Ab Psych Ch 7 Flashcards
(15 cards)
How does the DSM-5 say that a major depressive episode(MDE) and grief are different?
- grief is associated with feelings of emptiness and loss, MDE is associated with less ability to experience happiness or pleasure
- sadness associated with grief diminishes over days to weeks and is triggered by thoughts of deceased; sadness associated with MDE is more persistent
- cognition associated with grief are related to the deceased, cognition with MDE tend to be more self-critical and pessimistic
- self-esteem is generally preserved with grief;MDE thoughts of worthlessness are more common
match the wave of CBT with one one of the therapies associated with and developed during that wave.
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- operant conditioning
- cognitive therapy
- third
- first
- second
Your client is depressed. The target behavior of interest is social withdrawal and avoidance of interacting with others. Using B.F. Skinner’s terms: if the consequence for your client’s social withdrawal is desirable to the client, such as being able to ‘space out ‘ and watch TV which he likes to do, and subsequently leads to increases in the likelhood of his withdrawing and avoiding further, then withdrawal and avoidance is
positively reinforced
In relative terms, _____ attempt suicide more frequently, but _____ complete suicide more frequently in large part because of the lethality of the means used: the former group tends to use _____ and the latter group tends to use _____.
women; men; guns and hanging; drug overdosing
One of the symptoms of a mood disorder is anhedonia, which means:
Inability to experience pleasure
In considering the prevalence of the mood disorders by gender, which of the following disorders is MOST prevalent among women compared to men?
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Match the type of major depressive disorder (that is, the Specifier) with its characteristics:
A. with melancholia
B. with seasonal pattern
C. with mood-congruent psychotic features
D. with peripartum onset
D.temporal relationship of the disorder to onset during or in the 4 weeks after delivery/childbirth
A. lack of reactivity to pleasurable stimuli, early morning awakening, depression is worse in the morning
C. delusions or hallucinations are present that contain depressive themes of disease, death, personal inadequacy, nilism, deserved punishment
B. temporal relationship of the disorder to the time of the year (fall or winter)
Based on on-line materials, which of the following statements are correct?? Select ALL that are correct!
- CBT is a type of psychotherapy
- In operant conditioning, both positive and negative reinforcement result in a subsequent INCREASE in the target behavior.
- In operant conditioning, both negative reinforcement and punishment relate to the absence and presence (respectively) of an UNDESIRED consequence.
Match the mood disorder with a potential cause that you read about in the DSM-5.
A. Substance/medication-induced depressive disorder
B. Depressive disorder due to another medical condition
C. Substance/medication-induced bipolar and related disorders
C. Stimulants, phencyclidine, steroids
A. Antihypertensive drugs/cardiovascular agents, oral contraceptives and other hormonal agents, interferon
B. Cushing’s disease and hypothyroidism, multiple sclerosis, stroke
The DSM-5 said that the section on bipolar and related disorders was placed AFTER the section on schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, because the bipolar (etc.) disorders are more like the schizophrenia spectrum disorders in terms of symptoms and stronger evidence of heritability (family history and genetics) than are the depressive disorders.
True
From the following list of research article titles, identify the title(s) that is/are associated a case study of psychotherapy.
- Behavioral activation augmented with exposure techniques in a woman with treatment-resistant depression.
- Depression in a rural America: Therapy via telephone with a 76 year old isolated adult.
A differential diagnosis question: What is the main difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II disorders?
Bipolar I implies one or more manic episodes, Bipolar II does not
John, a patient in one of the videos, exhibited symptoms of mania such as decreased need for sleep, flight of ideas, pressure to keep talking, and grandiosity. The grandioise project that John wanted to tell the physician about was:
“a cure for cancer”
SSRIs work by making _____ serotonin available in the synapse.
more
An analogue question: The chronicity of Persistent Depressive Disorder is to the acuity of Major Depressive Disorder as Cyclothymia is to _____
Bipolar Disorder
