Abnormality
Theories and Diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
100

A condition wherein beta-amyloid plaques kill healthy neurons, leading to cognitive impairment. 

What is Alzheimer's Disease 

100

A sleep disorder which can be treated with prescription amphetamines. 

What is Narcolepsy? 

100
The largest single group of people suffering from this are women who were sexually assaulted and who were abuse victims.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
100
The two different types of depression.
What is major depressive disorder and seasonal affective disorder?
100
Personality disorder characterized by egocentrism, lack of conscience, impulsive behavior, and manipulation of others.
What is Antisocial Personality?
200
the specialized branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders.
What is psychiatry?
200

The current ruling paradigm in psychology for understanding the causes of mental disorders 

What is the biopsychosocial model?

200
People with this disorder may find that they occasionally check stove burners, count steps, clean homes and offices past the point of normal standards, and wash their hands multiple times in order for it to be "clean."
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
200
unipolar (depressive) and bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders are the two types of ____.
What are mood disorders?
200
The co-occurence of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time, as when a person suffers from both depression and alcoholism.
What is co-morbidity?
300
An example would be the movie 50 First Dates.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300

The founder of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy

Who is Sigmund Freud? 

300
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
300
Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder?
300

The DSM-V describes individuals with inflexible, maladaptive personality traits; the best known type is the anti-social personality.

What are personality disorders?

400
When a person unrealistically interprets physical signs-such as pains, lumps, and irritations-as evidence of serious diseases.
What is hypochondriasis?
400

One of the most popular styles of therapy, categorized by an emphasis on thoughts, behaviors and feelings. 

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? (CBT)

400

A great deal of fear or discomfort that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less.

What is a panic attack?

400
A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results.
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
The most commonly diagnosed personality disorder
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
500
One random day Susan wandered off and was later found, four years later, living under a new name, with no memory of her previous life.
What is a possible situation an individual undergoes with Dissociative Disorder?
500

The neurological pathway most important in substance abuse disorders

What is the meoslimbic-mesocortical pathway?

500

A common chronic psychological condition that affects twice as many women as men and leads to considerable impairment in daily life.

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

500
Significant change in a teen's eating or sleeping patterns, decline in school performance, dramatic change in personality or appearance, drug or alcohol abuse, obsession with death, withdrawal from friends, family and regular activities, profound guilt or hopelessness, "cleaning house" by giving away favorite possessions are all warning signs of this.
What is suicide?
500
This personality disorder was named after an individual from a Greek myth, in which he fell in love with his reflection.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
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