An anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from severe, continual anxiety.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
100
A mood disorder in which one experiences depression at the same times every year.
What is Season Affective Disorder (SAD)
100
A mood disorder in which one alternates between depression and mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder
100
A mental disorder in which one exhibits abnormal social behavior and a disconnect from reality.
What is Schiziophrenia
100
This offers standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR)
200
A mood disorder in which a person experiences long periods of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, or loss of interest and/or pleasure.
What is Major Depressive Disorder
200
A personality disorder in which one exhibits paranoia, long lasting suspicion, and general mistrust.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder
200
A personality disorder in which one does not have a conscious for wrongdoing.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder
200
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and compulsions.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
200
This psychologist believes that depression comes from unreasonable negative thoughts.
Who is Aaron Beck
300
An anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from sudden, unexpected anxiety attacks.
What is Panic Disorder
300
Psychological disorders in which one has enduring behavior patterns that impair social functions.
What are Personality Disorders
300
A chronic condition which includes difficulty paying attention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
300
An anxiety disorder in which social interactions cause irrational anxiety.
What is Social Phobia / Social Anxiety Disorder
300
A state of neurogenic immobility and abnormal behavior, manifested by stupor (associated with Schizophrenia).
What is catatonia
400
A psychological disorder in which one experiences bodily symptoms with no apparent cause.
What is Somatoform Disorder
400
A disorder that appears in childhood which is characterized by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind.
What is Autism
400
An eating disorder in which one starves them self because they feel that they are overweight, even if they are not.
What is Anorexia Nervosa
400
An eating disorder characterized by excessive over-eating, usually followed by vomiting, or excessive exercise.
What is Bulimia Nervosa
400
A model which states that environmental stressors can provide the circumstances under which a biological predisposition for illness can express itself.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model
500
A psychological disorder in which one has nervous system symptoms (ex: blindness, paralysis) with no apparent cause.
What is Conversion Disorder
500
A personality disorder in which one has an elevated self-importance.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder
500
Disorders in which one has a disconnection between their thoughts, feelings, memories, actions, or sense of self.
What are Dissociative Disorders
500
Fear of places or situations which that could cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
What is Agoraphobia
500
This psychologist conducted a famous experiment on the validity of psychiatric diagnosis by attempting to admit himself and other volunteers to hospitals with false symptoms.