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PSYC 111 1st EditionExam # 4 Study Guide Lectures: 20 - 25Lecture 20 (April 21st)What factors influence compliance?Compliance is when a person gives in to the demands or another person and ors what they wish. The factors that influence one’s willingness to comply are the status of the requester, the number of requests, the proximity of the requestor(s) to the person, and whether the person is alone or not.What is the difference between obedience and conformity?Obedience is when someone follows the directions they are given or do what they are told to do.Conformity is when one gives in and does what the other people around them are doing, like a crowd mentality type situation. In Asch’s experiment, it was determined that participants conform 37% of the time they are presented with a situation.Lecture 21(April23rd)What are some examples of defense mechanisms?Defense mechanisms include repression, or surprising negative thoughts; denial, or denying these experiences or thoughts happened; and projection, or wrongly placing these negative characteristics onto someone else. Other defense mechanisms include reaction formation, rationalization, and displacement. What are the components of self-theory?Self-theory is made up of a few key components, including underlying healthiness, self-actualizing theory, and the ideal self. The hierarchy of human needs was another study of humanistic theories, and was developed by Abraham Maslow. The hierarchy starts with human needs, then progresses downward to safety needs, belonging and love needs, esteem needs, and finally, the need for self-actualization.Lecture 22 (April 28th)What are trait theories?Trait theories were first studied by Cattell, and are the theories of source traits, such as being nice, and surface traits, such as being friendly, compassionate, and caring.Explain or describe examples of anxiety disorders. Panic disorders are panic attacks and intervening periods where derealization and depersonalization occurs. Generalized anxiety disorders are when someone is in a chronic state of diffuse anxiety, and experience restlessness, irritability, insomnia, and a resting state of panic disorders. Phobias are an intense, irrational fear of an object or a situation. They are often simple and specific. Social phobias are more realistic and more impairing then simple phobias. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is when an obsession is equal to one’s thoughts, and the compulsion is equal toone’s behavior. Lecture 23 (April 30th)What are mood disorders?Mood disorders are usually associated with Unipolar Depression, and have 8 defining factors. These include dysthymia, and cyclothamia, and bipolar disporders. Depression is the oncoming of depressed moods, and Symptomsinclude loss of appetite, sleep disturbance, psychomotor retardation or agitation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness or helplessness, and difficulties in thinking. A main symptom is the loss of interest and pleasure from activities. Bipolar disorder is the deviated or irritable mood switch between two different personalities. Symptoms include sleepiness, inflated self-esteem, flight of ideas, distractibility, and fearless behavior. What is schizophrenia? Why is it dangerous?Schizophrenia is a term originated with the scientist Blueler, and was previously referred to as “Dementia Paradox”. Symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, paranoia, disorganization, delusions, and catatonic states. Schizophrenia can cause people to believe that people are attacking them when they aren’t, and can often cause violent outbursts and attacks on innocent people.Schizophrenics think differently then other people, and often live in a delusional state of mind.Lecture 24 (May 5th)What are some examples of treatments and where can they be found?There are numerous ways that mental illnesses can be treated. Mental hospitals provide custodial care, and is the process of caretakers looking aftermentally ill people on day to day basis; they make sure they are fed, hygiene is taken care of. Deinstitutionalization is the idea that it is cruel to keep mentally ill people in institutions for most of their lives; instead, they should be let out of these mental hospitals to live “almost-normal lives”. General hospitalshave psychiatric wards that are used for acute care. Halfway houses are when people who leave the hospitals and slowly assimilate back into the community will go to halfway houses. They help people get through their normal routines. Private offices are owned by private people with psychologists and psychiatrists who to see patients. Nursing homes offer assisted living for mentally ill people and take care of patients and determine if they are not well enough to and clients go to hospitals.Lecture 25 (May 7th)What are some assessment techniques of mental disorders?Assessment interviews are when you ask them questions about what they come in for. Objective questionnaires are used because interviews take a long time & one on one interviews are too expensive and time consuming so this is a solution; questionnaires cut time down but still diagnose patients. Psychometric personality tests can diagnose a full range of disorders in a person at once. Projective tests stem from Freudian Psychoanalysis and the logic behind it is that someone will show their personality by telling you whatthey about something outside of themselves. Behavioral Monitoring is Psychiatrist and nurses on duty in a hospital setting. They see all the patients on a day to day basis and report what they saw so they can diagnose the


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