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PS101 - FINAL EXAM (Ch. 15-16) Flashcards

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Abnormal Psychology

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The scientific study of psychological disorders

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“The Four D’s”

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Most definitions of abnormality have key features, often called “The Four D’s”
1. Deviance - Behaviour, thoughts, and emotions are considered abnormal when they deviate from society’s ideas about proper functioning
2. Distress - Behaviours, ideas, or emotions usually must also cause distress or unhappiness
3. Dysfunction - Behaviour tends to interfere with daily functioning, as opposed to behaviour that is ecentric but part of a persons life. When behaviour upsests people so that they cant take proper care of themselves ect., then it is abnormal
4. Danger - Become dangerous to themselves and others

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An eccentric

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Someone who deviates from common behaviiour patterns or displays odd behaviour
- E.g., Lady Gaga has eccentric style

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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

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The system used by most countries to classify psychological disorders; Published by the World Health Organization and currently in its 11th edition

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

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The leading classification system for psychological disorders in Canada; DSM-5 is the current version

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Diagnosis

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A clinicians determination that a persons cluster of symptoms represents a particular disorder

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Comorbidity

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The condition in which a person’s symptoms qualify them for two or more diagnoses

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Family Systems Theory

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A theory holding that each family has it’s own implicit rules, relationship structure, and communication patterns that shape the behaviour of the individual members

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Developmental Psychopathology

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The study of how problem behaviours evolve as a funtion of a peron’s genes and early experiences, and how these early issues effect the person at later life stages

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Risk Factors

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Biological and environmental factors that contribute to the problem outcomes

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Equifinality

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The idea that different children can start from different points and wind up at the same outcome

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Multifinality

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The idea that children can start from the same point and wind up at any number of ourcomes

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Resilience

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The ability to recover from or avoid the serious effects of the negative circumstances

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Depression

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A persistent sad state in which life seems dark and it’s challenges overwhelming

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Mania

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A persistent state of euphoria or frienzied energy

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Major Depressive Disorder

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A disorder characterized by a depressed mood that is significantly disabling and is not caused by such factors as drugs or a general medical condition

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Bipolar Disorder

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A mood disorder in which periods of mania alternate with periods of depression

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Cognitive Triad

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A pattern of thinking in which individuals repeatedly interpret their experiences, themselves, and their futures in negative ways that lead them to feel depressed

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Automatic Thoughts

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Specific upsetting thoughts that arise univited

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

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An anxiety disorder in which people feel excessive anxiety and worry undert most circumstances

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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An anxiety disorder in which people feel severe, persistent, and irrational fears of social or performance situations in which embarassment may occur

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Phobia

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A persistent and unreasonable fear of a particulat object, activity, or situation

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Panic Attacks

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Periodic, short bouts of panic
- Occur suddenly as a wave of intense fear, reach a peak within 10 mins, and gradually pass

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Panic Disorder

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AN anxiety disorder characterized by reccurent and unpredictable panic attacks that occur without apparent provocation

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Agoraphobia
A phobia that makes people avoid public spaces or situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable should panic symptoms develop
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Obsessions
Persistent thoughts, ideasm impulses, or images that seem to invade a person's consciousness
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Compulsions
Irrational repetitive and rigid behaviours or mental acts that people feel compelled to perform to prevent or reduce anxiety
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A mental disorder associated with repeated, abnormal, anxiety-provoking thoughts and/or repeated rigid behaviours
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Acute Stress Disorder
An anxiety disorder in which fear and related symptoms are experienced soon after a traumatic event and last less than a month
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
An anxiety disorder in which fear and related symptoms continue to be experienced long after a traumatic event
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Schizophrenia
A mental disorder characterized by disorganized thoughts, lack of contact with reality, and sometimes hallucinations
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Psychosis
Loss of contact with reality
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Positive Symptoms (In the case of schizophrenia)
Symptoms that seem to represent pathological excess in behaviour, including delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, hallucinations, and innopropriate effect
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Delusions
Blantantly false beliefs that are firmly held despite evidence to the contrary
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Delusions of Persecution
People with this believe they are being plotted agaisnt, spied on, slandered, threatened, attacked, or victimized
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Delusions of Glandeur
People with this believe they have a special talent or that they are privy to secret knowledge
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Loose Associations or Development
A common thought disorder of schizophrenia, characterized by rapid shifts from one topic to another
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Hallucinations
Imagined sights, sounds, or other sensory events experienced as if they were real
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Negative Symptoms (In the case of schizophrenia)
Symptoms that seem to reflect pathological deficits, including poverty of speech, flat effect, loss of volition, and social withdrawl - Poverty of speech - Reduction in speech - Flat affect - Showing very little anger, sadness, joy, etc
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Catatonia
Extreme psychomotor symptoms of schizophrenia, including catatonic stupor, catatonic rigidity, and catatonic posturing
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Canatonic Stupor
People in a catatonic stupor stop responding to their environment, remaining motionless, and silent for long stretches of time
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Catatonic Rigidity
People in a catatonic rigidity maintin rigid upright posture for hours and resist efforts to be moved
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Catatonic Posturing
People in a catatonic posturing assume awkward, bissare positions for long periods of time
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Antipsychotic Drugs
Medications that help remove the symptoms of schizophrenia
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Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Excessive thought, feelings, and behaviours related to somatic Symptoms
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Dissociative Disorder
A psychological disorder characterized by major loss of memory with out a clear physical cause; types include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and dissociative indentity disorder
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Dissociative Amnesia
Unable to recal important information, usually of an upsetting nature about their lives
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Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
Stress alters perceptions. Memory is uneffected, but the person becomes detached from the body and/or self - Feeling like they are observing themselves from a vantage point, feeling robotic
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Dissociative Identitiy Disorder
2 or more distinct personalities, each with a unique set of behaviours, memories, thoughts, and emotions - Personalities can switch at any time
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Personality Disorder
An inflexible patter of inner experience and outward behaviour that causes distress or difficulty with dailt functioning
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality disorder characterized by extreme and callous disregard for the feelings and rights of others
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Personality disorder characterized by severe instability in emotions and self-concept and high levels of volatility
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Treatment/Therapy
Systematic Procedures designed to change abnormal behaviour into more normal behaviour
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Psychotherapy
A treatment in which a client and therapist use words and acts to overcome the clients psychological difficulties
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Biological Therapy
The use of psychical and chemical procedures to help people overcome psychological difficulties
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Psychotropic Drugs
Medicaitons that act primarily on the brain
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Antipsychotic Drugs
Psychotropic drugs that help correct glossy confused or distorted thinking
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Antidepressant Drugs
Psychotropic drugs that lift the modd of depressed people
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Mood Stabalizing Drugs
Psychotropic drugs that help stablize the moods of people duffereing from bipolar disorder
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Antianxiety Drugs
Psychotropic drugs that reduce tension and anxiety
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Classic Antipsychotic Drugs
- These drugs help patients experiencing positive symptoms like hallucinations and paranoia - Include chloropromazine, thioridazine, and haloperidol
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Atypical Drugs
- Usually taken by patients experiencing negavtive symptoms because classical drugs do very little for them. (classical drugs are for +ve symptoms) - Best treatment for schizophrenia
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Use of electric shock to trigger a brain seizure in hopes of relieving abnormal funtioning - Used primarily for people with severe depression
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation
A procedure in which an implated device sends electrical signals to the brain through the vagus nerve; used to treat severe depression
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Transcarnial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
A procedure in which a electromagnetic coil placed on/above a eprsons head sends a current into the prefrontal cortex; used to treat servere depression
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Psychosurgery
Brain surgery often used in hopes of relieving abnormal functioning
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Trephining
Prehistoric practice of chipping a hole in the skill as a treatnebt for various brain conditions
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Lobotomy
Surgical ptractice of cutting the connections between the frontal lobe and the lower centres of the brain -Patients who underwent surgey later suffered serious, irreversible effects including seizures, even death
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Deep Brain Stimulation
A procedure in which implanted electrodes deliver constant low stimulation to a small area of the brain; used to treat severe depression, parkinsons disease, and epilepsy
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Free Association
Psychodynamic therapy technique of allowing to freely talk about whatever they want
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Resistance
Practice in which clients encounter a block in their free associations or change the subject to avoud a potentially painful disscusion
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Transference
Process through which clients come to act and feel toward the therapist as they did toward important figures in their childhood
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Catharsis
Relieving of past repressed feelings as a means of settling internal conflicts and overcoming problems
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Relational Psychoanalytic Theory
A school of psychodynamic therapy holding that therapists should work to form more equal relationships with clients
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Aversion Therapy
Therapy designed to help clients to aquire anxiety responses to stimuli that they clients have been finding too attractive - Opposite of systematic desensitzation
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Token Economy
Operant conditioning therapy program in which participants recieve tokens when they display desired behaviours
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Social Skills Training
Behavioural therapy technique in which therapists serve as models and teachers to help clients aquire desired social behaviours
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Rational-Emotive Behavioural Therapy
Ellis' therapy technique designed to helpp clietns discover and change the irrational assumptions that fovern their emotions, behaviours, and thinking
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Cognitive Therapy
Humanistic therapy designed to help clients experience unconditional positive regard and look at themselves honesetly and acceptingly
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Individual Therapy
Psychotherapy format in which the therapist sees the client alone; the oldest of the modern formats
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Group Therapy
Psychotherapy format in which a therapist sees several clients at the same time
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Self-Help Groups
Groups consisting of people who have similar problems and come together to help and support one another without the direct leadership of a professional clinician
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Family Therapy
A format in which therapists meet with all members of a family to help the whole family to change
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Couple Therapy/Relationship Counselling
Therapy format in which a therapist works with two people who are in a long-term relationship
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Community Mental Health Treatment
Treatment programs that emphasize community care, including an emphasis on prevention
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Therapy Outcome Studies
Research that looks at the effects of various treatments
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Gender-Sensitive/Feminist-Therapies
Approaches that seek to adress the unique pressures of being a female
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Empiracally Supported/Evidence-Based Treatment Movement
Movement to help clinicians becoe more familiar with/and apply research findings concerning the effectiveness of particular treatments

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