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40 Cards in this Set
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Psychpathology
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Study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
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Statistical Abnormality
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Abnormality defined on the basis of an extreme score on some dimension
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Social Nonconformity
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Failure to conform to societal norms or the usual minimum standards for social conduct. |
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Subjective Discomfort
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Private feelings of pain, unhappiness, or emotional distress
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Situational Context
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Social situation, behavioral setting, or general circumstances. |
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Cultural Relativity
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The idea that judgments are made relative to the values of one's culture. |
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Mental Disorder
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Significant impairments in psychological functioning.
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Psychotic Disorder
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Severe psychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations and delusions
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Organic Mental Disorder
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Mental or emotional problems caused by brain pathology.
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Abnormal Behaviors
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Maladaptive and loss of control of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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DSM IV TR
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The book that defines all mental disorders.
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Insanity
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A legal term.
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Personality disorders have 3 clusters of impairment:
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Moderate, high, severe
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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A person who lacks a conscience
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Anxiety
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Feelings of fear or apprehension.
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Nervous Breakdowns
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A part of adjustment disorders.
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Anxiety disorders are characterized by:
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High levels of anxiety, rigid defense mechanisms, and self-defeating behaviors.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Extreme preoccupations with certain thoughts and compulsive performance of certain behaviors
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Dissociative
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Temporary amnesia, multiple personality, or depersonalization.
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Panic Disorder
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Panic attacks
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Agoraphobia
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Fear of leaving an area that you feel safe in.
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Somatoform
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Involve physical complaints for which there is no apparent physical cause.
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Phobias
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Irrational fears
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Psychosis
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A withdrawal from reality marked by hallucinations and delusions
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Delusions
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A false belief held against all contrary evidence.
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Hallucination
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An imaginary situation.
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Most common type of hallucination
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Hearing voices
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4 Main Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
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Paranoid, disorganized, undifferentiated, catatonic
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Paranoid Type Schizophrenia
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Most common, involves hallucinations.
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Disorganized Type Schizophrenia
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Personality disorder. Difficulty speaking and making sense.
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Undifferentiated Type Schizophrenia
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Lots of symptoms, but not enough to be diagnosed with any of the others.
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
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Cannot move.
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Major mood disorder
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A significant change in a person's emotional state.
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Dysthymia
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Low levels of depression that lasts for a minimum of 2 years
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Cyclothymiacs
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Cycles of ups (not high enough to be mania) and downs for at least 2 years.
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How do you distinguish between a depressive disorder and a bipolar disorder?
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Regular depressive doesn't have mania.
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Bipolar I
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Bipolar 1 has the highest mania and the lowest depressive.
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Bipolar II
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Bipolar 2 is hypomania. Mania isn't as high.
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Causes of mood disorders
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Chemical and environmental
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SAD
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Seasonal Affective Disorder
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