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| Behavioural deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, poverty of speech |
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| Behavioural excesses or peculiarities like hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behaviour, wild flights of ideas |
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Potentially stressful objective events leads to:
Subjective cognitive appraisal, leads to:
1. emotional
2. physiological
3. behavioural
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| Class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes |
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| Disorganized Schizophrenia |
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Particularly sever deterioration of adaptive behaviour
Marked by emotional indifference and social withdrawal |
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| Undifferentiated Schizophrenia |
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| Idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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AKA multipersonality disorder
Coexistence in one person of 2 or more largely complete, usually very different personalities
- each personality has it's own name and memories and is unaware of the other personalities
- transition occurs suddenly |
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Class of disorders marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and deterioration of adaptive behaviour
- disturbed thought lies at core
- personal hygiene, hear voices, aggressive, highly irrational |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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Chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat; free floating
- worry constantly about minor matters
- hope to ward off negative events
- dread decisions |
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| Experience of one or more manic episodes followed by periods of depression |
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| Persons mood becomes elevated to euphoria, self esteem skyrockets |
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Chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to justify diagnosis of a major depressive episode
- milder symptoms than major depression |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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People show persistent feelings or sadness and depair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure
- give up enjoyable activities
- alterations in apetite and sleep
- lack energy
- self-esteem drops
- anxiety and irritability |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder |
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| Type of depression that follows a seasonal pattern |
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| Type of depression that sometimes occurs after childbirth |
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False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality
- thinking you are a tiger
Delusions of grandeur- people maintain that they are famous and important |
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Sensory Perceptions that occur in absence of real, external stimulus or are gross distortions of perceptual input
eg. hearing voices |
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| Striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity |
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| Obsessive- compulsive disorder |
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Persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions)
- people feel like they've lost control of their minds |
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Fear of going out in public places
- some will go out only with a trusted companion |
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Proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease
- mental illness as in psychological disorder
- now viewed with more sympathy |
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People lose their memory of their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity
-forget name and family
-remember matters unrelated to identity such as how to drive |
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| Recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly |
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| Distinguishing one illness from another |
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| Apparent causation and developmental history of illness |
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| Forecast about probable course of an illness |
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Marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin
-often coexist with depression and anxiety
-typically resist idea that symptoms are result of psych distress |
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Excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illness
-disbelief when told their fine
-over-interpret signs of illness
-coexist with anxiety and depression |
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Significant loss of physical function, with no apparent organic basis, usually a single organ system
- loss of vision, paralysis
-triggered by stress |
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| Class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety |
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| the study of the distribution of a mental or physical disorder in a population |
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| The percentage of the population that exhibits a disorder during a specific time period |
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| Stereotypes of Psychological Disorders |
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1. They are incurable: majority of ppl improve with treatment and have normal lives
2. people are violent/dangerous: only modest association found, violent cases attract media
3. People have bizarre behaviour and are very different: small majority |
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persistent and irrational fear of object or situation that presents no realistic danger
- fears interfere with everyday life
-realize its irrational but cannot calm
- even imagining can trigger anxiety |
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Physical ailments that cannot be fully explained due to psych factors
- not faking illness |
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Sudden loss of memory of important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
- for single traumatic event or extended period around event |
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| Class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in sense of identity |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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Impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive and irresponsible behaviour that reflects a failure to accept social norms
- maladaptive traits: rare genuine affection for others, sexually promiscuous, tolerate little frustration |
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Class of disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning
1. anxious/ fearful cluster
2. odd/eccentric cluster
3. dramatic/ impulsive cluster |
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Abnormal syndroms found only in a few cultural groups
- Koro: fear that penis will withdraw into abdomen
- Windigo: crave human flesh |
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| When a mental disorder makes a person unable to distinguish right from wrong |
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Dominated by delusions or persecution, along with delusions of grandeur
- think they have many enemies that want to oppress themC |
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| Exhibit chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbance |
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| Criteria of Abnormal Behaviour |
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Deviance: behaviour deviates from societal norms (cross dresser)
Maladaptive Behaviour: every day behaviour impaired (drug disorder)
Personal Distress: depression |
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