Psychopathology and Models
Anxiety & Mood
Other disorders
Treatment
Cumulative
100
Any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes harm to others, or harms one's ability to function in daily life.
What is a psychological disorder?
100
A group of disorders characterized by excessive fearfulness and worry.
What is anxiety?
100
Examples include antisocial, paranoid, borderline, and histrionic.
What are personality disorders?
100
Therapies aimed mainly at helping clients to better understand motives underlying their behavior, and to gain awareness about themselves.
What are insight therapies?
100
A lobe of the brain located at the rear and bottom, containing the brain's visual centers.
What is the occipital lobe?
200
One of the previous ways of defining or conceptualizing abnormality (e.g., Ancient Greeks, Middle Ages, etc.).
What are the effects of evil, spirits, possession, other supernatural forces (in the Middle Ages), or imbalances in the humors among (the Ancient Greeks)?
200
Case example: Manny has such an intense fear of flying insects that he hardly every goes outside his house during the summer months.
What is a phobia?
200
A type of delusion, such as the belief that one is a powerful person who has been tasked with the mission of saving the world.
What is a delusion of grandeur?
200
Example: Dr. Shedrika uses this form of therapy, that emphasizes revealing clients' unconscious conflicts, urges, and desires, which he believes are the cause of the clients' disordered emotions and behaviors.
What is psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic) therapy?
200
Example: A car crash woke John from his afternoon nap. When he looked out his apartment window, he saw several people milling around two smashed cars. He decided not to dial 911 because he assumed someone had already called by now.
What is the bystander effect?
300
A model of psychopathology that explains disorders as products of chemical imbalances, genetic problems, brain damage, or combination of these causes.
What is the biological model of psychopathology?
300
Case example: Harold, a war veteran, has had nightmares, flashbacks, and anxiety surrounding certain triggers that he has attempted to avoid for several years now, to no avail.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
300
Case example: Jenny feels a lot of shame about her eating and weight gain. She calls herself harsh words like "fat" and "disgusting" and will find herself eating to feel better. The other night she ate so much she felt sick, and yet she felt as though she hadn't noticed or could not stop eating.
What is binge eating/binge eating disorder?
300
Carl Rogers is associated with ____ therapy, whereas Ivan Pavlov would be associated with _____ therapy.
Rogers - humanistic or client-centered and Pavlov - behavioral
300
Tell me the difference between nature and nurture.
nature related to heredity, and nurture to environmental influences.
400
A model of psychopathology that conceptualizes disordered behavior as a result of learning and conditioning.
What is the behavioral model of psychopathology?
400
A disorder characterized by alternating periods of depressive and manic episodes.
What is bipolar disorder?
400
A dissociative disorder characterized by partial or complete loss of memory for personal information that is usually associated with a stressful or emotionally traumatic experience.
What is dissociative amnesia?
400
Example: Julie has a fear of riding in elevators, so her therapist works with her to construct a hierarchy of her fears related to riding in elevators. Her therapist then teaches Julie to relax while moving up each fear in that hierarchy.
What is systematic desensitization?
400
Example: Maya's daughter is feeling carsick, so for the time being, Maya tells her that she has a drink that will settle her tummy. Really, she just gives her some vitamin water, but it seems to work as her daughter feels better long enough for them to get home from the store.
What is the placebo effect?
500
The most commonly used contemporary model of psychopathology, which holds that physical, mental, and cultural factors should all be considered.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
500
Name or describe two different types of maladaptive thought patterns.
Examples: overgeneralization, minimization, all-or-nothing, magnification...
500
Name (and describe) one positive and one negative symptom of schizophrenia.
Answers vary. Positives include delusions, hallucinations. Negative - flat affect, catatonia, poor attention, inability to speak fluently
500
What is the difference between group therapy and a support group? Can you give me an example of each as well?
Group therapy facilitated by therapists (e.g., groups at SCC), whereas support group not therapist-led (e.g., AA)
500
Tell me the main difference between operant and classical conditioning.
Operant is voluntary, classical is involuntary.
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