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Chapter 12: AB Psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abnormal: | Behaviors that are at odds with social expectations and result in distress/discomfort |
| 5 D's for classifying a mental illness | 1. Dangerous 2. Deviance (Deviates from social norms) 3. Dysfunction(Intereferes with daily activities) 4. Distress(Causes distress to themselves or others) 5. Duration(Persists for cetain length of time) |
| What percentage of people have a mental illness | 20% or 1/5 |
| Are woman or men less likley to seek therapy? | Men for social expectations |
| What stigma is associated with a mental illness? | Weakness |
| What is a comorbidity? | 2 or more disorders (high w/ anxiety and mood disorders and Schizophrenia) |
| Most common comorbidity | Anxiety and Depression |
| In the Diathesis-Stress Model what is the predisposition towards developing a psycological disorder?************ | Diathesis |
| Where does a Diathesis derive from? | Genetics/ Abuse/ Social-Culture setting |
| What is the seconnd part of the Diathesis- stress model? | Stressor/Trigger |
| Who called for a more moral treatment of people with psychological disorders? | Philippe Pinel |
| What did Philippe Pinel do? | Remove the chains and bounds from mentally ill paitents at the La Bicetre hospital |
| What was mental illness seen as before Philippe Pinel | Madness/Demon Possession |
| What hospital did Philippe Pinel create? | St Mary's of Bethleham |
| What is the bible for psychologist********* | DSM-5 |
| When was the DSM5 realeased | 2013/ updated 2022 |
| What is the legal term for being unable to tell right from wrong | Insanity |
| Treatment of mental illness | Psychopathology |
| What type of behavior is maked by chronic distress and troubles in emotional regulation | Neurcrotic Behavior |
| In Psycheurosis/ Neurotic behavior, you interpret ordinary situaton as x and respond to difficult situations with y emotions | x= Threatening y= intense |
| What type of behavior consists of impaired contact w/ reality and detoriation of adaptive functioning******** | Psychotic Behavior |
| Schizophenia and Bipolar can have what kind of behavior?****** | Psychotic Behavior (Psychosis) |
| Class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety*********** | Anxiety Disorders |
| Most prevelent class of disorders******** | Anxiety Disorders |
| Disorder w/ chronic, high-level anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat (Free-Floating Anxiety) | Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) |
| Treatment for GAD include what (2 things)********** | SSRIs and CBT |
| This disorder consists of recurrent attaks of overwhelming anxiety | Panic Disorder |
| Panic Disorder jas panic attacks that occur x and y | x= suddenly y= unexpectedly |
| Rapid heart rate/ shortness of breath/ overwhealiming fear/ and faer of losing control are associated with what? | Panic Attack |
| This disorder is marked by a presistant and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger | Phobic Disorder |
| 3 Catagories of Phobias | 1. Agroaphobia 2. Social Phobia 3. Specific Phobia |
| Fear of escaping a difficult or embarassing situation is what kind of phobia? | Agoraphobia |
| Fear or avoidance of social situation is what kind of phobia? | Social Phobia |
| Fear of specific thing/situation is what kind of phobia? | Specific Phobia |
| Disorder marked by uncontrollable instrusions of unwanted thoughts/obsessions and urges to engage in senseless rituals/compulsions | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
| How many people have OCD | 5% or 1/20 |
| An overwhelming and presistant anxious thoughts of or feelings of things************** | obsession (cognitions) |
| Actions and behaiors to your obsession is the*********** | compulsion |
| In OCD x are your thoughts and y are your actions and behaviors that derive from those thoughts************ | x= obsessions y= compulsions |
| OCD is no longer listed as an anxiety disorder and is now listed as obsession-compulsive and realted disorders (T/F) | True |
| Disorder marked by periodic outbursts of anxiety, panic, or depression provoked by reminders of trumatic expiercences ************* | Post-trumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
| X and Y are common and haunt the person with PTSD*********** | X= Flashbacks Y= Nightmares |
| PTSD is increasing or decreasing*********** | Increasing |
| This theory for anxiety disorders involves x conditioning which occurs from a child pairing object/experience with anxious recation from parent | Learning x= Classical |
| This theory for anxiety disorders states we have evolved to fear or avoid things that can hurt us | Biological |
| Most anxiety disorders are linked to too little what?********* | Serotonin |
| Panic Disorders are linked to overactivity of what part of your brain? | Amgdylela |
| Class of disorders involving physica; ailments w/ no organic or biological basis | Somatoform Disorders |
| Defense Mechanisms are commonly associated with this class of disorder | Somatoform Disorders |
| This disorder involves excessive health concerns and worry about developing physical illness | Hypochondrasis |
| Another name for Hypochondrasis is... | Illness Anxiety Disorder |
| Cause of Hypochondrasis is.... | Unknown |
| Hypochondrasis occurs more in what gender? | Equal in males and females (Early Adulthood) |
| This order involves loss of physical function and is a defense mechanism | Conversion Disorder |
| In conversion disorder the mind shuts off part of the body to defend against trumatic event (T/F) | True |
| Freud called Conversion Disorder... | Hysteria |
| Conversion Disorder/Hysteria is more common in what gender | Woman |
| These kind of disorders involve people losing contact with portions of their consciousness or memory resulting in a disruption in their scense of identity | Dissociaive Disorders |
| Loss of memory from trumatic event | Dissociative Amnesia |
| Condition of amnesia with unexplained change in location where person leaves enviroment abruptly | Dissociative Fugue |
| Condition where person alternates between 2 or more distinct personalities normally resulting from childhood trauma | Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
| DID in terms of rarity is | Very rare |
| This group of disorders makes up of people dealing with the enviroment and other people in a maladaptive and inflexible way | Personality Disorders |
| Cluster 1: Odd or Eccentric x y | x= Paranoid- Extreme sus, envy, mistrust y= Schizoid- inability to form interpersonal realtionships |
| Cluster 2: Dramatic/Emotional/Erratic************ x y z | x= Histrionic- Dramatic/ emotions to extreme y= Narcissistic- Exaggerates impotance and constant need for attention z= Antisocial- No regards for others/ accompied by criminal activity |
| This personality disorder consists of manipulating and causing pain to others from underdeveloped amygdela. AKA Psychopaths************** | Anti-social Personality Disorder (Cluster 2) |
| Cluster 3: Anxiety/ Fearfullness x y | x= Avoidant- Fear of rejection/ no realtionships y= Dependent- Poor self-image and self-esteem/ look to "hook-up" with dominate personality |
| Class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances that disrupt thought processes | Mood Disorders |
| How more likley are woman to have a mood disorder than men | Twice (2x) |
| Mood Disorders have a genetic link(T/F) | True Bipolar- 6 Mil MDD- 16 Mil |
| Condition where person takes little pleasure in life (Unipolar disorder) | MDD(Major Depression) |
| MDD suicide is most comon when the person is.. | at their highest level of functioning |
| Mild case of depression for 2 years or more(1 year in children) ************ | Dysthymia |
| Disorder where person alternates between depression and mania | Bipolar |
| Suicide during Bipolar is most common in what state | Manic State |
| State with bipolar where person has lack of inhibitions, hyperactive, little sleep, dangerous behavior, psychosis | Mania |
| Psychosis can occur in what state with Bipolar Disorder | Manic State/ Mania |
| Condition where person becomes depressed every winter | Seasonal Affective Disorder (SADD) |
| SADD is from a lack of what 2 things | Melatonin and Seratonin |
| How prevelant is SADD and what gender experiences it more | 5% 1/20 and more common in woman |
| Depressive Disorders likley come from low levels of x y z | x= Serotonin y= Norepinephrine z= Dopamine |
| Depressive Disorders are prescribes with... | Reuptake Inhibitors |
| Manic stage with Bipolar is linked to too much of what NT | Norepinephrine |
| This mood stabalizer is often used to treat Bipolar Disorder************* | Lithium Carbonate(Don't know how it works) |
| Depression is likley triggered by psychological factors like a stressful event which triggers onset (T/F) | True |
| Class of disorders marked by disturbances in thought that affect processes | Schizophenia |
| Schizophrenia occurs in what percentage of the population | 1% |
| Schizophenia is more common and more severe in what gender | Men |
| Schizophenia consists of these 2 symptons x************* y | x= Delusions- Belief you are entitled y= Hallucinations- visual or auditory of something that isn't there |
| Delusions and Hallucinations are _____ symptons?******** | Positive |
| Famous woman who had Postpartum Psychosis who downed her children | Andrea Yates |
| What are negative symptons? | Losing the ability / loss of function |
| Arm flapping and rocking are common signs of schizophenia when you are what age? | Childhood |
| Most danegerous kind of Schizophrenia | Paranoid |
| Type of schizophrenia characterized by odd physical postures often followed by a wild frenzy state************** | Catatonic |
| Type of Schizophenia with word salads , flat emotions, disorganized speech and behavior********** | Disorganized |
| With Disorganized Schizophrenia, you may develop nonsense words which are only used by them called******** | Neologisms |
| Schizophhrenia is hereditary (T/F) | True |
| What affects wether or not you experience symptoms of schizophrenia if you carry the gene for it*********** | Enviroment |
| Schizophrenia can be linked to too much of this NT receptor****** | Dopamine |
| Schizophenic paitents have larger x and smaller y*************** | X= Ventricles Y= Thalamus |
| Flu in woman during this trimester increases risk of schizophenia*************** | 2nd Trimester (67% increase) |
| Theory on why woman are less likley to get Schizophenia**************** | estrogen progesterone |
| Self-Fullfilling Prophecy************* | When diagnosed with a mental illness and you act out the mental illnes and let it consume your idenity |
| Lithium Carbonate damages what organ? Blood tests required | Kidneys |
| New way to treat Bipolar besides Lithium Carbonate*********** | Nasal Sprays |