Psychological Disorders

Question 1

What is the DSM?

Answer 1

Used to make diagnoses of clinical syndromes. Current – DSM-5

Question 2

What is labeling theory? What was Rosenhan’s study?

Answer 2

psychiatric diagnosis is a way of labeling individuals a society considers deviant

Rosenhan and 7 others admitted to psychiatric hospitals
Faked symptoms of schizophrenia. Simple tasks they did (taking notes, walking in hall) were labeled as schizophrenic behavior

Question 3

What are anxiety disorders?

Answer 3

Characterized by intense, frequent, or continuous anxiety

Question 4

What is generalized anxiety disorder?

Answer 4

global, persistent, chronic, and excessive anxiety. mild to moderate level of anxiety

• Constant sense of tension and dread (“free-floating anxiety”)

Question 5

Panic disorder

Answer 5

attacks of intense fear and feelings of doom or terror not justified by the situation (panic attacks)

Recurring intense panic attacks

Question 6

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Answer 6

Recurrent obsessions and compulsions that cause distress and significantly interfere with an individual’s life

Question 7

Obsessions

Answer 7

persistent thoughts

doubting that you closed the door. so you do it a lot of times

Question 8

Compulsions

Answer 8

behaviors that must be performed

counting every task you do. so like turning bathroom light on and off five times. close and open door five times. wash hands five times.

Question 9

What is major depressive disorder?

Answer 9

• Depressed mood may emerge without clear trigger
• Cognitive symptoms: thoughts of worthlessness, hopelessness (“I can’t get out of bed”)
• Physical symptoms: disturbances in appetite, sleep, energy (problems sleeping different REM cycles or eat too much/less)

Question 10

What is bipolar disorder?

Answer 10

Extreme mood swings – alternating between depression and mania

Question 11

What is mania?

Answer 11

period of abnormally euphoric mood

experiencing euphoric mood, energy, take risks, spend tons of money on presents for people

Question 12

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 12

Severe disorder of thought, emotion, and perception associated with psychotic symptoms

Question 13

What does it mean to have psychotic symptoms?

Answer 13

out of touch with reality in terms of thoughts and perceptions

Question 14

What are hallucinations?

Answer 14

sensory perceptions that distort or occur without an external stimulus

auditory - hearing voices
visual - see things that aren’t there

Question 15

What are delusions?

Answer 15

strongly held, fixed beliefs that have no basis in reality

“The FBI, CIA, and aliens are stalking me!!”

Question 16

What is disorganized speech?

Answer 16

skips from topic to topic

Question 17

What is word salad?

Answer 17

random words come together to form a “tossed” or cray sentence

Question 18

What are catatonic symptoms?

Answer 18

motor problems

person’s movement don’t exist hold awkward position for a long time

Question 19

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 19

• presence of something not usually there

- Delusions, hallucinations

Question 20

What are negative symtpoms

Answer 20

• absence of something

- Flat affect, expressionless faces

Question 21

What is antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 21

• little sense of responsibility, morality, or concern for others
• Lack of conscience (lack of empathy, compassion, not bothered by people’s emotions)

Question 22

What are panic attacks?

Answer 22

Intense anxiety, muscles are very, very tense. Bursts of intense panics that come and go