deprivation of care?
“Weak, wordless, wary, wanting”
- Failure to thrive
- Low verbal scores
- Difficulty trusting others
- Poor social development
What is reactive attachment disorder?
- Lack of social stimulation causing unresponsiveness and physical decline
- Can lead to coma and death
What do spiral fractures indicated?
Child abuse from grabbing and twisting long bones
Signs of shaken baby?
- Rib bruise and fracture
- Cervical spine fracture
- Retinal hemorrhage and detachment
- Subdural hematoma w/o external trauma
Who usually commits physical child abuse?
Caregiver, females for often
Who usually commits sexual abuse?
Not the caregiver but a male the child knows
Signs of child abuse?
- Sexually precocious: outside normal body curiosity
Signs of osteogenesis imperfecta?
- Blue sclera
- Multiple fractures
- Hearing loss
- Opalescent teeth
What to do when you expect child neglect?
Call CPS
What is vulnerable child syndrome?
- Parents believe child is vulnerable to harm following serious illness or accident
- Leads to missed school or overuse of medical system
What is only non stimulant non habit forming medicine for ADHD?
Atomoxetine
What is oppositional defiant disorder? Conduct?
Oppositional: Consistent defiance and hostility to authority figures
Conduct: defiant but consistently are violating rights of others with criminal behavior common
*Start fires, steal, violent
Difference between conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder
Same thing but:
Conduct disorder: 18 yo
Presentation of tourettes?
- Vocal tics
2. Motor tics
2 associated diseases with tourettes?
- OCD
2. ADHD
Characteristics of autism spectrum?
- Fixated and repetitive behavior
- Social disability
- Communication disability
What is Rett syndrome?
- Only disease of autism spectrum with known cause
- X linked recessive seen only in girls
- If you dont have 1 normal X chromosome disease is deadly
Diagnosis with autistic girl hand wringing?
Rett syndrome
Presentation of Rett?
- Hand wringing
- Regression of verbal abilities
- Autism spectrum
- Only females
2 Comorbidities of ADHD?
- Tourette
- Conduct disorder
- Oppositional defiant
Movement effect of ACH and dopamine?
ACH: anti movement
De: pro movement
De pro or anti psychotic?
Pro “Dont act DOPEY”
Disease in which glutamate is high?
Alzheimers
NTs in alzheimer’s?
- Increased glutamate
2. Decreased ACH
Which NT is pro memory?
ACH
NTs in anxiety?
- High NE
- Low 5HT
- Low GABA
NTs in depression?
- Low NE
- Low 5ht
- Low DE
NTs in huntington’s?
- Increased DE
- Decreased ACH
- Low GABA
NTs in parkinson’s?
Opposite huntingtons
- Low DE
- Increased ACH
NTs in schizo?
- High DE
In which order do you lose your orientations?
- Time
- Place
- Person
What causes korsakoff syndrome? Signs?
- Mamillary body destruction from thiamine deficiency
- Leads to anterograde amnesia
- Confabulation seen
What is dissociative amnesia?
Retrograde amnesia secondary to emotional trauma
What is dissociative amnesia?
Trauma causing inability to remember personal info
What is dissociative fugue?
SEVERE loss of identity: wondering off to somewhere random sometimes even developing a new identity
What is dissociated identity disorder?
Psychological trauma causing multiple personalities
What is depersonalization disorder?
Feeling disconnected with interactions with world around you
What is delirium?
- Acute onset, waxing and waning altered mental status
- Usually result of medical issues
What is dementia?
- Chronic, progressive decline of mental status
- Usually in elderly
Common symptoms of delirium and dementia?
Delerium: 1. Lapse in consciousness and focus 2. Hallucinations Dementia: 1. Gradual memory loss 2. Loss of language skills
Delirium of dementia reversible?
Delerium will reverse once underlying cause is treated
Reversible causes of dementia that need to be ruled out?
- Thyroid
- B12
- Depression
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus