Test #1 Terms

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Wandering Uterus

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Conversion Disorder. Women were trying to get pregnant so that uterus was wandering around the body and would make the limbs go numb. It caused hysteria.

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Possession Doctrine

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Malleus Malificaurm. Felt that people were possessed by demons. MM was a book written by the church that helped people diagnose crazies with possession and then told them to torture them and burn them at the stake.

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Custodial Treatment

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Chain them to the walls because they didn't know what else to do with them

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Dementia Praecox

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Dementia that came before its time. In people's 20s.

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Prognosis

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Progression of a disease.

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Etiology

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The cause of the disease

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Id

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Internal instinct for sex, hunger, survival. PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.

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Superego

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Conscience. What to do and what not to do.

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Ego

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REALITY PRINCIPLE. Decision making between the two.

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Defense Mechanisms

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Unconscious process to help a person feel better. Denial, repression, sublimation, reaction formation, projection, etc.

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Freud's treatment techniques

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1. Hypnosis
2. Free-Association
3. Dream Analysis
4. Projection Tests
5. Non-directive

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Self Actualization

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The difference between the self and the ideal self. Living up to one's potential.

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Humanistic Theory

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Unconditional Positive Regard. Optimism. Self awareness. Self esteem.

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Classical Conditioning

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UCS/UCR, CS/CR. Learn something through conditioning and association.

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Systematic Desensitization

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hierarchy of things that you are afraid of and slowly expose the person to this hierarchy

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Implosion

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It's all in your mind. Think about your fear and it will go away if you associate it with relaxation states.

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Flooding

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Flood the person with their fear and continue to relax them and eventually their body will not be able to fight it.

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Operant Conditioning

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Learning that something will happen based on the consequences. Positive Reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, extinction

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Intermittent Reinforcement

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Giving something good to the person only sometimes because of the behavior. Strongest way of reinforcing behavior.

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Shaping

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Slowly working with the patient to get them to do what you want them to. Pigeon dancing.

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Modeling

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If someone watches another person do it and there was no consequence, then they can learn that behavior

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Avoidance conditioning

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If you avoid the stimulus and it makes you feel better or less anxious, then you will continue to not do the behavior

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Counter-conditioning

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Conditioning a person to react to a different stimulus. Pedophile with children and a woman.

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Diathesis Stress Hypothesis

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Says that people are predisposed to the disorder and if they are exposed to stress it will be activated

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Nervous Systems...

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Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System

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Central

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Brain and Spinal Cord

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Peripheral

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Autonomic and Somatic Nervous Systems

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Somatic

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Muscles

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Autonomic

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Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

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Sympathetic

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Arouses a body at the right time. Fear, anxiety, nervousness, sexual arousal, etc.

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Parasympathetic

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Brings the body back to equilibrium

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Brain

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Brain stem:
hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain (limbic system)

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Neurons

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Dendrites, axons covered in myalin sheath, synaptic gap.

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Stereotaxic System

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The shape of the dendrites and receptors that take in the neurotransmitter. It's like a lock and key system.

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Four major transmitters

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Serotonin, Norepinephrine, GABA, Dopamin

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Implicit Memory

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Memory in your unconscious that you didn't even know that you had.

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LDT

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Lexical Decision Task

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Learned Helplessness

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You try to get out of situation and help yourself until you realize that there is nothing that you can do so you just give up. It tends to lead to depression.

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Prepared Learning

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Some people are predisposed to learn certain things faster and easier than others. Learning languages, alcoholism, phobias, etc.

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Emotion versus affect

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Emotion is short term. Affect is long term.

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Neo-neuroassociation

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Stimulus-Arousal-Affect-Behavior

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Concordance Rate

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When a twin has a disorder, the other twin is much more likely to have that disorder as well.

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Purposes of clinical assessment

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1. To understand the individual
2. To predict behavior
3. To plan treatment
4. To evaluate treatment outcome

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Reliability

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To ensure that a test will give the same results everytime

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Test-Retest

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Every time it is administered it will give the same results

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Inter-rater reliability

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Each therapist gets the same results when they both do it

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Validity

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The results are correct in terms of the answers and the information about the disorder

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Content Validity

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The test is asking the right questions

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Concurrent Validity

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The test is for the correct disorder

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Discriminant

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If it is testing for depression, the score is really high and then if the same person is tested for community involvement it comes out negative.

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Mental Status Exam

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1. Appearance and Behavior
2. Thought Processes
3. Mood and Affect
4. Intellectual Functioning
5. Sensorium (date, time, place, self)

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ABC of assessment

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Antecedents, Behaviors, Consequences

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Projective Testing

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Test in which the patient projects their unconscious feelings into the story that they tell.
Rorschach inkblot test
Thematic Apperception Test

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Objective Tests

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Objective Intelligence Test
Intelligence Quotient
Objective Personality Test
MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

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Neuropsychological Tests

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Assess a broad range of motor, cognitive, memory, etc.
Luria-Nebraska Battery
Halstead-Reitan Battery

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Neuroimaging

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Pictures of the brain

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CAT Scan/CT

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Computerized Axial tomography

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MRI

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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EEG

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Electroencephalogram

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Idiographic Approach of treatment

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Figure out personality traits, personal characteristics, specifics about this person's case

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Nomothetic Approach of treatment

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Figure out the general outline of treatment for a certain disorder

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Classical or categorical approach of classification

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Either yes or no to a disorder

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Dimensional Approach of classification

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You have certain symptoms that may characterize you as having that disorder

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Prototypical Approach

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Using both categorical/classical and dimensional

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DSM

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

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ICD

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International Classification of Diseases

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APA

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American Psychiatric Association

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Five Axes

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1. General disorders that you can get over. (Learning, motor skills, communication, developmental)
2. Stable, enduring Disorders (Personality, mental retardation)
3. Medical conditions related to the abnormal behavior (Liver damage due to alcoholism)
4. Psychosocial Problems affecting functioning or treatment (loss of job, bad marriage, abusive family)
5. Rating on a scale of 0 to 100 of how well you are doing psychologically

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Nature of Anxiety versus Fear

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Anxiety is future-based. Fear is present-based.

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Somatic symptoms of anxiety

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Sweating, heavy breathing, heart beating faster, muscle tension, etc.

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What do anxiety and fear result from?

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Direct conditioning, modeling, stressful live events as triggers, etc.

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GAD

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Women outnumber men 2 to 1. Benzodiazepines. CBT. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Cognitions will effect emotions and emotions will effect behavior. If you think you're afraid of the dog, then you will feel afraid of the dog. If you feel afraid of the dog, then you will jump when you see the dog.

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Panic Attacks (Subtypes)

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Situation-bound Panic - expected
Unexpected Panic
Situationally Predisposed panic

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of open spaces because there is no place to hide or escape to

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SSRIs

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Serotonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitors

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Types of PTSD

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
1. Acute PTSD
2. Chronic PTSD
3. Delayed onset PTSD
4. Acute Stress PTSD

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Obsessions

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Intrusive and nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that one tries to resist or eliminate

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Compulsions

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Thoughts or actions to suppress the thoughts and provide relief

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Thought-action fusion

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Tendency to view the thought as similar to the action.
If you think it then it's basically the same as doing it.