Psych Unit 12

What was the Rosenham Study?

-8 people faked illness to get into a mental hospital and when released they said it was regressed, but not cured. -Displayed the dangers of labels in psychotherapy.

FR: Identify symptoms and treatments for Schizophrenia

-Disorganized thoughts or behaviors, decreased participation, difficulty with attention. -Dopamine hypothesis approach

FR: Identify symptoms and treatments for DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)

-Displaying more than one personality within a person. -Constructive memory treatment

FR: Identify symptoms and treatments for Antisocial Personality Disorder

-Lying, acting impulsive, lack regard for themselves and others. -Automatic approach

FR: Identify symptoms and treatments for MDD (Major Depressive Disorder)

-Persistent feeling of sadness, no interest in things, change in sleep or diet. -Treatment is mood congruent memory approach

Q: Identical twins have what chance of both being schizophrenic? How about fraternal twins?

50% and 1 out of 10

Hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity all describe what?

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)

Avoidance describes what eating disorder?

Anorexia nervosa

Fear correspond to what disorders?

Anxiety disorders

Q: Which of the followings is most closely related to anxiety?

Avoidance

Q: Through 1994-2003, adolescents had strong mood swings and were diagnosed as mainly suffering from what?

Bipolar disorder

Binging then purging describes what eating disorder?

Bulimia nervosa

Q: Although Mrs. P usually sits passively in church, she has suddenly been in a motionless stupor like shaking her head continuously or waves her arms. She is suffering from what?

Catatonia

What does the DSM-V-TR do?

Classifies mental disorders and describe symptoms.

Learned helplessness is what disorder?

Cognitive depression

*Trauma*, anxiety, and stress all describe what?

Conversion disorder

Helplessness corresponds to what?

Depression

What abnormal behavior was once considered a stigma, but is now classified as a disorder?

Depression

What can stressers of poverty cause?

Depression

What neurotransmitter affects anxiety?

Dopamine

What is agoraphobia?

Fear of the outside world (anxiety driven).

What is one way to break the cycle of depression?

Find joy

Panic attacks are under what?

General anxiety disorder

Q: Antisocial personality disorders are most likely characterized by what?

Irrational fear of people

Q: Julia is obsessed with avoiding germs and feels the need to bath about 10 times a day. Her therapist suggests that Julia continues her maladaptive bathing because it has temporarily reduced her anxiety on past occasions. Her therapists suggestion is like what perspective?

Learned behaviorism

Reducing anxiety is a large goal in which perspective?

Learned behaviorism

Q: Norbert has missed almost all his freshman classes in the past month. He spends most of his time in his room, not even bothering to get up, dress, or eat. This makes him think his whole life is a waste. Norbert is most likely suffering from what?

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

Q: Elmer is the owner of an auto service station. Suddenly one day he smashes in the fenders of two custom cars. When asked why he simply explains that he turning the cars into real racing machines. When he is restrained, he shouts that everyone is fired and tries breaking the windows. Elmer is exhibiting symptoms of what?

Mania

Q: People, but not animals can gain fear from observational learning. Fact or opinion?

Opinion

Q: Someone said that a phobia to cats is more likely than a phobia to dogs. Is this a fact or an opinion.

Opinion

Q: Battle scarred veterans suffer mostly from what?

PTSD

Q: An immediate irrational anxiety response to the mere sight of blood is an example of what?

Phobia

Q: Someone is so afraid of spiders to the point where they can't go outside has what?

Phobia

Q: According to this perspective, anxiety is sometimes produced when submerged mental energy associated with repressed impulses. What is this perspective?

Psychoanalytical

Suppression, submerged, subconscious, and repressed all describe what?

Psychoanalytical

Disorganized, detached, and fragmented all describe what?

Schizophrenia

What is the only worldwide mental disorder?

Schizophrenia

What is one big environmental factor that contributes to ADHD?

Screen time (TV or video games)

What does the frontal lobe play a part in?

Self control.

Q: One difficulty with a purely attributional explanation of depression is that negative attributions can affect what?

Self worth

Q: If an individual expects someone labelled as mentally ill to be hostile, they may act in an unfriendly way to make them respond with hostility. This illustrates the dangers of what?

Self-fulfilling prophecies

If someone has low dopamine, they have high levels of what?

Seratonin

Q: Alan developed dissociative identity disorder in order to misbehave without feeling a sense of strong personal shame. A therapist suggestion would most likely be with which perspective?

Social cognitive

What is the other "personality" usually in DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)?

Someone they wish they could be or a heightened part of them.

Alcohol abuse leads to an increase in the likeliness of what?

Suicide

Q: The surging rate of violent crime in the western nations are best understood in terms of what perspective?

The biopsychosocial model

Attribution means what?

Trait

Q: A conversion disorder is most likely characterized by what?

Trauma

Some people are more genetically predisposed to have anxiety disorders - T or F?

True

Suppression causes what?

Unusual, abnormal behavior.

Q: Research regarding depression indicates which of the following?

With each new generation, depression is increasing.

Q: Are authoritarian parenting styles more likely to lead to increased anxiety in children?

Yes