Chapter 12 Flashcards
(35 cards)
What is the generalized anxiety disorder?
A person is uneasy for no apparent reason.
What is a psychological disorder?
Continued thoughts that are deviant, distressful, and, disfunctional
Medical model
Looks at physical symptoms and diagnosis’s, and treatment
Biopsychosocial
Daily life problems
Social environment
Panic disorder
Experience sudden episodes of intense dread
Phobia
Feels afraid of a specific object or situation
OCD
Troubled by repeated thoughts or actions
PTSD
Like when soldiers come back from war but have trouble adjusting to normal life again
What does learning contribute?
Fear conditioning
- bad experience
What is observationally learning?
We learn from others
The biological perspective
- Temperament predispose some to be anxious
- inherited survival
Deviant
Different behavior
Distressful
Stressing you and others
Disfunction
Interferes with your life
What are dissociative disorders?
Awareness becomes separate from painful thoughts, feelings and memories
Why is it controversial?
You can fake it by acting like you have different personalities
- outside North America it’s not common
- very short history
What characteristics are typical of personality disorders in general?
Disruptive- loud and disorderly
Flexible- you don’t go with the flow
What biological and psychological factors are associated with antisocial personality disorder?
Psychological-impulsive, no feelings of reget, don’t think before actin
Bio- you can be born being prone to being fearless
What is substance related disorder?
Using drugs until your impaired/ brain damage
Tolerance
Body gets use to the same dose and you have to use more
Addiction
Drug craving
Dependence
Brain changes from always having drug
What are mood disorders
Major depression
-sadness, despair, mostly women
Bipolar disorder
-alternating mania & despression
Symptoms of schizophrenia
Positive-inappropriate behaviors are seen, hallucinations
Negative- no emotions, timeless voices