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Ch. 12 Flashcards

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Used to describe disorders. Used to differentiate between those who can be held responsible for crime and those whose actions can’t by blamed because of a psychological disorder

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Insane

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Book that provides a way for psychologists to diagnose patients. Contains symptoms of psychological disorders

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DSM

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Common symptom of anxiety; phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder

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Anxiety Disorders

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An intense unwarranted fear of a situation/an object

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Specific Phobia

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Fear of open spaces, may be afraid to leave the house

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of a situation in which one could embarrass oneself in public

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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Experiences constant, low-level anxiety. Constantly nervous

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GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Suffers from acute espies of intense anxiety without provocation, panic attacks

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Panic disorder

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Occurs when a person manifests a psychological problem through a physical symptom

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Somatic symptom disorder

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10
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Report existence of physical problem and truthfully experiencing it physically with no biological reason

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Conversion disorder

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Involves a disruption in conscious processes

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Dissociative disorder

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When a person cannot remember things and no physiological basis for the disruption in memory can be identified

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Psychogenic/dissociative amnesia

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13
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When a person has several personalities (ranging in age and gender) rather than one integrated personality

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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14
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Perception in the absence of any sensory stimulation

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Hallucination

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Most common mood disorder, unhappy for two weeks, fatigue, no appetite, change in sleeping patterns, feelings of worthlessness, no enjoyment in activities

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Experiences of depression but only during certain times of the year when there is less sunlight

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Seasonal affective disorder

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Involves both depressive and manic episodes

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Bipolar disorder

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18
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Cognitive belief that depression resulted from negative ideas about themselves, the world, and future

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Cognitive Triad

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When one’s prior experiences have caused that person to view themselves as unable to control their futures that is controllable

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Learned Helplessness

20
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Disordered/distorted think gin, often demonstrated through delusions, hallucinations, disorganized language and affects/motor behaviors

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Schizophrenic disorders

21
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The belief that people are out to get you

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Delusions of persecution

22
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The belief that you enjoy greater power/influence than you actually do

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Delusions of grandeur

23
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Schizophrenic use of language in which one makes up their own words

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Neologisms

24
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schizophrenic use of language in which a person strings a series of nonsense words that rhyme

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Clang associations

25
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Displaying emotions at inappropriate times or displaying no emotional response

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Inappropriate/ flat affect

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motor problem in schizophrenia in which there is a lack of movement/unreasonable jerks or quick movements

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Catatonia

27
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Allow a schizophrenic motionless persons’s body to be positioned in new forms/adjusted and maintaining it

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Waxy flexibility

28
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High levels of dopamine (x6) may contribute to the relevance of positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Dopamine Hypothesis

29
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Muscle tremors and stiffness seen in schizophrenia

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Tardive Dykinesia

30
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Giving contradictory messages, may develop distorted ways of thinking due to impossibility

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Double Blind

31
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Environmental stressors can provide the circumstances under which a biological predisposition for illness can express itself

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Diasthesis-Stress Model

32
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Well-established maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affects one’s ability to function

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Personality Disorders

33
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Little regards to one’s feelings, view world as hostile and everyone should look out for themselves

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Antisocial personality disorder

34
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Rely too much on the attention/help of others

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Dependent personality disorder

35
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Feeling persecuted but lacking hallucination or delusions like in schizophrenia

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

36
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Involves seeing oneself as the center of the uniderse

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

37
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Connotes overly dramatic behavior

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

38
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When persistent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) cause someone the need to engage (compulsions) in a particular behavior

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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Usually involves flashbacks/nightmares following a person’s involvement or observation of an extremely troubling event such as a war/natural disaster

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

40
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Marked by the sexual attraction to an object, person, or activity not usually seen as sexual

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Paraphilia or Psychosexual Disorder

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Significantly low weight for ones age, intense fear of fat/food, a distorted body image and a form of self starvation hallmarked by being underweight

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Fear of food/distorted body image that is hallmarked by a purge-binge cycle

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Bulimia

43
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A person who displays atypical behavior such as less social, distressed, as well as hypersensitive to senses and intense interest in “boring” objects

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

44
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Difficulty paying attentions sitting still

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ADHD

45
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Deterioration of cognitive abilities, often seen most dramatically in memory

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Dementia

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