Psych/Soc Class V

Question 1

What is a mental disorder?

Answer 1

Set of behaviours or psych symptoms that are not in keeping with social norms and sever. enough to cause personal stress, impairment to social, occupational or personal functions

Question 2

What are the said to be 2 categories of mental disorder causeS?

Answer 2

Biomedical: biological cause (brain deformation)

Biopsychological: there is overlap between psych, sociocultural and biological causes

Question 3

What is anxiety?

Answer 3

Fear or anxiety, avoidance of behaviour, sympathetic activation in the absence of threat

Question 4

What is depression?

Answer 4

sad and empty and or irritable mood, not related to normal grief

Question 5

What is thought to be the causes of depression?

Answer 5

genetics
Brian chemistry
Anatomy

Question 6

What is monoamine hypothesis?

Answer 6

Deficiency in libels or serotonin, NT dopamine in CNS

Question 7

What is bipolar disorder?

Answer 7

Involves episodes and oscillations between really happy and depressed states

Question 8

Are there more than one type of bipolar disorder?

Answer 8

BP1 very extreme highs and lows of similar magnitude

BP2 very extreme lows and more normal highs

Cyclothymia more even highs and lows, not as intense

Question 9

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 9

Delusions and hallucinations
Disorganized speech and though
Feneral detachment of reality

Question 10

What does a person with schizophrenia have that normal people dont?

Answer 10

+ symptoms (add): hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behaviour

• symptoms (sub): Avolition (loss of motivation), decrease in speech and interactions

Cognitive symptoms: only detected when doing other tests

Question 11

What is said to be the cause of schizophrenia?

Answer 11

Abnormal brain chemistry (dopamine) and an outside stressor

Question 12

What is PTSD?

Answer 12

exposure to traumatic stressful event wide range of symptoms

Question 13

What is personality disorder?

Answer 13

Patterns of inflexibile behaviour across a range of settings, relationships

• diagnosis starts in adolescence
• high comorbidity

Question 14

What are the different categories of personality disorder?

Answer 14

Cluster A: Milder versions of schizophrenia (not all symptoms) Weird

Cluster B: Over the top or unstable (dramatic), antisociety. Wild

Cluster C: Anxiety, OCPD related. Worried

Question 15

What is OCD?

Answer 15

obsessions (thoughts) and compulsions (actions)

Question 16

What is illness anxiety?

Answer 16

Part of the somatic symptoms
Excessive or medically unexplained symptoms
-you’re always worried about becoming sick

Question 17

What is dissociative identity?

Answer 17

disruptions / discontinuities in core identity, abnormal integration of emotion, identity and consciousness

Question 18

What is autism?

Answer 18

Diagnosed early in development
Hard to treat
Intellectual disability
Communication disorders

Question 19

What is Alzheimers?

Answer 19

Cognitive decline from previous level of performance in cognitive functionality

Question 20

What is said to be the cause of Alzheimers?

Answer 20

Amyloid plaques: clumps and protein fragments that accumulate outside the cells

Neurofibillary tangle: Clumps of altered proteins inside cell

-everyone has these but the rate at which they leave someone who has Alzheimers is slower boucle they have a lot more

Question 21

What its Parkinson’s?

Answer 21

Low dopamine levels in the substantial migration (middle brain) impacts motor functions

Question 22

What is insomnia?

Answer 22

disturbance in quality timing and or amount of sleep

Question 23

What are the 2 categories of insomnia?

Answer 23

Dyssomnia: insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea

parasomnia: sleep walking, night terrors

Question 24

What is the difference between dyssomnia and parasomnia?

Answer 24

dyssomnia is abnormalities in the amount of quality/time of sleep

parasomnia: abnormal behaviours during sleep

Question 25

What is alcoholism?

Answer 25

substance related and addictive disorder

-can have lack of empathy and sympathy for others in advanced states

Question 26

What are the different kinds of drugs used to treat mental disorders?

Answer 26

Depressants: depress CNS
stimulants: increase availability of NTs
Hallucinogens: Distorts perception

Question 27

What is tolerance?

Answer 27

use more to get desired effect

Question 28

What is dependence?

Answer 28

Need it to function normally

Question 29

What is withdrawals?

Answer 29

Suddenly stops the use once someone becomes dependent

Question 30

What is addiction?

Answer 30

Compulsive use

Question 31

What is consciousness?

Answer 31

Awareness we have of ourselves

Question 32

What are our 2 states of consciousness?

Answer 32

Asleep

Awake

Question 33

What are our 2 states of consciousness controlled by?

Answer 33

Reactive activating system

-RAS

Question 34

What are the different waves experienced when sleeping?

Answer 34

alpha: 7-14Hz (relaxed normal consciousness)
beta: 15-30Hz (alertness and conscious)
theta: 4-7Hz (meditative state)
delta: Less than 4Hz (Sleep)

Question 35

What is the circadian rhythm?

Answer 35

Controls our alertness in predictable ways over 24hrs

Question 36

What is the circadian rhythm dependent on?

Answer 36

Body temp
Cortisol (adrenal)
Melatonin (pineal gland)

Question 37

What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?

Answer 37

Regulates sleep, melatonin production and body temp

Question 38

What is hypnosis?

Answer 38

State of consciousness and attention is more focused and peripheral awareness is reduced

Question 39

What is meditation?

Answer 39

Practice in which an individual induces a mode of consciousness for some purpose