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33 Cards in this Set
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Legal definition of insanity
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Person doesn't know the difference between right and wrong at the time the crime was committed.
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Book definition of a psych disorder
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group of symptoms that create significant distress or impairment in daily living
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Deviance
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behavior deviates from what society considers to be acceptable
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Psychological example of deviance
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transvestism: heterosexual male becomes sexually aroused when dressing up in female clothing
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Maladaptive behavior
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everyday adaptive behavior is impaired
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Maladaptive behavior example
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binge drinking, OCD
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Personal Distress
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report of great personal pain and suffering
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Personal distress example
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depression, anxiety, antisocial personality disorder
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Criteria to have a psych disorder
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deviance
maladaptive behavior personal distress |
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What are 3 common myths about psych disorders?
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1. They are incurable (most get better)
2. People are violent and dangerous (usually not) 3. People behave in bizarre ways (only severe disorders) |
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Fear
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innate emotion; focus is on the present
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Anxiety
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derives from fear; focus is on the future
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Characteristics of anxiety
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-overwhelmed
-difficult to concentrate -tension, stomach hurts, increased heart rate -activate SNS -avoidance behavior |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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anxiety and worry about a number of events and activities. Constantly worried.
-overestimate the threat -muscle tension, irritability, risk avoid ant |
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Phobia
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persistent, irrational fear of object or situation
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Social phobia
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fear of public humiliation or embarrassment; avoid those situations, think others are judging.
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Specific Phobias
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specific object or situation; merits a panic response
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Panic disorder
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recurrent panic attacks and worry about future attacks
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Panic attack
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overwhelming fear, peak in 10 minutes;
symptoms: -sweat -hyperventilate -dizzy, chest pain |
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Agoraphobia
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fear of public or unfamiliar place in which person would feel trapped, embarrassed if they had a panic attack
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Obsessions
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recurrent, intrusive thoughts, impulses, or images that cause anxiety
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Compulsions
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repetitive behavior or mental actions person feels driven to perform. Believes harm will occur if rituals are not performed.
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Causes of psychological disorders
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Biological and physiological
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Biological
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genetic, overactive amygdala in the brain (fear response)- limbic system
over-reactive sympathetic nervous system neurotransmitters are too low (serotonin & GABA) |
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Physiological
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Anxiety sensitivity: misinterprets physical symptoms, think a panic attack is occurring when the symptoms are arising from something else.
irrational thinking (constant anxiety) |
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Classical Conditioning
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has to happen to YOU yourself to have the phobia
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Observational learning
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see or hear that it happened to someone else, you are not directly exposed to it
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Mood disorders
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persistent/ episodic disturbances in mood that interfere with normal functioning
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Major depressive disorder
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most common, severe form of depression. 2-3x more likely in female than male because of hormones, women show more emotion, and think about it over and over.
Episodes last at least two weeks |
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Diathesis
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biological predisposition. (not only genes, problem is the environment)
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Stress
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triggered from the environment. Nothing in play until now
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Need
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diathesis and stress for disorder to be expressed: increased diathesis and decreased stress (reason why someone could be okay after death in family)
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DSM
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diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
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