Abnormal Psychology Exam 2 Questions with Verified Answers
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Abnormal Psychology
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Abnormal Psychology
a disorder that involves depressive and/or manic symptoms - Answer-mood disorder
slow thoughts and movements - Answer-psychomotor retardation
fidgeting, pacing, and wringing their hands - Answer-psychomotor agitation
a disorder of individuals who have experienced an episode of depression. ...
Abnormal Psychology Exam 2
Questions with Verified Answers
a disorder that involves depressive and/or manic symptoms - Answer-mood disorder
slow thoughts and movements - Answer-psychomotor retardation
fidgeting, pacing, and wringing their hands - Answer-psychomotor agitation
a disorder of individuals who have experienced an episode of depression. Depression
episodes are marked by sadness, loss of pleasure, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, loss
of sleep, appetite. Persists for TWO weeks! - Answer-major depressive disorder
a term used to describe a type of disorder where symptoms tend to be present for a
period of time and then clear - Answer-episodic disorder
people who are *chronically depressed more than half of the time for at least TWO
YEARS* who feel blue and derive little pleasure from usual activities or pastimes -
Answer-dysthymic disorder
not enough sun or light in the winter time - Answer-seasonal affective disorder
a state of intense elation or irritability accompanied by excessive talkativeness, rapid
thoughts, distractibility, gradiose plans, heightened sensitivity, and insensitivity to the
negative consequences - Answer-mania
shifting from topic to topic in speech - Answer-flight of ideas
a less extreme form of mania - Answer-hypomania
a disorder that includes a single episode of mania during the course of a persons' life
with depression - Answer-bipolar I disorder
the less extreme form of bipolar disorder where *a person must have experienced at
least one major depressive episode and at least one episode of hypomania* - Answer-
bipolar II disorder
a chronic mood disorder where *the person has frequent but mild symptoms of
depression and mild symptoms of mania* - Answer-cyclothymic disorder
at least four mood episodes per year - Answer-rapid cycling
, a subtype of MDD in which the person is unable to feel better even momentarily when
something good happens, regularly feels worse in the morning and awakens early, and
suffers a deepening of other symptoms of depression - Answer-melancholic
a system in the brain that *guides pleasure, motivation, and energy in the context of
opportunities to obtain rewards* - Answer-reward system
the precursor of serotonin - Answer-tryptophan
a syndrome involved with the over secretion of cortisol - Answer-cushing's syndrome
a family member's critical or hostile comments toward or emotional overinvolvement
with the person suffering from depression - Answer-expressed emotion
a personality trait that involves the tendency to react to events with greater-than-
average negative affect. now called "*negative emotionality*" - Answer-neuroticism
negative views of the self, world, and future - Answer-Beck's Negative Triad
the tendencies to process information in negative ways - Answer-cognitive biases
the most important trigger of depression is hopelessness
1. desirable outcomes will not occur
2. the person cannot change the situation - Answer-hopelessness theory
the explanations a person forms about why a stressor has occurred - Answer-
attributions
people believe that negative life events are due to stable and global causes - Answer-
attributional style
a tendency to repetitively dwell on sad experiences and thoughts or to chew on material
again and again - Answer-rumination theory
a type of therapy that involves meditation - Answer-mindfulness based cognitive therapy
increase participation in positively reinforcing activities so as to disrupt the spiral of
depression, withdrawal, and avoidance - Answer-behavioral activation
when couples work through depression together - Answer-behavioral couples therapy
an approach to managing bipolar disorder which *typically help people learn about the
symptoms, expected time course of symptoms, the triggers for symptoms, and
treatments* - Answer-psychoeducational approach
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