Group One
The scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is psychology?
Short for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
What is OCD?
Characterized by extreme mood swings that include mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Positive, negative and cognitive.
What are symptoms of schizophrenia?
Disorder characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks.
What is Panic Disorder?
A book of diagnostic criteria published by the American Psychiatric Association used to classify and diagnose mental disorders.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
Psychotherapeutic talk therapy and biological therapy.
What are the two forms of therapy for psychological disorders?
Delusions and hallucinations are ______ symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Disorder characterized by a lack of conscience, disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others.
What is Antisocial personality disorder?
Individual, group, play, couple, family.
What are types of talk therapy?
Medical doctor who specializes in mental health diagnosis and treatment, prescribes medication, orders laboratory and psychological tests.
Drugs, ECT, and Psychosurgery.
What are three biological treatments for psychological disorders?
Personality or mood changes, talking or writing about death or dying, increase of drugs or alcohol, availability of a handgun, sharp decline in school or job performance and attendance, giving away prized possessions.
Warning signs of Suicide.
_______ is an appropriate response to a real threat while ________ ________ are characterized by excessive responses to nonexistent or low threats.
What is anxiety and anxiety disorders?
Involves a caregiver who fakes or induces an illness in another person, usually to gain power and control over the victim as well as attention or sympathy from others.
Factious Disorder Imposed on Another (Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy).
Intense immersion in 1:1 psychotherapy, group therapy, and biological therapy.
What is hospitalization?
Disorder where the individual exaggerates or creates symptoms of illnesses in themselves in order to gain investigation, treatment, attention, sympathy, and comfort from medical personnel.
What is Factitious Disorder?
A highly effective treatment for Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder, where small electric currents are passed through the brain to trigger a brief, controlled seizure, which alters brain chemistry.
What is ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy)
Type of therapy that promotes behavioral change by applying classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
Taking a walk, listening to music, expressing gratitude, laughing.
What are ways to reduce stress?
Created by a famous behavioral psychologist and also known as an operant chamber, this is an instrument that isolates an animal from external environment and allows a researcher to control the animal's rewards and punishments by shaping behavior in successive approximations.
What is a Skinner Box?
Drugs commonly prescribed for this disorder are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
What is Depression?
Disorder characterized by an inflated sense of self importance and an unlimited need for approval or admiration, self-centeredness, grandiosity, and lack of empathy.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
According to the DSM-5 TR, there are two physical criteria present in substance physiological (physical) dependence.
What are tolerance and withdrawal?
Affects survivors of many different kinds of traumatic experiences such as natural or man-made disasters, assaults, or witnessing a death.
What is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)