Phobias and Behavior
Stress and Mood
Mutiple Personality and mental disorders
Technical terms
100
A phobic fear that causes its victims to experience anxiety about leaving their homes. They rarely open their windows, and often panic when people come knocking at the front door.
What is Agoraphobia
100
The name of the conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception?
What is Dissociative Disorders
100
A condition formerly called psychogenic amnesia.
What is Dissosciative Amnesia
100
A model that considers abnormal behavior to be categorized as a disease.
What is Medical Model
200
A disorder that entails sudden and unexpected attacks of overwhelming anxiety, especially when a person is in an unfamiliar environment or around people they don't know.
What is Panic Disorder
200
The common name for the feeling we have when under pressure?
What is stress
200
What is previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD).
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
200
A evaluation often used in twin studies to determine the extent to which a certain gene or group of genes is responsible for a certain trait, such as homosexuality?
What is Concordance Rate
300
A behavior that lacks the ability to do everyday things and engage in normal adaptive situations.
What is Maladaptive Behavior
300
Once it was called shell shock or battle fatigue syndrome.
What is PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
300
A mental disorder characterized by a pervasive and persistent low mood that is accompanied by low self-esteem and by a loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities?
What is Major Depressive Disorder
300
People who are often said to have a particular disorder because their behavior deviates from what their society considers appropriate.
What is Deviance
400
The persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger.
What is Phobic Disorder
400
The name of the mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood?
What is Mood Disorders
400
The medical name of the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, e.g. exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions?
What is Anhedonia
400
A term that refers to the apparent causation and development history of an illness.
What is Etiology
500
The diagnosis of a psychological disorder that is based on an individual's report of great personal distress or anxiety.
What is Personal Distress
500
Name the mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, have certain thoughts repeatedly, or feel they need to perform certain routines repeatedly. People are unable to control either the thoughts or the activities.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
500
These disorders belong to a class marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.
What is Anxiety Disorders
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