Chapter 8 - Mental Disorder

Question 1

Mental disorder

Answer 1

pattern of abnormal thoughts, emotions, or behaviors

Question 2

Psychosis

Answer 2

cannot distinguish difference between reality and fantasy

Question 3

Symptoms of psychosis

Answer 3

delusions and hallucinations

Question 4

Positive symptom

Answer 4

addition of thought, feeling, or behavior

Question 5

Delusion

Answer 5

false beliefs about the world

Question 6

Paranoid

Answer 6

People are plotting against them

Question 7

Grandiose

Answer 7

one holds special power and unique knowledge

Question 8

Thought withdrawal

Answer 8

thoughts removed from the head

Question 9

Thought insertion

Answer 9

beliefs placed inside someone’s mind

Question 10

Somatic

Answer 10

something abnormal happening in the body

Question 11

Hallucination

Answer 11

sensing or perceiving things that others don’t

Question 12

What are the most common hallucinations

Answer 12

Auditory

Question 13

Command hallucination

Answer 13

false hearing of being ordered to do something

Question 14

Negative symptom

Answer 14

lacking in psychological functioning or emotions

Question 15

Flattened affect

Answer 15

cannot express appropriate emotion

Question 16

Alogia

Answer 16

lack of communication

Question 17

Avolution

Answer 17

Lack of energy in usual activities

Question 18

Disorganized symptoms

Answer 18

weird behavior and confusing speech

Question 19

Word salad

Answer 19

nonsense speech and unconnected ideas

Question 20

Catatonia

Answer 20

lack of movement

Question 21

Loosening of association

Answer 21

shifting train of thought

Question 22

Waxy flexibility

Answer 22

staying in an uncomfortable position (like a wax figure)

Question 23

How likely is someone who has schizophrenia will commit violent crimes

Answer 23

Level of violence may be high, but chances are low

Question 24

Delusional disorder

Answer 24

having non-bizare delusions

Question 25

Delusional jealousy

Answer 25

SO is being unfaithful

Question 26

Erotomanic

Answer 26

someone with high status is in love with them

Question 27

Grandiose

Answer 27

big ego

Question 28

Persecutory

Answer 28

belief they are being attacked or harassed

Question 29

Delusional distress

Answer 29

Fear, sadness, and anxiety that can lead to risk of violence

Question 30

Belief Maintenance

Answer 30

increased likelihood of acting on delusions

Question 31

Major Depressive Disorder

Answer 31

mood changes - loss of enjoyment childhood abuse and trauma are influences

Question 32

Most common mood disorder

Answer 32

Major depressive disorder

Question 33

Bipolar disorder

Answer 33

alternating moods - higher chance of suicide

Question 34

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Answer 34

Can experience multiple personalities - memory gaps

Question 35

PTSD

Answer 35

caused by trauma - experience flashbacks to a traumatic event

Question 36

What is unique about PTSD

Answer 36

only disorder with an explicit cause - stress

Question 37

NCRMD

Answer 37

Not being held criminally responsible due to mental disorder - they did not know the severity of the crime they commited at the time

Question 38

Fitness to stand trial

Answer 38

mental state of defendant at time of the the trial

Question 39

What is the most common mental disorder

Answer 39

depression

Question 40

What mental disorder is most associated with violence

Answer 40

schizophrenia

Question 41

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 41

Provide community based care

Question 42

Principle of rationality-within-irrationality

Answer 42

violence done from rational response of someone with an MD responding to irrational symptoms

Question 43

Threat symptoms

Answer 43

makes someone feel like they are goin to be harmed

Question 44

Control override symptoms

Answer 44

someone feels like they are being controlled and doesn't have freedom

Question 45

How does substance abuse pair with mental disorders

Answer 45

it can increase chances of criminal behavior because it intoxicates the mind of those who are already impaired

Question 46

How does SES play a role in MD

Answer 46

higher rates of MD in low SES - more violence in poor neighborhoods