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Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Dissociative Disorders
Therapy
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What is a psychological disorder characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety?
Anxiety Disorders
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What are mood disorders?
Mood disorders are psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
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What is a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, distrubed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions?
Schizophrenia
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What is a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) a.k.a. Multiple Personality Disorder
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Who came up with psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
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What is an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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What is major depressive disorder?
Major depressive disorders is a mood disorder in which a person experiences (in the absensce of drugs or a medical condition) two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest ot pleasure in most activities.
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What are delusions?
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
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Are people with multiple personality disorder aware of their alternating personality shifts?
No.
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What is client-centered therapy?
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth.
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What disorder does the following person have: "...hot and as though I couldn't breathe. My heart was racing and I started to swear and tremble and I was sure I was going to faint. Then my fingers started to feel numb and tingly and things seemed unreal. It was so bad I wondered if I was dying and asked my husband to take me to the emergency room. By the time we got there (about 10 minutes) the worst of the attack was over and I just felt washed out."
Panic Disorder
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Do all individuals with major depressive disorder need professional help?
No, people suffering from major depression eventually return to normal even without professional help.
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During approximately what time does schizophrenia strike people?
Young people maturing into adulthood.
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What alternating physical characteristics would a person with multiple personality disorder exhibit?
Handedness (whether someone is left-handed or right-handed)
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What is family therapy?
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.
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Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) frequent amongst those who have undegone a traumatic experience?
No, it's actually infrequent. PTSD is overdiagnosed to the broadening definition of trauma (which originally meant direct exposure to threatened death or serious injury, as during combat or rape).
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What part of the brain shrinks a little bit when an individual has major depressive disorder? What other part of the brain is damaged due to the stress of being depressed?
The frontal lobe and the hippocampus.
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Name two subtypes of schizophrenia.
Paranoid Disorganized Catatonic Undifferentiated Residual
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What is the main criticism towards multiple personality disorder?
The disorder is localized in time and space. Between 1930 and 1960, the number of MPD diagnoses in North America was 2 per decade. In the 1980s, when the DSM contained the first formal code for this disorder, the number of recorded cases exploded to 20,000. Additionally, the disorder is rare and/or virtually nonexistent in places outside the United States.
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What is counterconditioning?
Counterconditioning is a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.
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Which part of the brain is hyperactive in those with OCD?
The anterior cingulate cortex.
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Name a creative artist in history that had bipolar disorder.
Kurt Cobain, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, etc.
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What characterizes the brains of individuals with schizophrenia?
Dopamine overactivity
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Is multiple personality disorder prevalent in countries besides the United States?
No, in fact, it is virtually nonexistent in places like India and Japan.
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What is tardive dyskinesia?
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors.