Definitions
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Personality/psych Disorders
100
ongoing patterns of thoughts, feelings, actions that are deviant, distressful, and/or dysfunctional
Psychological Disorders
100
The people with this Disorder worry continually,often jittery, agitated and sleep deprived
Generalized anxiety disorder
100
Which two principal forms do mood disorders come in?
Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
100
Which chemical is found in excess of schizophrenia patients.
Dopamine
100
Disruptive, inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair one's social functioning.
Personality disorders
200
A current authoritative scheme for classifying psychological disorders
DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edition, text revision)
200
with the nick name "anxiety tornado," its accompanied with heart palpitations, minutes of extreme terror, shortness of breath, and chocking sensations, etc..
Panic Disorder
200
Alternating between depression and mania signals what?
Bipolar Disorder
200
Which area of the brain has abnormally low brain activity in schizophrenia patients? and what does it control
Frontal lobes; reasoning, planning, and problem solving
200
The most troubling and heavily researched personality disorder is what?
Antisocial personality disorder.
300
People interpret normal sensations as symptoms of a dreaded disease.
Hypochondriasis
300
Many people accept this and live with it, but others are incapacitated by their efforts to avoid the fear sensation.
Phobias
300
What group age wise has the highest rate of suicide?
Older men
300
Name the five Subtypes of Schizophrenia.
Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, Undifferentiated, Residual.
300
Why can antisocial personality disorder by so horrifyingly tragic in extreme cases?
They feel and fear little
400
Two or more distinctive identities are said to alternately control the persons behavior
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
400
Washing your hands is normal; washing so often than your hands become raw is not...
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
400
Which lobe of the brain is inactive during depressed states?
Left frontal lobe
400
What are believed to be some of the contributors to the development of Schizophrenia.
Low Birth weight, lack of oxygen during delivery, famine.
400
What estimated percent of adult Americans "suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year?"
26 percent
500
Occurs when at least five signs of depression last two or more weeks and are not caused by drugs or a medical condition.
Major depressive Disorder
500
Name the two learning perspectives.
Fear Conditioning & Observational Learning
500
What are the four pieces to the depression puzzle?
Stressful experiences, Negative explanatory style, Depressed mood, Cognitive and behavioral changes.
500
Schizophrenia is a disease of the _____ exhibited in symptoms of the _____.
Brain, Mind.
500
Name the 3 clusters of personality disorders.
Avoidant personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
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