Personality Disorders – Abnormal Psychology – Flashcards
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enduring and relatively stable predispositions, which are inflexible and maladaptive, causing distress and/or impairment
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Personality Disorder
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DSM-IV-TR Personality Cluster characterized by odd or eccentric behavior
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Cluster A
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DSM-IV-TR Personality Cluster characterized by dramatic, emotional, and erratic behavior
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Cluster B
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DSM-IV-TR Personality Cluster characterized by fearful and anxious behavior
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Cluster C
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This percentage of the general population is affected by personality disorders
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.5% - 2.5%
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Rates are ________ in inpatient and outpatient settings
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Higher
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Where do personality orders typically begin?
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Childhood
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The rates of comorbid disorders, along with personaility disorders is _____.
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High
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Do men or women tend to be diagnosed more with personality disorder?
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Women
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Cluster A disorder, characterized by pervasive and unjustified mistrust and suspicion, usually brought on by early learning
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Cluster A: Paranoid Personality Disorder
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This form of therapy is used to counter the negativistic thinking found with Cluster A: Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Cogntive Therapy
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Cluster A Disorder, characterized by pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships, and a very limited range of emotions in interpersonal situations.
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Cluster A: Schizoid
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This form of therapy is used to focus on the value of interpersonal relationships to combat Cluster A: Schizoid Personality Disorder
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Building empathy and social skills
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Cluster A disorder, characterized by odd dressing and behavior, social isolation and suspicious behavior, magical thinking, ideas of reference, and illusions (similar to criteria for MDD)
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Cluster A: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Cluster B disorder, characterized by the failure to comply with social norms, violation of others' rights, acting in an irresponsible, impulsive, and deceitful manner, with a lacking conscience, empathy, and remorse
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Cluster B: Antisocial Personality Disorder
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This form of psychosis includes disturbed thoughts, emotions, and behaviors ...
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Schizophrenia
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This form of Psychopathology is a broad label for hallucinations and delusions
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Psychosis
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This individual introduced dementia praecox, where demence (loss of mind) and precoce (early onset) are defined
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Benedict Morel
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This individual used the term dementia and praecox to focus on the generalized subtypes of schizophrenia
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Emil Kraepelin
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This individual introduced the term schizophrenia (splitting the mind), where his observation showed this condition as being a separation of different personality functions
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Eugen Bleuler
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Active manifestations of abnormal behavior, disortions of normal behavior
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Positive Symptoms
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Considered the most definitive feature of madness, characterized by gross misrepresentations of reality, which include delusions of grandeur or persecution
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Delusions
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The experience of sensory events without environmental input, may involve all senses
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Hallucination
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The absence or insufficiency of normal behavior, where a broad spectrum of symptoms is seen.
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Negative Symptoms
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Lack of initiation and persistence (negative symptom)
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Avolition
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Relative absence of speech (negative symptom)
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Alogia
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Lack of pleasure or indifference (negative symptom)
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Anhedonia
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Little expressed emotion (negative symptom)
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Affective flattening
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Severe and excess speech, behavior, and emotion
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Disorganized Symptoms
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Illogical and incoherent speech
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Cogntive Slippage
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"Going off on a tangent"
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Tangentiality
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Conversation in unrelated directions
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Loose Associations
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Inappropriate emotional behavior, which includes a variety of unusual behaviors
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Disorganized Affect
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The broad spectrum of disorganized behavior
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Catatonia
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This subtype of Schizophrenia shows intact cognitive skills and affect, no signs of disorganized behavior. Hallucinations/Delusions include grandeur or persecution (typical prognosis)
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Paranoid Type
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This subtype of Schizophrenia shows marked disruptions in speech and behavior, flat or inappropriate affect, where hallucinations/delusions tend to be fragmented
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Disorganized Type
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This subtype of Schizophrenia shows unusual motor responses and odd mannerisms, which includes echolalia and echopraxia
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Catatonic Type
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This subtype of Schizophrenia is considered a "wastebasket" category, which includes the major symptoms of Schizophrenia (the individual fails to meet the criteria for another type)
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Undifferentiated Type
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This subtype of Schizophrenia shows one past episode of schizophrenia, where the individual continues to display less extreme residual symptoms
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Residual Type
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This disorder shows Schizophrenic symptoms for a few months, associated with good premorbid functioning
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Schizophreniform Disorder
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This disorder shows symptoms of schizophrenia and a mood disorder, where both disorders are independent of one another
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Schizoaffective Disorder
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This disorder shows delusions that are contrary to reality, which lacks both positive and negative symptoms
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Delusional Disorder
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This list of experiences includes erotomanic, grandiose, jealousy, perseutory, and somatic...
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Schizophrenic Delusions
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This disorder shows one or more positive symptoms of schizophrenia, usually precipitated by extreme stress or trauma
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Brief Psychotic Disorder
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This disorder shows delusions from one person manifesting in another person (little else is known)
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Shared Psychotic Disorder
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This disorder may reflect a less severe form of schizophrenia
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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The study of how disorders arise and change with time, where disruption of early skills can affect later development
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Developmental Psychopathology
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These Disorders are diagnosed first in childhood, including ADHD, learning disorders, autism, and retardation
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Developmental Disorders
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This disorder includes symptoms of inattention, overactivity, and impulsivity (seen to impair behavioral, cognitive, and social life)
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ADHD
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Which gender is most likely to have ADHD (greatest in the US)?
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Boys, 4:1
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This disorder runs in families, with the DRD4, DAT1, and DRD5 genes showing implications
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ADHD
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Contributions to this disorder include smaller brain volume, inactivity of the frontal cortex and basal ganglia, and abnormal frontal lobe development and functioning
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ADHD
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These are are seen as a contributor to ADHD, where constant negative feedback from peers and adults contributed to negative views, peer rejection, and social isolation -- low self-esteem
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Psychosocial Factors
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This form of a toxic protein is found in Alzheimer's patients, damaging neural interlays and destroying synapses
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Amyloid-Beta Plaques
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This brain formation is shown to decrease in size and shape as a result of Alzheimer's
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Hippocampus
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This susceptibility gene has been discovered in Alzheimer's research
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ApoE
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Inflammatory cells present in Alzheimer's disease
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Microglia
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Academic issues characterized by low performance in school, not caused by sensory deficits, showing a deficit between actual and expected results
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Learning Disorder
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This learning disorders shows heritability, and requires complete remediation of basic reading, cognitive, and issue skills, targetting skills to compensate for problems
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Reading Disorder
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These disorders are characterized by problems with many aspects of life, including socialization, cognition, and emotions, includes Auspberger's Syndrome
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Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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This disorder shows significant impairment with social interactions and communication, and restricted patterns of behavior, diagnosed by qualitative social impairment, communication malfunctioning, and restricted behavior patterns
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Autism
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This developmental disorder shows significant social impairments, stereotyped behaviors, clumsiness, and verbal behavior. 1 : 36,000
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Aspberger's Disorder
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This developmental disorder shows a childhood disorder, prevalent with below-average skills, cognitive functioning, with deficits or impairments in present adaptive functioning
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Mental Retardation
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This category of disorders affects the learning, memory, and consciousness of the individual, with profound changes in behavior and personality
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Cognitive Disorders
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This cognitive disorder shows impaired consciousness and cognition, which develops rapidly over hours or days, with marked memoy/lanuage deficits
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Delirium
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This cognitive disorder shows a marked, gradual deterioration of brain functioning, reasoning, and judgement
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Dementia
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inability to remember places or name objects
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Agnosia
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This form of dementia is caused by a blockage of blood arteries, which is the second leading cause of dementia next to Alzheimers,
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Vascular Dementia
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This disease shows an alternative form of dementia which impairs judgement and reasoning due to neurological impairments
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HIV
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This form of dementia is a genetic autosomal dominant disorder characterized by typical symptoms
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Huntington's Disease