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Unit 11- Psychological Disorders Flashcards

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Etiology

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Causation of mental illness

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Medical model

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Think like abnormal behavior is a disease

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Prognosis

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Forecast about the probable course of Illness

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Deviance

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Behaviors aren’t the society norm

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Maladaptive behavior

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Everyday behavior is impaired

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Personal distress

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Individuals personal distress

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What is the issue with mental illness criteria

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There is no straight line

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Study of distribution of mental disorders

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Epidemiology

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Class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety

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Anxiety disorders

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Disorder marked by a chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied with a specific threat

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Generalized anxiety

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Marked by persistent and irrational fear of an object of situation that presents bo realistic danger

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Phobic disorder

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Characterized be recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly

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Panic disorder

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Fear of going out in public

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Agoraphobia

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Thoughts that repeatedly intrude on ones consciousness in a distressing way

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Obsessions

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Actions that one feels forced to carry out

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Compulsions

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Persistent uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Involves enduring psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event

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PTSD

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Concordance rates

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Indicate the percentage of twin pairs of other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder

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What is a risk factor of anxiety in which people overreact with fear

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Anxiety sensitivity

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What is a chemical cause of anxiety

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A disturbance in the neural circuits using GABA

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How can anxiety disorder be developed and maintained

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Classical and operant

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How are people more likely to develop fears more easily than others

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Preparedness

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What type of thinking can lead to anxiety disorders

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Making situations more threatening than they are
Focussing attempting on threats
Recalling threatening info

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What do studies suggest that anxiety disorders are related to

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Stress

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Physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors
Somatoform disorders
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Creating an illness in your mind
Malingering
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Marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin
Somatization disorder
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Disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function in a single organ system
Conversion disorder
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Disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses
Hypochondriasis
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What personality trait makes people more liked to have a somatoform disorder
Histrionic and neuroticism
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Sick role
Growin association with being sick and undivided care and avoidance of life's challenges
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Disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity
Dissociative disorders
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Sudden loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
Dissociative amnesia
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Moments in which people forget their identity
Fugue
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Involves coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very difference personalities
Dissociative identity disorder
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What personality traits are associated with dissociative disorders
Fantasy proneness and a tendency to become intensely absorbed in personal experience
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Spanos theory of DD
North American culture creates these disorders
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Class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical perceptual social and thought process
Mood disorders
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When people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure
Major depressive disorder
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Chronic depression that is insufficient in severity
Dysthymic disorder
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Disorder characterized by the experience of one or more manic episodes as well as periods of depression
Bipolar disorder
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Chronic but mild symptoms of bipolar disturbances
Cyclothymic disorder
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What chemicals are mood disorders associated with
Serotonin and norepinephrine
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What part of the brain is said to play a major role in mood disorders
Hippocampus
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Theory of learned helplessness
Giving up behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events
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How much does genetics play a role in schizophrenia
Two thirds
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What neurochemical is associated with schiz
Dopamine excess
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What structure of the brain increases schiz
An enlarged brain ventricle
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Neurodevelopmental hypothesis
Schiz is caused in part by various disruptions in the normal maturational processes of the brain before or at birth
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The degree to which a relative of s patient displays highly critical or emotionally over involved attitudes toward the patient
Expressed emotion
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Class of disorders marked by extreme inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning
Personality disorders
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What are the three personality disorder groups
Anxious fearful, odd eccentric, and dramatic impulsive
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Disorde marked by impulsive callous manipulative aggressive and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms
Antisocial personality disorder
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Culture bound disorders
Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups
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Realistic view
No universal standards
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Pan cultural view
Criteria of mental illness are same around the world
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Severe disturbance in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight and unhealthy efforts to control weight
Eating disorders
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Intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and use of dangerous measures to lose weight
Anorexia nervosa
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Out of control eating following by extreme compensatory efforts
Bulima nervosa
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Distress inducing eating that are no accompanied by purging
Binge eating
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Appetite for non nutritious foods
Pica

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