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Unit 9 : Abnormal Behavior Module 65-69 Flashcards

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Psychological disorder

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Significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion, regulation or behavior

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

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Extreme inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity

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The medical model

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States that Psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured through treatment in hospitals

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DSM-5

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Widely used system to classify disorders, includes definitions, medications, and labels sometimes change

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Immigrant paradox

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Immigrants who immigrate to United States are less likely to have mental disorders than thise who are born in America

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Anxiety disorder

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Worry anxiety or fear that reflects on daily life

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal

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Panic disorder

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Unpredicatvle minute long episodes of intense dresd in which a person experiences terror, chest pain, choking and others. Often followed by worry of possible next attacks

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Phobia

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Irrational fear and avoidance of object, activity, situation

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Social-Anxiety disorder

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Intense fear of social situations

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Agrophobria

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Fear and avoidance of crowds and open spaces; where one feels loss of control

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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

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Obsessive repetitive thoughts and actions to stop those thoughts

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Environmental triggers Memories, nightmares, social withdrawls that happen after a traumatic experience

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Posttraumatic growth

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Positive psych changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises

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Mood disorders

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Emotional extremes; highs and lows

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Major depressive disorder

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Due to absense of meds symptoms include depressive mood or loss of interest and pleasure

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Persistent depressive disorder

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Showing depressive mood for at least 2 years

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Mania

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Hyperactive state, overly optimistic and increased creativity as well as thoughts snd sexual desires

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Bipolar disorder

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Person alternates between mania and depressive mood

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Linkage analysis

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Examine dna from unaffected and affected family members to see difference in chromosomes

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Rumination

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Consistent repetitive thinking and worrying about problems and causes

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Explanatory style

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Who what people blame for failures and credit for success

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Schizophrenia

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Split mind, Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and innapropriate emotional expression

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Psychosis

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Loss of contact with reality

Loses contact with reality and experiences irrational ideas and disordered perceptions

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Delusions

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Fake beliefs usually paranoia and character delusions

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Paranoid

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Distrust in others and things

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Word salad

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unintelligent mixture of random words

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Hallucination

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False sensory experience (auditory more common> visual)

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Flat affect

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No emotional response- no response on face

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Catatonia

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Physically unmoving-frozen like a statue

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Presence of two or more distict personality states

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Chronic schizophrenia

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Slow developing

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Acute/ reactive schizophrenia

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Development of schizophrenia rapidly

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Physical pain, but no physical cause is found

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Conversion disorder

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Anxiety converts to a physical form

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Interprets normal pain (headaches) as a life threatening disease (brain tumor)

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Dissociative disorder

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Conscious Awareness becaimes seperated from previous memories thoughts and feelings

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Fugur state

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Unexpected inability to recall some or all of ones past

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Anorexia nervosa

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Starvation diety dignificantly underweight

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Bulimia nervosa

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Episodes of binge eating followed by purging

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Binge eating disorder

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Massive overeatinf folloeed by massive guilt

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Personality disorders

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Unchanging and continious behavioral patterns that damage social functioning

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Avoidant peronality disorder

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Anxiety

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Odd behaviors and emotionlessness, avoid social activities

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Histrionic personality disorder

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Impulsive behaviors
Attention seeking
And seduction at young age

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Narcisstic personality disorder

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Self focused

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Men show lack of conscious for wrongdoing even towards friends and family members. Can be aggressive and ruthless

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Focus on a percieved flaw in appearance

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Borderline personality disorder

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Unstable moods behavior, and relationships

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Dissociative amnesia

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Person cannot remember important info about their life

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Pain disorder

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Physical condition ehich #1 symptom is pain

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Psychopath

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Person with mental disorder, has violent social behaviors

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Sociopath

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Person sith personality disorder showing in antisocial attitudes and lack of conscious

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