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40 Cards in this Set
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Which perspective on abnormal behavior places the greatest emphasis on early childhood and internal emotions and drives |
Psychoanalytic perspective |
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the behavioral perspective asserts that abnormality reflects |
Learned behavior |
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Some people are perfect why can't I be perfect why is everything I do wrong A______ therapist might encourage your courrent to change such irrational thoughts |
Cognitive |
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The purpose of the DSM-IV-TR is to provide |
Descriptions of disorders |
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In Rosenhan's study, in which several colleagues were admitted into mental hospitals who was most likely to detect that they secret psedopatients actually did not suffer from mental illness |
Actual patients |
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Psychologists refer to a feeling of apprehension and tension as |
Anxiety |
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Today the standard reference work for the classification of psychological abnormality is |
Diagnostic statistic manual |
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Name the major types of anxiety disorders |
*Phobia-irrational fear, *generalized anxiety disorder- most everything most all time, *obsessive compulsive disorder thoughts and actions relieve *anxiety, panic an attack on the nervous system |
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Brett has an intense, irrational fear of needles and other sharp objects. Brett might be diagnosed with_____disorder |
Phobic |
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The potential biological basis of anxiety disorders include |
Irregularities in the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin, and overactive autonomic nervous system |
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Disorders of emotional experience that impair everyday living or called_____disorders |
Mood (also called emotions) |
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Woman are_____likely to experience majority depression as are men. |
Twice |
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Butch alternated between periods of darkness spare and times of elation, great energy, recklessness, and creativity. And in today's terminology, butch suffer from____disorder |
Bipolar (also can be know as manic) |
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A possible explanation of mood disorders can attribute them to_____And_____factors. |
Biological, cognitive |
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What kind of explanations have been offered for the fact that women are more likely to experience depression than men |
Hormones, more stress for single moms, sleep, eat, and cope different |
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List several negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
Mute, socially isolated, lack of communication, blunted emotions |
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List some positive symptoms of schizophrenia |
Hallucinogens, auditory, visual delusions and false beliefs |
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a manipulative callous individual with no apparent conscience or remorse might be classified with which disorder |
Anti- social personality disorder |
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The modern drug therapy era begin in____with the introduction of antipsychotic drugs |
1955 |
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The use of EMT electroconvulsive therapy has____in the last decade. |
Increased |
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Lithium is prescribed for |
Bipolar disorder |
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Person-centered therapy is |
Under the blanket of humanistics |
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Dream analysis and free association are used to access the |
Unconscious |
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Patients diagnosed with____ account for the largest____ |
Schizophrenia, hospitalized |
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The defining characteristics of schizophrenia is |
Distortion of relations |
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Psychoanalysts attempt to access the unconscious through |
Dreams and ressociation |
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Idk has bipolar disorder. Most likely she is prescribed____ which is classified as a____ |
Lithium, mood stabilizer |
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carrie is dramatic and emotionally volatile. she rapidly forms intense relationships that seem to blow up or fall apart just as quickly. Although she tends to distrust others, she also need their attention. Carrie might be diagnosed with personality_____disorder. |
Borderline |
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According to a behavior therapist, how might psychological disorders is treated most effectively |
Change behavior and learn a new one |
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Using a____approach, therapists blend a variety of variety of techniques to treat an individual's disorder |
Ecletic |
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The first major antipsychotic drug to be introduced was____ was used to treat____ |
Chlora, skitsofrenia |
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The newest antipsychotics are called_____antipsychotics they influence the_____Neurotransmitter |
Atypical, serotonin and dopamine |
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was introduced in the____ it is used to treat severe____ |
1930's, depression |
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A newer form of psychosurgery-cingulotomy-is used in cases of |
OCD |
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The heyday for the lobotomy was the |
1930's and 1940's |
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One theory of schizophrenia is some people have too many receptors for this neurotransmitter |
Dopamine |
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Phenothiazines, a group of drugs used to treat schizophrenia by blocking the action of dopamine. A severe side effect of this medication, if overused is similar to what disease |
Schizophrenia |
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Deficiencies in_____have been linked to depression, eating and sleeping disorders |
Serotonin |
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Which of the neurotransmitters is believed to be involved in reducing anxiety |
GABA |
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At any given time in the U.S.__%to__%of the population is clinically depressed about__% college students have received a diagnosis |
6 to 10 and 15 |