Behavior patterns or mental processes that interfere with a person's ability to cope with everyday life..
What are psychological disorders?
100
It is a generalized apprehension, or vague feeling that one is in danger.
What is anxiety?
100
It is the expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms?
What is somatization or somatoform disorders?
100
It is a psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality.
What is schizophrenia?
100
The are maladaptive or inflexible ways of dealing with others and one's environment and enduring traits.
What are personality disorders?
200
It is complicated to classify people on the basis of mental disorders, so the DSM-IV uses five major dimensions called this.
What are axes?
200
An example would be a fear of enclosed spaces.
What is a simple phobia or phobia?
200
It is the separation of some personality components or mental processes from conscious thought.
What is dissociation or dissociation disorder?
200
It is a mood disorder that is characterized by dramatic ups and downs in moods?
What is bipolar disorder?
200
The difference is these are periods of illness, not a major component of one's personality.
What are psychological disorders?
300
This axes describes developmental disorders and long-standing personality disorders.
What is Axis II?
300
This anxiety disorder is characterized by a fear of being in places where escape may be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
300
It is a preoccupation with the fear that one has a serious disease.
What is hypochondriasis?
300
It is the most common of all psychological disorders?
What is depression?
300
People with this disorder want relationship but are too scared of doing something foolish or embarrassing.
What is avoidant or avoidant personality disorder?
400
It is the most widely used classification for psychological disorders.
What is DSM-IV?
400
It is new to the DSM-IV and is characterized by severe and long lasting aftereffects of a traumatic event.
What is PTSD or Post-traumatic stress disorder?
400
It is a dissociative amnesia in which the person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past.
What is dissociative fugue?
400
A person with schizophrenia may experience perceptions that have no direct external cause called this.
What are hallucinations?
400
This disorder is characterized by showing a persistent behavior pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others. Typically, don’t feel guilt or remorse for behavior despite threat of social rejection and punishment
What is antisocial personality disorder?
500
They are the 3 ways of defining normal.
What is deviation from normal, adjustment, and psychological health?
500
They are the four anxiety disorders?
What is generalized anxiety, phobic, panic, ocd, ptsd, or agoraphobia?
500
These are the two types of somatoform disorders.
What are conversion disorder and hypochondriasis?
500
People who are in comalike states and remain frozen in uncomfortable body positions for long periods of time are exhibiting this.
What is catatonic schizophrenia?
500
This disorder is described by staying in touch with reality, no interest in relationships, and lack normal emotional responsiveness.