Psych Readings Flashcards
What does incidence of disorder refer to?
Number of new cases in a given period
What does prevalence of disorder refer to?
Number of people who have the disorder at a specific period
What are Overt Compulsions?
Compulsions observable by others
What are Covert Compulsions?
Cognitive compulsions are mental behaviours
What are somatic symptom and related disorders?
Involve psychical complains/disabilities that suggest medical problem but have no biological cause
What is conversion disorder?
Sensations like paralysis, loss of sensation, blindness occur in midst of anxiety
What are dissociative disorders?
Involved a breakdown of normal personality integration, resulting in significant alterations in memory or identity
What is dissociative amnesia?
Person responds to a stressful event with extensive but selective memory loss
What is dissociative fugue?
A more profound dissociative state in which person looses all sense of personal identity, gives up life and moves away to establish new identity
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Two or more separate personalities coexist in same person.
Host personality seem more than the alters.
Each personality has entirely different behaviours, memories, health differences
What is trauma dissociation theory?
Theorised cause of DID
-Development of new personalities occurs in response to severe stress
What is the behavioural inhibition system?
- Pain avoidance
- Generates fear and anxiety
What is the behavioural activation system?
- Reward orientation
- Activated by cues that predict future pleasure
Depression in reference to behavioural activation and inhibition systems
Depression predicted by HIGH BIS sensitivity, and LOW BAS activity
Mania in reference to behavioural activation and inhibition systems
Linked to HIGH BAS functioning
What is the blunted effect?
Manifesting less sadness, joy, anger than most people
What is the flat effect?
Showing no emotions at all
What is the inappropriate effect?
Opposite emotion to situation, often extreme
What is reliability?
Means that clinicians using a system should show high levels of agreements in their diagnostic decisions
What is validity?
Means that the diagnostic categories should accurately capture essential feature of the various disorders
What is free association?
Clients verbally report without censorship of any thoughts/feelings/images that enter their awareness
What is transference?
Occurs when the client responds irrationally to the analyst as if she/he were an important figure form the client’s past
What does behaviour modification therapy technique refer to?
Treatment techniques that apply operant conditioning procedures in an attempt to decrease/increase specific behaviour
What does behaviour avtivation therapy technique refer to?
Treatment for depression that increases positively reinforcing behaviours
What is social skills training?
Clients learn new skills by observing and imitating a model who performs a socially skilful behaviour
What disorder greatly benefits from dialectal behaviour therapy?
Borderline personality disorder
What does couples therapy focus on?
Acceptance of the other’s behaviour
What therapies are best for depression?
Cognitive and interpersonal therapies
What therapies are best for anxiety?
Exposure therapy and systematic desensitisation
What treatment is best for Borderline PD
Dialectical behaviour therapy
