Psych 133 Ch14

What is the term for mental processes and/or behavior patterns that cause emotional distress and/or substantial impairment in functioning?

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Psychological disorders generally produce maladaptive behaviors.

List questions that are crucial when evaluating a person for a psychological disorder:

What is the term for a disorder characterized by the presence of psychotic symptoms, inclluding hallucinations, delusions, disorganzed speech, bizarre behavior and loss of contact with reality

What is the term for disorders characterized by periods of extreme or prolonged depression or mania or both?

What is the term for disorders characterized by anxiety and avoidance behavior?

What is the term for disorders in which physical symptoms are present that are psychological in origin rather than due to a medical condition

What is the term for disorders in which one handles stress or conflict by forgetting important personal information or one's whole identity, or by compartmentalizing the trauma or conflict into a split off alter personality?

What is the term for disorders characterized by long-standing inflexible, maladaptive patterns of behavior beginning early in life and causing personal distress or problems in social and occupational functioning?

What is the term for disorders in which undesirable behavioral changes result from substance abuse, dependence, or intoxication?

What is the term for disorders that inlclude mental retardation, learning disorders, communication disorders, pervasive dwevelopmental disorders, attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders, tic disorders, and elimination disorders?

What is the term for disorders characterized by sever disturbances in eating behavior?

What publication lists criteria for diagnosing psychological disorders/

Who published the DSM-IV-TR?

To be defined as abnormal, a person's behavior must be considered strange in ____________________ in which it occurs?

What percentage of people in the US will suffer from a psychological disorder at some time in their lives?

What theoretical perspective of disorders deals with unconscious, unresolved conflicts?

What theoretical perspective of disorders deals with faulty learning?

What theoretical perspective of disorders deals with genetic inheritance or biochemical or structural abnormalities in the brain?

What theoretical perspective of disorder deals with faulty thinking?

What theoretical perspective of disorders deals with combination of biological, psychological, and social factors

What is the term for psycholgical disorders characgterized by frequent fearful thoughts about what might happen in the future?

What is the term for an episode of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror?

What is the term for an intense fear of being in a situation from which escape is not possible or in which help would not be available if one experienced overwhelming anxiety or a panic attack

What is the term for an anxiety disorder in which people experience chronic, excessive worry for 6 month or more?

What is the term for an anxiety disorder in whic a person experiences recurring, unpredictable episodes of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror?

What is the term for apersistent irrational fear of some specific object, situation, or activity that poses little or no real danger?

What is the term for an irrational fear and avoidance of any social or performance situation in which one might embarrass or humiliate oneself in front of others by appearing clumsy, foolish, or incompetent?

What is the term for marked fear of a specific object or situation; a general label for any phobia other than agoraphobia and social phobia

What is the term for an anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions?

What is the term for a persistent, invluntary thought, image, or impulse that invade consciousness and causes great distress?

What is the term for a persistent, irresistable, and irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly?

What type of disorder is best illustrated by:
Reba refuses to eat in front of others for fear her hand will shake?

What type of disorder is best illustrated by:
John is excessively anxious about his health and his job, even though there is not concrete reason for him to feel this way?

What type of disorder is best illustrated by:
Jackson get hysterical when a dig approacches him?

What type of disorder is best illustrated by:
Ling has incapacitating attacks of anxiety that come on her suddenly?

What type of disorder is best illustrated by:
Max repeatedly checks his doors, windows, and applianes before he goes to bed?

What is the term for disorders characterized by extreme and unwarranted disturbances in emotion or mood?

What is the term for a mood disorder marked bty feelings of great sadness, despair, and hopelessness?

What do some therapists use to help phobics learn to associate pleasant stimuli with feared objects?

What appears to cause obsessive-compuslive behavior?

What is the term for amood disorder in which manic episodes alternate with periods of depression, usually with relatively normal periods in betw3een?

What is the term for the extreme highs suffered by a bipolar person?

What is the term for a period of excessive euphoria, inflated self-esteem, wild optimism and hyperactivity, often accompanied by delusions of nand by hostility if activity is blocked

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Evidence suggests that suicidal behavior tends to run in families.

What disorder is best illustrated by:
Jamal has periods in which he is so depressed that he becomes suicidal. At other times, he is energetic and euphoric.

What follows exposure to major ________________?

What ethnic group has the least frequency of suicide?

What is the term for a severe psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate or flat affect, some disturbance in thinking, social withdrawal, and/or other bizarre behavior?

What is the term for when symptoms of schizophrenia evolve gradually in most suffers?

When does schizophrenia typically first appear in a person's life?

What is the term for a condition characterized by loss of contact with reality?

List the 4 symptoms that are the "positive" for schizophrenia symptoms:

What is the term for an imaginary sensation?

What is the term for a false belief, not generally shared by others in the culture?

Whatis the term for a false belief that one is a famous person who has some great knowledge, ability or authority?

Whatis the term for a false belief that some person or agency is trying sin some way to harm one?

What is the term for the loosening of associations when a person does not follow one line of thought to completion, but on the basis of vague connections, shifts from one subject to another in conversation or writing?

What is the term for a behavior associated with schizophrenia that includes childlike silliness, inappropriate sexual behavior(masterbating in public), disheveled appearance, and peculiar dress?

What is the term for symptoms that include facial expressions, tone voice and gestures that may not reflect the emotion that would be expected under the circumstances that is often displayed by people with schizophrenia/

When a person crys when watching a TV comedy or laughs when watching a news story showing bloody bodies at the scene of a fatal automobile accident are all symptoms called____________________

What is the term for symptoms of schizophrenia that include a loss of or deficiency in thoughts and behavior that are characteristic of normal functioning?

Cite examples of negative symptoms of schizophrenia:

What is the term for a symptom of schizophrenia where the person shows practically no emotional response at all, even though they often report feeling the emotion?

What is the term for the symptom of schizophrenias who may speak in a monotone, have blank and emotionless facial expressions, and act and move more like robotr than humans?

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Not all people with schizophrenia have negative symptoms.

What is the term for a type of schizophrenia characterized by delusions of grandeur or persecution?

What is the term for the most serious type of schizophrenia marked by extreme social withdrawal, hallucinations, delusions, silliness, inappropriate laughter, grotesque mannerisms, and other bizarre behavior?

What is the term for a type of schizophrenia characterized by complete stillness or stupor or great excitement and agitation?

What is the term for a catchall term used when schizophrenic symptoms either do not conform to the criteria of any one type of schizophrenia or conform to more than one type

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The cause of schizophrenia remains a mystery.

What is the term that refers to the aspects of an individual's congenital risk (at birth) of developing schizophrenia that are attributable to factors with the person?

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More males are afflicted with schizophrenia.

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Heredity contributes to schizophrenia.

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Stress plays a role in the development of schizophrenia, but only among those who have the relevant constitutional vulnerability.

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Postnatal stressors include birth trauma birth trauma and other threats to the infant's health that occur during or immeidately after birth.

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Schizophrenia typically appears in people's lives during periods of increased stress.

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Researchers hypothesize that the constitutional vulnerabilities of individuals who develop schizophrenia include some kind of neurobiological sensitivity to the biochemical changes that go along with being under stress.

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Stress hormones appear to flip switches in the brains of individuals who are constitutionally vulnerable to schizophrenia that they do not flip in the brains of others.

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The brains of individuals with schizophrenia differ both structurally and funcitonally from those of people who do not hav the disorder.

During what stage of developmental change for the brain contributes to schizophrenia?

What type of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Bill believes he is Moses>

What type of schizophrenia is illustrated by Christina thinks her family is poisoning her food?

What type of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Sal hears voices curing him?

What type of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Ophelia laughs at tragedies and cries when she hears a joke

What subtype of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Katy stands for hours in the same strange position?

What subtype of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Vu believes that aliens are trying to kidnap him?

What subtype of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Ethan makes silly faces, laughs a lot, and maturbates openly?

What subtype of schizophrenia is illustrated by:
Pam has symptoms of schizophrenia but does not fit any one type?

What is the term for disorders in which physical symptoms are present that are due to psychological causes rather than any known medical condition?

What is the term for a somatoform disorder in which person s are preoccupied with their health and fear that their physical symptoms are a sign of some serious disease, despite reassurance from doctors to the contrary?

What is the term for a somatoform disorder in which a person suffers a loss of motor or sensory functioning in some part of the body?

What is the term for a somatoform disorder where the loss has no physical cause but solves some psychological problem?

What is the term for disorders, in which, undre unbearable stress, consciousness becomes dissociated from a person's identity or her or his memories of important personal events, or both?

What is the term for a dissociative disorder in which there is a complete or partial loss of the ability to recall personal information or idientify past experiences?

What is the term for a dissociatve disorder in which one has a complete loss of memory of one's entire identity, travels away from home, and may assume a new identity?

What is the term for a dissociative disorder in which 2 or more distinct, unique personalities occur in the same person, and there is sever memory disruption concerning personal information about the other personalities

What is the term for the personality in control of the body the largest percentage of time of a person with dissociative identity disorder?

What is the term for the personalities that are the alternative personalities for a person with dissociative identity disorder?

What disorder is illustrated by:
Tara is convinced she has some serious disease, although her doctors can find nothing physically wrong?

What disorder is illustrated by:
David is found far away from his hometown, call himself by another name and having no memory of his past?

What disorder is illustrated by:
Theresa suddenly loses her sight, but doctors can find not physical reason for the problem?

What disorder is illustrated by:
Manuel has no memory of being in the boat with other family members on the day that his older brother drowned

What disorder is illustrated by:Nadia has no memory of blocks of time in her life and often finds clothing in her closet htat she cannot remember buying?

What type of disorders involve physical symptoms that have psychological causes?

What is the term for a longstanding, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of behaving and relating to others, which usually begins in early childhood or adolescence?

What is the term for the groups of personality disorders according to the DSM-IV TR?

List the 3 basic types of clusters of personality disorders?

What are the characteristics of those personality disorders in cluster A

List examples of persoanlity disorders in Cluster A:

What type of personality disorder is when someone displays extreme suspiciousness?

What type of personality disorder is when someone isolates themselves from others and appears to be unable to form emotional bonds?

What type of personality disorder is when someone often mistakenly diagnosed as schizophrenic because of their odd appearance, unusual thought patterns, and lack of social skills?

What are the characteristics of those personality disorders in cluster B

Which cluster of personality disorders is associated with an increased risk of suicide?

What is the term for 2 types of personality disorders that is characterized when someone has a pervasive desire to be the center of others' attention:

What is the term for the personality disorder that is characterized when an individual has exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement; is self-centered, arrogant, demanding, exploitive, envious, craves admiration and attention, and lacks empathy?

What is the term for the personality disorder that is characterized when an individual seeks attention and approval, is overly dramatic, self-centered, shallow, demandkng, manipulative, easily bored, suggestible, craves excitement, often is attractive and sexually seductive?

What is the term for the personality disorder that is characterized when an individual is unstable in mood, behavior, self-image, and social relationships, has intense of abnadonment, exhibits impulsive and reckless behavior and inappropriate anger, makes suicidal gestures and performs self-mutilating acts

What is the term for the personality disorder that is characgterized when an individual disregards rights and feelings of others, is manipulative, impulsive, selfish, aggressive, irresponsible, reckless, and willing to break the law, lie, cheat, and exploit others for personal gain, without remorse, fails to hold jobs?

What are the characteristics of Cluster C personality disorders:

What is the term for the personality disorder that is characterized when an individual is concerned with doing things the "right" way and is in generally a perfectionist, relationship are emotionally shallow

What is the term for the personality disorder that is characterized when an individual fears criticism and rejection, avoids social situations in order to prevent being judged by others?

What is the term for the type of personality disorder that is characterized when a person is overly dependent on others for advice and approval, may cling to lovers and friends, fears abandonment?

List the 3 personality disorders found in Cluster A

List the 4 personality disorders found in Cluster B

List the 3 personality disorders found in Cluster C

Describe in general Cluster A behaviors:

Describe in general Cluster B behaviors

Describe in general Cluster C behaviors

What type of disorders are among the most common of mental disorders?

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In most cases, the causes of personality disorders have yet to be identified.

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People with personality disorders are extremely difficult to get along with.

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Treatments options for people with personality disorders are few.

What is the term for a group of disorders in which children exhibit severe disturbances in social relationships?

What is another name for PPDs?

What are the 2 most frequently diagnosed PDDs:

What is the term for a disorder in which children and adults have very limited langauge skills compared to others of the same age along with an inability to engage in reciprocal social relationships, and a severely limted range of interests/?

What is the term for a disorder in which children possess the same characteristics as those with autistic disorder but have intact language skills

What is the rate at which children in the US are being identified with Asperger's disorder?

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All PDDs are of neurological origin.

What is the genetic disorder that can cause autistic disorder?

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There is no cure for autism.

What is the term for a disorder in which an individual shows both significant problems in focusing attention and physical hyperactivity?

What is the est. prevalence of ADHD worldwide?

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Many people with ADHD also have learning disabilities

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ADHD is a neurological disorder.

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Placebo-controlled studies using medication to treat ADHD have repeatedly shown that medication s do work for @ 70-90% of the people

What is the hallmark characteristic of people with autistic disorder?

What are the protective factors found in most children with Asperger's disorder?

What are the hallmark characteristics of ADHD?