Chapter 14

Question 1

How many people have a diagnosable psych disorder

Answer 1

1/6

Question 2

Insanity

Answer 2

Legal term

Question 3

Disordered

Answer 3

Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional

Question 4

Treatment before 1800s

Answer 4

Brutal, believed they had brought it upon themselves

Question 5

Medical Model (Panell)

Answer 5

Mental illness was a disease

Question 6

Biopsychosocial on disorders

Answer 6

Genetic links, experiences, and social support matter

Question 7

DSM

Answer 7

Used to diagnose and classify mental illness; quick but perceptions change and people act differently once you’ve been diagnosed

Question 8

Anxiety disorder

Answer 8

Persistant distressing and debilitating nervousness or anxiety

Question 9

Generalized anxiety

Answer 9

Anxiety for no apparent reason

Question 10

Panic Attack

Answer 10

Unpredictable escalation of anxiety to terror

Question 11

Phobia

Answer 11

Intense, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation

Question 12

Obsessive-compulsive

Answer 12

Adolescents and young adults; irresistible, irrational preoccupation with certain thoughts. Actions are repeated over and over to reduce anxiety

Question 13

PTSD

Answer 13

Anxiety is after the traumatic event

Question 14

Explanations for anxiety

Answer 14

Conditioning, cognitive (Learn from observing others), and biological links (Brain responses, evolutionary threats)

Question 15

Mood disorders

Answer 15

Emotional extremes

Question 16

Major depression

Answer 16

Prolonged depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, loss of appetite, insomnia, lethargy, etc..

Question 17

Bipolar disorder

Answer 17

Alternate between depression and mania

Question 18

Biological links to mood disorder

Answer 18

Too little norepinephrine, and serotonin, genetic link

Question 19

Social cognitive link with mood disorders

Answer 19

Cycle of depression; become self defeating; stress to negative thoughts to depression to behavior changes back to stress

Question 20

Schizophrenic disorders

Answer 20

Loss of contact with reality, distorted perceptions, irrational ideas, inappropriate emotions

Question 21

Disorganized thinking

Answer 21

Disorganized, fragmented thinking and speech

Question 22

Delusion

Answer 22

False beliefs

Question 23

Paranoia

Answer 23

Belief people re out to get you

Question 24

Distorted perception

Answer 24

Hallucinations (Sensory experience without sensory stimuli)

Question 25

Positive symptoms

Answer 25

Actually see (Speech, emotions)

Question 26

Negative symptoms

Answer 26

Lack of response (Monotone, catatonic)

Question 27

Gradual onset

Answer 27

Gradual then get stuck

Question 28

Rapid onset

Answer 28

Acute reaction (Short term, go in and out of it)

Question 29

Brain abnormalities with schizophrenia

Answer 29

Too many dopamine receptors, smaller thalamus, high activity in amygdala, low in frontal lobe

Question 30

Prenatal factors to schizophrenia

Answer 30

Mother exposed to virus during pregnancy, interferes with brain development

Question 31

Dissociative disorders

Answer 31

Separate awareness of ourselves

Question 32

Dissociate ID Disorder

Answer 32

Develop two or more distinct personalities to deal with anxiety

Question 33

Psychoanalytic explanation for multiple personalities

Answer 33

Defense against unacceptable impulses

Question 34

Learning explanation for multiple personalities

Answer 34

Reinforced because anxiety is reduced

Question 35

Stress respinse explanation for multiple personalities

Answer 35

One personality deals with the stress at the time

Question 36

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 36

Body weight drops below normal, distorted body image, fear weight gain, eat less, exercise, binge/purge

Question 37

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 37

Binge/purge cycle; depression and anxiety after binge, weight fluctuates, preoccupied with food cravings

Question 38

Binge-eating disorder

Answer 38

Binge without purging, followed by regret, may be overweight

Question 39

Personality disorders

Answer 39

Distressing to those around them; impaired social functioning; difficult to change

Question 40

Anti-social

Answer 40

Socio/psychopaths; Lack moral conscious; can't connect with others

Question 41

Histrionic disorder

Answer 41

Excessive emotionality; dramatic, attention seeking, can't delay gratification

Question 42

Narcissistic disorder

Answer 42

In love with one's self, special, self important, think they deserve a lot, preoccupied with fantasies about themselves, can't take another's perspective