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Abnormal Psychology Test 1
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Psychology
Post-Graduate
02/17/2009

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Term
What Criteria do we use for it to be an Abnormal Condition?
Definition
-Causes personal distress
-Is disabling
-Violates Social norms
Term
Examples of Defense Mechanisms
Definition
Avoidance, denial, repression, passive aggression.
Term
What is Operant Conditioning
Definition
Refers to the modification of voluntary behaviors.
Term
What are the 5 axises of the DSM-IV
Definition
1. Any of the disorders
-Mood, childhood, anxiety
2. Personality disorders and Mental Retardation
3.Medical History
-Physical problems that may lead to an issue
4. Social-Environmental Stressors
- Death, Divorce, debt
5. Global assessment of function
Term
What is the most common way we assess?
Definition
Clinical Interviews
Term
Scale used to assess stress
Definition
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
--Holmes and Rahe
Term
Three issues with self-report assessments.
Definition
- You are expecting the person to be honest
- Reading level of test taker
- The person has to be self-aware.
Term
Describe the MMPI
Definition
- probably the oldest self-report test out there that assesses psychopathology and emotional disorders.
- You don't get a score, you get a profile.
- Not good at differential diagnosis, just tells you if there is a problem.
- read about it in the book
Term
Give some examples of Projective tests.
Definition
Rorshach
TAT - Thematic apperception test.
These come out of the Freudian belief in the unconscious.
Term
What is the best way to test small children?
Definition
By observation.
Term
Examples of Neurobiological assessments
Definition
MRI, PET, CAT scans
Term
The study most frequently used, particularly in rare conditions.
Definition
Case Study Method
Term
What can and can't case studies do for you?
Definition
They can't generalize the results to other cases
They can give you a very detailed analysis of one person.
Term
The study of the frequency and distribution of a disorder in a population
Definition
Epidemiology
Term
The biggest symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Definition
chronic worry
Term
Lying about symptoms to reach a goal
Definition
Malingering Disorder
Term
Lying about symptoms with no evident goal
Definition
Factitious disorder
Term
Can stress cause asthma?
Definition
No, but it can precipitate an attack
Term
What is something that can exacerbate any disorder.
Definition
Being poor.
Term
What do you to get things under control like anger, hostility, cynicism, depression, and anxiety.
Definition
- Arousal reduction
--muschle relaxation, meditation
- Cognitive reconstruction
-- Help them change how they think about things
- Behavioral skills training
-- people skills, etc.
- Environmental change
-- new job, new home, new place
Term
What are the symptoms of depression?
possible essay
Definition
-Sadness
-Hopelessness
-Loss of interest and withdrawal
-Vegetative symptoms like sleep disturbance or appetite disturbance
-Loss of ability to concentrate
-Suicidal thinking
-Psychomotor retardation
--difficult to move
-Psychomotor agitation
-- difficult to sit still
Term
Which has more genetic uploading; Unipolar or Bipolar?
Definition
Bipolar
Term
a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event.
Definition
Attributional Style
Term
What is comorbid with eating disorders
Definition
Mostly depression and personality disorders
Term
Social-Cultural Issues having to do with Eating Disorders
Definition
-Primarily developed in women in a society that values thinness.
-Happens in every westernized industrialized culture but does not happen in Agrarian Cultures
-Not usually an ethnic issue.
-It is lower in African-American Females, but when African-American females move into the middle classs, their numbers look the same as White middle class females.
Term
Symptoms of Anorexi Nervosa
Definition
-Continual weight loss
-Intense fear of gaining weight
-Amenorrhea
Term
A belief that is firmly held in spite of evidence to the contrary
Definition
Delusion
Term
A sensory stimulation in the absence of things actually happening
Definition
Hallucination
Term
Traditional ways of sub-typing schizophrenia
Definition
-Disorganized schizophrenia
-Catatonic schizophrenia
-Paranoid schizophrenia
-Chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia
Term
The most regressed sub-type of schizophrenia
Definition
Disorganized schizophrenia
-speech, language, and behavior are all disorganized
Term
A sub-type of schizophrenia where Motor symptoms are teh issue.
Definition
Catatonic schizophrenia
Term
sub-type of schizophrenia where you have delusions of grandeur or delutsions of persecution.
Definition
Paranoid schizophrenia
Term
The catchall sub-type of schizophrenia for those that don't fit the other subtypes.
Definition
Chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia
Term
French guy of first took people out of mental hospitals who weren't criminals and treated them.
Definition
Pineal
Term
The first to come up with a system of describing mental illness.
Definition
Freud
Term
The first to come up with a system of describing mental illness.
Definition
Freud
Term
The first to come up with a system of describing mental illness.
Definition
Freud
Term
the unorganized part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives
Definition
id
Term
it seeks to please the id’s drive in realistic ways that will benefit in the long term rather than bringing grief
Definition
ego
Term
organized part of the personality structure, mainly but not entirely unconscious, that includes the individual's ego ideals, spiritual goals, and the psychic agency (commonly called 'conscience') that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions
Definition
superego
Term
The first to work alot with blue collar children and families
Definition
Adler
Term
Person who did alot with introversion and extroversion
Definition
Jung
Term
A very non-directive treatment based on the belief that people can heal themselves if they are given the right conditions to do so.
Definition
Humanism
Term
The stress hormone
Definition
Cortisol
Term
First to really do cognitive therapy
Definition
Aaron Beck
Term
Alber Ellis' ABCs
Definition
External event
How you perceived it
How you felt
Term
What is a child's self-view based on?
Definition
Competency
Term
What theory says that all of us are predisposed to something, and if we are put in the right conditions, we will develop the disorder.
Definition
Diatheses Stress
Term
Things you might explore in a clinical interview.
Definition
-Physical problems
-Level of stress/anxiety
-Their mood
-How clearly they are thinking
-Treatment history
-Family history
-Educational history
-Chemicals
Term
A series of tests specifically targeted to one disorder or another
Definition
Beck screeners
Term
You either have it or you don't vs. everyone has a certain amount of everything.
Definition
Categorical diagnoses vs. Continuum
Term
Important rules in observing kids
Definition
-Know what you are observing
-A number of short observations is as valid or more valid than one long observation
-You are observing and recording....you can interpret later.
Term
Examples of neuropsychological assessments
Definition
Halstead Reiten
Luria-Nebraska
Term
A method of assessment in which you attempt to teach a person how to relax and help them be aware of what areas they carry the most tension.
Definition
Psychophysiological assessment
Term
Experiments in which you have to approximate by using animals instead of humans.
Definition
Analog experiments
Term
An experiment where you aren't trying to generalize results, you just want to see how a specific person responds to a specific treatment.
Definition
Single-subject experimental design.
--Uses ABAB design
--Record, intervene, record, etc.
Term
symptoms of anxiety
Definition
-Blood pressure rises
-sweat
-tense
-stomach ache
-you get klutzy
-shortness of breath
Term
What do you have to have for it to be a phobia
Definition
The fear has to be stressing or debilitating
Term
Disorder with highest heritability rating
Definition
Panic Disorder
Term
A brief period of sparked terror that is un-cued
Definition
Panic
Term
Two features of OCD
Definition
-Obsessional thinking
-Compulsive Behaviors that reduce the anxiety
Term
symptoms of PTSD
Definition
-Re-experiencing the event
-Avoidance of situations that may cause them to have flashbacks
-Isolating onesself
-They will say they don't to feel anymore
-Hyper-aroused --- Always on edge
Term
Same symptoms as PTSD, but it happens right after the event
Definition
Acute Stress Disorder
Term
Examples of Anxiety Disorders
Definition
Phobias, Panic Disorder, GAD, OCD, PTSD
Term
Who has Anxiety Disorders more, Men or Women?
Definition
Women
Term
Risk Factors for Anxiety Disorders
Definition
Genetics
CNS liability
Personality issues
Cognitive Factors
Term
Three types of Medications prescribed for Anxiety Disorders
Definition
Anti-anxiety agent
Tricyclic anti-depressants
SSRIs
Term
Examples of Somatoform disorders
Definition
-Body dysmorphic disorder
-Pain disorder
-Malingering disorder
-Factitious disorder
-Hypochondrias
Term
A chronic depression disorder
Definition
Dysthymic disorder
Term
People that have been through chronically traumatic events and have so many different symptoms and problems its hard to really give a diagnosis.
Definition
DESNOS
Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified
Term
Memory loss due to a stressful event
Definition
Dissociative Fugue
Term
Two main types of Mood Disorders
Definition
Unipolar and Biplar
Term
Requirement of MDD
Definition
-Have to have several depressive symptoms (four or five at least) for more than two weeks
Term
When you have only one or two depressive symptoms for at least two years
Definition
Dysthymia
Term
Three Sub-types of Bipolar Disorder
Definition
-Bipolar 1
--Episodes of both MDD and
Major Mania
-Bipolar 2
-- MDD and Hypomania
-Cyclothymia
-- Mild Depressive Dissorder and
hypomania
Term
Symptoms of Mania
Definition
-Elevated mood
-Grandiose image of one's own abilities
-Energy level is high with reduced need for sleep
-Pressured Speech
-Outlandish behavior and Delusions
-Drug use
Term
Less severe Mania
Definition
Hypomania
Term
Examples of Unipolar Disorders
Definition
SAD
Post-partum Depression
Post-partum Psychosis
Melancholia
Catonic features
Term
Medications for Unipolar depression
Definition
-Tri-cyclic Anti Depressants
-Second-generation anti-depressants
----prozac, paxil, Zoloft
-MOIs
Term
Drugs used for Bipolar
Definition
Mood Stabilizers
- Lithium
- Anti-seizure medications - Depakote
- Second generation psychotics
Term
Non-medical treatments for Unipolar Disorders
Definition
-Interpersonal psychotherapy
-CBT
-Mindfulness Based Therapy
-Social Skills training
Term
Non-medicinal treatment for Bipolar
Definition
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Term
Concepts in preventing suicide
Definition
-Ethically, you are bound to attempt to stop them
-Reduce psychological pain
-Help them see options
-Cannot be nondirective, you have to intervene and take some control over the person's life.
Term
Physical changes that occur in Anorexia
Definition
-Blood pressure drops
-HR slows
-Can cause damage to internal organs
-Hair loss
-Enlarged Ventricles
-Problems with electrolytes
Term
Difference between Anorexia with Binge purge and Bulimia is..
Definition
There is not continual weight loss in Bulimia
Term
Physical symptoms of Bulimia
Definition
-Damage to gastro-intestinal tract
-Messed up electrolytes
Term
Proably the most debilitating disorder
Definition
Schizophrenia
Term
Different types of Schizophrenic symptoms
Definition
Negative Symptoms
Positive symptoms
Disorganized symptoms
Term
Negative Schizophrenic Symptoms
Definition
-Avolition - loss of energy
-Alogia - Poverty of speech
-Absence of interest
-Anagdolia - loss of pleasure
-Affect - Facial impression is flat or
inappropriate
-Asociality
Term
Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia
Definition
Delusions and Hallucinations
Term
Disorganized symptoms of Schizophrenia
Definition
-Pressured Speech
-Catatonia - Everything is slowed down
Term
other psychotic disorders other than schizophrenia
Definition
-brief psychotic episode
-Schizo-affective disorder
-Schizo-phrenoform disorder
Term
When you have Schizophrenic symptoms that occur after a trauma or bereavement, but it only lasts for a week or month or so
Definition
Brief Psychotic Episode
Term
If you have some symptoms of schizophrenia, but you don't have the disorder
Definition
Schizo-affective disorder
Term
When you have schizophrenic symptoms for only a short time.
Definition
Schizo-phrenoform disorder
Term
Medications for Schizophrenia
Definition
-First geration Anti-psychotics
--Thorazine, Prolixin, Stelazine
-Second Generation Anti-Psychotics
--Clozaril, Respirdal, Olanzapine
Term
non-medicinal treatment for schizophrenia
Definition
-Work with families on stress management, communjication, medication management.
-Work with patient on social skills
-Help patients learn how to realize when their symptoms are starting
-Help them learn how to recognize that their delusions and hallucinations are not real.
Term
Disorders with genuine physical symptoms that are caused or worsened by psychological factors.
Definition
Psychophysiological disorders
Term
an environmental condition that triggers psychopathology.
Definition
Stress
Term
A description of the biological response to sustained and unrelenting physical stress.
Definition
General adaptation syndrome
Term
The continued need for the body to adapt to stress.
Definition
Allostatic load.
Term
High Blood pressure without an evident biological cause.
Definition
Essential Hypertension -- or primary Hypertension
Term
Three features of a disorder in which epidemiology wishes to study.
Definition
Prevalence
Incidence
Risk Factors
Term
The proportion of a sample that had experience a disorder up to the time of the interview
Definition
Prevalence rate
Term
The number of new cases of the disorder that occur in some period
Definition
incidence
Term
Conditions or variables that, if present, increase the likelihood of developing the disorder
Definition
Risk factors
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