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PSYC 1630
Exam 4 Review Ch 14, 15, & Special Topics
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/29/2011

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Abnormal Psychology
Definition
Area of psychological investigation concerned with understanding the nature of individual pathologies of mind, mood, and behavior.
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What does it mean to be normal or abnormal?
Definition
We can't really define normal or abnormal it's culturally defined.
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DSM-IV
Definition
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
-Psychology's best shot at defining normal and abnormal.
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Genetic Predisposition
Definition
Depression runs in families
Adopted people more resemble their biological parents in terms of depression.
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Which gender is twice as likely to be depressed?
Definition
Women
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Explanatory styles
Definition
Internal/External
Global/Specific
Stable/Unstable
-People are consistent over their lifetime in how they attribute their failures.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder
Definition
Exposure to bright light
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Treatment for depression
Definition
Cognitive therapy and Tricyclic drugs
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Cognitive therapy
Definition
-Focuses on how people think and how to change that
-Change explanatory style
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Tricyclic drugs
Definition
Block reuptake of neurotransmitters
-Prozac (block reuptake of serotonin)
-Takes 2 weeks to work
-50-70% improve compared to 20-30% improvement with placebos.
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Schizophrenia
Definition
Severe form of psychopathology in which personality seems to disintegrate, thought and perception are distorted, and emotions are blunted.
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Different types of Schizophrenia
Definition
4 types
-Paranoid
-Disorganized
-Catatonic
-Undifferentiated
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Causes of Schizophrenia
Definition
Brain damage (shrunken cerebral cortex, enlarged cerebral ventricles)
Genetics
Stress
Season of birth (winter month babies)
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Treatment for Schizophrenia
Definition
Dopamine hypothesis
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DID
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
Definition
Often occurs in response to persons severely abused as children and are easily hypnotizable
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Prehistoric thought of mental illness
Definition
Mental illnesses were assumed to originate from magical beings that interfered with the mind.
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Past treatment of the mentally ill
Definition
trepanation
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Trepanation
Definition
Drilling into someone's skull so evil demons can escape.
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Psychotherapy
Definition
treatment of psychological disorders by methods that include a personal relationship between a therapist and a client.
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
-Sigmund Freud 1890s
-Discover connections among unconscious thoughts and conscious behaviors
-Dream analysis
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Exposure therapies
Definition
-Works very well for PTSD
-Systematic Desensitization
-Flooding
-Clients are put directly into a phobic situation.
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PTSD
Definition
post traumatic stress disorder
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Behavior Therapy
Definition
-Behavior modification
-Focuses on what people do and how they act.
-Systematic use of principles of learning to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors.
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Client-centered Therapy
Definition
-Carl Rogers
-Emphasizes the healthy psychological growth of the individual.
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Family Systems Therapy
Definition
Works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
Interaction between family members
Problems result from interactions, NOT individual members.
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Other therapies
Definition
-Narrative
-Gestalt
-Attachment
-Dialectical Behavioral
-Acceptance and Commitment
-Rational-Emotive
-Social-Skills
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Eclectic Therapy
Definition
A mix of different therapies that best suits the client and the problem.
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Does Psychotherapy work?
Definition
Person receiving therapy shows greater improvement than 80% of similar people not receiving treatment.
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What type of psychotherapy works best?
Definition
It depends on what the problem is!
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Psychopathological functioning
Definition
Disruptions in emotional, behavioral, or though processes that lead to personal distress or block one's ability to achieve important goals.
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Distress or disability
Definition
A man who cannot leave his home without weeping would be unable to pursue ordinary life goals.
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Maladaptiveness
Definition
Someone who is drinking so heavily that he/she can't hold down a job or who is endangering other through her intoxication.
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Irrationality
Definition
A man who responds to voices that do not exist in objective reality.
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Unpredictability
Definition
A child who smashes his fist through a window for no apparent reason.
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Unconventionality and statistical rarity
Definition
Individual behaves in in ways that are statistically rare and that violate social standards of what is acceptable or desirable.
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Observer discomfort
Definition
A woman walking down the middle of the side-walk, having a loud conversation with herself, creates observer discomfort in other pedestrians trying to avoid her.
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Violation of moral and ideal standards
Definition
An individual violates expectations for how one ought to behave with respect to societal norms. (parents who abandoned their children are abnormal)
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Psychological diagnosis
Definition
The label given to psychological abnormality by classifying and categorizing the observed behavior pattern into an approved diagnostic system.
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Comorbidity
Definition
The experience of more than one disorder at the same time.
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Etiology
Definition
The causes of, or factor related to, the development of a disorder.
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Learned helplessness
Definition
stop trying after repeatedly failing.
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What causes personality disorders?
Definition
Emotions you have, thoughts, and beliefs
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Characteristics of Antisocial Personality disorders
Definition
Breaking laws, lying, acting impulsively, aggressiveness, recklessness, being irresponsible, lack of guilt
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What disorder do sociopaths and serial killers usually have?
Definition
Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder
Definition
Violent mood swings
Black and white thinking or "splitting"
Chaotic relationships
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Characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Definition
Overestimation of abilities
Constant need for attention and admiration
Takes advantage of others to suit own needs
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What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Definition
Excess or distortion of normal functions.
Exaggeration of movements.
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What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Definition
Loss of functions.
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Illogical thoughts
Definition
Jumbled thoughts, thinking things that aren't thorough.
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Positive inappropriate emotions
Definition
The abnormal inhumane reaction to something
ex. laughing at your mothers funeral.
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Negative inappropriate emotions
Definition
Not feeling anything at all
ex. numbness/disconnected
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Gestalt Therapy
Definition
Assumes that people disown parts of themselves that are socially disapproving.
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Systematic desensitization
Definition
A behavioral therapy technique in which a client is taught to prevent the arousal of anxiety by confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed.
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Where did asylums begin?
Definition
European monasteries
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Systematic interaction
Definition
How the client and therapist interact with one another.
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What causes people to go to therapy?
Definition
Thoughts, beliefs, and feelings
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What are two reasons for therapy?
Definition
Psychological disorders and adjustment disorders
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Transference
Definition
Transferring parts of a problematic relationship onto the therapist and reenacting it
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Counter Transference
Definition
Therapist projects aspects of their personality to you.
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Humanistic therapy
Definition
focuses on quality of client's conscious experience
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Selective perception
Definition
to see the world as dangerous and threatening and to ignore evidence to the contrary.
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