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Psychology Notes Test 2 Flashcards

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General Anxiety Disorder

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Characterized by feeling unexplainably tense and uneasy

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Phobic Disorder

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Characterized by feeling irrationally afraid of a specific object or situation

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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Characterized by feeling troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions

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Psychoanalytic View of Anxiety Disorders

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Begins in childhood and causes repressed feelings that later emerge

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Panic Disorder

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Characterized by recurrent and frequent panic attacks

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Characterized by a re-experiencing of a traumatic event through recurrent and intrusive memories and dreams

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Somatoform Disorders

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Characterized by distressing symptoms that take on bodily form without any apparent physical cause
Could involve vomiting, dizziness, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, severe pain, etc.

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Conversion Disorder

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Uncommon in the present

Converts anxiety into physical pain and symptoms

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Somatization Disorder

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Characterized by a long standing series of complaints regarding physical ailments beginning before the age of 30
Involves 4 pain symptoms, 2 GI symptoms, 1 sexual symptom, and 1 pseudoneurologic symptom

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Hypochondria

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Characterized by the misinterpretations of bodily functions and reactions and causes the sufferer to be preoccupied with fears of having some grave illness or disease

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Factitious Disorder

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Characterized by symptoms being deliberately faked

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Malingering

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Signs and symptoms are faked but external incentives such as money, getting out of work, or legal responsibility are present

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Characterized by a person becoming preoccupied with a very imagined defect in their appearance

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Somatoform Pain Disorder

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Characterized by a person becoming preoccupied with pain without physical proof

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Dissociative Disorders

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Characterized by conscious awareness becoming separated by previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Involves one or more episodes of inability to recall important personal information of stressful or traumatic nature

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Dissociative Fugue

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A confusion about personal identity that causes a new identity to be assumed

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Multiple Personality Disorder

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Characterized by a person having two or more distinct personalities, each with its own enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and interacting with the environment

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Treatment for Multiple Personality Disorder

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Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs

Hypnosis and psychodynamic therapy

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Depersonalization Disorder

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Characterized by the persistent and recurring experiences of being detached from or an outside observer of ones own mind and body; stuck in a dream-like state

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Mood Disorders

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Characterized by depression or mania

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Unipolar Symptoms

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The person suffers depression symptoms only without ever experiencing mania
Emotional: sad
Cognitive: negative thoughts about one’s self, negative about the future, low self esteem
Motivational: can’t get started, can’t take initiative
Physical: no appetite, weight loss, weight gain, sleep disturbances

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Chronic Depression

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Dysthymic Disorder

Depressed for at least 2 solid years without having a remission to normality of at least 2 months in duration

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Episodic Depression

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More common depression

Depressed less that 2 years and has a clear onset which thus distinguishes it from previous non-depressed functioning

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“Double Depression”

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Consists of a depressive episode on top of an underlying dysthymic disorder

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Bipolar Depression

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Characterized by a person having manic symptoms on top of having one or more depressed episodes in the past

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Depression set off by winter or fall

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Bipolar Manic

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If a person is in a manic episode

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Bipolar Depressed

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If a person is in a depressed episode

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Bipolar Mixed

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If manic and depressive episodes are intermixed or alternate

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Cyclothymia

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Less severe manic and depressed moods that are chronic in nature

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Major Depression

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Severe depression without the occurrence of a manic episode

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Comorbid Depression

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Many depressed people meet criteria for other disorders

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Schizophrenia

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Literally means “split mind”
Involves disturbance in behavior, emotions, and thinking
Have disorganized behavior and experience delusions

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Simple Type (Schizophrenia)

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Most difficult to identify
Patient rarely shows the most dramatic symptoms such as disorientation, delusions, hallucinations, and language/action disturbances
Shows gradual decreased interest, withdraws from friends and family, no interest in school or work, careless about personal habits

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Hebephrenic Schizophrenia/Disorganized Schizophrenia

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Means “youthful”
Shows severe disintegration of personality, disorientation, delusions, hallucinations, symbolic language disturbances
Identifying symptoms are inappropriate giggling and smiling, bizarre language, and facial grimaces

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

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One of the most common forms of mental illness

Marked by delusions and hallucinations, frequently of accusatory and threatening nature

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

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Believed to be caused by an edema in the 19th century

Major symptom is inhibition of motor activity relating to stupor

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Schizo-Affective Type

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Some schizophrenics show a considerable degree of affect and present difficult management problems
A patient can go from laughing to crying in the course of an interview

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“Undifferentiated Types”

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Severe overlapping of symptoms
Acute Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: symptoms appear and disappear quickly
Chronic Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: onset is gradual and symptoms persist

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Childhood Schizophrenia

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Symptoms include: unresponsiveness, speech interference, difficulty learning, distortion of expression, need for physical contact, variation in motor behavior, sudden release of violent emotions

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Residual Schizophrenia

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Characterized as a patient who has had serious schizophrenic disturbances in the past and has improved enough to return home and can make marginal adjustment in the community
Tend to show traces of the disorder
Symptoms are not incapacitating

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Conversion Complaints (Men)

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  1. Non-headache pain
  2. Paresis (deterioration)
  3. Anesthesia
  4. Headache
  5. Mock-heart attack
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Conversion Complaints (Women)

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  1. Non-headache pain
  2. Dizziness
  3. Weakness
  4. Headache
  5. Nausea
  6. Lump in throat
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Neurasthenia

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Characterized by weakness of the nerves, low-inborn energy level, and difficulty swallowing

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Automatic Behavior

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Function out of conscious mind

Subconscious mind steps in and says something

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Psychotic Break

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Conscious mind becomes flooded with unconscious material, causing a break with reality

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Psychosis

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Disoriented in time, place, person, or situation
#1 delusion has to do with persecution
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Who Named Schizophrenia and When

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Eugene Bleuler named it in 1911

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