Health Psych
This is the second stage of Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is Resistance?
According to this perspective, depression is caused by irrational and flawed thinking about the world.
What is the cognitive perspective?
Lyle thinks that he is the Prince of Persia and that he has the power to negotiate with foreign governments. Lyle is suffering from this symptom.
What is a delusion (of grandeur)?
Rosie thinks her boss is a sweet, wonderful leader. But after a meeting where he offers her some constructive criticism about a project, she runs to her office, cries, and then thinks to herself that he is a condescending jerk. Rosie is displaying signs of this disorder.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Carinna has "alters" named "Carrie," an alcoholic spy, and "Louise," a butch lesbian who isn't afraid to speak her mind. Carinna is showing signs of this.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Sue has a fear of driving after her accident. Her therapist has her walk to a parked car, put her hand on the trunk,and report her level of anxiety. Then he has her sit in a parked car, then eventually, start the car and drive around an abandoned parking lot. The therapist is using this form of behavioral therapy.
What is systematic desensitization?
8-year old David's parents divorced, he's had to move several times, and he often goes without food. This is the term that identifies those experiences.
What are ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)?
This perspective would offer that depression is primarily caused by chemical imbalances in the brain that can be corrected with medication, or by genetics.
What is the biological perspective?
These symptoms are an addition of abnormal behaviors or experiences to a person's mental state, such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking.
What are positive symptoms?
Personality disorders that involve thoughts and behaviors that are strange and eccentric are all included in this category.
What is Cluster A disorders?
Chrissy thinks that, despite weighing 88 pounds, she is fat and hates how she looks in the mirror. She often goes days without eating and drinks only water. Chrissy would likely be diagnosed with this.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Active listening, unconditional positive regard, and empathy are all part of of client-centered therapy, which operate from this perspective of psychology.
What is the humanistic perspective?
Sandra's wedding is coming up and she has to make appointments for her hair and nails, pick up the flowers, and make a reservation for the rehearsal dinner. Sandra is experiencing a positive form of stress, called this.
What is eustress?
The evolutionary perspective, which says that some disorders are based in adaptive survival mechanisms, is based on the writing of this British scientist.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The dopamine hypothesis and prenatal exposure to viruses are both considered possible causes of schizophrenia, both of which come from this psychological perspective?
What is the biological perspective?
Aaron usually keeps to himself and, despite her flirtatious behavior towards him, he has no desire to date Elizabeth, his beautiful co-worker. He also seems to have a very blunted emotional response to anything good or bad that happens to him. Aaron is showing signs of this.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
Recurrent, intrusive thoughts that lead to compulsive behaviors to alleviate these thoughts are called this in someone who has OCD.
What are obsessions?
Bob's psychoanalyst asks about Bob's dreams in the hopes that they will reveal something repressed in Bob's memory. When Bob mentions that he dreamt that his mother chased him with a book and threatened to hit him with it, Bob was expressing this element of the dream.
What is the manifest content?
During the Alarm stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome, this response is engaged.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
Anna thinks her depression is partially caused by the fact that she exists in two different worlds: the one in which her parents and ancestors were raised, and the more modern one she now lives in. Anna is operating from this perspective.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
To treat schizophrenia, antipsychotic medications, such as Thorazine, work by blocking receptors for dopamine. As such, Thorazine would be considered this type of drug.
What is an antagonist?
Michael thinks his project ideas at work are the best ones and he gets deeply offended if people don't agree, even though he has little to no experience. When he does do something good at work, he is insistent that others acknowledge how smart he is. Michael is showing signs of this personality disorder.
What is narcissistic?
Elaine cannot make connections with people because she has difficulty reading social cues like facial expressions or sarcasm. When asked about her favorite toy she will talk for 30 straight minutes about Legos, including its history, their current best-selling version, and other facts. Elaine would likely be diagnosed with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Anti-anxiety meds like Xanax help treat anxiety symptoms by elevating levels of this inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GaBa?
Construction noise, waiting in lines, and dealing with annoying co-workers are all examples of this.
What are daily hassles?
If you think that unresolved conflicts with your mother is the reason why you don't get along with your female co-workers, you would be operating from the ___ perspective.
What is the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic perspective?
Flat affect, social withdrawal, and not caring for one's personal hygiene are all considered this type of schizophrenic symptom.
What is a negative symptom?
Joe has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Joe sees nothing wrong with how he violates others' rights or his lack of remorse when he hurts people and has no desire to get treatment. Joe's antisocial disorder would be considered this, because it aligns with his self-concept, values, and beliefs, and do not cause him distress or a sense of conflict.
What is ego-syntonic?
If you think that depressive symptoms are caused by distorted thinking about the world and catastrophizing even mild inconveniences and annoyances, then you are working from this perspective to explain depression.
What is the cognitive perspective?
In order to treat severe seizures in some patients, doctors will often sever this connecting point between the left and right hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.
What is the corpus callosum?