Sudden unexplainable attack of intense anxiety - feel intense doom
What is panic disorder
100
A person who is in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments
What is hypochondriasis
100
A false belief that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
What is a delusion
100
A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience
What is anit-social personality
100
the manual used by psychologists to help them classify psychological disorders
What is the DSM-IV
200
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
200
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
What is Conversion disorder
200
Severe form of depression that interferes with functioning, concentration, and mental and physical well-being
What is Major Depressive Disorder
200
The United States most serious drug problem
What is alcoholism
200
the five major dimensions that describe a person's mental functioning (in general)
What are the AXES
300
Thinking the same thoughts over and over
What is an obsession
300
A dissosiative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectently travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
What is dissociative fugue
300
perceptions that have no direct external cause
What is a hallucination
300
Helping the alcoholic through the violent withdrawal
What is delirium tremens
300
what type of schizophrenia includes incoherent language, inappropriate emotions, giggling for no apparent reason,
generally disorganized motore behavior, and hallucinations and delusions
What is disorganized schizophrenia
400
Continually performing irrational actions
What is a Compulsion
400
Two or more distinct personalities each with their own patterns of thinking and behaving
What is dissociative identity disorder
400
Language sped up or disorganized
What is word salad
400
Three stages of alcoholism
What is 1)Drink makes a person feel better 2)Drinking becomes daily - hide habit 3)Drinking becomes compulsive - dependent on alcohol
400
the four descriptions within each diagnostic category of the DSM-IV?
What is 1)Essential features of the disorder 2)the associated features of the disorder 3)information of differential diagnosis, and 4) the diagnostic criteria for the disorder
500
A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger
What is anxiety
500
physical symptoms for which there are no apparent physical cause
What is a somataform disorder
500
Type of schizophrenia that causes limbs to remain motionless for long periods of time and in unusual positions "waxy flexibility"
What is catatonic schizophrenia
500
Why does the DSM-IV cover drug addiction and alcoholism
What is ...This is a major psychological problem in American society affecting millions. It is widespread that causes physical and social problems in addition to psychological problems.
500
Explain the adjustment approach to abnormal behavior and the limitations of the approach
The adjustment approach assumes that normal people are able to get along physically, emotionally, and socially in the world. Those who are not able to adjust to the expectations of daily living are considered abnormal