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PSYC 1000 1st EditionFinal Exam Study GuideLecture 16 (November 18)Psychological Disorders: Module 39Define Psychological Disorders. Follow the medical model. Research the Biopsychosocial approach and know each influence. Classifying Disorders. What is the DSM? Know the rates and prevalence of Disorders. What are mood disorders? Major Depressive Disorder? Symptoms. Bipolar Disorder? Symptoms. Behaviors with mood disorders? Scenarios. Psychological Disorders: a syndrome marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.Medical Model: the concept that disease, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases cured, often through treatment in a hospital.Biopsychosocial ApproachBiological Influences: evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistryPsychological Influences: stress trauma, learned helplessness, mood-related perceptions and memories.Social-cultural Influences: roles, expectations, definitions of normality and disorderOur well-being is affected by our genes, brain functioning, inner thoughts and feelings, and the influences of our social and cultural environment.Classifying Disorders: Classifying in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)- Physicians and mental health workers use the detailed “diagnostic criteria and codes” in the DSM-5 to guide medical diagnosis and define who is eligible for treatments, including medication.Mood Disorders: psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.Classifications-Major Depressive Disorder: mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, tow or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either 1) depressed mood or 2) loss of interest or pleasure.Symptoms: depressed mood most of the day, marked diminished interest or pleasure in activities most of the day, significant weight loss or gain when not dieting, significant decrease or increase in appetite, insomnia or sleeping too much, physical agitation or lethargy, fatigue or loss of energy nearly everyday, feeling worthless or excessive or inappropriate guilt, problems inthinking, concentrating, or making decisions, recurrent thoughts of death and suicide.Bipolar Disorder: mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mind.Symptoms: depressive episode ends, and intensely happy, hyperactive, widely optimistic state called mania, mood returns to normal or plunges again into depression, during mania they are talkative, overactive, and elated, little need for sleep, fewer sexual inhibitions, speech is loud, flighty, and hard to interrupt, easily irritated if crossed, advice is irritating, need protection from poor judgment.Strikes more often among those who rely on emotional expression and vivid imagery.Behaviors of mood disorders: Unmotivated, sensitive to negative outcomes; recall negative info, symptoms of another disorder such as anxiety/ substance abuseWomen’s risk of depression in doubled a man’s chance.Lecture 18 (December 2)Schizophrenia Module 40What is schizophrenia? What are the causes and characteristics?Schizophrenia: a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucination, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression.Characteristics: delusions, disorganized thinking (word salad), selective attention, hallucinations,senseless, compulsive acts (rocking and rubbing arm), diminished and inappropriate emotions. In men the disease develops 4 years earlier than women. Strikes in young people as maturing into adulthood.Psychosis: psychological disorder in which a person loses contract with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.Causes: abnormal brain tissue and activity, genetic predispositions, dopamine overactivity, low brain activity in frontal lobes, activity of thalamus, sensory signals and transmission to brain’s cortex, enlarged, fluid-filled areas and corresponding shrinkage and thinning of cerebral tissue, cortex, parental environment and risk, low birth weight, maternal diabetes, ideal parental age, oxygen deprivation during delivery, mid pregnancy viral infection.Lecture 19 and 20 (December 4 and 9)Other Disorders Module 41Define: Anxiety Disorder, panic Disorder, phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity disorder, Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Antisocial Disorder. Know the


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