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AP Psych: S-4
Abnormal Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are common characteristics of abnormality? | it is harmful and/or disturbing disturbing to others unusual, not shared by members of the population irrational |
| What is used by psychologists to help make a diagnosis? | DSM-IV-TR |
| What Axis covers Clinical disorders? | Axis 1 |
| What does Axis II cover? | Personality and Developmental disorders |
| What does Axis III approach? | Medical Conditions |
| What Axis covers Psychosocial conditions? | 4 |
| What is Axis V | Global assessment of functioning. |
| What type of approach does the DSM IV TR use? | multi-axial approach |
| What does the DSM NOT contain? | causes |
| What type of perspective addresses internal, unconscious conflicts? | Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic |
| What does the Humanistic perspective address? | failure to strive toward one's potential or being out of touch with one's feelings |
| What does the Behavioral perspective believe? | reinforcement history, the environment |
| What perspective addresses irrational, dysfunctional thoughts or ways of thinking? | Cognitive |
| What perspective addresses a dysfunctional society? | socialcultural |
| What does the biomedical perspective address? | organic problems, biochemical imbalances, genetic predispositions |
| What is the ecletic approach? | the combination of one or more approaches to explain behavior |
| What are the five anxiety disorders? | phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, OCD, and PTSD |
| What is a simple or specific phobia? | intense unwarranted fear of a situation or object |
| What causes constant low-level anxiety? | Generalized anxiety disorder |
| What is a disorder that refers to intense anxiety without any apparent provocation? | Panic disorder |
| What is obsessive compulsive disorder? | persisted, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) which can cause the need (compulsion) to engage in a particular action |
| What disorder involves flashbacks or nightmares following a person's involvement in or observation of a traumatic event? | PTSD |
| What is a somatoform disorder? | when a person manifests a psychological problem through a physical symptom |
| What are the two somatoform disorders? | hypochondriasis and conversion disorder |
| What somatoform disorder occurs when a person has frequent physical complaints for which has no physical cause? | Hypochondriasis |
| What is conversion disorder? | a somatoform disorder in which a person complains about a severe physical problem such as blindness without a biological reason |
| What do dissociative disorders involve? | a disruption in conscious processes |
| What are psychogenic amnesia, fugue, and dissociative identity disorder classified as? | dissociative disorders |
| What is psychogenic amnesia? | when a person cannot remember things and no physiological basis for the disruption in memory can be identified. |
| When does fugue occur? | when a person finds themselves in an unfamiliar environment |
| What disorder involves a person with several personalities? | DID |
| People affected with this disorder experience extreme or inappropriate emotions | mood disorders |
| What is the most common mood disorder? | major depressive disorder |
| What are the symptoms of a major depression? | loss of appetite, fatigue, change in sleeping, lack of interest, and feelings of worthlessness |
| What is type of therapy is effective for Seasonal affective disorder? | light therapy |
| What is seasonal affective disorder? | depression that occurs in certain times of the year, winter |
| what disorder involves both depressed and manic episodes? | bipolar disorder |
| What is dysthymic disorder? | milder form of major depression |
| what does the cognitive triad state? | that depression results from unreasonably negative ideas that people have about themselves, the world, and their futures |
| What is learned helplessness? | when people act helpless when they lack the ability to control their own fate |
| What are the symptoms of schizophrenia? | disordered thinking, delusions, and hallucinations |
| what are beliefs that have no basis in reality? | delusions |
| What are delusions of persecution? grandeur? | people are out to get you. you have greater power and influence than what you actually hold |
| What are hallucinations? | perceptions in the absence of any sensory stimulation |
| What are the four types of schizophrenia? | disorganized, paranoid, catatonic, and undifferentiated |
| What type of schizophrenia includes patients that display delusions of persecution? | paranoid schizophrenics |
| What does a disorganized schizophrenic suffer from? (symptoms) | make up their own words. string together rhyming words that are nonsense. show inappropriate affect or they may show the flat effect. |
| What is the flat effect? | when a person displays no emotion at all |
| What is neologisms? | made up words |
| What are clang associations? | the stringing together of a series of nonsense words that rhyme |
| What type of schizophrenics engage in odd movements? | catatonic |
| What do undifferentiated schizophrenics exhibit? | disordered thinking, but no symptoms of one of the other types of schizophrenia |
| What do positive symptoms of schizophrenia refer to? | behavior, thought, or mood |
| What do negative symptoms of schizophrenia relate to? | the flat effect of catatonia |
| What does the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia state? | high levels of dopamine are associated with schizophrenia |
| what do anti-psychotic drugs do? | lower dopamine levels |
| what causes muscle tremors and stiffness in schizophrenics? | tardive dyskinesia |
| What is a biological basis of schizophrenia? | enlarged brain ventricles |
| What type of predispositions are associated with schizophrenia? | genetic |
| what model states environmental stressors can provide the circumstances under which a biological predisposition for illness can express itself? | the stress-diathesis |
| What type of personality disorder shows people have little regard for the feelings of others? | antisocial personality disorder |
| What is dependent personality disorder? | when a person relies too much on the attention and help of others |
| What personality disorder relates to people who feel persecuted? | paranoid personality disorder |
| What is narcissistic personality disorder? | where a person sees oneself as the center of the universe. intense egoism |
| What is histrionic personality disorder? | a person who exhibits overly dramatic behavior |
| What are paraphilias or psychosexual disorders marked by? | sexual attraction to an object, person, or activity |
| What type of disorder is substance abuse? | psychological |
| What does the Rosenhan study involve? | effect/influence of labels |
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