Psych Test 5/23

Question 1

DSM

Answer 1

Diagnostic statistical manual of mental illness
Published 2013
Lists symptoms of mental illness not cause

Question 2

What causes Mental illness

Answer 2

Deviant, Distressful Dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings or behaviors

Question 3

Anxiety disorders

Answer 3

Disorders whose major symptom is anxiety
GAD
OCD

Question 4

Anxiety

Answer 4

Generalized feeling of a apprehension and pending disaster

Question 5

Signs of anxiety disorder

Answer 5

Palm sweat
Throat closes
Breathing is a Erratic
Heart pounds
Hands tremble

Question 6

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

Answer 6

2/3 are women

• Symptoms must occur for 6 months
• Must include chronic anxiety not associated with a specific situation/object
• trouble sleeping, Hypervigilant/tense, difficulty concentrating and irritable most of the time

Question 7

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Answer 7

An anxiety disorder characterized by both repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and ritualized repetitive behavior (complusion)
* no longer listed as anxiety disorder
-thought to result from faulty attempt to resolve anxiety, guilt or insecurity
-can be result of a detect in the amount of
some brain chemicals

Question 8

OCD compulsions (diff ways)

Answer 8

Hoarders
Counters
Checkers
Cleaners

Question 9

Panic Disorders

Answer 9

Frequent and overwhelmed attacks of anxiety not associated with specific objects or events

• Physical/chemically wrong
• The first panic is not attached to anything specific
• panic eventually spreads & person limits their activities for fear of having an attack

Question 10

Phobic disorder

Answer 10

Person becomes disabled and overwhelmed by fear in the presence of object/event

Question 11

Types of phobia

Answer 11

Specific phobia

Agoraphobia

Question 12

Specific phobia

Answer 12

Centers on particular object

Faced with the object of fear the person becomes extremely anxious

Question 13

Agoraphobia

Answer 13

The fear of leaving familiar environment aka Home

Fear of open places

Question 14

Symptoms of panic disorder

Answer 14

Heart palpitations
 Shortness of breath
Choking sensations
Trembling
Dizzyness

Question 15

Post traumatic stress disorder

Answer 15

Condition checkered by horrifying event

Unwanted, distressing memories of the event

Question 16

4 symptoms of depression

Answer 16

Not functioning
Lack of appetite
Depressed moods

Long period of being sad/happy
Loss of interest

Question 17

Mood disorder

Answer 17

Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extreme

Question 18

Bipolar

Answer 18

Individual goes from states of mania to depressive states

Question 19

Symptoms of mania

Answer 19

-mood changes
•long period feeling high or overly happy
•extreme irritability
-behavioral change
•talk fast
•restless/little sleep

Question 20

Dysthymic disorder

Answer 20

Mild but longterm (chronic) form of depression

Question 21

Symptoms of dysthymia

Answer 21

Last at least 2 years of longer

Sadness/feeling down
Irritability
Low self esteem

Question 22

Major depression

Answer 22

Signs must last two or more weeks

Not caused by drugs or medical condition

Question 23

Depression statistics

Answer 23

Phobia is more common but depression is number one reason for mental health care
Women suffer more often

Question 24

Dissociative disorder

Answer 24

Disorder in which memory of a part of one’s life become disconnected

• amnesia
• fugue
• dis identity dis

Question 25

Amnesia

Answer 25

Dissociative disorder in which traumatic events seem to disappear for memory - events are still in person but cut off from consciousness - selective forgetting: forgetting only things that are very Traumatic

Question 26

Fugue

Answer 26

Dissociative disorder in which person forgets his current life and starts new one More men than women Caused by stressful events

Question 27

Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Answer 27

Divide yourself into multiple personalities Result of trauma Not Schizophrenics

Question 28

Somatoform disorder

Answer 28

Suffers from some form of physical illness when theres NO REAL CAUSE for illness to occur

Question 29

2 types of somatoform

Answer 29

Hypochondrias | Conversion disorder

Question 30

Hypochondrias

Answer 30

Somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease Many see doctors for diagnosis

Question 31

Conversion disorder

Answer 31

Anxiety appears converted to a physical symptom that has no reasonable neurological basis - loss of eyesight - paralysis - inability to swallow

Question 32

Schizophrenia

Answer 32

``` Not in touch w reality 1 in 100 Appear suddenly or gradually Shows during young adulthood Men earlier, slight more often and severe ```

Question 33

Symptoms of schizophrenia

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``` Speak in disorganized n deluded ways Hallucinations Delusions Inappropriate emotions Flat affect ```

Question 34

Types of schizophrenia

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Paranoid: believe A person is plotting against him or family member Catatonic: bizarre movements Undifferentiated: when symptoms don't fit other subtypes

Question 35

Possible causes of schizo

Answer 35

Dopamine overactivity Abnormal brain activity +anatomy Prenatal environment Genetics

Question 36

Psychoanalysis

Answer 36

``` Focus on a patient’s unconscious anxiety and/or conflict by: •Dream interpretation •Free Association -->Saying whatever comes to mind •“Talk Therapy” ```

Question 37

Cognitive Therapy

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* Talk therapy which helps a patient change irrational, negative thoughts with rational, positive ones * “Use reason to control emotions”

Question 38

Group Therapy

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* Therapy which more than one person at a time may be treated * Family Therapy * Marital Therapy * Self Help groups such as AA

Question 39

Biomedical

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* Drug Therapy- Use of medicine to relieve psychological symptoms * Mood tranquilizers * Anti-depressants * Anti-anxiety drugs * Mood Swing drugs Electroconvulsive Therapy- electrical shock is sent through the brain to try to reduce symptoms

Question 40

personality disorders:

Answer 40

psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

Question 41

Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder

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Lack of conscious for wrongdoing Aggressive •Superficial charm and high intelligence ●Poise, rationality, absence of neurotic anxiety ●Lack of a sense of personal responsibility ●Untruthfulness, insincerity, callousness, manipulativeness ●Antisocial behavior without regret or shame ●Poor judgment and failure to learn form experience ●Inability to establish lasting, close relationships with others ●Lack of insight into personal motivations

Question 42

Symptoms of borderline personality disorder

Answer 42

Chronic instability in emotions, self-image, and relationships ●Moods are uncontrollable, intense, and fluctuate quickly •afraid of abandonment Seeks reassurance and definition from others ●Characterized by self-destructiveness

Question 43

Which sex suffers more of borderline personality disorder

Answer 43

Women

Question 44

Psychologist vs psychiatrist

Answer 44

Psychiatrists prescribe medicine

Question 45

Symptoms of PTSD

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- nightmares - flashbacks - negative feelings about self n others - feelin emotionally numb - irritability/agressiveness

Question 46

Behavioral Therapy

Answer 46

* Use the principles of learning to “unlearn” undesired behavior * Systematic Desensitization- increases the patient’s anxiety and gradually counters it with relaxation * Averse Conditioning- unpleasantness is associated with acts a patient wants to avoid * Token economy- rewards for desired acts are accumulated through tokens

Question 47

Humanistic Therapy

Answer 47

* Emphasize the patient’s self worth and empower him/her to heal themselves with some assistance * “Person is his or her own therapist”