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Mr. Stickler's Liberty Christian PSYCH. "Abnormal Psych." Test Flashcards 2022

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show Auditory hallucinations; Visual Hallucinations; paranoia; anxiety; and panic attacks.  
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show Feelings of extreme sadness; Anxiety (including social anxiety); Increase in sleeping; Exhaustion and lethargy.  
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What are the main symptoms that people living with Antisocial Personality Disorder experience?   show
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show The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.  
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Who built the first mental health institutions?   show
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show This was the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Lexington, Kentucky.  
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show "The characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable over time and across circumstances".  
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What types of assessments do personality tests based on "projective measures" use?   show
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show These personality tests are based on information gathered through self - report questionnaires or observer ratings.  
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show This term refers to "general tendencies to feel or act in certain ways. These are broader than personality traits. Temperaments are also innate biological structures of personality, so they are NOT altered by life experiences.  
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show This term means "sickness or disorder of the mind".  
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show This term refers to "the factors that contribute to the understanding of a psychological disorder".  
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What religious group established the first asylum to "treat" people who had been diagnosed with mental disorders?   show
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What was the name of the 1st asylum built in the United States?   show
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List the names of the two (2) religious groups responsible for establishing asylums for people who had been diagnosed with mental disorders.   show
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How were patients treated in the earliest mental asylums?   show
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show This is the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition". It is the manual that doctors, psychiatrists, & other health professionals use to diagnose mental illnesses. (Pg. 603)  
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show Information is organized by categories (of various mental illnesses). (EX: "Depressive Disorders", "Anxiety Disorders", etc.).  
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show This term means "unsuitably adapted or adapting poorly to (a situation, purpose, etc)". (dictionary.com)  
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show It is believed that people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness are simply displaying "maladaptive" behavior - not "deviant" behavior. (Pg. 602)  
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show These are described in terms of observable symptoms.  
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What are the three (3) sections of the "DSM-V"?   show
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show 1.) Categorical Approach; 2.) Dimensional Approach.  
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show One (1) criticism of this is that a patient is either in the category, or they are not. This "fails to capture the differences in the severity of the disorder".  
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Why do many mental health professionals prefer a "Dimensional Approach" to assessing mental illness?   show
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show This term "involves the tendency to experience frequent and intense negative emotions".  
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What does the term "Research Domain Criteria" mean/ refer to?   show
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show 1.) Family Systems Model; 2.) Sociocultural Model; 3.) Diathesis-Stress Model; 4.) Cognitive-Behavioral Approach.  
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What is the difference between "internalizing disorders" and "externalizing disorders"?   show
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How are "Anxiety Disorders" characterized?   show
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show 1.) Social Anxiety Disorder; 2.) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; 3.) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.  
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How are "Depressive Disorders" categorized?   show
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List the names of three (3) mental illnesses that would qualify as "Depressive Disorders".   show
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show 1.) Inability to motivate themselves to even get out of bed at all during the day; 2.) Feelings of helplessness - like there is nothing that can be done to help them; 3.) Intense feelings of loneliness. (Video - "Lauren's Story")  
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What is the "main characteristic" of "Bipolar Disorders"?   show
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Describe what patients experience during a "manic episode".   show
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show These are characterized by "heightened creativity & productivity".  
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show 1.) Outbursts of "excessive" anger (very minor things would trigger this for Dawn); 2.) Social anxiety (especially true for Dawn); 3.) Sensitive to sights/sounds/smells that remind them of the traumatic event(s); 4.) Depression.  
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In class, we read Chapter 34 - "The Emperor of Antarctica" - in "A Beautiful Mind". What schizophrenia symptoms was John Nash living with in that chapter? (Be able to explain or give an example of what each of the symptoms you list means.)   show
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In class, we watched a video that I called "David's Story". David was a person living with Psychogenic Fugue. What are the symptoms of this mental illness?   show
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In class, we watched a video that I called "Efren's Story". Efren was a person living with Bipolar Disorder. List two (2) symptoms that Efren described in the video.   show
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show 1.) Electroshock therapy; 2.) Extensive counseling.  
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In class, we watched a video that I called "Natasha's Story". Natasha was a person living with Dysthymia. What does she say this mental illness is often called?   show
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In class, we watched a video that I called "Natasha's Story". Natasha was a person living with Dysthymia. List two (2) of the symptoms that she describes living with.   show
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show 1.) Leaving her home triggered panic attacks; 2.) Hyperventilating.  
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show 1.) Increased heart rate (her heart rate was 140 beats per minute); 2.) Feeling light-headed like she was going to pass out; 3.) Irrational fear of having serious medical issue (ex: she thought she was having a heart attack, but had no hx of this).  
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In class, we watched a video that I called "Eric's Story". Eric was a person living with Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder. List three (3) symptoms that Eric describes - or the video demonstrates - that he is living with.   show
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show This term refers to "recurrent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts or ideas or mental images. They often include fear of contamination, accidents, or of one's own aggression".  
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show This term refers to acts that a person living with obsessive - compulsive disorder feels driven to perform over and over. The most common compulsive behaviors are cleaning, checking, and counting.  
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show This term refers to "secondary" mental illnesses that a patient may be living with that can complicate their situation, resulting in the need to treat multiple mental illnesses simultaneously. (EX: a patient may be living with Agoraphobia & PTSD.)  
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show 1.) Heart palpitations, pounding heart, 2.) accelerated heart rate. Sweating. 3.) Trembling or shaking.  
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show 1.) Systematic desensitization and Interoceptive Exposure. 2.) Exposure and Response Prevention. 3.) Relaxation and Breathing Retraining.  
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What does the term "dysthymia" mean/ refer to?   show
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show This typically occurs between the ages of 18 and 22.  
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