Mental health Exam #1|Questions with 100%
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Aversion therapy - ✔️✔️Used widely to treat behaviors. Present a negative stimuli along with the
addicted stimuli to reduce urge. Put a vomiting agent into an alcoholics drink so they think vomit
with alcohol.
Automatic thoughts - ✔️✔️Rapid unthinking responses based on schemas. Particularly frequent
and intense in depression and anxiety.
Cognitive distortions - ✔️✔️Irrational thoughts that lead to false assumptions and
misinterpretations. "Unless I get straight A's I'm a failure"
Behavior therapy - ✔️✔️A treatment method that is concerned with patterns of behavior rather
than inner motivations. Maladaptive responses are replaced with adaptive responses.
Biofeedback - ✔️✔️A technique for gaining conscious control over unconscious body functions,
such as BP and HR. Feedback obtained by sensitive instruments can provide information on
body function, and individuals can learn to monitor and control responses (anxiety/stress)
Conditioning - ✔️✔️Involves pairing a behavior with a condition that reinforces or diminishes that
behavior
Defense mechanisms - ✔️✔️Usually unconscious intrapsychic processes used to ward off anxiety
by preventing conscious awareness of threatening feelings. Can be used in a healthy or a not-so-
healthy manner.
extinction - ✔️✔️When reinforcement no longer results in a given behavior or response; in
classical conditioning or when the stimulus no longer produces a response.
Negative reinforcement - ✔️✔️Increasing the probability of a behavior by removing unpleasant
consequences. A mouse that learns to press a lever to stop a shock has undergone negative
reinforcement.
positive reinforcement - ✔️✔️Presentation of a reward directly after a behavior to increase
likelihood of that behavior happening aging.
Transference - ✔️✔️The experiencing of thoughts and feelings toward a person (often the
therapist) that were originally held toward a significant person in one's past. Used in
psychoanalytical psychotherapy.
Countertransference - ✔️✔️The tendency to displace, onto the patient, feelings that are a response
to people in your past. Strong positive or strong negative reactions to a patient.
, Short-term therapy - ✔️✔️interpersonal psychotherapy
Milieu therapy - ✔️✔️A psychiatric philosophy that involves a secure environment to effect
positive change. (including people, setting, structure, and emotional climate)
Characteristics of Dopamine - ✔️✔️Monoamine that involves fine muscle movement, emotions,
thoughts, decision making, and the hypothalamus.
↓ Depression
↑ Mania, schizophrenia
Characteristics of Norepinephrine - ✔️✔️Monoamine that effects mood, attention, arousal, and
fight or flight.
↓ Depression
↑ Mania, anxiety, schizophrenia
Characteristics of Serotonin (5-HT) - ✔️✔️Monamine involved in sleep, hunger, pain perception,
hormonal activity, aggression, and sexual arousal.
↓ Depression
↑ Anxiety
Characteristics of GABA - ✔️✔️Amino Acid involved in inhibition (self-conscious), ↓aggression,
excitation, and anxiety. Is an anticonvulsant, muscle relaxer, and may impair
cognition/psychomotor.
↓ Anxiety, schizophrenia, mania, huntingtons
↑ Reduction in anxiety
Characteristics of acetycholine - ✔️✔️Cholinergic involved in learning, memory, mood, mania,
sexual aggressions, stimulation of fight or flight.
↓ Alzheimers, huntingtons, parkinsons
↑ Depression
Benzodiazepines neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Increases concentration of GABA.
Buspirone's neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Partial agonist ↓ serotonin and affinity to dopamine. Can
cause dizziness and insomnia
TCA neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️blocks the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine thus
↑concentration at synapse. Prevents MAO. Has major cholinergic effects.
SSRI Neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Blocks reuptake of serotonin.
SNRI neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Blocks reuptake of norepinephrine
Correct Answers
Aversion therapy - ✔️✔️Used widely to treat behaviors. Present a negative stimuli along with the
addicted stimuli to reduce urge. Put a vomiting agent into an alcoholics drink so they think vomit
with alcohol.
Automatic thoughts - ✔️✔️Rapid unthinking responses based on schemas. Particularly frequent
and intense in depression and anxiety.
Cognitive distortions - ✔️✔️Irrational thoughts that lead to false assumptions and
misinterpretations. "Unless I get straight A's I'm a failure"
Behavior therapy - ✔️✔️A treatment method that is concerned with patterns of behavior rather
than inner motivations. Maladaptive responses are replaced with adaptive responses.
Biofeedback - ✔️✔️A technique for gaining conscious control over unconscious body functions,
such as BP and HR. Feedback obtained by sensitive instruments can provide information on
body function, and individuals can learn to monitor and control responses (anxiety/stress)
Conditioning - ✔️✔️Involves pairing a behavior with a condition that reinforces or diminishes that
behavior
Defense mechanisms - ✔️✔️Usually unconscious intrapsychic processes used to ward off anxiety
by preventing conscious awareness of threatening feelings. Can be used in a healthy or a not-so-
healthy manner.
extinction - ✔️✔️When reinforcement no longer results in a given behavior or response; in
classical conditioning or when the stimulus no longer produces a response.
Negative reinforcement - ✔️✔️Increasing the probability of a behavior by removing unpleasant
consequences. A mouse that learns to press a lever to stop a shock has undergone negative
reinforcement.
positive reinforcement - ✔️✔️Presentation of a reward directly after a behavior to increase
likelihood of that behavior happening aging.
Transference - ✔️✔️The experiencing of thoughts and feelings toward a person (often the
therapist) that were originally held toward a significant person in one's past. Used in
psychoanalytical psychotherapy.
Countertransference - ✔️✔️The tendency to displace, onto the patient, feelings that are a response
to people in your past. Strong positive or strong negative reactions to a patient.
, Short-term therapy - ✔️✔️interpersonal psychotherapy
Milieu therapy - ✔️✔️A psychiatric philosophy that involves a secure environment to effect
positive change. (including people, setting, structure, and emotional climate)
Characteristics of Dopamine - ✔️✔️Monoamine that involves fine muscle movement, emotions,
thoughts, decision making, and the hypothalamus.
↓ Depression
↑ Mania, schizophrenia
Characteristics of Norepinephrine - ✔️✔️Monoamine that effects mood, attention, arousal, and
fight or flight.
↓ Depression
↑ Mania, anxiety, schizophrenia
Characteristics of Serotonin (5-HT) - ✔️✔️Monamine involved in sleep, hunger, pain perception,
hormonal activity, aggression, and sexual arousal.
↓ Depression
↑ Anxiety
Characteristics of GABA - ✔️✔️Amino Acid involved in inhibition (self-conscious), ↓aggression,
excitation, and anxiety. Is an anticonvulsant, muscle relaxer, and may impair
cognition/psychomotor.
↓ Anxiety, schizophrenia, mania, huntingtons
↑ Reduction in anxiety
Characteristics of acetycholine - ✔️✔️Cholinergic involved in learning, memory, mood, mania,
sexual aggressions, stimulation of fight or flight.
↓ Alzheimers, huntingtons, parkinsons
↑ Depression
Benzodiazepines neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Increases concentration of GABA.
Buspirone's neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Partial agonist ↓ serotonin and affinity to dopamine. Can
cause dizziness and insomnia
TCA neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️blocks the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine thus
↑concentration at synapse. Prevents MAO. Has major cholinergic effects.
SSRI Neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Blocks reuptake of serotonin.
SNRI neurotransmitter - ✔️✔️Blocks reuptake of norepinephrine
