Stress Disorders

Question 1

stress components

Answer 1

stressor and stress response

Question 2

Nervous system

Answer 2

breaks into central and peripheral

Question 3

central

Answer 3

brain and spinal cord

Question 4

peripheral

Answer 4

somatic (voluntary) and autonomic (involuntary)

Question 5

autonomic

Answer 5

sympathetic (mobilizes body for action) and parasympathetic (maintains/restores equilibrium)

Question 6

fight or flight

Answer 6

arousal/fear activated autonomic nervous system and endocrine system, leads to fight or flight

Question 7

Traumatic stress disorders

Answer 7

acute and post traumatic, only differences are frequency and duration
- acute lasts for less than 1 month
- PTSD last for more than 1 month
- 80% of acute turns into PTSD

Question 8

Acute

Answer 8

re-experiencing trauma, avoidance of things related to trauma, reduced responsiveness, increased arousal/anxiety/guilt
diagnosis: exposure to traumatic event and at least on symptom of memories, dreams, flashbacks, distress/arousal when exposed

Question 9

PTSD

Answer 9

used to be called combat fatigue
treatment: biological treatments and exposure

Question 10

dissociative disorders

Answer 10

key to our identity is memory, sometimes people experience a disruption in memory/identity
- dissociative amnesia and fugue

Question 11

Amnesia

Answer 11

loss of personal memory in response to trauma

Question 12

fugue

Answer 12

for of amnesia where person travels to new location and may assume new identity

Question 13

dissociative identity disorder

Answer 13

disruption characterized by two of more distinct personality states
- women typically receive diagnosis 3x as much as men
- most diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood though it starts in early childhood

Question 14

depersonalization/derealization

Answer 14

recurrent experience of depersonalization and/or derealization
-rarely ever in those older than 40