Psychological Disorders
Phobias
Mood Disorder Terms
Theories
Risk Factors of PTSD
100

This disorder gives you intrusive thoughts and urgers and/or the need to engage in repetitive behaviors.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

100

Fear of spiders

Arachnophobia

100

This is intense and persistent sadness

Depression

100

What is a cognitive theory for panic disorder?

Reducing catastrophic cognitions about sensations has proven to be as effective as medication in reducing panic attacks.

100

What group is most likely to have been traumatized by sexual trauma, childhood neglect, and childhood physical abuse?

Women

200

This disorder involves a preoccupation with a perceived flaw in your appearance that is nonexistent or not noticeable.

Body Dysmorphia Disorder

200

Fear of heights

Acrophobia

200

This is extreme elation and agitation

Mania

200

What is a conditioning theory for panic disorder?

Panic attacks are classical conditioning responses to subtle bodily sensations.

200

Which group is most likely to have been traumatized by natural disaster, life-threatening accident, and physical violence, either witnessed or directed at.

Men

300

This disorder causes people to experience hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, or abnormal motor behavior.

Schizophrenia

300
Fear of enclosed spaces

Claustrophobia

300

A distinct period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and persistently increased activity or energy lasting at least a week.

Manic episode

300

What is a neurobiological theory for panic disorder?

Locus coeruleus in the brainstem is possibly involved in heightened anxiety and fear.

300

Which age period of males are more likely to experience accident, physical assault, and witness death/injury?

Adolescent boys

400

This disorder causes you to have difficulty in discarding possessions, regardless of how valueless they are.

Hoarding Disorder

400

Fear of blood

Hematophobia

400

When someone experiences symptoms of major depressive disorder only during a particular time of the year.

Seasonal pattern depression

400

What is a cognitive theory on anxiety disorder causes?

Worry represents a mental strategy to avoid more powerful negative emotions.

400

Which age period of females are more likely to experience rape/sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or unexpected death or injury of a loved one?

Adolescent girls

500

This disorder causes people to exhibit two or more separate personality states, each distinct from one another.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

500

Fear of being buried alive

Taphophobia

500

Depressed moods most of the day nearly every day for at least two years, as well as at least two of the other symptoms of major depression.

Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymia)

500

What is result of the cognitive theory of PTSD that happens when you give negative appraisals of the trauma and its aftermath?

It will lead to negative behavioral patterns that maintain symptoms and prevent changes.

500

Which race of males is more likely to be exposed to and victims of violence?

African American Males

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