Understanding Psychological Disorders: DSM-IV TR, ADHD, Anxiety, and Schizophrenia, Exams of Psychology

Download Understanding Psychological Disorders: DSM-IV TR, ADHD, Anxiety, and Schizophrenia and more Exams Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! psychological disorders study guide Atypical - (adj.) not typical, unusual (Screaming and crying is atypical adult behavior.) audacious (adj.) excessively bold (The security guard was shocked by the fan's Disturbing - upsetting; bothering Unjustified - not deserved maladaptive - anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life ADHD - a psychological disorder marked by the appearance of one or more of the three key symptoms extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Usually diagnosed at a younger age medical model - the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders, the medical model assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital. DSM IV-TR - the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition)", a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Presently distributed in an updated "text revision". Neurotic Disorders - Psychodynamic term for anxiety-driven mental health conditions that are manifest through avoidance patterns and defensive reactions Psychotic disorders - psychological disorders of thought and perception, characterized by inability to distinguish between real and imagined perceptions Generalized anxiety disorders - Characterized by excessive anxiety or worry about numerous things, lasting for 6 months or longer. Panic disorders - Sudden bouts of intense, unexplained anxiety, often associated with physical symptoms like choking sensations or shortness of breath Phobic disorders - disorders characterized by marked, persistent, and excessive fear and avoidance of specific objects, activities, or situations Obsessive-compulsive disorder - an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) PTSD - A disorder in which a person has lingering memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after a severely threatening, uncontrollable event Post-traumatic growth - positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 573) delusions - False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders catatonia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods positive symptoms - Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas. negative symptoms - Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech. chronic schizophrenia - a distinction of schizophrenia in which there is a long period of development over the years and the decline in the person's behavior and thinking occurs gradually acute schizophrenia - a distinction of schizophrenia in which there is a sudden onset of symptoms that usually can be attributed to a crisis in the person's life, and the person functioned normally before the crisis with no clinical signs of the disorder. (more reactive, more likely to recover) dopamine hypothesis - States that high levels of dopamine seem to be associated with schizophrenia brain abnormalities of schizophrenia - enlarged ventricles, decreased brain volume, altered connectivity and structure, reduced frontal and temporal activity roles of genetics in schizophrenia - very unlikely to have without family link to schizophrenia. pretty close rate in all populations historionic personality disorder - pattern of excessive emotional expression accompanied by attention seeking behaviors. Historionic persons may be dramatic in dress, manner, and speech to draw attention to themselves. emotionally shallow and often live in romantic fantasy world narcissistic personality disorder - a personality disorder marked by a broad pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy borderline personality disorder - a personality disorder characterized by lack of stability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion; impulsivity; angry outbursts; intense fear of abandonment; recurring suicidal gestures antisocial personality disorder - A personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. somatoform disorder - any of a group of psychological disturbances characterized by physical symptoms for which there is not a medical cause conversion disorder - a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) hypochondriasis - A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses. Psychologically disordered - deviant distressful, dysfunctional behavior Evolution (biological perspective on anxiety) - human biologically prepared to fear threats by ancestors Genes (biological perspective on anxiety) - twin studies- identical twins more likely to have vs fraternal twins less likely to have physiology (biological perspective on anxiety) - excess sodium lactate, panic attack. phobias occur when increasing co2 in blood. PTSD- disrupt locus cerelus commonality of depression - symptoms very widespread differences between men and women in depression - women twice as likely to get major depression than men reasons why some psychologists are skeptical of dissociative disorders - find suspicious that disorders somewhat localized in areas of times