PSYC 515 FINAL ch. 11-14 EXAM Q&A 2024

PSYC 515 FINAL ch. 11-14 EXAM Q&A 2024 Pain - Answer -the sensory and emotion components - experience of discomfort, which is usually associated with actual threatened tissue damage or irritation components of pain - Answer -location, intensity, quality, duration, temporal pattern Types of pain - Answer -Acute- less than 3 months Chronic- greater than 3 months (most difficult physically and mentally) Psychogenic Pain - Answer -a pain disorder attributed to psychological factors Organic Pain - Answer -patients to perceive pain as a noxious and uncontrollable condition that is associated with a catastrophising effect Types of Chronic pain - Answer -Chronic-recurrent pain Chronic-intractable pain Chronic-progressive pain Chronic-recurrent pain - Answer -benign causes, repeated, intense episodes (e.g. migraines) Chronic-intractable pain - Answer -discomfort present all the time with varying levels of intensity (e.g. back pain) Chronic-progressive pain - Answer -continuous discomfort, gets more intense (e.g. cancer) How pain perception works (nociception) - Answer -nerve carry signals along the A-delta nerve fibers and C-fibers Fibers enter spinal cord and ascend to the brain A-delta nerve fiber - Answer -thinly myelinated, fast moving (A students are sharp) C-fibers - Answer -unmyelinated, slow moving (C students are dull)Neuropathic pain - Answer -Pain without a direct environmental/ tissue cause Types of neuropathic pain - Answer -Neuralgia Causalgia Phantom limb pain Neuralgia - Answer -recurrent episodes of intense shooting or stabbing pain along a nerve Causalgia - Answer -recurrent episodes of severe, burning pa