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PSYCHOLOGY: Chapter 12 - VOCABULARY - Abnormal Psychology Flashcards

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Characteristics of Abnormality (4):

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  1. Statistical Rarity
  2. Violation of Norms
  3. Maladaptive Behavior
  4. Personal Distress
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Paradigms Used to Analyze & Interpret Psychological Disorders (4):

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  1. Psychoanalytic
  2. Cognitive
  3. Behavioral
  4. Biological
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Behavior that does not occur frequently in a population

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Statistical rarity

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Written and unwritten rules of social conduct

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Norms

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Behavior that interferes with or decreases the ability to provide the basic necessities of life

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Maladaptive behavior

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Fear of being in a situation where help or escape is difficult

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Agoraphobia

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Is associated with no feeling of remorse for insensitive, cruel acts

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Antisocial personality disorder

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A legal term representing the inability to know right from wrong or the inability to understand the consequences of your actions

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Insanity

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If a person can be shown to be a danger to self or to others

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Civil commitment

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(2) Principles for Establishing Insanity:

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  1. M’Naughton Rule

2. Irresistible impulse

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Insanity based on the following principles:

1) Defendant does not understand what he/she was doing;
2) Defendant could not tell right from wrong

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M’Naughten Rule

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Psychological illness leads to an impulse that can’t be controlled and caused the person to commit a crime

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Irresistible impulse concept

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The DSM-V requires that a patient be evaluated on __ __, or __.

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five dimensions

axes

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A number of symptoms occurring together and characterizing a specific disorder

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Syndrome

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What path the symptoms are likely to follow and the likely outcome

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Prognosis

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(5) Criticism of Diagnosis:

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  1. No PHYSICALLY OBJECTIVE criteria for assigning
  2. Indiv’s are too unique to be categorized
  3. Categories create false sense of discontinuity between normal/abnormal
  4. Labelling = changes life forever
  5. There’s not always agreement on one’s diagnosis
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When expectations about a person actually induce the behavior expected

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Identifying with a disorder you are studying

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Medical Student’s Disease

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Based on underlying problem of anxiety

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Neurotic Disorders

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When a person meets the DSM-V criteria for more than one DSM diagnosis

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Co-morbidity

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Orientation focuses on bringing unconscious conflicts into awareness

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Psychoanalytic (Theory of GAD)

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GAD

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Orientation focus on the person’s BEHAVIOR and the external rewards that control it

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Behavioral (View of GAD)

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The obsessions or compulsions must take an hour or more out of a person’s day and cause considerable distress or impairment in functioning

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Obsessive-complusive Disorder (OCD)

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Thought

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Obsession

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Behaviors

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Compulsions

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Anxiety Disorders

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  1. GAD (Generalized Anxiety)
  2. OCD (Obsessive Compulsive)
  3. Panic Disorder
  4. Phobias
  5. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress)
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Also, Unipolar Depression

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Major depressive episode

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When a person displays either a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure for a 2-wk period and has at least four symptoms from list of seven symptoms

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Major depressive episode

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(7) Symptoms of Depression:

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  1. significant weight change
  2. insomnia
  3. slow, deliberate movement or agitation (ie. pacing)
  4. fatigue or loss of energy
  5. feeling worthless or guilt
  6. diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
  7. recurrent thoughts of death
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Symptoms are similar to those of depression, but are milder and last longer

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Dysthymic Disorder

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Explanations for Depression:

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  1. Psychoanalytic
  2. Cognitive
  3. Behavioral
  4. Biological
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When two emotional extremes alternate in the same person, going from exhilaration to despair

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Bipolar disorder

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(7) Symptoms of Mania:

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  1. inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
  2. decreased need for sleep
  3. talkativeness
  4. racing thoughts
  5. distractibility
  6. increase in goal-directed activity
  7. agitation & excessive involvement in pleasurable activities
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Same symptoms as those of bipolar disorder, but in a milder form

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Cyclothmic Disorder

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Milder symptoms of Mania

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Hypomania

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A loss of reality such that thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behavior are impaired, making it hard for the person to adapt

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Schizophrenia

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Reflect an exaggeration and intensification of normal functioning

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Positive Symptoms

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Indicate a loss or decrease in normal functioning

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Negative Symptoms

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False beliefs; things that no one else would believe

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Delusions

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Sensory experiences that occur without stimulation; seeing , hearing, smelling, tasting, or feeling something that doesn’t exist

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Hallucinations

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Ideas and words are jumbled and don’t make sense

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Word salad

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Incoherent, fragmented, and jumbled thoughts, causing confusion and distraction

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Thought disorder

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Behaving in a way completely inappropriate for the situation and environment

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Grossly disorganized behavior

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Showing a lack of responsiveness to the environment

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Catatonic behavior

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Refers to a lack of energy to perform goal-directed activity

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Loss of motivation

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(5) Schizophrenia Subtypes:

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  1. Paranoid
  2. Disorganized
  3. Catatonic
  4. Undifferentiated
  5. Residual
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A predisposing or susceptibility factor

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Diathesis

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Stress activates genes that induce disease

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Diathesis-stress Model

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(3) Types of Dissociative Disorders:

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  1. dissociative AMNESIA
  2. dissociative FUGUE
  3. dissociative IDENTITY DISORDER (formerly, multiple personality)
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A break in a person’s consciousness that affects memory

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Dissociative Amnesia

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A break in a person’s consciousness that affects identity

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Dissociative Fugue

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When a person has two or more separate identities or personalities

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Rigid inflexibility that makes it impossible to adapt; associated with social or occupational impairment or severe distress

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Personality Disorder

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DSM-V: (3) Clusters / Behavior that distinguishes Personality Disorders

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  1. Odd or eccentric behavior
  2. Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior
  3. Fearful or anxious behavior
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DSM-V: Cluster 1 Personality Disorders (3)

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  1. paranoid
  2. schizoid
  3. schizotypal
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DSM-V: Cluster 2 Personality Disorders (4)

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  1. antisocial
  2. borderline
  3. histrionic
  4. narcissistic
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DSM-V: Cluster 3 Personality Disorders (3)

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  1. avoidant
  2. dependent
  3. obsessive-compulsive
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Fear of abandonment and being alone because they associate that with being bad. May self-mutilate or commit suicide

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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