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Quiz 4 Pysch Flashcards

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Psychological Disorder

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A clinically significant dysfunction in an
individual’s cognitions, emotional regulation, or behavior. Must interfere with day-to-day life

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Bio,Pysch,social Approach

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Bio: Individual genes, Brain structure
Psyc: stress trauma, learned helplessness
Social: roles, expectations

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DSM

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Diagnostic Statistical Manual

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Psych disorders usually strike by

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early childhood and symptoms by age 24

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Antisocial personality disorder

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age 8

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Phobias

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age 10

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Alcohol use disorder

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age 20

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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age 20

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Schizophrenia

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age 20

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Major depressive disorder

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age 25

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ADHD

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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Types of ADHD

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  1. Predominantly Inattentive
  2. Predominantly Hyperactive impulsive
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ADHD biological components

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children w/parents 2-7.5x likely
adoption takes after bio parent
twin studies show genetic factors acount for 80% of causation
neurotransmitters
brain differences

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Anxiety Disorders

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  1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
  2. Panic Disorder
  3. Phobias
  4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  5. Post traumatic Stress Disorder
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy

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Panic Disorder

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Person expereiences panic attacks, sudden episodes of intense dread, and fears the next episodes unpredictable onset.

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Phobia

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person is intensely and irrationally afraid of a specific object, activity, or situation

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how long does generalized anxiety disorder need to be for

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at least 6 months

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Panic Disorders

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persistent concern about next, not due to medication or drugs

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Phobia

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the phobic object is avoided or else endured with intense anxiety or distress

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Phobias

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social, agoraphobia, specific
animal type, natural environmental type, blood-injection injury type, situational

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Obsessions

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unwanted thoughts/impulses

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Complusions

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rituals to reduce anxiety about obsessive thoughts

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Obsessive Compulsive disorder

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distressing and unwanted thoughts lead to compulsive rituals that significantly interfere with daily functioning

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Symptoms of PTSD

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flashbacks, jumpy anxiety, trouble sleeping, surviors

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Stimulus Generalization

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fear of other similar fearful events

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Treatments

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therapy, working on thoughts, exposure, meedications

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Major depressive disorder

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a person experiences two or more weeks with five or more symptoms and at least one of which must be depressed mood or loss of interest pleasure

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Bipolar Disorder

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a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania

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Mania

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characterized by highly optimistic feelings with potentially poor judgment

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Depression can be caused by

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many factors, genetic, nutritional, situational

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Rumination

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compulsive fretting, overthinking about our problems and their causes

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Schizophrenia

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delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and diminished inappropriate emotional expression

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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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presence of inappropriate behavior such as hallucinations

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Negative symptoms

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absense of appropriate behavior

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Hallucinations

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seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, things that exist only in the mind

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Delusions

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false beliefs

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Flat affect

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emotionless, a state of no apparent feeling

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impaired theory of mind

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difficulty reading other peoples facial emotions and states of mind

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chronic schizophrenia

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process schizophrenia, late adolescence or early adulthood

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Acute schizophrenia

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reactive, any age, emotionally traumatic event

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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developing multiple distinctive identities as a way to cope with trauma

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Personality Disorders

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inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Three clusters such as

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anxiety, eccentric or odd behaviors, and dramatic or impulsive behaviors

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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dramatic, impulsive behaviors and lack of concern for wrongdoing, even toward family and friends

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Eating Disorders

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anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating

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Eating disorders can be caused by

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biological, emotional, psych, and social factors

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which treatment is used to reduce anxiety through gradual exposure to a feared stimuli

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systematic desensitization

49
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what are symptoms of mania in bipolar disorder

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extreme euphoria and risky decision making

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