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What is the scientific study of psychological disorders called? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Abnormal Psychology
What are the four agreed-upon features of abnormal behavior? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction/Maladaptive behavior,
Danger (controversial and when present is often danger to self)
Is there a universal definition of abnormal behavior? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A mental
health condition triggered by a traumatic event.
What type of event typically triggers PTSD? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A traumatic
event that is life-threatening or threatens bodily autonomy.
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,How long after a traumatic event can PTSD begin? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔PTSD
can begin 30 days or more after the traumatic event; onset can be delayed
for years.
How long can someone experience PTSD? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A person can
have PTSD for 30-40 years.
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Begins 2 days or more after
a traumatic event. At day 30 if the symptoms remain it is no longer this and
is considered to be PTSD.
Simple vs Complex PTSD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Simple PTSD - Caused by one
traumatic event
Complex PTSD - Caused by several traumatic events
Symptoms of PTSD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hyper alertness, easily startled, sleep
disturbance, guilty, anxiety, despression, difficulty with concentration,
feeling detached/unable to love, and flashbacks (reliving event on loop,
typically includes sound).
PTSD prevalence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔9.2% of Canadians experience PTSD in
their lifetime. Twice as common in women as men.
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,PTSD biological factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Increased cortisol and
norepinephrine. Damaged hippocampus (gathering memory), amygdala
(flight or fight).
PTSD Other factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔History of prior trauma associated
with increased risk. Social and family support reduces risk.
PTSD Generation effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Severe stress can cause
epigenetic changes (changes in how genes are expressed) that are passed
along to offspring. Can cause: attachment disorders, anxiety disorders,
mood disorders, substance abuse and addictions, and more.
Mood Disorders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Characterized by emotional disturbances
of varied kinds. Spillover to physical, perceptual, social, and thought
processes. Not due to substance use. The prevalence of depression has
been increasing for generations.
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Emotional - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Depressed mood
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Motivational - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Loss of desire to do usual activities, lack of drive
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, Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Behavioural - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Less active and productive, may move and speak slowly or
seem physically agitated
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Cognitive - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔negative self-evaluation, self-blame, pessimism, guilt, indecisiveness,
difficulty concentrating, thoughts of death or suicide.
Major Depressive Disorder Core symptoms (1 or both) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Sadness, emptiness or feeling down. 2. Loss of interest or pleasure.
Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (4+ or more symptoms) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Hoplessness, tiredness and lack of energy, low self-esteem
self-criticism or feeling incapable, trouble concentrating and trouble making
decisions, irritability or excessive anger, fecreaded activity effectiveness
and productivity, avoidance of social activities, feeling of guilt and worries
over the past, sleep problems, poor appetite or overeating.
Persistent Depressive Disorder - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Depressed mood for most
of the day, Depressed for 2 years or more, but they don't have the
symptoms of major depression disorder.
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What is the scientific study of psychological disorders called? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Abnormal Psychology
What are the four agreed-upon features of abnormal behavior? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction/Maladaptive behavior,
Danger (controversial and when present is often danger to self)
Is there a universal definition of abnormal behavior? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A mental
health condition triggered by a traumatic event.
What type of event typically triggers PTSD? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A traumatic
event that is life-threatening or threatens bodily autonomy.
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,How long after a traumatic event can PTSD begin? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔PTSD
can begin 30 days or more after the traumatic event; onset can be delayed
for years.
How long can someone experience PTSD? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A person can
have PTSD for 30-40 years.
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Begins 2 days or more after
a traumatic event. At day 30 if the symptoms remain it is no longer this and
is considered to be PTSD.
Simple vs Complex PTSD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Simple PTSD - Caused by one
traumatic event
Complex PTSD - Caused by several traumatic events
Symptoms of PTSD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hyper alertness, easily startled, sleep
disturbance, guilty, anxiety, despression, difficulty with concentration,
feeling detached/unable to love, and flashbacks (reliving event on loop,
typically includes sound).
PTSD prevalence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔9.2% of Canadians experience PTSD in
their lifetime. Twice as common in women as men.
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,PTSD biological factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Increased cortisol and
norepinephrine. Damaged hippocampus (gathering memory), amygdala
(flight or fight).
PTSD Other factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔History of prior trauma associated
with increased risk. Social and family support reduces risk.
PTSD Generation effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Severe stress can cause
epigenetic changes (changes in how genes are expressed) that are passed
along to offspring. Can cause: attachment disorders, anxiety disorders,
mood disorders, substance abuse and addictions, and more.
Mood Disorders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Characterized by emotional disturbances
of varied kinds. Spillover to physical, perceptual, social, and thought
processes. Not due to substance use. The prevalence of depression has
been increasing for generations.
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Emotional - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Depressed mood
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Motivational - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Loss of desire to do usual activities, lack of drive
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, Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Behavioural - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Less active and productive, may move and speak slowly or
seem physically agitated
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Functioning: Cognitive - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔negative self-evaluation, self-blame, pessimism, guilt, indecisiveness,
difficulty concentrating, thoughts of death or suicide.
Major Depressive Disorder Core symptoms (1 or both) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Sadness, emptiness or feeling down. 2. Loss of interest or pleasure.
Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (4+ or more symptoms) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Hoplessness, tiredness and lack of energy, low self-esteem
self-criticism or feeling incapable, trouble concentrating and trouble making
decisions, irritability or excessive anger, fecreaded activity effectiveness
and productivity, avoidance of social activities, feeling of guilt and worries
over the past, sleep problems, poor appetite or overeating.
Persistent Depressive Disorder - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Depressed mood for most
of the day, Depressed for 2 years or more, but they don't have the
symptoms of major depression disorder.
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