Anxiety Disorders
What is a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, distrubed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions?
Schizophrenia
Who came up with psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
What is an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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.
What are delusions?
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
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.
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
Do all individuals with major depressive disorder need professional help?
No, people suffering from major depression eventually return to normal even without professional help.
During approximately what time does schizophrenia strike people?
Young people maturing into adulthood.
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.
What is ONE explanation for Anxiety disorders?
1. Conditioning (Classical conditioning and stimulus generalization, or Operant conditioning and reinforcement)
2. Social Cognition: Observing others
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.
Name two subtypes of schizophrenia.
Chronic/Process Or Acute/Reactive: More specific responses: Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, Undifferentiated, or Residual.
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.
What is counterconditioning?
Counterconditioning is a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.
Which part of the brain is hyperactive in those with OCD?
The anterior cingulate cortex.
Name a creative artist in history that had bipolar disorder.
Kurt Cobain, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, etc.
What characterizes the brains of individuals with schizophrenia?
Dopamine overactivity
What are 3 prenatal environment and risk factors associated with Schizophrenia?
low birth weight, lack of oxygen during delivery, poor maternal nutrition, mid-pregnancy viral infection
What are three of the most common drug treatments used for psychological disorders?
Anti-pschotic drugs
anti-anxiety drugs
anti-depressant drugs
mood-stabilizing medications