Definitions
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Personality/Psych Disorders
100
ongoing patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions that are diviant, distressful, or dysfunctional.
Psychological Disorders
100
a person that is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy
Generalized anxiety Disorder
100
Name the 2 principal forms of mood disorders
Major depressive dissorder and Bipolar Disorder
100
This chemical is found in excess in brains with schizophrenia
Dopamine
100
Disruptive, and inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair ones social functioning
personailty Disorders
200
Current authoriative scheme for classifying pshychological disorders
DSM-IV-TR
200
It suddenly strikes, wrecks havoc then dissapears. 1 in 75 people have this disorder
Panic Disorder
200
Alternating between depression and mania signals
Bipolar Disorder
200
what part of the brain has abnormally low activity? and what does it control?
Frontal lobes;reasoning, planning, problem solving
200
The most troubling and heavily researched personality disorder
Antisocial personailty Disorder
300
people interpret normal sensations as symptoms of a dreaded disease.
Hypochondriasis
300
irrational fears cause the person to avoid some object, activity, or siuation.
Phobias
300
the highest rates of suicide are attributed to this group
Older Men
300
Name the 5 subtypes of Schizophrenia
paranoid, dissorganized, catatonic, undifferentated residal
300
What makes antisocial personality disorder so dangerous in extreme cases
They feel and fear little
400
Two or more distinct indentities are said to alternately control a persons behavior.
Dissociative Idenity Disorder
400
checking to see if the door is locked is normal, checking it ten times is not.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
400
Many studies have found less activity in this area of the brain in depressed patients
Left frontal lobe
400
What are the risk factors for developing schizophrenia
Low birth weight, lack of oxygen during delivery, famine
400
What percent of adult americans "suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year"
26%
500
occurs when at least five signs of depression last 2 or more weeks and are not caused by drugs or a medical condition.
Major depressive Disorder
500
Name the two learning Perspectives
Fear conditioning and observational learning
500
Name the 4 pieces of the depression puzzle
Stressfull experiences, negative explanatory style, Depressed Mood, Cognitive and behavioral changes,
500
Sch 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, histronic personality disorder narcissistic personality disorder
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