Psychology Final

The inability to recall important personal information, usually following trauma:

Amnesia

Persistent difficulty in parting w/ possessions, items; excessive storage of things without value

Hoarding

A state of extreme agitation -episodes of extreme cheerful euphoria, increased activity, and excessive mood irritability

1. Mania/Manic episode

Symptoms and feelings of depression only during a particular time of year (usually winter)

Seasonal pattern/Seasonal Affective Disorder

Anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear, anxiety and avoidance of public places and situations:

Agoraphobia

The co-occurrence of two or more diagnosed disorders in the same person

Comorbidity

Personality disorder: displays a lack of remorse and regard for others, impulsiveness, deceit.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Early symptoms of psychosis - if caught early and treated, can improve schizophrenia

Prodromal Symptoms

Perceptual experience of the senses - hearing or seeing things that are not really there.

Hallucinations

Severe symptoms: major disturbances of body movement, thought, perception, emotion, hallucinations, & delusions

Schizophrenia

Symptoms: intrusive & distressing memories/ feelings; avoidance, hypervigilance and negative emotions - after a trauma

PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)

Mood disorder characterized by mood states going back and forth between depression and mania/hyperactivity

Bipolar Disorder

Personality disorder: instability in relationships, self image, mood, unpredictable actions, black and white thinking.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Anxiety disorder: continuous state of excessive, uncontrolled worry, apprehension, and anxiety.

1. GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)

True or False: Hallucinations and Delusions are two terms meaning the same thing

False

Psychological state of reliving a past traumatic memory of an event - as if the event was occurring

Flashback

A fugue state is when someone wanders away and experiences confusion - often with loss of memory or identity.

True

A model for evaluating stress - stress builds up to a threshold where someone can develop a disorder when overwhelmed.

Diathesis

Childhood spectrum disorder: deficit of social interaction and communication; repetitive patterns of behavior/interests.

Autism Spectrum

Excessive preoccupation with imagined defects in the body and appearance

Body Dysmorphia

The process of closing large asylums via government budget cuts, integrating people back into the community where they can be treated locally

Deinstitutionalization

Therapy system developed by Sigmund Freud that employs free association, dream analysis, and transference to uncover repressed feelings

Psychoanalysis

Therapy system where a clinician seeks to treat a client’s fear, phobia, or anxiety by gradually presenting the feared object or situation, easing them into the experience:

Exposure Therapy

Therapeutic process, often used with children, that employs toys and games to help them resolve psychological problems

Play therapy

In terms of development and the nature vs nurture debate, what we mean when we discuss inherited traits, genes and biology:

Nature

In terms of development and the nature vs nurture debate, what we mean when we discuss environment, family, culture, and upbringing:

Nurture

The period of development that begins at puberty and ends at early adulthood

Adolescence

Concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret information

Schemas

The domain of lifespan development that examines growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness:

Physical development

The study of development using average ages for milestone markers in life, when most children typically reach specific developmental events:

Norms/normative approach

How feelings and our view of the world can be distorted by our own specific memory of past events, life experiences, and upbringing resulted in skewed perspectives:

Bias

A method of efficiently organizing larger amounts of data and information in the brain and memory into more manageable bits and pieces:

Chunking

The holding of smaller bits of more immediate information before it is forgotten or stored, as well as information that is actively being retrieved and is being used very recently.

short-term memory (STM)

The continuous storage of information over a more extensive period of time:

long-term memory (LTM)

Your ability to immediately access stored memory and information without cues, reminders, or hints:

Recall

The loss of memory for events that occurred prior to an accident or incident resulting in brain trauma.

retrograde amnesia

The score one might receive on a test designed to measure raw knowledge and human intelligence; this used to be the gold standard of measuring intelligence, administered by trained and licensed professionals:

Intelligence quotient (IQ)

The ability by which people can understand and relate to those in another culture

Cultural intelligence

The ability to understand emotions and motivations in yourself and others; becoming more popular than other measures in modern times:

Emotional intelligence (EQ)

The oath sworn to by therapists and medical professionals offering treatment stating that they can not disclose confidential communications to any third party, unless mandated or permitted by law

Patient confidentiality

A treatment method option in which multiple people (who are non-related and not in a relationship) meet together with a trained clinician to discuss similar issues and concerns (example: alcoholics anonymous)

Group therapy