Disorders and Therapy 4

Question 1

dissociative disorders

Answer 1

break in consciousness, memory, or person’s sense of identity

Question 2

dissociative amnesia

Answer 2

individual can’t remember personal info (episodic long term memory info)
similar to retrograde amnesia but dif cause: stressful trauma

Question 3

dissociative fugue

Answer 3

person suddenly travels away from home and after can’t remember trip or even personal information such as identity
new identity in new place, make new life, after trauma

Question 4

dissociative identity disorder

Answer 4

person seems to experience at least two or more distinct personalities existing in one body
core personality, doesn’t know about other personalities, blackouts

Question 5

depersonalization/derealization disorder

Answer 5

dissociative disorder in which people feel detached and disconnected from selves, bodies, and surroundings
lower brain activity in areas for sense of body awareness

Question 6

schizophrenia

Answer 6

division in brain among thoughts, feelings, and bx
long-lasting psychotic disorder in which there is an inability to distinguish what is real from fantasy as well as disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior, and perception

Question 7

delusions

Answer 7

disorders in thinking
false beliefs about the world, include delusions of persecution, delusions of reference (other people, tv, books speaking specifically to them), delusions of influence (controlled by external forces), delusions of grandeur

Question 8

clanging

word salad

Answer 8

schizophrenia
string words together on basis of sounds

meaningless and jumbled mixture of words and phrases

Question 9

hallucinations

Answer 9

hear voices or see things or people that aren’t really there

Question 10

flat affect

Answer 10

shows little or no emotion

Question 11

catatonia

Answer 11

extremes of movement

wildly excessive movement or total lack thereof

Question 12

positive symptoms

negative symptoms

Answer 12

excess or distortion of normal functions, such as hallucinations or delusions

decrease of normal functions, such as poor attention or lack of affect

Question 13

stress-vulnerability model

Answer 13

assumes people with genetic markers for schizophrenia have physical vulnerability to the disorder but won’t develop it unless exposed to environmental or emotional stress at critical times in development

Question 14

diffusion tensor imaging

Answer 14

schizophrenic patients have differences in cingulum bundle and frontal/temporal lobe
less myelin

Question 15

personality disorders

Answer 15

affect entire life adjustment of person
disorder is personality itself
person has excessively rigid, maladaptive pattern of bx and ways of relating to others

Question 16

categories of personality disorders

Answer 16

seen as odd or eccentric by others
bx of person v dramatic, emotional, or erratic
main emotion is anxiety or fearfulness

Question 17

antisocial personality disorder

Answer 17

breaks law, disobey rules, lie, use others, irritable, aggressive, indifferent, selfish
more men

Question 18

borderline personality disorder

Answer 18

relationships with others that are intense and relatively unstable
impulsive, unstable sense of self, fearful of abandonment
quick changes
relationships idealized to demonized quickly
pattern of self-destructiveness in close relationships
more women than men