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40 Cards in this Set
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What disorder is characterized by 2 distinct identites/personalites?
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Dissociative identity disorder formaly called multiple personalities disorder
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Primary purpose of DSM is to do what?
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Describing symptoms/to provide descriptive criteria for diagnosing mental disorders
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The assesment method that would have the most validity and reliability
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MBPI~ Meyers Briggs
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What are projective tests
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project your personality on a ink blot
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What type of psychological tests are used to infer motives,conflicts,unconsious dynamics on bases of persons interpretation on ambiguous stimuli?
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Projective
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Projective tests are based on what types of assumptions?
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Psychodynamic assumptions
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One of the worries people have is: Am I NORMAL?
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The author says it is normal to fear being abnormal normal to have problems
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What is the chief characteristic of general anxiety disorder?
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Continuous uncontrollable anxiety or worry
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What disorder involves disturbances in emotions, loss of interest in ones usual activities, thoughts of hoplesness, fatigue, loss of appetite
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Major Depression
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According to the textbooks discussion of dissociative disorder each identity appears to have its own
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memories, preferences and personality traits
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Mental health professionals who are sceptacle about multiple personality disorder provide several reasons for position, which isnt one
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Through consideration of hte symptons revealed that MPD is actually psycogenic amnesia=dissociative disorder
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What is a psychodic disorder marked by disallusion, hallucinasions, incoherant speech, emotional glatness, loss of motivation
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schizophrenia
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Some people with schizophrinia with draw into their own world sittin for hrs wothout moving what tyoe of schiz is this
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Catatonic scitzophrinia
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Do cases of scitz vary in servenity duration and progonsis
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Yes they do very all diseases vary
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Research on the prognosis for recovery of scitz suggests
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Many people learn to control the symtoms and maintain good family realationships
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The tragic case of Andrea Yates lead to the disgushin of metal dosorders and personal responsisbilty
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people who camit crimes need to face the condequences of their behavior but individuals suffering from psychological problems need the compassionate of society
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When a friend is suicidal it is imp. to remeber that...
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Most suicides occure during acute crisi and once people get through those crisis the desire to die fades
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After the attacks on the World Trade Centers on 9-11 many people across the USA developed emotional sympotoms vast majority of htese people...
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were healed by the passafe of time and support of friends
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2 dominant approaches to understanding addiction and drug abuse
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biological and learning models
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The biological and learning models differ..
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According to the learning model addiction is a way of coping and alcoholics need to find better coping methods
According to the biological model the solution is medical treatment and group support |
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DSM4 definds substance abuse as a mal adaptive pattern of sub. use leading to clinacally significant (All the following except)
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Bezare imagery of sex
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Which of hte following will be useful in reducing a patients agitation and dillusions
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Antipsychotic drug
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Which of the following drugs are most often prescribed by physicians in general practice to patients who cpmplain of depressed mood, anxiety or panic
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Tranquilizers
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Which group of drugs has no side effects but do produce inpleasent physical reactions like constipation, weight gain, headaches, dry mouth , delayes orgasm
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antidepresants
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People suffering from bi-polar are often helped by takeing what
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Lithium carbonate
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Which of the drugs much be given in exactly the right dose b/c too little wont work but too much is toxic
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Lithium carbonate
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A person may have short term success with antipsychotic or antiseppresants drugs but b/c of hte side effects _% of people stop taking them
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1/2 to 2/3
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This treatment is called _________ someones depression is being treated by placing electrodes on both sides of head and current is triggered
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ECT
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ECT have been used successfully to treat ________ that has not responded to other treatments
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severe depression
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Psychosurgery is defined as
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any surgical procedure that destroys selected areas of the brain thats believed to be involoved in emotions disorder or violent behavior
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_____ is defined as a method originally developed by Sigmand Frowed invasising of unconsious motives and conflicts through free association to dreams and memories
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Psychoanalysis
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___ occurs when a client responds to his/her therapist with unconsious emotions or reactions such as conflicts about parents
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transferrence
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What school of therapy has as one of its primary goals insight into unconsious motives and feelings plus a change in the clients symptoms
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psychodynamic
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Psychologists who practice behavioral therapy focus on what>
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Current behavior and attitudes
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What school of therapy has as one of its primary goals the modification of self-defeating behaviors
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behavioral
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The ____ school of therapy has as 1 of its primary goals the modification of erational or unvalidated beliefs
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Cognitive
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Cognitive therapys greatest success has been in the treatment of
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mood disorders
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What therapist focus on the inner private self that exists beneath the external masks we present to the world
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Humanistic
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In client centered therapy the therapists role is to do what?
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Listen to the cliens needs in a excepting non-judgemental way and offer unconditioned positive responses
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What school of therapy has as one of its primary goals self-exceptons and self-fufillment
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Humanistic
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