Chapter 15

Question 1

Criteria for abnormality

Answer 1

Deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger

Question 2

Statistical rarity

Answer 2

Someone who is considered a typical in someway
Can be positive or negative

Question 3

Impairment

Answer 3

Any type of abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure, or function

Question 4

Biological disfunction

Answer 4

Disturbances in a persons, thinking, emotional regulation, or behaviour that reflects significant disfunction in a biological developmental process

Question 5

DSM 5

Answer 5

The diagnostic and statistical manual for mental illness
Reference book on mental health and brain related conditions

Question 6

Prevalence

Answer 6

How common is specific disorder is for a given time.

Question 7

Comorbidity

Answer 7

More than one mental disorder, exists along side, a primary diagnosis, or the reason that the patient is referred in the first place

Question 8

Categorical

Answer 8

Assumes each personality disorder is a separate and distinct category

Question 9

Dimensional

Answer 9

Views, various personality features a long several continuous dimensions

Question 10

GAD

Answer 10

Generalized anxiety disorder
Continual feeling of worry, anxiety, physical attention, and irritability across many areas of life functioning

Question 11

Panic disorder

Answer 11

Repeated an unexpected panic attacks along with either persistent concerns about future attacks or a change in personal behavior, to attempt to avoid them

Question 12

Panic attack

Answer 12

Breeze, intense episode of extreme fear, characterized by sweating, dizziness, lightheadedness, racing heartbeat, and feeling of impending death or going crazy.

Question 13

Phobias

Answer 13

Intense fear of an object or situation that’s greatly out of proportion to its actual threat

Question 14

Agoraphobia

Answer 14

Fear of being in a place or situation, from which escape is difficult or embarrassing, or which help is unavailable from the event of a panic attack

Question 15

PTSD

Answer 15

Marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event

Question 16

OCD

Answer 16

Condition, marked by the repeated and lengthy immersion in a obsessions compulsion or both

Question 17

Obsessions

Answer 17

Persistent idea, thought, or impulse that has unwanted and inappropriate causing marked distress

Question 18

Compulsions

Answer 18

Repetitive behaviour and mental act performed to reduce or prevent stress

Question 19

Major depressive disorder

Answer 19

Mood disorder that causes persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest, and can interfere with daily life
Weight loss and sleep difficulties

Question 20

Bipolar 1

Answer 20

Presence of one or more manic episodes

Question 21

Bipolar two

Answer 21

Similar to bipolar one
Mood cycled between highs and lows overtimes
The lows are less traumatic and called hypomanic episodes

Question 22

Learned helplessness

Answer 22

Tendency to feel helpless in the face of events we can’t control

Question 23

Depressive episode

Answer 23

State in which a person experiences, a lingering depressed mood or diminished interest in pleasurable activities, along with symptoms that include weight loss and sleep difficulties

Question 24

Manic episode

Answer 24

Marked by inflated self-esteem, greatly decreased need for sleep, much more talkative than usual, racing thoughts, distractibility, increased activity, increased agitation, excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that can cause problems

Question 25

Hypomanic episode

Answer 25

Less intense and disruptive version of a manic episode Feeling of elation, grouchiness, irritability, distractibility, and talkativeness

Question 26

Mood episode

Answer 26

Intense emotional states that typically occur during the stink periods of days to weeks

Question 27

Borderline personality disorder

Answer 27

Condition marked by extreme instability in the mood, identity, an impulse control

Question 28

Psycho, pathic personality

Answer 28

Condition, marked by superficial charms, desteny, manipulative, ness, self-centeredness, and risk-taking

Question 29

Dissociative disorder

Answer 29

Condition involving the disruption in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception

Question 30

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 30

Inability to recall, important personal information Usually related to a stressful experience

Question 31

Dissociative Fuge

Answer 31

Sudden, unexpected, travel away from home, are the workplace, accompanied by amnesia for significant life events

Question 32

Dissociative identity disorder

Answer 32

Condition, characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality States that recurrently take control of the persons behavior.

Question 33

Post traumatic model for DID

Answer 33

Considered early life trauma to be the distinct cause of the creation of ultra identities, and assumes that working directly with alter identities should be the core of therapeutic work

Question 34

Socio cognitive model for DID

Answer 34

Believe that the ID is created by therapist using techniques to recover memories on suggestible individuals

Question 35

Schizophrenia

Answer 35

Severe disorder of thought, an emotion associated with a loss of contact with reality

Question 36

Delusions

Answer 36

Strongly held fixed belief that has no basis in reality

Question 37

Hallucinations

Answer 37

Sensory perception that occurs in the absence of an external stimulus

Question 38

Catatonic symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 38

Motor problem, including extreme resistance to complying with simple suggestions, holding the body in a bizarre , or rigid posture, curling up in a fetal position

Question 39

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 39

Hallucinations, delusions, repetitive movements that are hard to control

Question 40

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 40

Reduction in quality of words, spoken, reduced goal-directed activity, due to decreased motivation, reduced experience, a pleasure

Question 41

Enlarged ventricles

Answer 41

The ventricles of patients with schizophrenia, or approximately 130% the size of a normal controls

Question 42

Diathesis stress model

Answer 42

Proposes that stress, through its affects on cortisol production acts upon a pre-existing vulnerability to trigger or worse than the symptoms of schizophrenia

Question 43

ADHD

Answer 43

Childhood condition marked by excessive in attention, impulsivity, and activity

Question 44

Symptoms of ADHD

Answer 44

Unable to sit, still, fidgeting, unable to concentrate, excessive movement, acting without thinking, interrupting conversation

Question 45

Symptoms of autism

Answer 45

Issues with social interaction and restricted behaviours and interests How different ways of learning, moving, and paying attention