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Psych Ch. 15 Flashcards

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What is Trepination?

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Drilling holes in the head in order to release the demons causing ‘abnormal’ behavior

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What are Asylums

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Residential facilities for the mentally ill, though often applying brutal “treatments”

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When did the modern area of psychological treatment come? What was the cause?

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18-19th century. A medical model comeing from the discovery of syphilis’ impact on the brain

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Phillippe Pinel?

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French physician, late 18th century
* Thought the mentally ill were still human, treatments involve kindness, sunny rooms, exercise, baths Philippe Pinel

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Dorothy Dix?

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American activist, 19th century
* Raised money for hospitals for mentally ill, advocated for humane treatment Dorothea Dix

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What happened in the 20th century?

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overcrowding and desintitutionalization of
mental hospitals
* Some successes, but also some
failures

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Thomas Szasz: argued that

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mental illness is a social construction

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What are the three main misconceptions

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  1. Disorders are incurable (in reality,
    the majority get better)
  2. Mentally ill are violent and
    dangerous (the vast majority are
    not)
  3. The mentally ill are bizarre and
    different (vast majority, not true)
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How do we know there are cultural impacts of how we view mental health?

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Some disorders do not exist in each culture (Taijin Kyofusho)

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What are the three critera one could use to classify mental disorder?

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  • Deviance
  • Personal distress
  • Maladaptive behavior
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What is Deviance?

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Is this really unusual/atypical?

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What is a mental disorder?

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Any behavior or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self destructive, seriously impairs the persons ability to work or get along with others, or endangers others or the community”

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it’s important to have ________ and ______
criteria for mental illness

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reliable; valid

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What is the DSM?

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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What is an etiology

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causes for different conditions

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How many mental disorders were in the first DSM?

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106

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Homosexuality was officially considered a mental illness in the DSM until______

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1973

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What are the five axis about mental disorder?

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I: Is a major mental disorder present?
II: Is a personality disorder or mental retardation present
III: Is there a relevant medical condition
IV: Psychosocial and environmental factors?
V: What is the global level of assessment

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Each diagnoses from the DSM contain which three pieces of information?

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  • A set of symptoms and the number of symptoms that must be met in order to have the disorder
  • The etiology of symptoms (i.e., the best current evidence for what causes it)
  • A prognosis or prediction of how these symptoms will persist or change over time
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What are some advantages of labeling mental disorders?

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Reliability, attention to culture bound-syndromes, attention to genetic or biological factors

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What are the concerns of labeling mental disorders?

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  • Diagnoses based on consensus on arbitrary clusters of symptoms, not on actual research
  • Unclear rationale for the number of symptoms necessary for diagnosis
  • Potential stigma of labels
  • Overdiagnosis of conditions (e.g., ADHD)
  • The illusion of objectivity and universality
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Define insanity?

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Legal term only involving mental illness and whether person is aware of consequences and can control their behavior

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What is anxiety?

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A general state of apprehension or psychological tension

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What is an anxiety disorder?

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When fear and anxiety become detached from actual danger

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What are anxiety disorders in general?

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A category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and
maladaptive

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How many Canadians are impacted by an anxiety disorder?

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1 in 8

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is there a genetic component to anxiety?

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si

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What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

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A disorder involving frequently elevated levels of anxiety, generally from the normal challenges and stresses of everyday life

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What are the symptoms of Generalized Disorder?

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Feeling tense, racing heart, shaking, bias for negative informing

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What is panic disorder?

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An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring panic attacks, feelings of impending doom or death, accompanied by physiological symptoms such as rapid breathing and dizziness

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What is an anxiety disorder?

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A category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and
maladaptive

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What is a phobia?

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A severe, irrational fear of a very specific object or situation

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What are specific (simple) phobias?

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Pathological fear of specific animals, objects, or situations

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What is classical conditioning?

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by coincidence a negative association is formed between an object or neutral situation and an anxious response

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Operant conditions ____________ phobias

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maintains

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How do phobias occur

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Social learning and Personality factors

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Social learning in phobias

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modeling by another person (e.g., a parent) displaying fear of something

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Personality traits in phobias

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shy and inhibited people are more prone to phobias

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What is social anxiety disorder?

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A very strong fear of being judged by others or being embarrassed or humiliated in public

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People with social anxiety have a lowered…

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Threshold for amygdala activity

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What is agoraphobia?

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An intense fear of outside spaces or having a panic attack in public where escape is difficult

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What is the cycle of anxiety?

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anxiety- biological and behavioral responses

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What is obsessive compulsive disorder?

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Presence of unwanted, inappropriate, and persistent thoughts (obsessions), and tendency to engage in repetitive, almost ritualistic, behaviors (compulsions) designed to reduce anxiety

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OCD is characterized by…

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Unwanted thoughts & dysfunctional actions

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What are obsessions?

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persistent and unwanted thoughts, ideas, or images

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What are compulsions?

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actions that people feel compelled to do to relieve anxiety

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Appriasal in OCD

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The primary stress appraisal (“Is this stimulus
threatening?”) is hypersensitive to particular classes of stimuli

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Attribution in OCD

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OCD patients tend to misattribute negative life events to their failure to perform OCD
behaviors enough

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OCD patients show increased activity in the…

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orbitofrontal cortex and prefrontal cortex

50
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The __________________________ becomes hyperactive during OCD – also structural differences

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anterior cingulate cortex

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What is Posttramautic Stress Disorder

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Characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience

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Research suggests that patients with
PTSD show a distinct pattern of
neurological activity characterized by
an overactive ___________________________
and ____________________________________________________________

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amygdala (reliving fear); left hippocampus (memory for the event)

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After being exposed to a terrifying event, at least ___% of people do not experience post-
traumatic stress syndrome

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80

54
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What is posttramautic growth

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Most people who undergo trauma ultimately feel that the experience has made them stronger, wiser, more mature, more tolerant and understanding, or in some other way a better person

55
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What is Major depression?

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A disorder marked by prolonged periods of sadness, feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, social withdrawal, and cognitive and physical sluggishness

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__% of women and __% of men suffer from major depression at some point in their life.

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25% 13%

57
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substationtal increase in psychological issues in teens began in the _____

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2010

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What is the depressive explanatory style?

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Internalizing (my fault)
Stablizing (always)
Globalizing (applies to everything)

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Two primary brain regions of interest related to depression:

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*The limbic system, which is active in emotional responses and processing
*The dorsal (back) of the frontal cortex, which generally plays a role in controlling thoughts and concentrating

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Neurotransmitters associated with depression

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seretonin, dopamine, norepinephrine

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What is bipolar disorder?

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A mood disorder characterized by extreme highs and lows in mood, motivation, and energy

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What are some characteristics of mania?

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  • Increased energy
  • Increased activity
  • Increased distractibility
  • Excessive engagement in
    pleasurable behaviors that may
    lead to painful consequences
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What are cognitive changes associated with mania?

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Inflated self-esteem: Belief that they have unusual ability, talent, powers, or skills
* Racing thoughts: Rapid thoughts with little association between them – can become easily distracted

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Physical changes in Mania

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  • Heightened verbal activity
  • Increased energy
  • Decreased eating and sleeping
  • Increased energy + grandiosity + irritability =
    Can lead to risky behaviors
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Impacts of Bipolar on the brain

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  • Reduced activity in brain regions
    related to emotional regulation
  • Increased activity in areas related
    to emotional reactivity (amygdala
    and surrounding regions)
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What is Schizophrenia?

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A psychotic disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speech, disorganized and inappropriate behavior, and cognitive impairments

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Schizophrenia is a state of _______, which is…

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psychosis; distorted perceptions of reality
and irrational behavior

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What does the “split” part of schizophrenia refer to?

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is a brain disease that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems with attention and memory

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men to women ratio in developing schizophrenia

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7:5

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When is schizophrenia usually diagnosed?

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Frequently diagnosed in late adolescence or young adulthood

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Chronic Schizophrenia

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  • Form of schizophrenia in which symptoms usually appear by late adolescence or early adulthood
  • As people age, psychotic episodes last longer and recovery periods shorten
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Acute schizophrenia

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  • Form of schizophrenia that can begin at any age
  • Often a response to an emotionally traumatic event
  • Has extended recovery periods
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What are the three phases of schizophrenia?

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-prodromal phase
-Active case
-Residual phase

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What is the prodromal phase

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People may become easily confused and have difficulty organizing their thoughts – lose interest or withdraw from friends and family, lose their typical motivations

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What is the active phase?

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delusional thoughts and hallucinations – disorganized patterns of thoughts, emotions
and behavior

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What is the residual phase?

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predominant symptoms have disappeared or lessened, though the patient may still be withdrawn or have trouble concentrating

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What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

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Overt, added experiences that should not be
present (Not referring to positive in a “good” sense)
-hallucinations
-delusions
-disorderderd thinking and speech
-cognitive, emotional, behavioral excesses

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What are the negative symptoms of anxiety?

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An absence of functioning or lack of characteristics that should be present
* Lack of speech
* Lack of emotional expression (flat
affect)
* Lack of energy or motivation
* Anhedonia
* Asociality

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What is a hallucination?

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Alterations in perception, such that a person hears, sees, smells, feels, or tastes something that does not actually exist, except in that person’s own mind

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What is a delusion?

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Beliefs that are not based on reality

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What is a Delusions of grandeur?

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Being important, sometimes a historical figure like Jesus

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What is a delusion of persecution

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e.g., that the government is out to get you

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What is a delusion of reference?

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an individual’s experiencing innocuous events
or mere coincidences and believing they have strong personal significance

84
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WWhat are thoughts of insertion?

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aliens or government are inserting thoughts
into one’s head

85
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What is thought broadcasting?

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that other people can read one’s thoughts

86
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what is incoherant speech in schizophrenia called?

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word salad

87
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What is disordered thinking?

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A deficit in utilizing “executive functions”, such as attention, rule-switching, forming associations, or dealing with abstractions

88
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What is poverty of speech?

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Brief, empty replies in conversation

89
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What is emotional flatness

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Unresponsive facial expressions, poor eye contact, diminished emotionality

90
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Loss of motivation?

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diminished ability to initiate typical activities

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Anhedonia

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decreased enjoyment or pleasure in everyday events or things that one used to find pleasurable

92
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Are subtypes involved in the DSM-5

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-catatonic
-paranoid
-disorganized
-disorganized
-undifferetiated
-residual

93
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What is the neurodevelopmental hypothesis?

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The adult manifestation of what we
call “schizophrenia” is the outgrowth of disrupted neurological
development early in the person’s life

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What is the dopamine hypothesis?

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schizophrenia is associated with over activity of dopamine in at least some brain areas (especially the Substantia nigra—striatum pathway)

95
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What is a dissociative disroder?

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A category of mental disorders characterized
by a split between conscious awareness from feeling, cognition, memory, and identity

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What is dissociative fugue?

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A period of profound autobiographical memory loss

97
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What is dissociative amnesia?

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A severe loss of memory, usually for a specific
stressful event, when no biological cause for amnesia is present

98
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What is depersonalization disorder?

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An out-of-body experience

99
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What is dissociative identity disorder?

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A person experiences a split in identity such that they feel different aspects of themselves
as though they were separate from each other

100
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What are the two possible causes of DID?

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Posttraumatic model (defense mechanism)
Sociocognitive Iatrogenic: Intense and
suggestive interview techniques

101
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What is a personality disorder?

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Particularly unusual patterns of behavior (relative to one’s cultural
context), that are maladaptive, distressing to oneself or others, and
resistant to change

102
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What are the symptoms of BPD?

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Paranoid ideas
* Relationship instability
* Angry outbursts
* Impulsive behavior
* Suicidal behavior
* Emptiness

103
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What are the poteintial causes of BPD

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Genetics (runs in families)
* Abusive or neglectful parenting
* Brain abnormalities related to
aggression and emotional
regulation

104
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Histrionic personality disorder

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Characterized by excessive attention seeking and dramatic behavior

105
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antisocial personality disorder is characterized by…

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  • (1) a profound lack of empathy or
    emotional connection with others,
  • (2) a disregard for others’ rights or
    preferences, and
  • (3) a tendency toward inserting their
    own desires, often violently, onto
    others regardless of the consequences
    for others
106
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What is psychopathy?

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Characterized by lack of remorse, empathy, anxiety, and other social emotions, the use of deceit and manipulation, and impulsive thrill seeking

107
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What is the ADP

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Characterized by a lifelong pattern of irresponsible, antisocial behaviour such as law-breaking, violence, and other impulsive, reckless acts

108
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Factors that influence psychopoathy and ADP

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  1. Abnormalities in the central nervous system
  2. Impaired frontal lobe functioning
  3. Genetic influences
  4. Environmental events
109
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Paranoid personality disorder

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Sees threats where others do not; difficulty
trusting others. cluster A

110
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Schizoid personality disorder

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Difficulty forming close relationships; desire to be left alone; restricted emotional expression. Cluster A

111
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schizoidtypal disoder

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Eccentric, odd, superstitious, or
grandiose ways of thinking or expressing
oneself. (e.g., “delusions of reference”) cluster A

112
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Avoidant personality disorder

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Social inhibition, feelings of
inadequacy, and hypersensitivity
to negative evaluation. Fear of
rejection. Embarrassment. cluster C

113
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Depentant personality disorder?

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A pattern of submissive and
clinging behavior related to an
excessive need to be taken care
of. Difficulty making decisions
without the help of others. Low
self-confidence. Cluster C

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Obsessive compulsive personality disorder?

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A pattern of preoccupation with
orderliness, perfectionism, and
control. High expectations for
others and oneself – very upset if
those standards aren’t met. Cluster C

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