Psychopathology- Chapter 7

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A significant disruption in one's conscious experience, memory, sense of identity, or any combination of the three, without a physical cause.

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Dissociation

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Persistent and distressing feelings of being detached from one's mind or body.

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Depersonalization disorder

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Psychogenic loss of ability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.

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Dissociative amnesia

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Loss of memory for all of the events that occurred within a circumscribed period of time.

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Localized amnesia

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Loss of memory for some but not all, of the events from a specific period of time.

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Selective amnesia

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Loss of memory for events and information, including information pertaining to personal identity, from the time both before and after a traumatic event.

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Generalized amnesia

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Loss of memory that begins at a specific time, continues through to the present, and prevents the retention in memory of new experiences.

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Continuous amnesia

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The loss of memory for a certain category of information.

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Systematized amnesia

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Sudden and unexpected travel away from home accompanied by forgetting of one's past and personal identity.

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Dissociative fugue

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Presence of two or more distinct personalities or identity states that recurrently control an individual's behavior.

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Dissociative identity dissorder

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A term once used to describe what are not categorized as dissociative or somatoform disorders.

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Hysteria

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Disorders in which physical symptoms are caused by psychological factors.

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Somatoform disorders

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A theory of dissociative identity disorder that argues that it results from traumatic childhood experiences.

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Posttraumatic model

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A theory of dissociative identity disorder that argues that it i iatrogenic and/or the disorder results from socially reinforced multiple role enactments.

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Sociocognitive model

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A disorder unintentionally caused by a treatment

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Iatrogenic (eye-at-row-GEN-ick)

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Research based on participants' recall of information about events that occurred in the past.

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Retrospective

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Bias based on distortion in memories for past events.

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Recall bias

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Bias based on the fact that thinking about past events enhances the memory of such events.

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Rumination bias

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Bias based on researching non-representative samples, such as when studies only investigate research subjects who already have the disorder in question and do not investigate a comparison group without the disorder

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Selection bias

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Bias based on researchers only studying variables already believed to be related to the phenomena in question.

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Information bias

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Bias based on the influence of the researchers' expectations or preferences on the study's results.

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Investigator bias

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Research based on data that is collected as the events being studied are occurring, rather than recalling them retrospectively.

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Prospective

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A defense mechanism in which specific upsetting thoughts, feelings, or events are pushed out of consciousness.

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Repression

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A defense mechanism in which one views oneself or others as all-good or all-bad in order to ward off conflicted or ambivalent feelings.

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Splitting

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Taking on the traits of someone else; sometimes used as a defense mechanism.

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Identification

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The ability to put oneself in a trance state; may contribute to dissociative disorders according to some experts.

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Self-hypnosis

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Therapy for dissociative disorders that focuses on changing cognitive schemas that are based on traumatic childhood experiences.

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Schema-focused cognitive therapy

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Patterns of though used to organize information

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Cognitive schema

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A brain structure involved in the formation of memories.

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Hippocampus

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A brain structure with registers the emotional significance of the sensory signals and contributes to the expression of emotion.

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Amygdala

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The use of medication to promote therapeutic remembering; used during World War II to help soldiers remember forgotten traumatic incidents.

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Narcosynthesis

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A treatment strategy that integrates a variety of theoretical perspectives.

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Multi-modal