Vocabulary
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Personality Disorders
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Section 1
100
Repetitive ritual behaviors, often involving checking or cleaning something
Compulsions
100
Arachnophobia
Fear of spiders
100
Suspicious and distrust about other' motives
Paranoid
100
A person who must lock every door and window twice every night might be diagnosed with this disorder.
OCD
100
Behavior patterns or mental processes that cause serious personal suffering or interfere with a person's ability to cope with everyday life.
Psychological disorders
200
A relatively short period of intense fear or discomfort, characterized by shortness of breath, dizziness, rapid heart rate, trembling or shaking, sweating, choking, nausea, or other distressing physical symptoms
Panic Attack
200
Claustophobia
Fear of enclosed spaces
200
Excessive emotionality, need for attention
Histrionic
200
A schizophrenic may feel as if they are being persecuted by this government agency.
FBI or CIA
200
Often equated with what is average for the majority of people
What is normal.
300
A general state of dread or uneasiness that occurs in response to a vague or imagined danger
Anxiety
300
DAILY DOUBLE Agoraphobia
Fear of being in places where escape may be difficult or impossible
300
Grandiosity, need for admiration, lack if empathy
Narcissistic
300
A girl was raped by her uncle. Now any male who tries to approach her are met with aggression with the girl having flashbacks of the trauma and nightmares. What is her disorder?
PTSD
300
The degree to which it is average of the behavior or mental processes of the majority of people
Typicality
400
Separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought
Dissociation
400
Triskedekaphobia
Fear of the number 13
400
Disregard of the rights of others
Antisocial
400
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or excessive or unrealistic worry about life circumstances
GAD
400
Behavior that impairs an individual's ability to function adequately in everyday life
Maladaptivity
500
Refers to the expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms
Somatization
500
Ophidiophobia
Fear of snakes
500
Acute discomfort in close relationships, eccentricities of behavior?
Schizotypal
500
DSM
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
500
Clusters of symptoms that define or describe an illness
Culture-bound syndromes
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