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Abnormal Psychology
Chapters 7-8
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/29/2013

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cyclothymia
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mild mood disorder by cyclical periods of hypomanic and depressive symptoms
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electroconvulsive therapy
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rapidly reduces symptoms
uses electricity to produce convulsions and unconsciousness
a treatment used primarily to alleviate depressive and manic episodes
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ruminating people
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tend to have longer depressions
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monoamine hypothesis
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heightened sense to drugs, does NOT increase noradregergic action/ says that the patient has underactivity of norephenrine, dopamine and serotonin
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dysthmia
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major depressive disorder lasting 2 years where the person is depressioned most of the day, poor appetite, sleep disturabance lack of energy, low self esteem, difficulty concentrating and feelings of hopelessness
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TMS
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noninvasive biological treatment for depression
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bipolar is to major depression as
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cyclothymia is to dysthymia
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relapse vs recurrance
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relapse= rapid return
reoccurance= after a period of time
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major depressive disorder
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anxiety is NOT a symptom
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behavior activation treatment
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focuses on activity and movement in personal relationships
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neurochemical profiel for manic person
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low serotonin, high dopamine, high nor epinephrin
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genes and unipolar disorder
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the more severe the greater the gene contribution
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brain areas affected in depression
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hippocampus, anterior cingulategines, andydgala, NOT the basal
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dysthymia
SAD
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moderate depression but long lasting
reoccuring
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dysthmia is different from major depression
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occassionaly brief normal moods
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The difference between bipolar 1 and bipolar 2
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bipolar 1 is manic and depression, but depressed state isn't needed for diagnosis
bipolar 2 they only suffer a clear-cut hypomanic
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double depression
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an individual with dysthmia develops major depressive disorder also
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selective abstraction
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crazy thinking about 1 little thing
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normal depression becomes a mood disorder when
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the degree of impairment is judeged sever enough to warrant a diagnoses
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biopolar disorder and genes
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multiple are involved
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asian countries
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somatic depressed symptoms, physical
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changes in neurotransmtters function is what causes depression
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rather than their levels
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freud
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depression is a consequence of loss/ oral stage
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lithium
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for bipolar disorder, supports the role of dopamine in mania
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melancolic disorder
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loss of interest in activities which once caused pleasure, early morning awakenings, worse depression in the mornings, psychomotor agitation or retardation, loss of appetite, excessive guilt and sadness, qualitatively different from a normal loss
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conversion disorder
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when your leg stops working but there's no organic cause for it. it's weird./ it's becoming less likely because there's more knowledge now about diseases/ once called hysteria
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sociocognitive theory for DID
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says the clinician may be overzealous because it's so FUCKING INTERESTING
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somatization disorder
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people are concerned with a bunch of different problems, not a specific organic disease like in hypochondria
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DID
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no psychosis/ host alter isn't the true identity/ all identities will be very different from actual person/ sociocognitive theory states taht clinicians are the cupprits/ therapists main goal is to integrate the alters
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impliciet memory vs explicit
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impliciet memory happens below the conscious level (speaking, breathing)
explicet, memory of events
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dissassociaive trance disorder
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people who think demons are possessing them and are unhappy about it.
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social phobics
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can identifity their trigger
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inflation effect
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you get scared of something, then you hear something else bad happened around that same thing, now you're terrified.
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