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What is the DSM

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -
it lists the
* psychological disorders
* the symptoms and how long you must have the symptoms

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What is a Psychiatrist?

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They’re the ones that prescribe medication

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What is a Psychologist?

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They’re the ones that do psychotherapy and talk therapy

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What is SES?

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Socio Economic Status

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What is a risk factor?

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statistical significant association between a psychological disorder and a specific factor

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What did people believe back then?

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they believed there were spirits and they would drill holes to peoples’ head

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What did Hippocrates believe in?

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He believe something was wrong with the brain.

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What did Plato believe in?

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He believed it was the family that was the cause

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What did Freud believe in?

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Something in your childhood happened and you blocked it but influences your behaviors today

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What is Id?

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when you want immediate gratification of your impulse

ex: sex/aggression

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What is Ego?

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Deals with personality that figures out a plan

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What is Superego?

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Where your conscious lies; feels guilt

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What is a Defense Mechanisms?

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Normal healthy ways to dealing with anxiety

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What are the defense mechanisms?

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Repression
Reaction Formation 
Projection
intellectualization
Regression
sublimation
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What is Repression?

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blocking painful feelings away from your awareness

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What is reaction formation?

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unconciously blocking painful feelings away from your awareness and does the opposite

ex: mom not loving child

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What is projection?

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attribute your weakness to someone else

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What is intellectualization?

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overly logical in place of an emotion

ex: saying facts that don’t really relate to the feelings

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What is regression?

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Reverting to an earlier stage in development

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What is sublimation?

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frustrated impulses in an acceptable way

ex: going to the gym

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What is vicarious learning?

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Learning through the actions of others

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What is a cognitive model?

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the way one thinks about things in an influenced psychology

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What is humanistic?

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trying to reach their own potential

ex: ideal self vs. true self

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What is dominant?

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gene that will be expressed in the offspring

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What is recessive?
gene that will not be expressed unless paired with another recessive
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What are the three that can cause depression if its too low?
Dopamine, Seratonin, and Noreprenephrine
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What is the Peripheral nervous system?
the nerves that carry information to the nervous system
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What are pons?
Controls movement; integrates movement with the left and right side of your body
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What does the thalamus do?
relays information to the cerebral cortex
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What does the hypothalamus do?
releases stress hormones (adrenaline)
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What does the amygdala do?
Quickly deciphers until the cerebral cortex says its not real
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What is the corpus callosum?
thick fiber that connects the right and left hemisphere
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What does negative emotion do?
it increases electrical emotion in the right hemisphere
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What does positive emotion do?
increases electrical activity in the left hemisphere
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What does the cerebral cortex do?
thinks in a deeper level Note: early childhood trauma destroys the cerebral cortex
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What does the occipital handle?
vision
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What does the parietal handle?
senses: touch and body sensation
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what does the temporal handle?
hearing and speech
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what does the frontal handle?
thinks things through
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What is in the Endocrine system?
Pituitary gland, thyroid gland, and pineal gland
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What does the pituitary gland handle?
growth
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What does the thyroid gland handle?
rate of metabolism
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what does pineal gland handle?
sleep
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What is a CT scan?
number of different angles that are collected giving a cross section; gives a clearer image than an xray and uses radiation
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What is an MRI?
Allows you to see tissue of the brain and uses strong magnetic waves
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What is an fMRI?
increase in blood flow within the brain with increase activity
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What is a PET scan?
radioactive substance that is injected in the blood flow
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What is an experimental study?
the one that gets the independent variable
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What is an independent variable?
the variable the experimenter changes
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What is prevalence?
the total number of cases that are given in a specific number of time
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What is incidence?
the number of new cases that are given in a specific number of time.
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In a clinical interview what is good to know when you first meet the patient?
The history of the symptoms the patient has and both or all perspectives if it is dealing with a behavior
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What does positive mean?
They have what you're measuring
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What does negative mean?
They don't have what you're measuring
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what is false positive?
It first test positive but realize you're wrong
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What is false negative?
the test failed and it was really wrong
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What is true positive?
subsequent evidence test was positive
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What is outcome evaluation?
given after a period of time assessing their improvement
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What is reliability?
the consistency of the test
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What is validity?
does the test measure what it says what its going to measure
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What is predictive validity?
will this test predict how the person will behave
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What is construct validity?
does this test relate to other measures in a consistent matter
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What is discriminant validity?
the test should not correlate different constructs
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What is behavioral validity?
does the test correlate with behavioral measures?
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In a clinical interview what type of questions should you ask?
What medication are you taking? Why are you coming in just now? What have you tried to resolve the situation? What are your goals?
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What does a Psychoanalytic do?
talks about dreams
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What is cognitive?
the way they think about the situation (they're interpretation)
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What is the mental status exam?
Assessing the client's psychological, cognitive and behavioral function
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What is the rorschach? What is the reliability and the validity?
ten ink blacks - 5 black and 5 color and asks the client what do they see Reliability: low validity: low
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What is a Tat?
An actual sketch where the patient needs to tell a story
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What is an MMPI?
600 questions; different dimensions that has a lie scale
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What is the Neuropsychology test?
9 designs for them to draw
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With the IQ test, what is the age group for WAIS-IV and WISC-IV?
WAIS-IV - ages 17 & above | WISC-IV - ages 6-16
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What is verbal comprehension?
understanding social expression; ability to understand words
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What is perceptual reasoning index-
"what's missing in this picture"
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What is perceptual speed index?
visual motor coordination
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What is self monitoring?
For them to be more aware on symptoms when it shows up
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EEG has to deal with...
Brain waves
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High frequency is ...
Beta
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when you're relaxed you're...
alpha
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What is comobidity?
two or more different disorders
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What is another term for retardation?
Intellectual Developmental disorder
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How do you know if you're retarded?
70 or less IQ impairment in adaptive function you find out by age 5 or 6 and before 18
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What if you're retarded but you're over 18?
It's called dimensia
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What causes retardation?
down syndrome women who smoke while pregnant radiation while pregnant
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What is PKU?
missing an enzyme that causes physical abnormalities
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What is fragile X syndrome?
they're not making enough protein
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What is Assburger?
mild condition of autism
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What causes Autism?
genetic chromosome abnormality and if the father is old
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What is ADHD?
Attention deficit hyperactive disorder
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How are people with ADHD treated?
medication giving them a stimulant (increases dopamine in the brain) guidelines, structure and discipline
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What is reactive attachment disorder?
doesn't trust the adult will attend to them ; don't react to nurture, comforance, and nurturance
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What is disinhibited engagement disorder?
socialize very easily become superficially attached to strangers
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What is oppositional defiant?
argumentative among other people; blame other people and very invective
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What is conduct disorder?
basic rights of other people are ignored, destruction of property; bullying
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What is intermittent explosive disorder?
consistently angry; responds physically or verbally with anger for minor problems
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What is Enuresis? What is primary and what is secondary?
urinates into their clotes and bed 2/week for 3 months; they have to be at least 5 years old Primary: they were never able to control their pee secondary: they were able to control their pee before but not anymore
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What is encopresis?
Repeated bowel movement in your clothes and has to happen for 3 months

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