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Abnormal Psychology UBC PSYC 300A
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/22/2014

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The study of how disorders are developed of caused
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Etiology
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______ is also called the "stress hormone"
Definition
cortisol
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What is the difference between prevalence and incidence?
Definition
prevalance is number of cases in a period of time in a givern popilation.
Incidence is the number of new unigue cased in a period of time in a given populaton
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What is the elactra complex
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It's the female version of the odepus complex
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Major depressive disorder occurring with dysthima is called
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double depression
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Underlying dysfunctionak beliefs which are rigid, extreme and counter productive are known as _______ ______
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depressogenic schemas
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If a person is experiencing major depressive disorder alongside marked psychomotor disturbances, he/she is said to have marked depressive disorder which with specific?
Definition
catatonic attributes
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Cluser A personality disorders
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odd and eccentric (paranoide, schizoid)
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Cluster B Personality disorders
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Emotional, erratic, dramatic (Histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, borderline)
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Cluster C personality disorders
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anxiety and fearfulness (avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive)
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_______: consciously faking illness or symptoms of disability to achieve some specific nonmedical objective.
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malingering
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What is one theory around DID and why it happens.
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posttraumatic theory- a child experiences severe abuse or neglect and copes by dissociating and escaping into fantasy to deal with the sense of hopelessness and powerlessness, and lack of resources and escape
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When client learns new skills by imitating another person such as a parent or therapist who perform the behaviour to be acquired this is called
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modeling
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_______ is exposure that takes place in a real-life setting as opposed to a therapeutic or lab setting and _______ is a form of exposure therapy that doesn't involve a real stimulus. Instead, the patient is asked to imagine the feared stimulus or situation
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In vivo / imaginal.
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What was once thought to be a symptom of OCD but had been added as a new disorder in the DSM-5?
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hoarding disorder
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What is the difference between Obsessive-Compulsive disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder?
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OCD knows they have a problem; OCPD think they are normal
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