Thursday, December 12, 2019

Unit 7 - Psychological Disorders and Treatments


A harmful dysfunction in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable

U - unjustifiable
M - Maladpative
A - Atypical
D - Disturbing 

DSM V

  • DSM will classify disorders and describe their disorders
  • DSM will NOT explain the cause or possible cures

Disorders

Anxiety Disorder

  • a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety
  • the patient fears something awful will happen to them
  • they are in a state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or fear

Phobias

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  • a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread

Panic Disorder

  • an anxiety disorder marked by minute-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking and other frightening sensations

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

  • an anxiety disorder in which a person is continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal
  • the patient is constantly tense and worried, feels inadequate, is oversensitive,, can't concentrate and suffers from insomnia

Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder

  • persistent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) cause someone to feel the need (compulsion) to engage in a particular action
  • obsessions about dirt and germs may lead to compulsive hand washing

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder


  • flashbacks or nightmares following a person's involvement in or observation of an extremely stressful events
  • memories of the event cause anxiety  

Somatoform Disorders

  • occurs when a person manifests a psychological problems through a physiological symptom

Hypochondriasis

  • has frequent physical complaints for which medical doctors are unable to locate the cause 

Conversion Disorder

  • report the existence of severe physical problems with no biological reason
  • like blindness or paralysis

Dissociative Disorder

  • these disorders involve disruption in the consciousness process

Psychogenic Amnesia 

  • a person cannot remember things with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory
  • retrograde amnesia
  • NOT organic

Dissociative Fugue

  • people with psychogenic amnesia that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment 

Dissociative Identity Disorder

  • used to be known as multiple personality disorder 
  • a person has several rather than one integrated personality
  • people with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma

Mood Disorders

  • experience extreme or inappropriate emotion

Major Depression

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  • unhappy for at least two weeks with no apparent cause
  • depression is the common cold of psychological disorders 

Seasonal Affective Disorder

  • experience depression during the winter season 
  • based not on temperature, but the amount of sunlight
  • treated with light therapy

Bipolar Disorder

  • for many manic depression
  • involves periods of depression and manic episodes
  • manic episodes involve feeling of high energy
  • engage in risky behavior during the manic episode

Schizophrenia

About 1 in every 100 people are diagnosed with schizophrenia

Symptoms

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  • disorganized thinking 
  • disrupted perception
  • inappropriate emotions and actions

Disorganized Thinking

  • the thinking of a person with schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs
  • disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention

Delusions

  • delusions are persecution 
  • delusions of glandular 

Disturbed Perception 

  • hallucinations- sensory experiences without sensory simulations

Inappropriate Emotions and Actions

  • Laugh at inappropriate times
  • flat affect
  • senseless, compulsive acts
  • catatonia- motionless
Positive vs Negative Symptoms


  • Positive - presence of inappropriate symptoms 
  • Negative - Absence of appropriate ones

Types of Schizophrenia

Paranoid Schizophrenia

  • preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations 
  • somebody is out to get me!!!

Disorganized Schizophrenia 

  • disorganized speech or behavior, flat pr inappropriate emotion

Catatonic Schizophrenia


  • parrot like repeating of another's speech and movement

Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

  • many and varied symptoms


Personality Disorders

Psychological disorder characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

Paranoid Personalty Disorder 

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  • paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people are you have sinister motives
Antisocial Personality Disorder

  • characterized by lack of conscience 
  • tend to lie and steal   
Borderline Personality Disorder

  • characterized by mood instability and poor self-image
  • people with this disorder are prone to constant mood swings and bouts of anger

Image result for attention seeking cartoonHistrionic Personality Disorder

  • constant attention seeker

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

  • characterized by self-contentedness

Schizoid Personality Disorder

  • avoid relationships and do not show emotions 
Schizotypal

  • characterized by a need for social isolation, and behavior and thinking often unconventional beliefs such as being convinced of having extra sensory abilities
  • some people believe that schizotypal personality is a mild form of schizophrenia

Avoidant Personality Disorder

  • characterized by persuasive patterns of social inhibition, feeling of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation
  • considered themselves to be socially inept or personally unappealing, and avoid social interaction for fear of being ridiculed or humiliated

Dependent Personality Disorder


  • characterized by a persuasive psychological dependence on other people
  • has difficulty making everyday decisions without excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others 

Obsessive Personality Disorder

  • characterized by general psychological inflexibility, rigid conformity to rules and procedures, perfectionism, and excessive orderliness 





  

Unit 5 - Social Pyschology

Social psychology is the study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Social Thinking

Image result for attribution theory cartoon Attribution Theory

  • the idea that we give a casual explanation for someone's behavior
  • we credit that behavior either to the situation or...
  • to the person's disposition

Fundamental Attribution Theory

  • the tendency to underestimate the impact of a situation or overestimate the impact of a personal disposition

Attitudes

  • a belief or felling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to something

Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon

  • the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to later comply with a larger request

Door-in-the-Face Phenomenon

  • the tendency for people who say no to a huge request, to comply with a smaller one 

Cognitive Dissonance 

  • we don't like when we have either conflicting attitudes or when our attitudes don't match our actions
  • when they clash, we will change our attitude to create balance



Social Influence

Conformity

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  • adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
Conditions that Strengthen Conformity

  • one made to feel incompetent 
  • the group is at least 3 people
  • the group is unanimous 
  • one admires the group's status
  • one had made no prior commitment
  • the person is observed 
  • Normative Social Influence: influences resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disappointment 
  • Informational Social Influence: influence resulting from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality

Social Facilitation

  • improved performance of tasks in the presence of others
  • occurs with simple or well learned tasks
  • not with tasks that are difficult or not mastered yet

Yerkes-Dodson Law 

There is an optimal level of arousal for the best performance of any task:
  • easy tasks- relatively high
  • difficult tasks- low arousal
  • other tasks- moderate level

Social Loafing

  • the tendency for people in a group exert less effort when pooling efforts toward a common goal than if they were individually accountable 

Deindividuation 

  • the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity 

Group Polarization

  • the concept that a group's attitude is one of extremes and rarely moderate

Group Thinking

  • The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides common sense 

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 

  • occurs when one person's belief about others leads one to act in ways that induce the others to appear to confirm the belief

Social Relations 

Prejudice 

  • An unjustifiable attitude towards a group of people
  • usually involves stereotyped beliefs (a generalized belief about a group of people)
Social Inequalities 

  • Ingroup Bias: the tendency to favor one's own group
  • Ingroup: "us" - people wit whom one shares a common identity
  • Outgroup: "them" - those perceived as different than one's ingroup  

Scapegoat Theory

  • the theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger providing someone to blame
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Aggression

  • any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone 

Conflict

  • a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas


Love
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  • Passionate love: an aroused state of intense positive absorption of another
  • Compassionate Love: the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined 

Altruism

  • unselfish regard for the welfare of others 
  • Kitty Genovese Case
  • Bystander Effect: bystanders are less willing to help if there are other bystanders around 



Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Motivation and Emotions

Motivation and Emotion

MOTIVATION 

  • A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
  • Instinct Theory: we are motivated by our inborn automated behaviors
  • Drive-Reduction Theory: the idea that a psychological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
  • pulled by our incentives: a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior

Hunger

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  • hunger is both physiological and psychological
  • hunger does NOT come from our stomach
  • it comes from the hypothalamus
  • Lateral Hypothalamus: when stimulated it makes you hungry
  • Ventromedial Hypothalamus: when stimulated you feel full

Eating Disorders

Image result for eating disordersBulimia Nervosa: characterized by binging (eating large amounts of food) and pruging (getting rid of the food)
Anorexia Nervosa: starve themselves to below 85% of their normal body weight
  • see themselves as fat
  • vast majority are women 

Achievement Motivation

  • Intrinsic Motivators: rewards we get internally, such as enjoyment or satisfaction
  • Extrinsic Motivators: reward that we get for accomplishments from outside ourselves (grades or money, or etc.) work great in the short run
Management Theory
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  • Theory X: 
  • managers believe their employees work only if rewarded wit benefits or threatened with punishment
  • think employees are extrinsically motivated 
  • only interested in Moslow's lower need
  • Theory Y:
  • managers believe that employees are internally motivated to do good work and policies  should encourage the internal motive
  • interested in Moslow's higher needs

Conflict

  • approach-approach conflict: one must choose between 2 desirable or attractive goals
  • avoidance-avoidance conflict: it refers to making a dream between 2 equally undesirable choices
  • approach-avoidance conflict: occurs when there's one goal or even have both positive and negative effects
  • multiple approach-avoidance conflict: it refers to when an individual is frequently faced with having to choose between 2 or more goals, each of which have an attractive and repulsive aspect.  


EMOTIONS

James-Lange Theory of Emotion 
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  • Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli
  • we feel emotion because of biological changes caused by stress
  • the body changes and our mind recognizes the feeling 
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
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  • Emotion- arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger:
   - Physiological responses
   -  Subjective experience to emotion
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Schachter's Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
  • to experience emotion one must:
   - Be physically aroused
   - Cognitively label the arousal

Lie Detectors
  • Machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies
  •  measures several different physiological responses accompanying
Catharsis
  • emotion release
  • catharsis hypothesis:
   - releasing aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges

Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon
  • people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
Adaption-Level Phenomenon
  • tendency to form judgments relative to a "neutral" level
  • brightness of lights
  • volume of sound 
  • level of income
Relative Deprivation 
  • perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself