Anxiety Disorders
True or False: some cultures report more physical symptoms of anxiety
True
The most common mood disorder in the United States is:
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
What percentage of the population is Schizophrenic
About 1%
A disorder characterized by a strong semantic memory of a particular traumatic event, hypervigilance, and disturbances in sleep, social relationships, and daily life
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
True or false: Examining psychological disorders is always based on psychological theories
False: some disorders are best explained by biological or sociological phenomena
What is anxiety?
An appraisal of threat and your ability to deal with it
A drastically decreased mood, with lower energy, ruminations, deep sadness, and abnormal eating and sleeping patterns
What is a depressive episode?
A break from reality. Inability to separate imagination from reality.
What is psychosis?
Characterized by sensitivity to stimulus, specific interests, sometimes academic difficulties. Symptoms appear before the age of 2.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
The three "psychological" theories of disorders are:
What are Cognitive, Behavioral, and Psychodynamic Theories?
An anxiety disorder classified by a fear of one specific object, animal, or situation (snakes, planes, etc.)
What is Specific Phobia?
A drastically increased mood, with increased energy, excitability, irritability, and irrationality.
What is a manic episode?
(Double points) A false, irrational belief is called a ________ while a false stimulus (often a sound) is called a ________.
What are delusions and hallucinations?
Characterized by several identities or "alters" within the same body. Triggered by extreme trauma. Often involves severe memory impairment
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Eating Disorders have a strong connection to which psychological theory (biological, cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, or sociocultural)
Sociocultural
(Double Points) What is an obsession? What is a compulsion?
An obsession is a repetitive thought that causes anxiety. A compulsion is an action that is taken to reduce to the obsessive drive.
Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia
True or False: Schizophrenia is best explained by looking at society, culture, economic distress, and social hierarchies
False. Schizophrenia is best explained through a biological lens by examining genetics and neuroscience
Characterized by slow, long lasting mood episodes that cycle between manic and depressive. Like a low intensity, long lasting bipolar disorder.
What is Cyclothymia?
These two disorders are best explained by the biological theory
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
What is Agoraphobia in the context of Panic Disorder?
Anticipatory anxiety: the fear that a person could have a panic attack, often in a public setting where they have no safe place. A fear of panic inducing situations.
(Double Points) Depressive Disorders are often treated with antidepressants such as ______. Bipolar Disorders are usually treated with the mood stabilizer ________.
What are SSRI's and Lithium?
The broad category of symptoms that includes but is not limited to: Flat Affect, Alogia, Anhedonia, and Avolition
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Characterized by unstable emotions and attitudes towards other people. 75% of people with this disorder attempt suicide, and they can have extreme difficulties trusting others.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
A theory in anxiety disorders where the threat of anxiety is based on biological factors, general psychological factors, and specific psychological factors
What is Triple Vulnerability Theory?