Terms
The study of the mind and behavior.
What is psychology
When conscious awareness seems to become separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are Dissociative Disorders
Characterized by emotional extremes
What is a Mood Disorder
Only classified as a psychological disorder when it becomes distressing or persistent.
What is an Anxiety Disorder
It is the preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations. It is a type of schizophrenia.
What is paranoia
What is Mania
A mood disorder marked by a state of excitement, over activity.
A rare dissociation disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
Mood disorders come in two principal forms: _____________ and ____________
What is major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
When Jim displays excessive anxiety or worry; sometimes for no reason at all is called ____________.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A type of schizophrenia where a person is completely immobile.
What is Catatonic
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without a physical cause.
What is A somatoform disorder
Daniel has lost the memory of his personal identity. What is this called?
What is Dissociative Fugue
It is called the "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is Depression
Sarah has persistent and repetitive thoughts and actions. What is this psychological disorder called?
What is Obsessive Compulsive disorder
A psychotic disorder characterized by disturbances in thinking (cognition), emotional responsiveness, and behavior (i.e. split minds).
What is Schizophrenia?
An abnormal mental state involving significant problems with reality.
What is psychosis.
Formerly Known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Feelings of worthlessness, lethargy, loss of interest in family and friends, which last two or more weeks is called
What is Major Depressive Disorder
Kyle has an irrational fear of a rabbits. This is called a ________.
What is a Phobia
An absence of emotional expression facially, vocally, even a lack of body language.
What is Affective flattening?
Deviant and distressful behaviors and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
What is Psychological Disorder
A reaction to a traumatic event in which the individual splits the components of the event into those that can be faced in the present and those that are too harmful to process
What is dissociate
Emily is a 27 year old woman whose symptoms of mania and depression alternate. She is said to have _________.
What is Bipolar Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
What is a general intense fear of, or anxiety toward, social or performance situations.
A person with schizophrenia may have _____________. These are seeing, feeling, tasting, or smellingthings that are not there.
What are Hallucinations