Psychopathology (final)

Question 1

Psychopathology

Answer 1

problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that disrupts an individual’s sense of well-being

Question 2

Diagnostic and Statistical Analysis

Answer 2

how mental illness and disorders are defined

Question 3

Schizophrenia

Answer 3

Many different disorders and symptoms:
loss of contact with reality
problems with thought, attention, perception, motor behavior and emotion

Question 4

Acute Schizophrenia

Answer 4

late onset schizophrenia
if you are schizophrenic, you were born schizophrenic (onset or not)

Question 5

Chronic Schizophrenia

Answer 5

hospitalization

Question 6

Paranoid

Answer 6

Delusions- irrational beliefs:
Being persecuted by others
Of “Grandeur”

Question 7

Catatonic

Answer 7

Motor disturbances:
“Waxy flexibility”
Motionless to hyperactive

Question 8

Disorganized

Answer 8

Bizarre ideas often about one’s body, confused speech, childish behavior

Question 9

Cause of Schizophrenia

Answer 9

UNKNOWN but..
Genetic:
ID twins? 48% if one twin is schizophrenic
Fraternal? 17%
Neurochemical imbalance:
Dopamine
Structural abnormalities:
Enlarged ventricles (but could be an effect)
Prenatal development:
Virus or malnutriton

Question 10

Diathesis Stress model

Answer 10

Diathesis- genetic predisposition
Stress- Environment increases or decreases it
the relationship between diathesis and stress that helps to form mental disorders

Question 11

Major Depression

Answer 11

7-18% (!!!!)
Sad, dejected mood
Problems w/ appetite and weight, sleep
Anhedonia (loss of pleasure)
Loss of energy
Recurring thoughts of death, suicide

Our high predisposition to depression because it solved problems for our distant ancestors
non-coconsciously = “am I contributing enough to the group”

Question 12

Bipolar Disorder

Answer 12

1-2%
Manic and depressive
Mania- racing thoughts, hyperactivity, euphoric

Question 13

Cause of mood disorders

Answer 13

Genetic predisposition
2. Neurochemical Imbalance
Norepinephrine
Seratonin (Rx- a SSRI like Prozac)3. Beck’s Cognitive Theory
Depressives change the everyday experiences of life into negative
situations. Tend to interpret and distort things that happen to them as catastrophes,
and reasons for self-blame.
Rx- Change cognitions, ease depression (Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy)

Question 14

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Answer 14

persistent, moderate but disturbing symptoms: trembling, faintness,
nausea

Question 15

Panic Disorder

Answer 15

Similar to GAD in symptoms, but occur randomly

Question 16

Phobias

Answer 16

Intense, irrational fear

Question 17

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Answer 17

Obsession- thought
Compulsion- behavior:
Washing your hands until they bleed; checking to see if the
door is “locked” 1000’s of times

Question 18

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Answer 18

Anxiety that appears weeks or years after a shocking or deeply
disturbing event. May cause “flashbacks,” guilt and/or anger at having survived the
event, GAD

Question 19

Cause for Anxiety Disorders

Answer 19

Genetic factors
Nt’s- GABA, serotonin
Classical/operant conditioning

Question 20

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Answer 20

sed to be known as Multiple
Personality Disorder

Question 21

Dissociative fugue

Answer 21

Some people completely forget their identities,
develop new ones and start new lives
Controversial: Real disorders or caused by therapists and certain forms of
therapy?

Question 22

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Answer 22

Failure to conform to society’s norms in many areas of life:
Lack of concern
Impulsivity
Easily irritated
Irresponsible
Shallow, smooth- “car salesman”
3% of men; 1% of women
– co-morbid w/substance disorders
– 70-80% of criminals

Question 23

“Insanity”-

Answer 23

A legal term, not a psychological description
“knowing” the difference between right and wrong”