Chapter 7: Flashcards
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Define bipolar disorder:
Periods of apathy followed by manic episodes.
Bipolar disorder is a:
a. Cluster A personality disorder.
b. Cluster B personality disorder.
c. Cluster C personality disorder.
Cluster B personality disorder - characterized by impulsive, dramatic, or emotional behaviors.
Cluster A personality disorders are characterized by:
Social awkwardness, social isolation, and withdrawal. These include paranoid personality disorder and schizoid conditions.
Cluster C personality disorders are characterized by:
Pervasive anxiety and fear - such as anti-social personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
What are the characteristics of major depressive disorder, and what cluster is it in?
Periods of apathy that are resistant to treatment, this is a cluster A disorder.
What are the characteristics of intermittent explosive disorder, and what cluster is it in?
Intermittent explosive disorder is characterized by outbursts of extreme anger without a clear trigger. This is not associated with one of the clusters.
Schitzophrenia is categorized into what group of psychological disorders?
Psychotic disorder.
List the positive symptoms of schitzophrenia:
- Delusions - reference, persecution, or grandeur)
- Hallucinations.
- Catatonic behavior.
- Disorganized thoughts and behaviors.
List the negative symptoms of schitzophrenia:
- Blunting - Decreased expression.
- Emotional flattening - Less expression of emotion.
- Innapropriate affect - i.e. laughing when talking about death.
- Avolition - decreased engagement in goal-oriented behaviors.
For depressive disorder symptoms, what does SIG-E-CAPS stand for?
Sadness and
S - Loss of sleep (Insomnia)
I - Loss of Interests
G - Guilt
E - Low energy.
C - Low ability to concentrate.
A - Appetite changes.
P - Psychomotor retardation (moving/functioning slow) and agitation (Moving fast).
S - Suicidal thoughts.
Persistant depressive disorder is charecterized by long periods of depression, another name for this is:
a. Avolition.
b. Dysthymia.
c. Flat affect.
d. Adhedonia.
Dysthymia.
Which of the following is not categorized as a depressive disorder:
a. Dsythymia
b. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
c. Disruptive mood dysregulation.
d. Body dysmorphic disorders.
d - body dysmorphic disorders.
What does DIG-FAST stand for? What do we use this for?
DIG-FAST is an acronym used to remember the 7 symptoms of bipolar + related disorders:
D = Distractability.
I = Irresponsibility.
G = Grandiosity.
F = flight of thoughts (racing thoughts)
A = increased activity.
S = Decreased need for sleep.
T = Talkative.
What are 3 conditions that fall into the category of bipolar and related mood disorders?
- Bipolar 1
- Bipolar 2
- Cyclothymic disorder
A patient presents with complaints of times when they feel hopeless and uninterested in life, which is typically followed by periods of high energy and motivation. The patient reports that these symptoms are usaully not noticable to those around them, and normally do not last longer than a few days. This patient is most likely to be diagnosed with:
a. Bipolar 1.
b. Disruptive mood dysregulation.
c. Cyclothymic disorder.
d. Bipolar 2.
c - cylcothymic disorder. These will show mania and depression but are not severe enough to constitute episodes like in bipolar.
One of the primary hypothesis on how mood disorders arise from a physiological stand point is still being debated. The most widespread theory states:
a. Serotonin levels drive both mania and depression.
b. Increased serotonin and norepinephrine levels will trigger mania.
c. Increased serotonin and norepinephrine levels will trigger depression.
d. Dopamine levels drive both mania and depression.
b - Increased serotonin and norepinephrine levels will trigger mania. Low levels will trigger depression.
List the 11 primary types of anxiety disorders:
- Phobias.
- Social anxiety.
- Seperation anxiety.
- Generalized anxiety.
- PTSD.
- Body dysphoric disorders.
- Panic disorders.
- Selective mutism.
- Agoraphobia.
- Hoarding disorder.
- Obsessive compulsive disorder.
A patient reports a lack of memory from certain periods in their life. It is likely this patient is NOT suffering from:
a. Cyclothymic disorder.
b. Dissociative disorder.
c. Korsakoff’s disease.
d. Schitzophrenia.
a - Cyclothymic disorder.
Which psychological disorder will allow a person to avoid stress by escaping parts of their identity, such as losing memories or changing personalities?
Dissociative disorders.
Which type of dissociative disorder will cause a person to lose memories of a stressful event?
a. Dissociative personality disorder.
b. Dissociative amnesia.
c. Anterograde amensia.
d. Retrograde amnesia.
b - Dissociative amnesia.
Paranoid personality, schitzotypal, and schitzopersonality all fall into which category of personality disorders?
a. Cluster A.
b. Cluster B.
c. Cluster C.
d. Cluster D.
Cluster A.
Antisocial personality, borderline personality, and narcisistic personality disorders all fall into which category of personality disorders?
a. Cluster A.
b. Cluster B.
c. Cluster C.
d. Cluster D.
Cluster B
Avoidant perosonality, dependant personality, and obssesive compulsive personality disorders all fall into which category of personality disorders?
a. Cluster A.
b. Cluster B.
c. Cluster C.
d. Cluster D.
Cluster C.
Definition: The pleasantness or unpleasantness of an emotional stimuli.
Emotional valence.
