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| Records electrical activity in the brain, by brain waves. |
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| X-ray technique that's 3D of the brain of other organ |
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| Variations in magnetic fields to produce 3D of brain or other organ. BETTER than a CT (CAT) |
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| Injection of radioactive glucose into the brain to see areas of function. |
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| Mental Status Examination |
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| Brief interview and observation to view a person's general level of psychological functioning. |
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Projective testing
purpose
name 2 |
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Presented usually types of pictures or symbols and asked to respond in some way.
People's responses relate to their state of mind.
TAT and Rorscharch testing |
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Personality Inventories
purpose
name 1 |
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Self-report questionnaire for brief responses in yes no or cannot say.
Assess personality char. and behaviors.
MMPI-2 |
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Automatic Nervous System
2 examples |
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Controls the functioning of internal body processes
i.e. heart rate, digestion. |
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| Sympathetic Nervous System |
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Part of the Automatic nervous system. primarily involved in stress or energy reactions.
Fight or flight |
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| Parasympathetic Nervous System |
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| Part of the automatic nervous system primarily involved in conserving energy. |
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| balance in maintained in a dynamic system. |
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| study of neural effects of psychological events on your immune system. |
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Diathesis-stress Model
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model of mental disorders.
purposed disorders develop when a person with a disposition experiences great stress. |
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| Technique when the person is made to confront their anxiety until is is controlled of goes away. |
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| When the response to anxiety triggers lessen due to repeated confrontations. |
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| Rapid development of anxiety or fear. |
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| Anxiety about being in places difficult to escape in the event of a panic attack. |
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| Internal physiological stimuli. |
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| external environmental stimuli. |
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| Both pavlovian and operant influences maintain phobic behavior. |
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| Thoughts that are difficult to stop or control. |
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| Actions that you feel compelled to act on. |
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Him and 7 friends admitted themselves to psych wards under false symptoms and all but one was diagnosed with schizophrenia. They stayed in there from 7-52 days.
Purpose was to show the DSM-II system was weak. |
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Reliability
Most (4) and least (1) |
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0.7 or higher on the scale.
Most: retardation, mood disorders, substance use disorders, and schizophrenia.
Least: Personality disorders. |
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Reliability was not included in the....
(2 listed) |
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| When diagnosed all parts of a life are put into this. |
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Divergent Validity
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Symptoms that do not related to a diagnoses.
I.E. Fighting with your bf once doesn't mean you have depression. |
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Symptoms related to a diagnoses.
I.E. Sleep problems are related to depression. |
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Major change in the DSM-III
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Put in place 5 axes called multi-axial.
Purpose was to improve the diagnoses process to be more thorough. |
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DSM-I was strongly influenced by....
(2 people) |
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| DSM-IV-TR is strongly influenced by... |
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| 5 axes of the multi-axial |
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1. Clinical disorders and other conditions of clinical attention.
2. Personality disorders and metal retardation.
3. General medical conditions relevant to 1-2
4. Social and Environmental problems
5. Global assessment scale 1-100. |
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All clinical syndromes and disorders go here.
They have an on set and off set. |
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Onset is in childhood and there is no seen offset.
seen as the "way a person is" |
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Any medical condition that could be related to axis 1-2.
Heart issues related with an anxiety disorder. |
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| Factors in a persons life that could have an effect on this mental status. |
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A scale 1-100
1-10 being danger to one's self and others.
91-100 being functioning on a day to day easily. |
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| Chronic Stress vs Acute Stress |
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Long term and severe
Short term and not as harmful |
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| Normal response patterns. |
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| Method used for assessing the importance of the predictability of stressors. |
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| Serotonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitors |
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| Uncontrollable events are the basis for depressive disorders. |
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| Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing |
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most common of the DSM-IV-TR diagnoses.
28% of the population will experience at some point in their life times. |
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Fear vs. Anxiety
Type of response? |
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Adaptive state for dealing with real threat of danger
Anticipation of future danger of misfortune.
Both are learnable responses, internal/external, influenced by observational learning. |
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Subjective Experiences
Behavioral Manifestation
Physiological Responses |
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most all anxiety disorders include one or both
panic attack and agoraphobia. |
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Recurrent panic attacks and anxiety about future attacks.
onset adolescence-mid 30's |
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Specific Phobia
treatment? |
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Persistent fear by specific objects and or situations.
Usually goes undiagnosed unless the person cannot function daily.
Only treatment effective is direct exposure. |
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OCD
onset, gender, treatment |
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Handicap of obsessions and compulsions.
onset in childhood and gradual (men=women)
treatment: cingulotomy |
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Social Phobia
onset gender |
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Fear of social settings, embarrassment
Onset in adulthood (men)
tends to be lifelong |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Constant state of worry, expecting the worst always.
Axis 1 disorder
antidepressants most effective. |
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