Unit 2 final review psychopathology Flashcards
Criteria for Specific Phobia
- Afraid of specific object
- Immediatly provokes fear
- Fear is out of porportion
Criteria for Social phobia
- Fear of social situation
- Fear they will be viewed negatively
- Always provoke fear
Difference between Social phobia and Specific phobia
Social phobia has fear of being negatively viewed
Panic Disorder criteria
- Panic attacks lasting longer than one month
- Fear of future attacks
- Avoid trigger
Agoraphobia criteria
- Fear of crowded spaces
- Avoidance
GAD criteria
- Worry about many things majority of time, > 6 mo
- Difficult to control symptoms of worry
Shared features of anxiety disorders and prevelance in genders and comorbitity/ prevelance
- Clinically sig impairment
- Avoidance
- Woman > man, 80% comorbidity, 18% prevelance, 30% lifetime
What is the goal of expsure treatment
- facing situation rather than avoiding
- Generalize to settings and stimuli
- reduce safety behaviors
What is the habituation model vs inhibitory learning model
- Habituation is old, inhibitory learning is new. Used to desentsitize by spending hours in area of fear, now new model is to learn competing association of fear
What ideas does cognitive therepy increase for Axiety disorders
- Increase belief in one’s coping ability
- Challenge unhelpful beliefs
- Debrief to learn
- Increase mindfulness
Medications for Anxiety disorders
Benzos, SSRI/SNRI- Benzos don’t work well and have bad side effects- create dependence and can be deadly
Why is SAD advantageous
- Evolutionarily important
- learn behaivor from traumatic event like bullying
Cognitive factors of SAD
- Unrealistic perception of concsequences
- belief of negativity toward oneself
- upward social comparison
- safety behaviros
Neurobiology behind panic
- Panic circut, early focus on locus cerilious, source of adrenaline. Hippocampus helps learn the anxiety that was produced
- Extra sensitivity of normal body causes fear of harm
Wells cog model vs Borkoveks cog model vs Newmans Contrast avoidance model
- Wells- Believe in function of worry nad harm simultaniously, worry about act of worry
- Borkoveks- worry destracts from neg emotions and images, reinforces itself
- Newmans contrast avoidance model- worry protects from shift of emotions
Heritability of Anxiety
20-50%
Neurobiology of anxiety
- Fear circut, amygdala and hippocampus
- Neurotransmitters (Seratonin, adrenaline, GABA, Corticotropin that decreases HPA axis)
Personality and Temperment of Axiety disorder
- Negative affectivity of personality, behavioral inhibition in childhood (shyness) leads to social anxiety, changes development and cause other disorders
Cognitive model of Anxiety
- Negative feelings of future and percieved lack of control.
- Cognitive biases, information processing focuses on threat.
- Childhood trauma fosters these
Gender and sociocultural factors of Anxiety
- Reporting bias- woman report more
- Men more likely to confront fears
- Woman experiance more childhood trauma
What is Mauers model of phobias
- Classical and operant conditioning combine to cause phobias and fear of objects. Classical ( neg event) paired with Avoidance (operant)
What is the panic circut
The trigger stimulus causes the stimulus to be percieved as harmful, even if its a normal stimulus
Criteria for OCD
- Presence of Obsessions, compulsions, or both, O or C is time consuming
How is OCD similar and different from anxiety disorder?
- Similar- has avoidance and rumination
- Different- has more elaborate behaviors and specificity
Criteria for Body Dysmorphic disorder
-Preoccupation with one’s flaws
- Repetative behaviors like picking, grooming, and checking
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Criteria for hording disorders
- Difficulty parting with possesions
- Difficulty is due to need to save items and distress with discarding
- Clutter living area
Epidemiology of OCD
- 2-3%
- Equally common
- Themes common across cutlures, but obsessions change
Epedemiology of BDD
- 1-2%
- Equal in Men/Woman, preoccupations differ (bicep vs boobs)
- Many seek medical intervention
-63% consider suicide, 1/4 attempt
Epidemiology of Hoarding
- 3-6%
Biological factors of OCD
- Moderate heratability
- Disregulation of impulses and drives circut- impulses not functioning, come out as obsessions.
- Stronger neurological response to making errors
- Serotonin, glutamate, GABA, dopamine
Behavioral processes in OCD
- Prone to habit formation
- difficulty un-learning bahits
- Reduced anxiety and fear reinforces compulsions
- Avoidance- difficult not ton continue to perform even if action stops being assocated
Cognitive processes in OCD
- Thoughts embedded with catastrophic meaning
- Thought-action fusion- thoughts morlaly equivelent to actions
- -Disporportionate attention to stimuli or blocking out distracting information
What is Rachman’s theory of OCD
- Thoughts are equivelent to actions morally, guilt leads to self blame and shame, so nutralize thoughts to seak reassurance
Why is checking consistantly done?
- Low confidence in memories
- Yedasentience- internal feeling that you’ve done enough- is problematic- never feel as if they’ve done enough
Etiology of BDD
- History of being bullied by apperance
- Strong value of apperance- I am nothing if I have defect
- Biased attention to features
- Attention to Details
Etiology of Hoarding, including beleifs of self/others/items
- Evolutionary roots- stockpiling resources
- High rates of trauma
- Cog factors like difficulty organizing, believe self is unlovable, others cant be relied upon, possessions are irreplacable