Ch. 12 Psych

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What are the four characteristics of abnormality?

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Statistically rare

Deviance from social norms Personal distress

Interference with normal functioning

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DIPS

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Abnormalities

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Any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm themselves or others, or interferes with their ability to function in daily life

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Defines behavior disorders

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Rosenhan Study

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Pseudo - patients could not be distinguished from regular patients. Behaviors were viewed as abnormal because of contextual bias

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Biological models

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Psychological disorders have a biological cause. Also known as medical model.

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Psychoanalysis perspective

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Behavioral abnormalities is the result of repressing undesirable thoughts memories and concerns.

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Ignore the existence of traumatic events/memories causes abnormalities

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Behaviorism perspective

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Abnormal behaviors are learned through a series of rewards and punishments

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Cognitive perspective

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Abnormal behavior results from illogical thinking patterns

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Over generalization

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Phobias

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Irrational fear that causes undue personal distress and or interference with normal functioning

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Germ-a-phobe

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Social phobias

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Fear of interacting with others or being in a social situation

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Social akwardness

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Specific phobias

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Fear of something in particular

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Obsessions

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Intruding thoughts that occur again and again

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Compulsions

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Ritualistic behavior that reduces anxiety

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Panic disorder

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Sudden onset of extreme panic; impending sense of doom

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Symptoms: racing heart rate, rapid breathing, out of body experience, sweating, and dry mouth

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Excessive anxiety and worry occur more days than not for at least 6 months that interferes with normal functioning and causes personal distress

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Can often lead to depression and other disorders

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Invited disorder that develops after exposure to a traumatic event, oppressive situation, abuse, or disaster

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What causes anxiety disorders?

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there are probably many causes of anxiety disorders. Psychologist approach anxiety disorders using the model of their choice.

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Psychoanalytic approach to anxiety disorders

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Anxiety disorders are the result of repressed feelings and thoughts

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Behavioral approach to anxiety disorders

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Anxiety disorders are learned over time

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Cognitive approach to anxiety disorders

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Anxiety disorders are the result of illogical, irrational thinking patterns

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Magnification

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Exaggeration of events, ideas, feelings

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My dad telling stories

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Overgeneralization

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Single negative event interpreted as a pattern

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Thinking about how the world ends

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All or Nothing thinking

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Must be perfect or it's completely ruined

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Perfectionist

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Minimization

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Only looking at the bad, minimizing the positive

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Pestimistic

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Mood disorders

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Disturbance in affect or emotion. Also called affective disorder

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Mild mood disorders

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Dysthymia

Cyclothymia

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Major mood disorders

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Major clinical depression and bipolar

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Dysthymia

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A moderate depression that lasts for two years or more and is typically associated with some outside stressor

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Cyclothymia

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A cycling between sadness and happiness that last more than 2 years

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Major clinical depression

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Deeply depressed mood that comes on fairly suddenly and is out of proportion with the circumstances surrounding it

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Bipolar disorder

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Cycling between manic episodes and depressive episodes

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Schizophrenia

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Long-lasting psychotic disorder characterized by disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior, and perception

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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, irrational thought, word salad

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negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Flat affect, catatonia, social withdrawal, lack of speech

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Types of schizophrenia

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Disorganized

Catatonic

Paranoid

Undifferentiated

Residual

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DURP C

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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Confused speech patterns, vivid infrequent hallucinations, inappropriate affect, socially impaired, with poor hygiene.

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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Does not respond to the outside world. Will not move for hours on end, often staying in past years. Totally on or off

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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Suffers from hallucinations and delusions, often auditory, and which they believe they are being persecuted or pursued.

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Undifferentiated schizophrenia

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Mase shift from one type of schizophrenia to another.

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Residual schizophrenia

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After a major episode of schizophrenia. Is over. Person may return to somewhat normal but retain odd, quirky symptoms

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What causes schizophrenia?

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A biological, neurodegenerative disorder

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Dopamine hypothesis

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Siry that it is excessive dopamine that causes schizophrenia