Psychology 150 Chapter 10

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Abnormal psychology

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Scientific study of mental disorders and their treatment

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition

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Catalogues mental disorders and their treatments

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Personality disorder

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Disorder characterized by long-standing personality traits that lead to behavior that impairs social functioning

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Biopsychosocial approach

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Explaining abnormality as result of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors

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Anxiety disorders

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Disorders in which excessive anxiety leads to personal distress and irrational behavior

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Social phobia

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Fear of social situations

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of being in a situation where one cannot escape

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Panic disorder

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Person experiences reoccurent panic attacks

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Disorder in which the person has excessive global anxiety, for a period of at least 6 months

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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A person experiences, unreasonable recurrent obsessions and compulsions

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Obsession

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Persistent thought, idea, or image that causes anxiety

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Compulsion

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Repetitive behavior that a person does in order to reduce anxiety

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Mood disorders

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Involve dramatic changes in a person's emotional mood that are excessive

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Major depressive disorder

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Person must have experienced one or more major depressive episodes

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Major depressive episode

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Symptoms: feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, fatique, change in diet

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Manic episode

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Period of at least a week of abnormal elevated mood

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Bipolar disorder

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Recurrent cycles of manic and depressive episodes

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Psychotic disorder

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Characterized by loss of contact with reality

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Hallucinations

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False sensory perceptison

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Delusions

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False beliefs

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Schizophrenia

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split between thoughts and emotions, hallucinations and delusions

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Vulnerability-stress model

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Genetic and prenatal conditions make a person vulnerable to schizophrenia

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Biomedical therapy

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Use of biological intervention to treat disorders

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Psychotherapy

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Involves the use of psychological interventions to treat disorders

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Lithium

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Element used to treat bipolar disorder

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Antidepressant drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression

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Neurogenesis theory of depression

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Assumes neurogenesis stops during depression

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Antianxiety drugs

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Drugs that treat anxiety disorders

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs that reduce psychotic symptoms

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Abuse of antipsycotic drugs causes facial tics

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Biomedical therapy, shocks brain to treat depression .

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Psychosurgery

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The destruction of specific areas of brain

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Lobotomy

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Connections in frontal lobes are severed (treatment of schizophrenia)

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud, therapist helps person reveal unconscious desires

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Free association

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Patient describes thoughts and feelings without editing

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Resistance

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Patient's unwillingness to discuss a specific memory

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Manifest content

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Literal meaning of a dream

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Latent content

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Underlying meaning of a dream

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Transference

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Patient acts towards therapist as they would to someone they know well

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Client-centered therapy

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Therapist uses unconditional positive regard and empathy to help patient gain insight

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Behavioral therapy

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Therapist uses principles of classical and operant conditioning to change person's behavior

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Counter-conditioning

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Maladaptive response replaced by an adaptive response

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Systematic desensitization

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Counterconditioning in which fear response is replaced by relaxation response

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Virtual reality therapy

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Patient exposed computer simulation to help fears

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Flooding

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Patient is exposed to feared object immediately

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Cognitive therapy

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Therapist changes patient's thinking from maladaptive to adaptive

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Rational-emotive therapy

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Therapist confronts patient's thoughts to show they are irrational

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Beck's cognitive therapy

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Therapist develops warm relationship with person and helps them see the errors in their thinking

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Spontaneous remission

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Getting better with the passage of time without receiving any therapy