A widely used system for classiying psychological disorders.
What is DSM-IV-TR?
100
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
What is phobia?
100
Disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause.
What is somatoform?
100
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What is dissociative?
100
Mood disorder in which the person althernates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is bipolar?
200
The 4 types of disorders we studied in Unit 12.
What are anxiety, somatoform, dissociative, and mood?
200
Deviant and stressful behaviors are more likely to be considered disordered when also judged to be a harmful ________________.
What is dysfunction?
200
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?
200
Symptoms of THIS have been reported by survivors of accidents, disasters, and violent and sexual assaults.
What is PTSD?
200
Research indicates that the greater one's _____________ ________________ during a trauma, the higher risk for post traumatic symptoms.
What is emotional distress?
300
This portion of the brain seems especially likely to be hyperactive in those with OCD.
What is anterior cingulate cortex?
300
The emotional extremes of mood disorders come in 2 principal forms: ______________________ and ____________________.
What are major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder?
300
This has been called the "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is depression?
300
Major depressive disorder occurs when at least this many signs of depression last two or more weeks and are not caused by drugs or a medical condition.
What is 5?
300
Many behavioral and _____________ changes accompany depression.
What is cognitive?
400
These 2 neurotransmitter systems play a role in mood disorders.
What are norepinephrine and serotonin?
400
Depressed people tend to explain bad events in terms that are stable, global, and ________________.
What is internal?
400
If depression is the "common cold" of psychological disorders, chronic __________________ is the cancer.
What is schizophrenia?
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
According to the text, this is the most troubling and heavily researched personality disorder.
What is antisocial personality 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
Some people diagnosed with schizophrenia have abnormally low brain activity in the ____________ ______________.
What are the frontal lobes?
500
The risk of suicide is at least five times greater for those who have been _______________ than for the general population.
What is depressed?
500
This subtype of schizophrenia is described as "preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity."
What is paranoid?
500
This subtype of schizophrenia is described as "withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared."