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PSYCH 120
Abnormal Psychology Final Study Guide
Personality Disorders
- Names and distinguishing characteristics and treatments (or lack of) and prognosis
- Know similarities between personality disorders and other DSM 5 disorders (OCD/OCPD)
Anxiety Disorders
- Anxiety
o General feeling of apprehension about possible danger
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Abnormal Psychology Final Study Guide
Personality Disorders
- Names and distinguishing characteristics and treatments (or lack of) and prognosis
- Know similarities between personality disorders and other DSM 5 disorders (OCD/OCPD)
Anxiety Disorders
- Anxiety
o General feeling of apprehension about possible danger
o Cognitive/subjective, physiological, and behavioral component
o Disorders
§ Unrealistic, irrational fears or anxieties
- Specific Phobias
o Strong and persistent fear recognized as excessive or unreasonable
o Triggered by an event or object
- Treatments
o Exposure therapy
§ Participant modeling
· Virtual reality components
o Cognitive technique combinations
o Social Phobias
§ Cognitive Therapy
· Behavior Therapy
o Medications
- Panic Disorder
o Occurrence of panic attacks come out of the blue
o Recurrent, unexpected
o 4/13 symptoms at least
o Treatments
§ Medications
§ Behavioral treatments
§ Cognitive-behavioral treatments
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
o Chronic or excessive worry about multiple events and activities
o 6 month period
o Occurs more than 50% of the days
o Treatments
§ Anxiolytic Drugs
§ Busiprone
§ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- OCD
o Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
§ Occurrence of unwanted and intrusive obsessive or distressing images
§ Accompanied by compulsive behavior
o Obsessions
§ Contamination fears
§ Fears of harming oneself or others
§ Lack of symmetry
§ Pathological doubt
o Compulsions
§ Cleaning
§ Checking
§ Repeating
§ Ordering/arranging
§ Counting
o Treatments
§ Exposure and response prevention
§ Medications that affect neurotransmitter serotonin
- BDD
o Body Dysmorphic Disorder
o Obsessed with perceived or imagined flaw in appearance
o Treatments
§ Antidepressants
§ CBT
- Hoarding
o Acquire and fail to discard limited value possessions
o Disorganization in living space interferes with daily life
o Poorer prognosis for treatment than OCD
- Trichotillomania
o Pulling out hair from parts of the body
o Tension followed by pleasure
- Social Phobia
- Causal Factors
o Learned behavior
o Evolutionary factors
o Perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability
o Cognitive biases toward “danger schemas”
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