Intro
What is abnormal psychology?
The study of disorders, or behaviour that is statistically deviant, causes suffering, and violates social standards.
What is the updated term for hypochondriasis?
Illness Anxiety Disorder
What does DID stand for, and what was it formerly known as?
Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder
Individuals suffering from ____ are preoccupied with abandonment
Borderline Personality Disorder
What are two former names for Anti Social Personality Disorder (ASPD)?
Psychopathy/Sociopathy
What is the opposite of chronic?
Acute
Which disorder(s) are most unnecessarily costly to the health-care system?
Illness Anxiety and Somatic Symptom Disorder
What often causes DID?
Childhood trauma and abuse
Which disorder is more commonly diagnosed in females?
Borderline
Narcissistic
Anti-social
Borderline Personality Disorder
T/F Individuals with ASPD have a strong sense of regret for criminal behaviour
False
What word describes a disorder that lasts for a long time?
Chronic
What disorder can cause partial paralysis, blindness, deafness, and pseudo seizures, but with no neurological basis for the symptoms?
Conversion Disorder
What is it called when you fake sick with no obvious reward?
Factitious Disorder
Individuals suffering from ______ often feel as if they are bad or evil due to lack of emotional control
BPD
Is ASPD usually diagnosed in males or females?
Males
What is comorbidity?
Two or more disorders present within the same person
What is the difference between body dysmorphia and an eating disorder?
In body dysmorphia, the individual is often preoccupied with the skin, hair, or nose, and assumes others focus on this when looking at them.
If you impose a factitious illness on your child, which of you gets diagnosed with Factitious Disorder?
You
Individuals suffering from _____ often have a grandiose sense of self-importance, such that it interferes with having empathy for others
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Name some disorders that are often are comorbid with ASPD.
Basically everything: NPD, BPD, HPD, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Somatic Symptom Disorder
What is the difference between prevalence and lifetime prevalence?
Individuals who have a disorder at a given time of study, vs. ever in their lifetime
What is the difference between Illness Anxiety and Somatic Symptom Disorder?
They often overlap in definition; however, somatic symptoms are in the body whereas illness anxiety is “in your head.”
What is the prevalence of Factitious Disorder? (trick question)
It’s impossible to know how many people are making up an illness...who would admit to it?
Individuals suffering from _____ have fantasies of power and beauty, and don’t take criticism well
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Conduct disorder is diagnosed in youth. It must have been occurring since age 15 for a diagnosis of ASPD
Conduct disorder is diagnosed in youth. It must have been occurring since age 15 for a diagnosis of ASPD