Abnormal Psyc Test 3

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What is Anorexia Nervosa?

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the refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight.
Extreme emaciation.

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What is Amenorrhea?

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the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles

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In AN, what's the difference between restricting type and binge-eating/purge type?

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Restricting type- during the current episode, the person has not regularly engaged in binging or purging behavior.

Bing-eating/purge type- the person has regularly engaged in binging or purging behavior.

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What is Bulimia nervosa?

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repeated episodes of binge eating, followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, or excessive excercise.

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Lanugo

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growing of fine hair on body, happens in Anorexia

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rumination

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the regurgitation and rechewing of food.

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What's the cause of eating disorders?

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psychological, social, and biological influences

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Psychological Influences:
Normal shortcomings are more traumatic and a normal body a sign of imperfection. Often associated with obsessiveness

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Perfectionism

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Psychological Influences:
people with eating disorders are often not tuned in to how they feel (or how hungry they are).

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Lack of interoceptive awareness

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Psychological Influences:
Eating disorders serve as desperate attempts to regulate overwhelming negative affects and to construct a coherent sense of self when internal structures are lacking

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difficulty regulating emotion

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Psychological Influences:
Girls with this are
at increased risk for EDs. Furthermore, dieting,
which is highly prone to disruptions that result in
overeating, often produces a downward spiraling of
this that contributes more specifically to
EDs (as opposed to, say, depression). Distorted
preoccupation with the social self may lead to a
sense of feeling governed by external rather than
internal standards.

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low self-esteem

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all roads to eating disorders appear to run through this concept

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body dissatisfication

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Treatment for AN?

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-team approach and weight gain are crucial.
-psychological treatments (often involves family)

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Treatment for BN?

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-antidepressants help from binging and purging, but not good for long-term
-psychlogical treatment (individual, group, family)---
-CBT works faster
-interpersonal psychotherapy has long-term gains similiar to CBT

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What is personality?

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refers to the enduring patterns of thinking and behavior that define a person and distinguish him or her from others. E.g., Expressing emotion, patterns of thinking about ourselves and others.

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What are the 5 categories of Personality Disorders?

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extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness,
emotional stability, and openness to experience.

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A personality disorder...

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emphasizes the duration of the pattern and the social impairment associated with the traits in question

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Cluster A: PDs
-people who often appear odd or eccentric

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Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal

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Cluster B: PDs
-people who often appear dramatic, emotional, or erratic

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Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic

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Cluster C: PDs
- people who often appear anxious or fearful

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Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive

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Paranoid PD

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distrust and suspiciousness of others

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Schizoid PD

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detachment from social relationships and restricted range of expression of emotions
-"loners"
-don't experience sadness, anger, happiness..

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Schizotypal PD

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discomfort with close relationships; cognitive and perceptual distortions; eccentricities of behavior.
-report bizarre fantasies and unusual perceptual experiences

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Antisocial PD

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disregard for and frequent violation of the rights of others
-irritable, aggressive, impulsive, reckless, and irresonsible.

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Borderline PD

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instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, emotions, and control over impulses.
-do not like to be alone
-form intense, unstable relationships
-mood shifts rapidly

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Histrionic PD

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excessive emotionality and attention seeking
-self-centered, vain, demanding
-constantly seek approval by others
-have intact sense of own identity and better capacity for stable relationships

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Narcissistic PD

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grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy

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What is the main difference between narcissistic and borderline PD

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The distinction between these disorders hinges on the inflated sense of self-important that is found in narcissistic PD and the deflated sense of self found in Borderline PD

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Avoidant PD

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social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
-unlike schizoid PD, they want to be liked by others but are extremely shy

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Dependent PD

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excessive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior
-may be extremely reluctant to leave home in order to attend college

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Obsessive-Compulsive PD

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preoccupation with orderliness and perfectionism at the expense of flexibility.
-more concerned with personality traits than anxiety (OCD)

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Whats a difference between avoidant and dependent PD?

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people who are avoidant have trouble initiating a relationship and people who are dependent have trouble being alone or separating from other people with whom they already have a close relationship

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According to Cleckley (1941), what is a psychopath?

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A psychopath is a person who is intelligent and
superficially charming but is also chronically deceitful, unreliable, and incapable or learning from experience.

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Problems with DSM classificationof PDs

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1. interrater reliability is consistently low
2. comorbidity is a HUGE problem (50% of patients meet diagnostic criteria for another disorder, 75% of Axis2 meet criteria for major depression, substance dependence, or anxiety disorder
3. Problems setting thresholds and need for 10
diagnoses on Axis II.

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Antisocial PD

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A. pattern of disregard for and violation of rights of others ocurring since age 15 as indicated by 3 or more signs.
B. atleast 18 years old
C. evidence of disorder before age 15

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ASPD- What maintains

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1. limited range of behavioral skills

2. progressive ensnarement in the antisocial lifestyle

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why is there an inability to learn from past experiences with those with ASPD?

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1. Psychopaths are emotionally impoverished and show no fear or anxiety

2. inability to shift attention

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What treatment is used for BPD?

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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Tolerance

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increasing amounts required to achieve same effect. less sensitive to drug affects

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Withdrawal

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negative physical reactions to quitting

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What are the mose addictive substances?

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cocaine, methamphetamines, and nicotine.

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what is the life expectancy of an alcoholic

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55 years

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What is an amnestic disorder?

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a form of cognitive disorder characterized by memory impairments that are more limited or circumscribed than those seen in dementia or delirium.