Section 18-19

Question 1

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Answer 1

Person is anxious but cant be traced
DSM-5 6 months of excessive worry

Question 2

Panic disorder

Answer 2

Characterized by panic attacks

Question 3

Phobias

Answer 3

Irrational fear of an object or situation

Question 4

Specific phobia
(Fears of object or events)

Answer 4

Lifetime prevalence is 12.5%

Question 5

Social phobia
(Fear of public embarrassment)

Answer 5

Public speaking
Lifetime prevalence is 12.1%

Question 6

PTSD

Answer 6

Experience arousal long after trauma has passed
Ex. War veterans

Question 7

OCD

Answer 7

Obsessive: a persistent upsetting thought
Compulsive: a repeated behavior that temp. reduces anxiety

Question 8

Treatment for anxiety disorder
Behavioral (exposure) therapy

Answer 8

Exposing the person to the stimulus causing the anxiety

Question 9

Schizophrenia

Answer 9

A disorder of disturbed behavior, speech, thought, and emotion

Question 10

Starting point for Schizophrenia

Answer 10

Males: develop in late teens
Females: show mid 20’s

Question 11

What does positive and negative mean

Answer 11

Positive does not mean good
Negative does not mean bad

Question 12

Positive symptoms

Answer 12

Made known by its presence
- subject is doing something tht is not normal

Question 13

Delusions

Answer 13

False beliefs that you have
(Persecution and grandeur)

Question 14

Persecution

Answer 14

People are out to get you

Question 15

Grandeur

Answer 15

False beliefs that you are better than everyone

Question 16

Hallucinations

Answer 16

Seeing things that are not there

Question 17

Speech and thought

Answer 17

Their patterns are disturbed

Question 18

Negative symptoms

Answer 18

Made known by their absence

Question 19

Flat affect

Answer 19

Emotion is flat (no highs or lows)
If they do show emotion it is inappropriate

Question 20

Types of Schizophrenia

Answer 20

Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic
Undifferentiated

Question 21

Paranoid

Answer 21

Thinks everyone is out to get them
Usually more aggressive

Question 22

Disorganized

Answer 22

Primary symptoms are speech and thought

Question 23

Catatonic

Answer 23

Disorder of movement
Shows two movements, extreme
- wild mobility
- striking a pose and standing motionless for hours

Question 24

Undifferentiated

Answer 24

Symptoms do not put in any other categories

Question 25

Schizophrenia tends to run in family

Answer 25

Closer you are to that relative higher chance you have to get it

Question 26

Environmental factors

Answer 26

Pregnancy issues
Cities have higher chances

Question 27

Seasonal patterns

Answer 27

Born in spring time you have the highest chance in getting Schizophrenia

Question 28

History of Schizophrenia treatment

Answer 28

Early asylums were more like prisons
Little treatment offered, used more for containment

Question 29

Types of treatment for Schizophrenia

Answer 29

Insight therapy
Action therapy
Biomedical therapy

Question 30

Insight therapy

Answer 30

Goal is to understand motives, thoughts, and behaviors
Ex. Humanistic theory

Question 31

Action therapy

Answer 31

Goal is to change behavior

Question 32

Biomedical therapy

Answer 32

Drugs, surgery(if needed)