Psychology Notes Test 2

Question 1

General Anxiety Disorder

Answer 1

Characterized by feeling unexplainably tense and uneasy

Question 2

Phobic Disorder

Answer 2

Characterized by feeling irrationally afraid of a specific object or situation

Question 3

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Answer 3

Characterized by feeling troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions

Question 4

Psychoanalytic View of Anxiety Disorders

Answer 4

Begins in childhood and causes repressed feelings that later emerge

Question 5

Panic Disorder

Answer 5

Characterized by recurrent and frequent panic attacks

Question 6

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Answer 6

Characterized by a re-experiencing of a traumatic event through recurrent and intrusive memories and dreams

Question 7

Somatoform Disorders

Answer 7

Characterized by distressing symptoms that take on bodily form without any apparent physical cause
Could involve vomiting, dizziness, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, severe pain, etc.

Question 8

Conversion Disorder

Answer 8

Uncommon in the present

Converts anxiety into physical pain and symptoms

Question 9

Somatization Disorder

Answer 9

Characterized by a long standing series of complaints regarding physical ailments beginning before the age of 30
Involves 4 pain symptoms, 2 GI symptoms, 1 sexual symptom, and 1 pseudoneurologic symptom

Question 10

Hypochondria

Answer 10

Characterized by the misinterpretations of bodily functions and reactions and causes the sufferer to be preoccupied with fears of having some grave illness or disease

Question 11

Factitious Disorder

Answer 11

Characterized by symptoms being deliberately faked

Question 12

Malingering

Answer 12

Signs and symptoms are faked but external incentives such as money, getting out of work, or legal responsibility are present

Question 13

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Answer 13

Characterized by a person becoming preoccupied with a very imagined defect in their appearance

Question 14

Somatoform Pain Disorder

Answer 14

Characterized by a person becoming preoccupied with pain without physical proof

Question 15

Dissociative Disorders

Answer 15

Characterized by conscious awareness becoming separated by previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

Question 16

Dissociative Amnesia

Answer 16

Involves one or more episodes of inability to recall important personal information of stressful or traumatic nature

Question 17

Dissociative Fugue

Answer 17

A confusion about personal identity that causes a new identity to be assumed

Question 18

Multiple Personality Disorder

Answer 18

Characterized by a person having two or more distinct personalities, each with its own enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and interacting with the environment

Question 19

Treatment for Multiple Personality Disorder

Answer 19

Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs

Hypnosis and psychodynamic therapy

Question 20

Depersonalization Disorder

Answer 20

Characterized by the persistent and recurring experiences of being detached from or an outside observer of ones own mind and body; stuck in a dream-like state

Question 21

Mood Disorders

Answer 21

Characterized by depression or mania

Question 22

Unipolar Symptoms

Answer 22

The person suffers depression symptoms only without ever experiencing mania
Emotional: sad
Cognitive: negative thoughts about one’s self, negative about the future, low self esteem
Motivational: can’t get started, can’t take initiative
Physical: no appetite, weight loss, weight gain, sleep disturbances

Question 23

Chronic Depression

Answer 23

Dysthymic Disorder

Depressed for at least 2 solid years without having a remission to normality of at least 2 months in duration

Question 24

Episodic Depression

Answer 24

More common depression

Depressed less that 2 years and has a clear onset which thus distinguishes it from previous non-depressed functioning

Question 25

"Double Depression"

Answer 25

Consists of a depressive episode on top of an underlying dysthymic disorder

Question 26

Bipolar Depression

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Characterized by a person having manic symptoms on top of having one or more depressed episodes in the past

Question 27

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Answer 27

Depression set off by winter or fall

Question 28

Bipolar Manic

Answer 28

If a person is in a manic episode

Question 29

Bipolar Depressed

Answer 29

If a person is in a depressed episode

Question 30

Bipolar Mixed

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If manic and depressive episodes are intermixed or alternate

Question 31

Cyclothymia

Answer 31

Less severe manic and depressed moods that are chronic in nature

Question 32

Major Depression

Answer 32

Severe depression without the occurrence of a manic episode

Question 33

Comorbid Depression

Answer 33

Many depressed people meet criteria for other disorders

Question 34

Schizophrenia

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Literally means "split mind" Involves disturbance in behavior, emotions, and thinking Have disorganized behavior and experience delusions

Question 35

Simple Type (Schizophrenia)

Answer 35

Most difficult to identify Patient rarely shows the most dramatic symptoms such as disorientation, delusions, hallucinations, and language/action disturbances Shows gradual decreased interest, withdraws from friends and family, no interest in school or work, careless about personal habits

Question 36

Hebephrenic Schizophrenia/Disorganized Schizophrenia

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Means "youthful" Shows severe disintegration of personality, disorientation, delusions, hallucinations, symbolic language disturbances Identifying symptoms are inappropriate giggling and smiling, bizarre language, and facial grimaces

Question 37

Paranoid Schizophrenia

Answer 37

One of the most common forms of mental illness | Marked by delusions and hallucinations, frequently of accusatory and threatening nature

Question 38

Catatonic Schizophrenia

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Believed to be caused by an edema in the 19th century | Major symptom is inhibition of motor activity relating to stupor

Question 39

Schizo-Affective Type

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Some schizophrenics show a considerable degree of affect and present difficult management problems A patient can go from laughing to crying in the course of an interview

Question 40

"Undifferentiated Types"

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Severe overlapping of symptoms Acute Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: symptoms appear and disappear quickly Chronic Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: onset is gradual and symptoms persist

Question 41

Childhood Schizophrenia

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Symptoms include: unresponsiveness, speech interference, difficulty learning, distortion of expression, need for physical contact, variation in motor behavior, sudden release of violent emotions

Question 42

Residual Schizophrenia

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Characterized as a patient who has had serious schizophrenic disturbances in the past and has improved enough to return home and can make marginal adjustment in the community Tend to show traces of the disorder Symptoms are not incapacitating

Question 43

Conversion Complaints (Men)

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1. Non-headache pain 2. Paresis (deterioration) 3. Anesthesia 4. Headache 5. Mock-heart attack

Question 44

Conversion Complaints (Women)

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1. Non-headache pain 2. Dizziness 3. Weakness 4. Headache 5. Nausea 6. Lump in throat

Question 45

Neurasthenia

Answer 45

Characterized by weakness of the nerves, low-inborn energy level, and difficulty swallowing

Question 46

Automatic Behavior

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Function out of conscious mind | Subconscious mind steps in and says something

Question 47

Psychotic Break

Answer 47

Conscious mind becomes flooded with unconscious material, causing a break with reality

Question 48

Psychosis

Answer 48

``` Disoriented in time, place, person, or situation #1 delusion has to do with persecution ```

Question 49

Who Named Schizophrenia and When

Answer 49

Eugene Bleuler named it in 1911