General Information
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Other Disorders
100
The current revision of the system for classifying psychological disorders.
What is DSM-5
100
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
What is phobia?
100
This has been called the "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is depression?
100
The fact that if one identical twin has schizophrenia, the other has a 50% chance of getting it him/herself supports the claim that schizophrenia has a ________ factor?
What is genetic?
100
According to the text, this is the most troubling and heavily researched personality disorder.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
200
The 4 types of disorders we studied in Unit 12.
What are anxiety, somatoform, dissociative, and mood?
200
Symptoms of THIS have been reported by survivors of accidents, disasters, and violent and sexual assaults
What is PTSD?
200
The risk of suicide is at least five times greater for those who have been _______________ than for the general population.
What is depressed?
200
This subtype of schizophrenia is described as "preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity."
What is paranoid?
200
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What is dissociative?
300
Deviant and Distressing behaviors are more likely to be considered disordered when also judged to be a harmful ________________.
What is dysfunction?
300
This anxiety disorder does not have a specific reason or a physical cause for the anxiety
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
300
The emotional extremes of mood disorders come in 2 principal forms: ______________________ and ____________________.
What are major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder?
300
This subtype of schizophrenia is described as "withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared."
What is residual?
300
Disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause.
What is Somatoform Disorder?
400
If depression is the "common cold" of psychological disorders, chronic __________________ is the cancer.
What is schizophrenia?
400
If fear is intense enough, it may become THIS, which is the fear or avoidance of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes.
What is agoraphobia?
400
Depressed people tend to explain bad events in terms that are stable, global, and _______________.
What is internal?
400
Some researchers speculate that an overload of this brain chemical may intensify brain signals in schizophrenia, creating symptoms such as hallucinations and paranoia.
What is dopamine?
400
This type of Somatoform disorder was much more common during Freud's time than now
What is conversion disorder?
500
According to table 12-5 in the text, academic failure is an example of a __________factor for mental disorders and aerobic exercise is an example of a _______ factor for mental disorders.
What are risk and protective?
500
This portion of the brain seems especially likely to be hyperactive in those with OCD.
What is the anterior cingulate cortex?
500
These 2 neurotransmitter systems play a role in mood disorders.
What are noepinephrine and serotonin?
500
Some people diagnosed with schizophrenia have abnormally low brain activity in the ____________ ______________.
What are the frontal lobes?
500
This is the French term for someone someone's apathy toward lack of physical function from a conversion disorder
What is La Belle Indifference?
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