Psych Chapter 15

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Diagnosis

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distinguishing one illness from another

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Etiology

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The causation and developmental history of an illness

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Prognosis

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the forecast of the probable course of an illness

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Deviance

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when your behaviour deviates from what is considered socially acceptable

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Maladaptive behaviour

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when your adaptive behaviour is impaired (drugs interfere with your ability to function)

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Personal distress

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People who struggle with depression or anxiety disorders

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What are the stereotypes of psychological

disorders

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1) They are incurable

2) People who have them are often violent or dangerous

3) People who have them behave in bizarre ways

and are often very different

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Epidemiology

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The study of distribution of mental or physical disorder in a population

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Prevalence

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The percentage of population that exhibit a disorder during a specified time period

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Anxiety disorders

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Class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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high level of anxiety not tied to a specific threat

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Phobia

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persistant and irrational fear of an object

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Panic disorder

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recurrent attacks of anxiety that occur unexpectedly

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Agoraphobia

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A fear of going out in public places

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OCD

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Marked by persistent uncontrollable intrusions

of unwanted thoughts

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PTSD

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Trauma and stress

Acute stress disorder

both after being exposed to some type of chronic or acute stressor

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What is a concordance rate

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The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder

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Dissociative disorders

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Class of disorders where people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory resulting in disruptions of their sense of identity

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Dissociative amnesia

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Is a sudden loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting

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Dissociative identity disorder

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AKA multiple personality disorder

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Dissociative fatigue

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People lose their memory for their life and experiences along with their sense of personal identity

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What is the cause of dissociative disorders?

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It is unknown but some think it may be due to stress

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Mood disorders

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Class of disorders marked by emotional a disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical perceptual social and thought processes

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Major depressive disorder

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Show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

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Anhedonia

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Diminished ability to experience pleasure

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Bipolar I disorder

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AKA manic depressive disorder, experiences one of more manic episodes followed by depressive episodes that aren't as severe

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Bipolar II disorder

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People who suffer from episodes of major depressions along with hypomania (less severe manic episodes)

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Cyclothymic disorder

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experiences less severe forms of manic and depressive episodes (bipolar symptoms)

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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

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Episodes of depression that follow a seasonal pattern (Depressed in the winter)

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Post partum depression

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A type of depression that occurs after child birth

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Schizophrenia

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Marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, negative symptoms, and deterioration of adaptive behaviour

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Delusions

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False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality

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Hallucinations

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Are sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real external stimulus or are gross distortions of perceptual input

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Negative symptoms

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Behavioural deficits such a flattened emotional social withdrawal apathy, impaired attention and poverty of speech.

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Positive symptoms

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Behavioural excesses or peculiarities such as hallucinations delusions bizarre behaviours and wild flights of ideas

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What neurotransmitter is most closely related to schizophrenia?

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Dopamine

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Expressed emotion

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The degree to which a relative of the schizophrenic patient displays highly supportive behaviour or not

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Personality disorders

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Marked by extreme inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social skills

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Marked by impulsive callous manipulative aggressive and irresponsible behaviour that reflects a failure to accept social norms

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Autism spectrum disorder

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Developmental disorder characterized by social and emotional deficits along with repetitive and stereotypic behaviours

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Anorexia nervosa

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Intense fear of gaining weight disturbed body image refusal to maintain normal weight and dangerous measure to lose weight

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Bulimia

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Involves habitually engaging in out of control overeating followed by unhealthy compensatory efforts such as induced vomiting

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Binge eating disorder

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Involves distress inducing eating binges not accompanied by purging fasting and excessive exercise

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Representative heuristic

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In which the estimated probability of an event is based on how similar the event is to the typical prototype of that event

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Conjunction fallacy

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when people estimate the odds of of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone

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Availability heuristic

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In which the estimated probability of an event is based on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind

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