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Indicated by IQ 70 or less
Mild retardation 55-70
Moderate 40-55
severe 25-40
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| Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores 2 sd below the mean. |
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| Attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders |
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| ADHD indicated by severe problems with attention, behavior, and impulsivity. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder are indicated by patterns of behavior that violate rules, normas, or the rights of others. |
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| Tourette's syndrome, for example. |
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| Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness, attention, and focus) and cognition (memory, disorientation) |
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| Cognitive problems that result from a medical condition (Alzheimer's). |
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| Schizophrenia (dementia praecox) |
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Renamed by Eugene Bleuler. Meaning "split mind". Symptoms from may be positive (abnormally present) or negative (abnormally absent). Positive solutions include delusions; perceptual hallucinations; disorganized speech; disorganized speech; disorganized behavior. Negative include flat effect or restrictions in thought, actions, or behaviors.
Onset is between late adolescence and the mid-30s. Process schizophrenia develops gradually, whereas reactive schizophrenia develops in response to a particular event. Process has a lower rate of recovery. Generally, a person with a good social and interpersonal skill history is more likely to recover.
Cause is partially physicological. Acording to the diathesis-stress theory, schizophrenia results from a predisposition paired with an external stressor. Excessive dopamine is most associated. |
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| Five main types of schizophrenia |
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| Paranoid: indicated by preoccupations with delusions and auditory hallucinations; disorganized: indicated by disorganized speech and behavior, and flat affect; catatonic: indicated by catalepsy, motor activeity, prominant posturing, and echopraxia; undifferentiated: a grab bag; residual: watered down with few positive symptoms, if any. |
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| Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode. |
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| Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic, grandiose, jealousy, persecutory, and somatic. |
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| Shared psychotic disorder |
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| When two people have shared delusions. |
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| Major depressive disorder |
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| Depressive episode; symptoms last for a least two weeks. |
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| Symptoms of major depressive disorder are present more days than not for two years. |
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| Indicated by depressive symptoms alternated with manic ones. |
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| Recurrent panic attacks and persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by a mitral valve heart problem. |
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| Feat of a situation in which panic symptoms might arise and escape would be difficult. |
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| Unreasonble, intense anxiety symptoms anchored to a stimulus. Specific is specific (duh) and social phobia pertains to performance in social situations. |
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| Characterized by obsessions or compulsions. Typical obsessions might be locking the door, while compulsions may be checking behvaior, praying, couting, or hand washing. |
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| Exposure to trauma that results in decreased ability to function and recurrent thoughts about the trauma. |
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| Psychological problems are converted to bodily symptoms. Generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as paralysis; known as hysteria in Freud's work. |
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| Irrational concern about having a serious disease. |
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| Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction in order to assume the sick role. |
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| Results from long term use of neuroleptics. Characterized by involuntary repetitive movements of the tongue, jaw, or extremities. |
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| Mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency. |
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| Infant disease related to excess amino acids. |
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| Genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A. Sufferes have symptoms that resemble schizophrenia or dementia. |
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| A male with one Y and two X chromosomes. |
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| Depression from events; similar to Seligman's idea of learned helplessness. |
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| Thomas Szasz (critic of schizophrenia) |
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| Viewed schizophrenic world as misunderstood or artistic. Against treatment. |
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| Refers to the finding that depressed people tend to be more realistic about life. |
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| Refers to the type of mother who supposedly causes children to become schizophrenic. Coined by Fromm and Reichmann. |
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| David Rosenhan (doctor study) |
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| Send normal pseudopatients to the hosptial. Their normal behavior was twisted to fit the diagnosis. |
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| Results from large, sudden changes or problems. |
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| Caused by vitamin B deficiency is the loss of memory and orientations. |
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| Caused by thiamine deficiency, is characterized by memory problems and eye dysfunctions. |
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| Suddenly fleeing to a new location, and assuming a new identity. |
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| Assumption of two or more idenities that control behavior in different situations. |
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