Psychology Disorders

Question 1

Bipolar I disorder

Answer 1

Flight of ideas is a symptom of mania which is a symptom of bipolar I disorder

Question 2

Panic Disorder

Answer 2

Anxiety Disorder

1. Suffered at least one panic attack
2. Worried about having panic attacks
3. Panic attacks can be cued, but are more often uncued

Question 3

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

Answer 3

Anxiety Disorder

1. Tense/anxious much of the time about many issues
2. Does NOT experience panic attacks
3. Sx: Restlessness, tiring easily, poor concentration, irritability, muscle tension, and insomnia or restless sleep

Question 4

Specific phobia

Answer 4

Anxiety Disorder

1. Persistent, strong, and unreasonable fear of a certain object/situation
2. 4 types: situational, natural environment, blood-injection-injury, and animal

Question 5

Social phobia

Answer 5

Anxiety Disorder
1. Unreasonable, paralyzing fear of feeling embarrassed or humiliated while performing routine activities such as eating in public or using a public restroom

Question 6

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 6

Anxiety Disorder

1. People feel intense fear, horror, or helplessness while experiencing, witnessing, or otherwise confronting an extremely traumatic event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury to the self or others
2. Sx must be present for more than a month, otherwise the dx is: acute stress disorder

Question 7

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Answer 7

Anxiety Disorder
1. Has obsessions, compulsions, or both
Obsessions are thoughts/impulses
Compulsions are behaviors

Question 8

Conversion disorder

Answer 8

Somatoform Disorder

1. Experiences a change in sensory or motor function that has no discernible physical or physiological cause
2. Begin or worsen after an emotional conflict or other stressor

Question 9

Pain Disorder

Answer 9

Somatoform Disorder

1. Suffers clinically important pain whose onset or severity seems significantly affected by psychological factors

Question 10

Somatization Disorder

Answer 10

Somatoform Disorder

1. Experiences a variety of physical symptoms over an extended time period
2. Has had at least 8 of the following physical sx that began before age 30, occurred over several years, and were not fully explained by any physical or physiological cause:
   - pain in at least four areas of the body
   - at least two GI sx (not including pain)
   - at least one sexual symptom
   - at least one pseudoneurological sx (ex. poor balance or double vision)

Question 11

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Answer 11

Somatoform Disorder
1. Preoccupied with a slight physical anomaly or imagined defect in appearance, often involving the face, hair, breasts, or genitalia

Question 12

Hypochondriasis

Answer 12

Somatoform Disorder

1. Fears of having a serious illness for at least six months
2. Misinterpretation of bodily sx, and they are not relieved when medical investigation reveals no illness
3. A different disorder is diagnosed if the ideas are delusional or better explained by a mood, anxiety, or other somatoform disorder

Question 13

Schizophrenia

Answer 13

Psychotic Disorder

1. Person feels out of touch with reality
2. Has positive and negative sx

Question 14

Paranoid schizophrenia

Answer 14

Delusions and hallucinations

Question 15

Disorganized schizophrenia

Answer 15

Negative sx (flat affect, quantity of speech, no will to do things); disorganized speech; Disorganized behavior

Question 16

Catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 16

Stupor/motor immobility or hyperactivity; Echolalia (repetition of one’s words); Echopraxia (repetition of one’s actions)

Question 17

Undifferentiated schizophrenia

Answer 17

Meets criteria but not for any subtype

Question 18

Residual schizophrenia

Answer 18

Previously met criteria but sx are now milder

Question 19

Brief psychotic disorder

Answer 19

Displayed at least one basic psychotic symptom for less than one month

Question 20

Schizophreniform disorder

Answer 20

Displayed the sx of schizophrenia for a period of one to six months, during which the sx may NOT have interfered with the person’s functioning in life. Half of those dx with schizophreniform develop schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder

Question 21

Schizoaffective disorder

Answer 21

Combines mood and psychotic sx. Both the sx of schizophrenia and a major depressive, manic, or mixed episode are experienced for at least one month

Question 22

Major depressive disorder

Answer 22

Mood disorder

1. Suffered one or more major depressive episodes

Question 23

Dysthymic disorder

Answer 23

Mood disorder

1. Less intense, chronic form of depression
2. has not experienced a major depressive episode

Question 24

Bipolar disorder

Answer 24

Mood disorder

1. Experience cyclic mood episodes at both extremes or “poles”: depression and mania

Question 25

Bipolar I disorder

Answer 25

Mood disorder

Experienced at least one manic or mixed episode

Question 26

Bipolar II disorder

Answer 26

Mood disorder

1. Manic phases are less extreme than bipolar I.

Question 27

Cyclothymic disorder

Answer 27

Mood disorder

1. Similar to bipolar disorder but the moods are less extreme