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CIE Psychology

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    A2 content - abnormality
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  • What is a hallucination?
    sensory experiences that may involve seeing or hearing things that do not exist
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  • Who researched symptom assessment of schizophrenia using virtual reality?
    Freeman (2008)
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  • Where did Gottesman and Shields take their sample from?
    Maudsley hospital London
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  • Where is an increase of dopamine seen in the brain in schizophrenic patients?
    Broca's region
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  • Which serotonin recpetor is shown to have a small relationship with depression?
    5HT2C
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  • What are the six characteristics of addiction according to Griffiths (2005)
    Salience, mood modification, tolerance, conflict, withdrawal, relapse
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  • What is the feeling-state theory?
    intense desire + intense positive experience = feeling-state
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  • Which treatment of impulse-control disorders draws on classical conditioning?
    Covert sensitisation
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  • What does EMDR stand for?
    Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing
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  • Name one measure of anxiety disorders
    BIPI, GAD-7
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  • What stage of psychosexual development was Little Hans going through?
    Phallic stage (accept Oedipus complex)
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  • What are the biomedical explanations of OCD?
    Genetic (SLITRK3, PTPRD), biochemical (Oxytocin), Neurological (basal ganglia)
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  • What does the dopamine hypothesis suggest?
    brains of those with schizophrenia produce more dopamine than those without
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  • What are the four treatments of Schizophrenia?
    Biochemical (antipsychotics), ECT, Token economy, CBT
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  • Describe Beck's depression inventory
    21-item self report meausre assessing attitudes and symptoms for depression. Each item consists of four statements on a scale of 0-3.
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  • What is the difference between MAOIs and SSRIs?
    One inhibits the work of the enzyme monamine oxidase which usually breaks down serotonin. The other stops serotonin being broken down. SSRIs are newer.
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