Psychological Disorders And Therapy (Ch 14/15)

Question 0

Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)

Check clock 7 ones before shifting

Question 1

Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 1

• An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, an in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
• cannot identify /deal with cause

Question 2

Conversion disorder

Answer 2

A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found

Unexplainable paralysis, blindness, ability to stand

Question 3

Dissociative identity disorder

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A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalities
-formerly called multiple personality disorder

Mackenzie

• Jonathan
• hh
• Anthony

Question 4

Serotonin

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• Neurotransmitter
• scarce during depression
• • there is a serotonin controlling gene
• –certain variation-greater risk for depression

Prozac,Zoloft,Paxil increase serotonin supplies by blocking either their reputable or chemical breakdown

Question 5

Mania

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A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

Robert Schumann composed 51 musical works during two years of mania and none during a year when e was depressed

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Bipolar disorder

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• mood disorder
• alternating between mania and depression
• Schumann
• the one psych grad student from the video we saw in class

Question 7

Delusions

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• False beliefs often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
• characteristic of schizophrenia

“I’m Mary poppins”

Question 9

Flat affect

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An emotionless state, people with schizophrenia sometimes fall into

Question 10

• Positive symptoms/negative symptoms (of schizophrenia)

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positive: hallucinations, talk in dosorganized and deluded ways, and exhibit inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage
negative: toneless voices, expressionless faces, or mute and rigid bodies.

Question 11

• Antisocial personality disorder

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a personality disorder in which hte person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscionce for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.

Question 12

resistance

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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

Question 13

transference

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in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

Question 14

client-centred therapy

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a humanistic therapy, develepod by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth (also called person-centered therapy)

Question 15

active listening

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empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. a feature of rogers’ client-centered therapy

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counterconditioning

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a behavior therapy procecdure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

Question 17

aversive conditioning

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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)

Question 18

systematic desensitization

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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to traet phobias

Question 19

token economy

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an operant conditioning procedure in which people earna token of some sort fos exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

Question 20

cognitive-behavioral therapy

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a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

Question 21

regression towards the mean

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the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average.

e.g. when someone is depressed often they return to normal mood after a few weeks or months regardless of the medication or yoga or other treatment they are doing

Question 22

meta-analysis

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a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

Question 23

atypical antipsychotics

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targets both dopamine and serotonin receptors
for people with negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

alleviates negative symptoms, sometimes enabling awakenings in these individuals

clozapine (Clorazil)

Question 24

antipsychotics

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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli, thus helping patiens who experience positive symptoms of schizophrenia such as auditory hallucinatons and paranoia

can produce sluggishness, tremores, and twiches similar to those of Parkinson’s disease, which is marked by too little dopamine (schizophrenia is that to be caused somewhat by an overactive ddopamine system)

long term use can lead to tardive dyskinesia

Question 25

tardive dyskinesia

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involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long term use of (notatypical) antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors

Question 26

ECT

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electroconvulsive therapy

a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

Question 27

rTMS

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