Childhood Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Somatoform
Dissociative
Abnormal Psych
100
A childhood disorder characterized by a failure to develop normal patterns of communication, social interactions, and emotional responses
What is autism?
100
A generalized feeling of apprehension and dread that includes many bodily upsets
What is anxiety?
100
Psychological issues are expressed in bodily symptoms, but there is no actual physical problem.
What is a somatoform disorder?
100
Disorder in which memory of part of one's life becomes disconnected from other parts
What is dissociative disorders?
100
Behavior that deviates from what is expected and normal
What is abnormal behavior?
200
A disorder characterized by inattention, distractibility, impulsiveness, and/or excessive activity, and restlessness
What is ADHD?
200
When a person becomes disabled and over-whelmed by fear in the presence of certain objects or events.
What is phobic disorder?
200
Disorder in which, for example, someone psychologically may lose feeling in leg (but aren't faking it!)
What is conversion disorder?
200
Traumatic events seem to disappear from memory.
What is amnesia?
200
Science dealing with sets of behaviors or symptoms that produce a functional impairment in people’s lives
What is abnormal psychology?
300
The most common treatment in dealing with ADHD.
What is a stimulant?
300
A symbolic, ritualized behavior that a person must repeatedly act out
What is a compulsion?
300
When someone is characterized by feeling excessive concern about one's health and exaggerating the seriousness or minor physical complaints
What is hypochondriasis?
300
Forgetting only things that are very tramatic
What is selective forgetting?
300
Disorders that are distressing but still allow one to think rationally and function socially
What is neurotic disorders?
400
Characterized by social-interaction difficulties, communication challenges and a tendency to engage in repetitive behaviors
What is autism spectrum disorders?
400
A symptom characterized by an endless preoccupation with a certain urge or thought
What is an obsession?
400
A somatoform disorder in which a serious psychological trauma is changed into a symbolic physical dysfunction
What is a conversion disorder?
400
A disorder that is so rare because a number of conditions must align themselves in just the right way to produce it.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
400
System created to help classify disorders.
What is the DSM-IV/DSM-V?
500
Vaccines
What are non-causes of autism?
500
Fear of leaving a familiar environment
What is agoraphobia?
500
People who suffer from thus were typically only given affection or support from other people only when they were sick.
What is hypochondriasis?
500
An extensive, complicated type of amnesia in which a person forgets his or her current life and starts a new one somewhere else.
What is amnesia?
500
The specific cause to a specific ___________ cannot be determined.
What is disorder?
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