Psychological Disorders
A specific anxiety disorder characterized by intense anxiety attacks with symptoms such as pounding heart, shortness of breath, and shakiness.
Panic attacks/panic disorder
Disorders that typically begin early in development, characterized by developmental deficits that produce impairments of personal, social, academic, or occupational functioning.
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Father of Freudian psychology, believed the subconscious was critical in explaining psychological desires and behaviors.
Sigmund Freud
Andy has noticed that his brother, James, is exhibiting some odd changes in behavior. James will often talk to himself as if someone else is in the room with him, believes that he is being hunted and thus will only go into his bedroom if the blinds are closed, and sometimes utters sentences that make no coherent sense. What disorder does James most likely have?
Schizophrenia
A disorder where someone obsessively takes out their hair
Trichotillomania
What are 3 types of obsessive-compulsive disorders?
OCD/Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Hoarding, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Trichotillomania, Excoriation (compulsive skin picking)
This is a good type of stress, like when you are warming up for a sports game or studying for an impending test.
Eustress
Conducted an experiment where he and a handful of others pretended to be insane, showed that how you act affects how others treat you and exposed the biasing power of labels.
David Rosenhan
Brody is a 9 year old boy who has been brought into a psychologist's office for an evaluation. His mother says that he has been unable to focus in school and doesn't have many friends. He constantly flinches when overly bright lights are turned on, and during his school's last fire drill, he had a meltdown due to all the noise and commotion. When talking to the psychologist, Brody did not make eye contact with them and fidgeted constantly, often mumbling his answers and fiddling with his hands. However, he lit up when the topic got to his interests, spending a good amount of time excitedly chattering about various cars and trains. After the evaluation was complete, what disorder did the psychologist most likely diagnose Brody with?
Autism Spectrum Disorder/ASD, potential ADHD
What are the three main causes of Bipolar Disorder?
Genetic causes, biological causes, environmental causes
Symptoms of this disorder include avoiding trauma-triggering stimuli, negative alterations in mood, and potential angry outbursts.
PTSD/Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The three stages of General Adaptation Syndrome (stages of fight or flight)
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Conducted an (unethical) experiment where a subject was shocked with increasingly higher intervals of voltage, forced "teachers" to continue shocking even when the subject was clearly in pain
Stanley Milgram
Jamie's dog, a 10 year old German Shepard, has been acting strangely. While he used to trot around the house eagerly and greet strangers with a friendly sniff, he now fails to recognize his owners and often walks into a room and looks around in confusion as if he's forgotten why he went in there. The dog's mood has also declined from energetic and amiable to restless and agitated. What is Jamie's dog most likely developing?
A disorder in which an individual is unable to resist their impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.
A disorder where depressive symptoms are not as intense as Major Depressive Disorder but last longer
Persistent Depressive Disorder/Dysthymia
A clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior.
Created the famous "Inkblot Test", in which individuals will look at meaningless inkblots and select options that most closely describe what the images look like to them.
Hermann Rorschach
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder/chronic PMS
Agoraphobia
People with Bipolar II will experience depressive states and a more subdued manic state known as ______. (answer is the blank)
Hypomania
The theory that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition for that illness combined with stressful conditions.
Diathesis-Stress Theory
Theorized that the goal of personality development was to realize the self through individualization and emphasized the importance of the unconscious in relation to personality.
Carl Jung
Robin is suffering from a disorder that causes her to binge-eat excessive amounts of food and then purge it by vomiting. This has been occurring for 5 months, and they don't know how to stop it. What disorder should Robin go to the doctor for help with?
Bulimia Nervosa
A child approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults with a degree of comfort that should not be displayed by a young child. What stressor-related disorder does this child have?
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder