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
