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Human Development Across the Life Span
Chapter 16 Human Development and Psychopathology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/10/2013

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Major depressive disorder
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DSM-IV-TR: At least one episode of feeling profoundly depressed, sad, and hopeless, and/or losing interest in and the ability to derive pleasure from almost all activities, for at least 2 weeks
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Somatic symptoms
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Body symptoms such as loss of appetite, tiredness, and disruption of normal sleep patterns
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Developmental psychopathology
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The study of the origins and course of maladaptive behavior
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Social norms
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Expectations about how to behave in a particular social context
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Diathesis-stress model
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Proposes that psychopathology results from the interaction over time of a predisposition or vulnerability to psychological disorder and the experience of stressful events
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Autism
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Begins in infancy and is characterized by abnormal social development, impaired language and communication, and repetitive behavior
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Echolalia
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Parroting of what someone else says
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)
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Family of autistic conditions
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Asperger Syndrome (also an ASD)
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Child has normal or above-average intelligence, good verbal skills, and a clear desire to establish social relationships but has seriously deficient soical-cognitive and social-communicative skills
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Mirror neuron hypothesis
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Malfunctioning of mirror neuron systems located in a number of brain areas of accounts for the deficits individuals with autism show in imitation, theory-of-mind skills, empathy, and language
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Executive functions
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Higher level control functions based in the prefrontal cortex of the brain that allow us to plan, change flexibly from one course of action to another, and inhibit actions
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Extreme male brain hypothesis
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Attributes autism to a brain that is strong in "masculine" but weak in "feminine" mental skills
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Failure to thrive
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Fail to grow normally, lose weight, and become seriously underweight for their age - and are often developmentally delayed as a result
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Externalizing problems
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Undercontrolled disorders - act out in ways that disturb other people and violate social expectations
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Internalizing problems
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Overcontrolled disorders, involve inner distress
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Comorbidity
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Co-occurence of two or more psychiatric conditions in the same individual
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
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A well-established psychotherapy approach that identifies and changes distorted thinking and the maladaptive emotions and behavior that sstem from it
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Anorexia nervosa
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Refusal to maintain a weight that is at least 85% of the expected weight for the persons's height and age
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Bulimia nervosa
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Binge-purge syndrome
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Cascade model of substance use
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Transactional, multifactor model envisions development as a flow of water over a series of waterfalls, gaining momentum as it goes as each influence along the way helps realize the previous factors and contributes to the next influence in the chain of influence
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Ruminative coping
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Dwelling unproductively on problems
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