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| It's a book with a list of mental disorders and descriptions of them. |
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| What are the first three axes in the DSM-IV like? |
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-Axis 1-Talks about illnesses that start after infancy
-Axis 2-Talk about disorders that last a whole lifetime
-Axis 3-Mental illnesses that are caused by physical conditions |
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| What are the two last Axis in the DSM iv like? |
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| Two assessments: Axis 4-How much stress a person has had to endure and Axis 5- An assessment of a person's functioning |
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A mental disorder where one has lots of energy, are easily agitataed, restless
Bipolar goes back and forth between mania and depression |
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| What is the common cold of mental disorders? |
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| At least how many of us will experience a mental disorder in our lifetime? |
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| What are the three primary symptoms of schiz.? |
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| -thought disturbance and social withdrawal |
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| bizzare behavior and childish behavior |
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| Shows the primary symptoms of schiz. but isn't specific like the other ones. Might show some of the secondary symptoms, though |
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Characterized by having all primary symptoms (like all the other ones) but include paranoid feelings of persecution, etc.
People with this are very functional, can live on their own. |
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| Have periods of extreme movement and other times where they do not move at all. |
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| Sometimes you have symptoms and sometimes not. Almost recovered. |
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| What were iNsulin and met razor used for in therapy? |
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| insulinUsed insulin for drug addiction and schis and metrazol for schiz |
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| Electro convulsive therapy and side effects? |
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Used to treat profound depression. People would get elelectrocuted infusion and memory loss, violence, may be effects on other organs
it actually works because makes actions at synaeffectiveeffective |
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| (type of psychotherapy) Cut made at the strip of lymbic cortex (has to do with emotion) |
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| For anxiety; can easily be abused, sign. w/drawal symptoms |
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| drugs used to deal w/ the side effects of major tranquilizers. |
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| What is Recidivism and why does this occur? |
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-When patients stop taking medications (major tranquilizers for severe disorders, not anxiety)
-Do this b/c sometimes they feel better or don't like the side effects-->this makes things worse |
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| Tardive Dyskinesia; what is it and what disorder is it most similar to and why? |
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| A side effect to major tranquilizers;affects movement and produces muscle rigidity; similar to parkinson's disease; both decrease the amount of of dopamine given to motor systems |
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-The influence your personality has on your behavior with others
-What the env. or situations influence on behavior. |
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| the improvement of one's performance when in front of others |
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| the tendency to slack off when you're working with other ppl |
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| The feeling of anonimity when w/ others |
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| Reasons for bystander effect |
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ambiguity of the situation
perceived risk for yourself
diffusion of responsibility |
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The feeling of regret AFTER you've made a decision
Brainwashing try to make you feel this way so you can see that you can't take it back |
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| How do brainwashers shape attitudes? |
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| They help produce cognitive dissonance and guard against external justification, which is making up excuses for behavior (they don't want this in order for the person NOT to feel like their decision could have been improved) |
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| -Giving people higher positions than they normally would receive, attitudes in group are more extreme-->to convince people of the power of the group |
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| Group harmony is most important rather than finding good solutions-->can't say things that contradict decisions of the groups |
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| Ways to prevent groupthink |
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Checks and balances (prevent one person or group from having too much power)
-Open discussion (can express opinions) and second chance meetings (after sleeping on it) |
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A person affects a group.
Selecting leaders based on characteristics. Also, some people are born leaders |
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| Great Person vs. Emergent Leader Approach vs. Attributional Approach(might be wrong) |
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-Trying to find leaders based on traits, think that some people are born leaders
-Try to train people to become leaders and focus on finding ways to make progress and promoting unity in groups throught their ACQUIRED skills
-The leader is implied by what people think of one another and how people think others see them. |
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