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Abnormal Psych
Final Exam Flashcards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abnormal behavior | actions that are unexpected and often evaluated negatively because they differ from typical or usual behavior |
| Psychological Dysfunction | Breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning |
| Personal Distress Psychological Distress | Difficulty performing appropriate and expected roles (extremely upset)- can’t take care of children, can’t be successful at their job |
| Psychopathology | the scientific study of psychological disorders |
| disorder | the unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder |
| Historical Conceptions of Abnormal Behavior | Supernatural, Biological, Psychological |
| One-dimensional models | Explain behavior in terms of a single cause- all biological, all psychological, ect. |
| Genetic contribution to psychopathology | Less than 50%, no genes relating to psychological disorders |
| Diathesis Stress Model | hypothesis that both an inherited tendency (a vulnerability) and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder |
| Reciprocal gene-environment model | hypothesis that people with a genetic predisposition for a disorder may also have a genetic tendency to create environment risk factors that promote the disorder |
| Medulla | heart rate, blood pressure, respiration |
| Pons | regulates sleep stages |
| Cerebellum | involved in motor coordination |
| Midbrain | Coordinates movement with sensory input Contains parts of the reticular activating system |
| Thalamus | receives and integrate sensory information |
| Hypothalamus | eating, drinking, aggression, sexual activity |
| Forebrain | Most sensory, emotional, and cognitive processing |
| Basal Ganglia | control motor behavior |
| limbic system (hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, septum, amygdala) | controls emotional expression, impulse control, sex, aggression, hunger/thirst |
| Cerebral cortex | reasoning and creative skills derived here |
| Frontal | thinking and reasoning abilities, memory |
| Parietal | touch recognition |
| Occipital | integrates visual input |
| Temporal | recognition of sights and sounds, long-term memory storage |
| Thalamus | receives and integrates sensory information |
| Hypothalamus | eating, drinking, aggression, sexual activity |
| medulla and pons | breathing, pumping heart, digestion |
| cerebellum | motor coordination |
| midbrain | coordinate movement with sensory input |
| reticular activating system | arousal, tension, sleeping, waking |
| Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) | STRONG inhibiting effect: slows you down |
| Norepinephrine (noradrenaline) | Affects body’s alarm response (heart rate, blood pressure)(2nd circuit),Anxiety, impulsivity |
| Dopamine | function is to activate other neurotransmitters; linked to pleasure seeking and exploratory behavior |
| Learned helplessness | people become anxious and stressed in conditions in which they believe have no control over the stress in their lives (regardless if they have control or not) |
| Social learning | Modeling and observational learning- we do what we see |
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