Question | Answer |
Antisocial | acts out conflict without remorse or guilt and has difficulty following rules |
compulsive | descriptive of thoughts or behavior which are automatic responses to anxiety or stress. Ex. hand washing |
Hysterical: aka | Histrionic |
Hysterical | attention seeking, aggressive, seductive person who is unable to be deeply involved emotionally. |
Narcissism | attention seeking, regards no one else as important, strong admiration for self. |
Paranoid | sensitive, defensive, suspicion, suspicion leading to aggression |
Passive Aggressive | Taking aggressive actions in an indirect manner , argumentative |
Schizoid | Ungluing of reason and emotion, introverted, emotionally cold and distant, avoids social interaction, delusions and hallucinations |
Denial | Refusal to perceive unpleasant realities |
Projection | acts of assigning a feeling or belief to another person, group, or to the outside world |
Rationalization | attributing one's own unacceptable desires and impulses to someone else |
Reaction formation | behavior expressed in an exaggerated form of an opposite behavior |
Regression | a response to stress in which an individual reverts to a less developmentally mature stage |
Repression | unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind. |
Transference | redirecting ones feelings from one person to another |
sublimination | channeling unacceptable impulses or energy into socially acceptable activity. |
Anxiety Disorders: Physical symptoms (6) | Heart Palpitations, increased heart rate, shortness of breath, sweating, tingling, dizziness |
Anxiety | a state of intense apprehension or worry often accompanied by physical symptoms |
Panic disorder | repeated attacks of severe anxiety |
Panic Attack: Duration | 5-30 minutes |
OCD: Obsessive | reoccurring intrusive thought or image that seems senseless or unpleasant |
OCD: Compulsive | activity designed to reduce anxiety that a person feels compelled to repeat |
OCD: Thoughts vs. Actions | Thoughts = obsessive ; Actions = Compulsive |
Phobic | An irrational or unrealistic fear of a situation, animal, person, or activity |
Agoraphobia | public spaces |
Acrophobia | heights |
Astrophobia | thunder and lightning |
Astraphobia | fear of stars or celestial space |
Somatoform Disorders | psychological conflicts take on a physical form and no organic evidence exists to explain the symptom |
Hypochondriasis | an exaggerated pre-occupation with bodily functions and fear that one is suffering from serious disease. |
Conversion hysteria: aka | Conversion reaction |
Conversion hysteria | Loss or change of physical function caused by a psychological conflict |
Conversion hysteria: M/c disabilities (5) | paralysis, blindness, mutism, deafness, seizures |
Body dysmorphic disorder | pervasive belief that a body part is misshapen or malformed |
Affective Disorder | severe fluctuation of mood or personality |
Alcoholism: assoc. conditions (2) | Folate deficiency and Delirium tremens |
Delirium tremens | acute case of delirium (involving shakes) caused by withdrawal from alcohol |
Bipolar Affect Disorder: occurring age range | childhood to 50 years old |
Bipolar: avg. manic episode duration | lasts 3 monnths |
Bipolar: avg. depressive episode duration | 6-9 months |
Catatonia | associated with muscle inhibition |
Dysthymic disorder: definition | Mild, chronic depression |
Dysthymic disorder: symptom requirements for diagnosis | symptoms must occur most of the time for 2 years |
Dysthymic disorder: age it begins | adolescence or early adulthood |
Involutional melancholia | period of depression associated with menopause |
Aversion | used to treat alcoholics by associating drinking with unpleasant consequences |
Classic conditioning | Two events occurring close together in time become fused in a persons mind; Ex. Pavlov's dog |
Operant conditioning | A statisfying reinforcement strengthens the behavior; Unsatisfying consequences weaken behavior |
Flooding | form of desensitization for the treatment of phobias. patient is repeatedly exposed to emotionally distressing stimuli of high intensity. |
Modeling | imitating the desired behavior of another |
Rorschach test | inkblot images |
Wechsler Scale | method of IQ testing |
Freud: attributions | free association, dream analysis, psychosexual stages of development |
Freud: ANAL stage | stubborn and develops an order to every aspect of life |
Freud: Id | Basic instincts |
Freud: Ego | Reality and control |
Freud: Superego | Guilt and consciousness |
Jung | "the collective unconscious of man" = used for psychoanalysis |
Maslow | Hierarchy of human needs |
Maslow's Hierachy of human needs | Physiology, safety, love, esteem, self actualization |
Pavlov | Classical conditioning |
Skinner | Operant conditioning |