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Psychological Disorders Flashcards

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Scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

  • statistical abnormality
  • social nonconformity
  • situational context
  • cultural relativity
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Psychopathology

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Psychological discomfort
Disability
Loss of control of thoughts, behaviors, or feelings

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Maladaptive behavior

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DSM-5

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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Significant impairment in psychological functioning

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Mental disorder

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Impairment of nervous system development before adulthood

-you have intellectual communication, attentional, or motor problems that emerge early in your life

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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What category of psychopathology: Intellectual developmental disorder, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Tourette’s disorder

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Neurodevelopmental disorder

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Loss of contact with reality; you hear or see things that others don’t; your mind has been playing tricks on you

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Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders

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Alternating mania and depression; you feel depressed; or you talk too loud and too fast and have a rush of ideas and feelings that others think are unreasonable

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Bipolar and related disorders

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Unnecessarily repetitious behavior; you spend unusual amounts of time doing things like washing your hands or counting your heartbeats

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Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders

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Amnesia, feelings of unreality, multiple dimensions; there are major gaps in your memory of events; you feel like you are a robot or a stranger to yourself; others tell you that you have done things that you don’t remember doing

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Dissociative disorders

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Body complaints without an organic (physical) basis; you feel physically sick, but your doctor says nothing is wrong with you; you suffer from pain that has no physical basis; you are preoccupied with thoughts about being sick

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Somatic symptom disorders

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Impairment of nervous system development while in adulthood; your ability to think and remember has suffered a dramatic decline in adulthood

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Neurocognitive disorders

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Deviant sexual behavior; you can gain sexual satisfaction only by engaging in highly atypical sexual behavior

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Paraphilic disorders

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14
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Suffering from more than one mental disorder at the same time

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Comorbidity

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15
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Loss of contact with shared views of reality

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Psychosis

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Core features of psychosis (2)

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Delusions and hallucinations

17
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False beliefs that individuals insist are true, regardless of overwhelming evidence against them

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Delusions

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5 types of delusions

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  1. Depressive delusions
  2. Somatic delusions
  3. Delusions of grandeur
  4. Delusions of influence
  5. Delusions of persecution
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Imaginary sensations, such as seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling things that do not exist in the real world

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Hallucinations

20
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Serious mental impairments in old age caused by deterioration of the brain

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Neurocognitive disorders

21
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3 symptoms of schizophrenia (abnormal _____)

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Abnormal cognition
Abnormal affect
Abnormal behavior

22
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Thinking that god, the government, or “cosmic rays from space” are controlling (paranoia)

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Abnormal cognition (selective attention)

23
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Flat/inappropriate affect (lack of emotional responsiveness)

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Abnormal affect

24
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Schizophrenia often involves withdrawal

Catatonic (remaining mute; mimicking others, etc)

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Abnormal behavior

25
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Disturbance in brains chemical systems or in the brains neurotransmitters

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Biochemical abnormality

26
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(Reward-motivated behavior)
May account for the voices, hallucinations, and delusions of schizophrenia
______ over activity in brain may be related to schizophrenia

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Dopamine

27
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Major disturbances in emotion of mood, such as depression or mania

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Mood disorders

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Sadness or despondency are prolonged, exaggerated, or unreasonable

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Depressive disorders

29
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Involve both depression and mania or hypomania

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Bipolar disorders

30
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Extreme mania and deep depression

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Bipolar I disorder

31
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Mostly depressed, but with hypomanic episodes

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Bipolar II disorder

32
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Excited, loud, elated, hyperactive, energetic, grandiose behavior

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Mania

33
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An intense fear that a panic attack will occur in a public place or unfamiliar situation

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Panic disorder with Agoraphobia (embarrassing)

34
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Intense fear of leaving the house or entering unfamiliar situations; fear of open places or market

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Agoraphobia (4.2% of adults)

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