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Section 4 - Psychopathology Flashcards

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1
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What is the most obvious way to define abnormality

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In terms of statistical infrequency

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2
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How do we define what is normal

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By referring to typical values

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3
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What is psychopathology

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The study of psychological disorders

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4
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What is deviating from social norms

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Behaving differently from the socially created norms

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What is an example of a social norm

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Being polite

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What is an example of an implicit social rule

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not laughing at a funeral

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What does not functioning adequately cause

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Distress and suffering for the individual and others

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What is an example of a mental disorder that causes distress to other people

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Schizophrenia

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9
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Is it classed as abnormal if it doesn’t cause distress to self and others

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No

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What is a situation where a person isn’t coping with everyday life in a ‘normal’ way

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A person may not be content on living in unwashed clothes and not having a regular job

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11
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What is DSM

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A list of mental disorders that’s used to diagnose mental disorders

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12
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What does WHODAS stand for

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World health organisation disability assessment

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What 7 things does WHODAS consider in the assessment of ability to function

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  • Understanding and communicating
  • Getting around
  • Self-care
  • getting along with people
  • life activities and participation in society
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What did Marie Jahoda point out in 1958

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we define physical illness in part by looking at the absence pf signs of physical health

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What is physical health indicated by

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correct body temp
normal skin colour
normal blood pressure

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What 6 categories did Marie Jahoda come up with to review mental health

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  • self attitudes
  • Personal growth
  • Integration
  • Autonomy
  • Accurate perception of reality
  • Mastery of the environment
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What is failure to function adequately

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Peoples ability to go about their daily life

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18
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What are people who are defined as unable to go about their daily lives

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They’re defined as “failure to function adequately

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What are the 3 mental disorders

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  • phobias
  • depression
  • OCD
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What are the 3 characteristics of mental disorders

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  • Emotional characteristics
  • Behavioural characteristics
  • Cognitive characteristics
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21
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What is the primary symptom of phobias

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Anxiety

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What is the behavioural characteristic definition

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Ways in which people act

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What is the emotional characteristic definition

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ways in which people feel

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What is a cognitive characteristic definition

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Process of thinking knowing, perceiving and believing

25
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What are the 3 behavioural characteristics of depression

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  • Activity levels reduce
  • Disruption of sleeping and eating behaviour
  • Aggression and self-harm
26
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What is an emotional characteristic of depression

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  • Lowered mood
  • Anger
  • Lowered self esteem
27
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What is a cognitive characteristic of depression

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  • Poor concentration
  • attending to and dwelling on the negative
  • Absolutist thinking
28
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What are the 5 categories of depression (four things)

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  • Major depressive disorder
  • Persistnet depressive disorder
  • Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
  • premenstrual dysphoric disorder
29
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What is Major depressive disorder

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Severe but often short term depression

30
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What is persistent depressive disorder

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Long term or recurring depression, including sustained major depression and what used to be called dysthymia

31
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What is disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

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Childhood temper tantrums

32
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What is premenstrual dysphoric disorder

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Disruption to mood prior to and or during menstruation

33
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What are the behavioural characteristics of OCD

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  • Compulsions

- Avoidance

34
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What are the 2 types of compulsions

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  • Repetitive

- To reduce anxiety

35
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What are the emotional characteristics of OCD

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  • Anxiety and distress
  • Accompanying depression
  • Guilt and disgust
36
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What areas the cognitive characteristics and OCD

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  • Obsessive thoughts
  • Cognitive strategies to deal with obsessions
  • Insight into excessive anxiety
37
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What are the 2 parts to the 2 process model

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  • Acquisition by classical conditioning

- Maintenance by operant conditioning

38
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Summarise classical conditioning

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  • 2 stimuli are repeatedly paired together
  • UCD and a NS
  • NS eventually produces the same response that was first produced by the unlearned stimulus alone
39
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Summarise operant conditioning

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The use of positive and negative reinforcement or punishment

40
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What is systematic desensitisation

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Behavioural therapy designed to gradually reduce phobic anxiety through the principle of classical conditioning

41
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What are the 3 process involved in Systematic desensitisation

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  • The anxiety hierarchy
  • Relaxation
  • Exposure
42
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What is Flooding

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The patient is exposed to extreme form of their phobia

43
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What are the 3 reasons of depression in Beck’s cognitive theory

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  • Faulty information processing
  • Negative self-schemas
  • The negative triad
44
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What is Ellis’s ABC model

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  • Activating event
  • Beliefs
  • consequences
45
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What is cognitive behavioural therapy most commonly used to treat

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Depression

46
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What are the 3 genetic explanations to OCD

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Candidate genes
OCD is polygenic
Different types of OCD

47
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What are some of the candidate genes involved in

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Regulating the development of the serotonin system

48
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What does OCD is polygenic mean

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There isn’t caused by 1 single gene but several ones

49
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What 2 neurontransmitters are believed to have a role in regulating mood

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  • Dopamine

- serotonin

50
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What are the neural explanations to OCD

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  • Role of serotonin

- Decision making system

51
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What is a drug therapy used to treat OCD

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SSRI

52
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What does SSRI stand for

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

53
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What does SSRI work on

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Serotonin system

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