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Biological Perspective
(Anxiety Disorders) |
1. hereditary (not just one gene is passed down, but at the same time environment affects genetic makeup display)
2. GABA (inhibits brain arousal making the person overly cautious) 3. 5-Ht (increased levels) are associated with panic attacks and OCD |
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Behavioral Perspective
(Anxiety Disorder) |
1. anxious behavior has been reinforced (like phobias, classical conditioning got them there and operant conditioning kept them there via negative reinforcement)
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Cognitive Perspective
(Anxiety Disorder) |
1. maladaptive thinking disorder (misinterpreting the situation as harmful, focus on possible threat, selectively recall threats)
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What does somatoform disorders imply?
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originate in the mind
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What are psychosomatic disorders mi lady?
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Why if you insist! They are true biological disorders where psychology can interfere with the disorder so think how heart disease if affected by strees and anxiety sort of thing.
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Malingering disorder
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when people fully pretend to have a biological condition when they so do not really have it at all
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somatization Disorder
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1. when a person pretends to complain about a variety of symptoms
2. before age 30 |
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What kind of attitude does a person have when there's a La belle indifference?
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That they don't think its that big of a deal.
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Conversion Disorder
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1. pseudoneurological issue
2. La belle indifference |
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What the fuck is a pseudoneurological issue?
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When there are symptoms that point to neurological issue but no evidence that person should be ill. think glove anesthesia
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Hypochondriasis Disorder
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1. person worries that they'll get a sick constantly but they don't have real symptoms or anything they just want to know because they're worried
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Cognitive Perspective
(Somatoform Disorders) |
1. excess attention to body
2. misinterpret symptoms 3. catastrophic conclusions (like I'm having a heart attack when really i just ate too fast) 4. unreasonable assumptions of health (think they should feel perfect at all times) 5. Insecure attachment styles |
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Biological Perspective
(Somatoform Disorder) |
neuroticism (Big Five) (intense negative emotions)
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Behavioral Perspective
(Somatoform Disorder) |
Sick role - playing hooky from school kind of thing
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What characterizes Dissociative Disorders?
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splitting consciousness in a certain way
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Dissociative Amnesia
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Dont' remember major events of your life (think Loeb's cheerleading friend)
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Dissociative Fugue
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sudden travel and memory loss of partial or total identity
(Priest and candy shop man) |
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D.I.D
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experience memory loss (like wake up and youre 2 years older because your alter is in control)
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Social/psychological perspective
(Dissociative Disorders) |
1.coping w extreme stress
2.have a high tendency to dissociate 3. iatrogenic - having the idea that you have dissociated has been implanted in your mind - sometimes therapist believe in a theory so much that they made their patients believe they had D.I.D |
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What the fuck does iatrogenic mean??
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Someitmes the idea that you have dissociated has been implanted in your mind - sometimes therapists believe in a theory so much that they make their patients believe they have D.I.D.
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Major Depressive Disorder
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1. persistant sadness
2. change in behavior 3. median duration is 5 months 4. females more depressed 2 to 1 |
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What is the lifetime prevelance of Major Depressive Disorder?
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7 to 15%
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Whats the major thing you have to have to be Bipolar?
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a manic episode
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Biological Perspective
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strong concordance for MZ twins. think about how 75% of Amish suicides are from 3 families
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What's rumination?
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Thinking about something over and over and over again
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