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AP PSYCH
Abnormal psychology unit test 4/18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| how were disorders viewed long time ago | saw them as possession patients were imprisoned or executed |
| 4 criteria to diagnose someone | deviation from statistical norm deviation from social norms maladaptiveness of behavior (effect on well being) personal distress (what does person feel) |
| behavioral explanation of behavior | would have learned the behavior/fear |
| cultural bound syndromes | syndromes that only apply to a country |
| symptoms of major depressive disorder | 5 signs occur for 2 weeks or more problem regulating appetite problem regulating sleep low energy low self esteem difficulty concentrating feeling of hopelessness |
| 5 anxiety disorders | generalized anxiety disorder panic disorder social phobia simple phobia OCD and PTSD (technically not anymore though) |
| simple phobia | fear of a specific object or animal |
| social phobia | fear of social situations |
| behavioral therapy treatments | counter conditioning operant conditioning |
| counter conditioning | exposure therapy flooding aversive conditioning |
| operant conditioning | reward and punishment |
| cognitive therapy | goal is to change the way of thinking people suffer from misconceptions on how the world works and therefore that causes stress |
| rational emotional therapy | people hold irrational and self degrading beliefs, therapist renforces positive self talk |
| hallucination | false sensory perceptions (most auditory) |
| delusions | feeling more important than you are (i knew the president) |
| thorazine | 1955, first drug to render a person calm enough to be let out of asylum/prison |
| therapy key factor | key factor to get better is to want to get better |
| historical treatments of therapy | trephination, bloodletting, lobotomy, asylums |
| schizophrenia neurotransmitter | low dopamine |
| mood disorders neurotransmitter | too much serotonin |
| major symptoms of schizophrenia | hallucinations delusions inappropriate emotions motor behavior |
| biological effect of schizophrenia | dopamine levels increased enlarged ventricles small pre-frontal lobe |
| SAD | seasonal depression effects women more than men increased appetite helped through light therapy |
| electro conclusive therapy | 'last resort' causes amnesia and memory loss electric current of 100 volts |
| repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | coil stimulates left frontal promoting LTP |
| deep brain stimulation | implant electrodes in frontal lobe/limbic system (pacemaker for brain) |
| psychosurgery | remove/destroy brain tissue lobotomy |
| MRI guided micro surgery | cut corpus callosum in split brain patients or epilepsy patients |
| free association | speak whatever comes to mind |
| dream analysis | talking about dreams |
| transference | relationship between patient and therapist |
| independent variable | variable that is changed by researchers |
| dependant variable | variable being tested or measured in experiment |
| control group | group with no changes |
| hypothesis | if then statement |
| conclusion | due to this i got this |
| experimental group | opposite of control group, experimented on |
| human ethical rules | no deception/coercion no risk of long term mental/physical harm informed consent anonymity debriefing |
| random sampling | random group of people to get a larger range of population |
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