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| How do psychologists draw the line between disordered and normal behavior |
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Deviant Behavior: different from most other people in your culture
Distressful Behavior: Deviant behavior must also cause distress to the peroson or to others
Dysfunctional Behavior: interfere with normal day-to-day life. Key to defining a disorder. |
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| what is a psychological disorder? |
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| An ongoing pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions that is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional |
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| differentiate between the medical model and the biopsychosocial approach to explaining psychological disorders. |
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Medical Model: th concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
Biopsychosocial approach:
developed through experiences and biology |
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| what is the purpose of the DSM-TV-TR |
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| the american psychiatric. association's diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, ,a widely used system for clasifying psychological disorders. Presently available in a updated, text-revised fourth edition |
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| Describe symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder |
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Definition
| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, fearful, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. |
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| describe symptoms of specific phobia, |
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Definition
| :Marilyn's typically focus on particular animals, insects, heights, blood or closed spaces. |
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Term
| describe symptoms of social phobia |
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Definition
| is shyness taken to an extreme. intense fear of being judged by others. they avoid threatening social situations, such as speaking up in a group, eating out, or going to parties. they will sweat, tremble, or have diarhea |
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| describe symptoms of agoraphobia |
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Definition
| fear or avoidance of situations in which panic may strike and escape might be difficult or help unavailable. they avoid being outside the home, in a crowd, on a bus or on an elevator. |
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| describe symptoms of panic disorder |
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Definition
| an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations. |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts(obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) |
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| describe symptoms of PTSD |
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Definition
| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. |
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Term
| define obsessions and compulsions |
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Definition
Obsessions: unwanted repetitive thoughts
Compulsions: unwanted repetitive actions |
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| how would the learning perspective explain the development of anxiety disorders? |
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Definition
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parents transmit fears to their children. |
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| do obsessive thoughts increase anxiety or decrease anxiety? |
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| Do compulsions increase anxiety or decrease anxiety? |
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| what is dissociative identity disorder? |
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Definition
| a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder. |
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| what is another name for dissociative identity disorder |
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Definition
| multiple personality disorder |
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Term
| What are personality disorders? |
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Definition
| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning |
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Term
| what are some features of antisocial personality disorder |
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Definition
| a personality disorder in which the person usually a man exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. |
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| What are some other names for antisocial personality disorder? |
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| discuss the relationship between low arousal level and antisocial personality disorder |
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| be familiar with symptoms of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. |
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Definition
| a mood disorder in which a person experienced, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities. |
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Term
| discuss changes in behavior adn cognition that accompany depression. |
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Definition
| they are inactive and feel unmotivated. they are sensitive to negative happenings. they recall negative information. expect negative outcomes. when mood lifts these things disappear. |
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Term
| low levels of which neurotransmitter are associated with depression? |
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| be familiar with psychological and social influences on the development of depression. |
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Definition
| depressed people see life through dark glasses. they have intensely negative views of themselves and their future. |
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Term
| why are women more likely to be depressed than men? |
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| be familiar with symptoms of schizophrenia |
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Definition
disorganized thinking: thougths in no logical order
delusions: false beliefs
disturbed perceptions: delusions and hallucinations(auditory)
inappropriate emotions and actions: laughing inappropriately "laughing when recalling their grandmothers death" |
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| define positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany schizophrenia and other disorders. |
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| WHEN DO SYMPTOMS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA TYPICALLY APPEAR? |
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| chizophrenia is generally associated with an excess number of receptors for which neurotransmitter? |
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| is there a genetic link to schizophrenia? |
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| be familiar with symptoms of bipolar disorder. |
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Definition
a mood disorder in which the person alternates betweeen the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and teh overexcited state of mania.
manic stage: overtalkative, overactive, eleates easily. littly sleep fewer sexual inhibitions. |
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