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Unit 11- Psychological Disorders Flashcards

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Etiology

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Causation of mental illness

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Medical model

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Think like abnormal behavior is a disease

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Prognosis

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Forecast about the probable course of Illness

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Deviance

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Behaviors aren’t the society norm

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Maladaptive behavior

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Everyday behavior is impaired

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Personal distress

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Individuals personal distress

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What is the issue with mental illness criteria

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There is no straight line

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Study of distribution of mental disorders

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Epidemiology

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Class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety

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Anxiety disorders

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Disorder marked by a chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied with a specific threat

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Generalized anxiety

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Marked by persistent and irrational fear of an object of situation that presents bo realistic danger

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Phobic disorder

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Characterized be recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly

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Panic disorder

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Fear of going out in public

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Agoraphobia

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Thoughts that repeatedly intrude on ones consciousness in a distressing way

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Obsessions

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Actions that one feels forced to carry out

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Compulsions

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Persistent uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Involves enduring psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event

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PTSD

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Concordance rates

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Indicate the percentage of twin pairs of other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder

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What is a risk factor of anxiety in which people overreact with fear

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Anxiety sensitivity

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What is a chemical cause of anxiety

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A disturbance in the neural circuits using GABA

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How can anxiety disorder be developed and maintained

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Classical and operant

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How are people more likely to develop fears more easily than others

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Preparedness

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What type of thinking can lead to anxiety disorders

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Making situations more threatening than they are
Focussing attempting on threats
Recalling threatening info

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What do studies suggest that anxiety disorders are related to

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Stress

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Physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors

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Somatoform disorders

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Creating an illness in your mind

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Malingering

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Marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin

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Somatization disorder

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Disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function in a single organ system

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Conversion disorder

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Disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses

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Hypochondriasis

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What personality trait makes people more liked to have a somatoform disorder

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Histrionic and neuroticism

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Sick role

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Growin association with being sick and undivided care and avoidance of life’s challenges

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Disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity

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Dissociative disorders

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Sudden loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting

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Dissociative amnesia

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Moments in which people forget their identity

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Fugue

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Involves coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very difference personalities

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Dissociative identity disorder

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What personality traits are associated with dissociative disorders

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Fantasy proneness and a tendency to become intensely absorbed in personal experience

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Spanos theory of DD

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North American culture creates these disorders

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Class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical perceptual social and thought process

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Mood disorders

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When people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

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Major depressive disorder

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Chronic depression that is insufficient in severity

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Dysthymic disorder

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Disorder characterized by the experience of one or more manic episodes as well as periods of depression

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Bipolar disorder

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Chronic but mild symptoms of bipolar disturbances

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Cyclothymic disorder

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What chemicals are mood disorders associated with

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Serotonin and norepinephrine

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What part of the brain is said to play a major role in mood disorders

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Hippocampus

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Theory of learned helplessness

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Giving up behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events

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How much does genetics play a role in schizophrenia

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Two thirds

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What neurochemical is associated with schiz

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Dopamine excess

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What structure of the brain increases schiz

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An enlarged brain ventricle

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Neurodevelopmental hypothesis

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Schiz is caused in part by various disruptions in the normal maturational processes of the brain before or at birth

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The degree to which a relative of s patient displays highly critical or emotionally over involved attitudes toward the patient

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Expressed emotion

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Class of disorders marked by extreme inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning

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Personality disorders

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What are the three personality disorder groups

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Anxious fearful, odd eccentric, and dramatic impulsive

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Disorde marked by impulsive callous manipulative aggressive and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Culture bound disorders

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Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups

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Realistic view

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No universal standards

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Pan cultural view

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Criteria of mental illness are same around the world

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Severe disturbance in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight and unhealthy efforts to control weight

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Eating disorders

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Intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and use of dangerous measures to lose weight

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Anorexia nervosa

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Out of control eating following by extreme compensatory efforts

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Bulima nervosa

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Distress inducing eating that are no accompanied by purging

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Binge eating

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Appetite for non nutritious foods

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Pica

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