Psykologi och hälsa Flashcards
General paresis
Mental deterioration, bizarre behavior result from massive brain deterioration from syphilis.
Abnormality
Defined in different ways:
- One is if the person is severely distressed. Then their condition is considered abnormal.
- Dysfunctional for either the person or society and other’s in the person’s vicinity. Lack of control plays a big role here.
- Societal judgement guided by norms concerning deviance.
Abnormal behavior is distressing for individual, dysfunctional for individual and/or so culturally deviant that other’s deem it maladaptive or inappropriate.
Diagnostic reliability
Clinicians using the system show high level of agreement in their diagnostic decisions.
Diagnostic validity
The diagnostic categories should effectively capture the essential features of the various disorders.
DSM-IV-TR(Diagnostic and statistical manual of Mental disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision) has five axes based on five dimensions.
Axis 1: Primary diagnosis. Represents the patients primary clinical symptoms, the deviant behavior or thought processes that are happening at that time.
Axis 2:
Reflects longstanding personality disorders or mental retardation which may influence thoughts, behavior and response to clinical intervention.
Axis 3:
Represents present medical conditions such as blood pressure, recent concussions etc.
Axis 4
According to the vulnerability-stressor model, a diagnosis of the person’s psychosocial and environmental problems recently, is made.
Axis 5
An evaluation of the person’s coping abilities, reflected in recent adaptive functioning.
Functional perspective
The perspective we create when we try to accumulate knowledge of people.
Contexual functionalism
Finding the functions of behavior in the context in which they’re exhibited. Is often supplemented to a topographic analysis.
Functionally equivalent behaviors
Different behavior that perform the same function.
Pragmatic truth perspective
What is true is dependent on what we are trying to accomplish. Pragmatics drives the formulation of the answer as to what is true.
BAT(Behavioral avoidance/approach test)
A test designed to measure how far a patient is able to carry out an activity before it becomes unbearable, then you can record thoughts and emotions that arise when that point is reached, and even before it is reached.
Topographic analysis
Only describes behavior but does not explain it causally. Looks at excess, deficiency in the behavior. Aswell as duration and intensity.
- Sammanhanget
- Frekvens.
- Intensitet
- Duration
Important to use verbs instead of nouns. Concretisize. Positive terms, no negations. Inner, outer behavior? Voluntary, involuntary?
What does the patient want, which behavior?
Contingency/Sequence analysis
Contingency means a context in which an event has a specific probablity of occuring dependent on another event.
ABC-
Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence.
Three levels of explanation that allows a therapist to understand what happens, when/why and what follows as a result of the behavior.
Establishing condition
The fourth factor that sets the scene for the ABC sequence. It’s basically in which condition or context is all of this happening? It is like A and C susceptible to external influence.
The establishing conditioning enhances the reinforcer. Being hungry increases the reward from the reinforcer of eating.
Positive reinforcement
Adding a consequence increases the probability of a behavior being repeated.
Negative reinforcement
Removing a consequence increases the probability of a behavior being repeated.
Positive punishment
Adding a consequence decreases the probability of a behavior being repeated.
Negative punishment
Removing a consequence decreases the probability of a behavior being repeated.
Aversive
Associated with negative affect.
Appetitive
Associated with positive affect.
Generalized reinforcer
A reinforcer that brings about various benefits. It is a reinforcer which value must be learned or conditioned. It has no biological value for the person, instead it is a medium to other reinforcers. Money is a generalized reinforcer that opens up the possibility of acquiring a primary reinforcer such as food.
Primary reinforcer
Unconditioned reinforcer that has biological value to us. Needs no external reinforcer to drive behavior, the behavior has an internal reinforcer built in.
Utsläckningskrevad
Behavior’s intensity or frequency briefly increases to try to obtain the reinforcer that used to accompany behavior, but after seeing that this does not occur, behavior is extinguished.
Cardinal symptom
The most important symptom for a diagnosis.
Life event scales
Self-reports that quanitfy the amount of stress a person has suffered over a period of time.
Strong stressors
The most stressful stressors are unpredictable, uncontrollable and that last a long duration.
Cognitive appraisal of stressor
Four aspects.
Primary appraisal: Of the demands and nature of the situation.
Secondary appraisal: The resources available to cope with it.
Judgements of the possible consequences of the situation.
Appraisal of the possible personal meaning of the situation, what could it imply about us?
General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
Consists of three phases, alarm, resistance and exhaustion.
Sudden activation of the sympathetic nervous system triggers the alarm phase.
Resistance is when the body’s resources are mobilized during a prolonged time. Stress hormones are continually secreted. There is a limit to how long this can be sustained.
Exhaustion occurs when the body’s immune system is too weak, and vulnerability to disease is very high. Can lead to collapse, sickness or death.
Critique against GAS theory:
Unspecific and general.
Are rats and humans really able to be compared when rats were tortured?
What is stress? The stimulus or response?
Is it the emotional interpretation of signals?
Everything threathens homeostasis, is everything a stressor?
Biphasic model of stress
Short term acute stress enhances immune response.
Long term chronic stress supresses it.
Vulnerability factors
Things that increase our susceptibility to stressful events.
Protective factors
Environmental or personal factors that facilitate good response to stressful events.
Coping self-efficacy
The belief that we are capable of coping with a stressful event. Previous success builds it, failures undermine it.
Seeing others cope helps us feel that we too are able. Aswell as social persuasion increases coping self-efficacy.
Type A behavior pattern
Being agitated, hostile, competetive, and having fast speech.
Type A behavior is defined in terms of an extreme sense of time urgency, impatience, competitiveness, and aggression/hostility.
Problem-focused coping
Strategies that confront the problematic situation or that change it so that it is no longer deemed stressful.
Emotion-focused coping
Strategies that manage the emotional responses resulting from the stressful event.
Seeking social support
Turnings for others for emotional support and assistance, either emotionally or in the form of tangible aid, such as money.
Seeking social support
Turnings for others for emotional support and assistance, either emotionally or in the form of tangible aid, such as money.
Discriminative stimulus
A stimulus that indicates what behavior is appropriate in order to be rewarded or avoid a punishment.
Extinction
Respondent conditioning: When conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus no longer occur simutaneously. That leads to the conditioned stimulus not leading to a conditioned response. This is because the unconditioned stimulus is no longer present, thus the predictor which is the conditioned stimulus does not work as it should.
Operant conditioning: When a consequence that was reinforcing the behavior no longer follows the behavior.
Learning
The process in which an experience produces a relatively enduring and adaptive change in an organism’s capacity for behavior.