Perspectives on Disordes
Anxiety Disorders
Schizophrenia
Personality Disorders &
Rates of Disorders
Somatoform, Mood, & Dissociative Disorders
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A psychological disorder marked by appearance by age 7 with one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
What is ADHD?
100
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation
What is a phobia?
100
False beliefs that may accompany psychotic disorders
What are delusions?
100
A disorder that formally called its patients sociopaths or psychopaths
What is antisocial personality disorder?
100
A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
What is hypochondriasis?
200
Widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
What is the DSM-IV-TR
200
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
What is a panic disorder?
200
Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation, such as seeing, feeling, tasting, or smelling things that are not there.
What are hallucinations?
200
The part of the brain that is most affected in violent repeat offenders (murderers).
What is the frontal lobe? They had 11% less frontal lobe tissue than normal.
200
A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found
What is conversion disorder?
300
The diagnostic manual of human strengths
What is the "un-DSM?"
300
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehenisive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
300
Brains of schizophrenic patients have an excess number of receptors for this neurotransmitter
What is dopamine?
300
The percent of adult Americans that suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
What is 26%?
300
A rare disorder in which a perosn exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
What is Dissosiative Identity Disorder (DID)?
400
The concept that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured often through treatment in a hospital
What is the medical model?
400
Repetitive thoughts
What is an obsession?
400
A form of schizophrenia where the patient is preoccupied with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity
What is Paranoid Schizophrenia?
400
The symptoms of this disorder is among the earliest to appear, at a median age of 8.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
400
The common cold of psychological disorders
What is depression?
500
Definition of a psychological disorder
What is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors?
500
The two specific learning processes that can contribute to a phobia/anxiety.
What is stimulus generalization and reinforcement?
500
Negative symptoms found in schizophrenia
What are toneless voices, expressionless faces, or mute and rigid bodies?
500
Three protective factors for mental disorders.
What are Aerobic exercise, community service, economic independence, feelings of security, feelings of mastery/control, effective parenting, literacy, positive attachment & early bonding, positive parent-child relationship, problem-solving skills, cope with stress, self-esteem, social & work skills, and support from family & friends.
500
The two neurotransmitters that play a role in mood disorders.
What are norepinephrine and serotonin? Both increases arousal and boosts mood... in low supply with those that have depression.
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