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26 Cards in this Set
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Depersonalization |
Experiences of detachment from one's mental processes or body, as though one is in a dream. |
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Derealization |
Experiences of unreality of surroundings. |
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Dissociative Amnesia |
Unable to recall important personal information, usually information about some traumatic experience. |
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Fugue |
Amnesia is more extensive. People may disappear from home and work. May wonder away from home in a bewildered manner. |
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Dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
A person that has at least two separate personalities, or alters-different modes of being, thinking, feeling, and acting that exist independently of one another that emerge at different times. |
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Causes of (DID) |
Post-traumatic model Sociocognitive model |
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Post-traumatic model |
People are likely to use dissociation to cope with trauma, and this is seen as a key factor in causing people to develop alters after trauma |
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Sociocognitive model |
People who have been abused seek explanations for their symptoms and distress, and alters appear in response to suggestions by therapist. |
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Iatrogenic |
Person learns to role-play these symptoms within treatment. |
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Explicit memory test |
Ask person to to remember words. |
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Implicit memory test |
Determine if the word list have subtler effects on performance. |
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Somatic Symptom disorder |
Excessive anxiety, energy, or behavior focused on somatic symptoms |
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Illness anxiety disorder |
Unwarranted fears about a serious illness in the absence of any significant somatic symptoms |
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Conversion disorder |
Neurological symptoms that can not be explained by medical disease or culturally sanctioned behavior. |
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Malengering |
Intentionally faking psychological or somatic symptoms to gain from those symptoms |
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Factitious disorder |
Falsification of psychological or physical symptoms, without evidence of gains from those symptoms. |
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Functional Neurological Disorder |
Lost or altered physical/ neurological functioning -Blindness, paralysis -N actual physical condition present |
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Complex somatic symptom disorder |
Frequent and varied medical symptoms -Back, stomach pains -Experienced by patient as real -Result from anxiety |
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Illness Anxiety Disorder |
Preoccupation with and anxiety about disease Used to be refereed to as Hypochondriacs |
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Psychosiological Disorder |
Psychological stress that causes real symptoms -Ulcers |
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Cause of Somatic symptoms and disorders |
General -Little psychological sophistication -Preocupation with physical self Neurobiological -Overreactivity in regions for unpleasant sensations Freudian -Repressed affect associated with trauma -unconscious separation (Blind-sight) -Secondary gain for symptoms |
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Global Amnesia |
Virtually all is lost |
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Retro Grade Amnesia |
Lost of past memories |
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Anterograde Amnesia |
Can't form new memories |
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Selective Amnesia |
Theme related Losses personal knowledge but remembers general knowledge |
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Causes for Dissociative Disorders |
-Trauma is key -Childhood abuse-new identities become defenses |