What is Abnormal?
Anxiety
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
100
True or False: To be committed to a mental hospital, a person must be judged both mentally ill and a danger to ones self or others.
True
100
Psychological disorders characterized by frequent fearful thoughts about what might happen in the future.
Anxiety Disorder
100
Is the rate of depression higher for males or females?
Females
100
What is a hallucination?
It is an imaginary sensation
100
90% of the dissociative identity disorder cases have been women or men?
women
200
What is affects more people in the world. Cancer or a Mental disorder?
Mental Disorder
200
What is the difference between a panic attack and a panic disorder?
A panic disorder is an anxiety disorder that is recurring and a panic attack is just an episode.
200
How many suicides are reported each year in the U.S.?
30,000-31,000
200
Is schizophrenia more likely to strike men or women?
Men
200
What causes dissociative amnesia?
a traumatic experience or event
300
How many questions are usually asked to see if a person is abnormal?
5
300
True or False: About 5% of men and 2% of women in the U.S. suffer from panic disorder.
False....switch it around
300
How much of the population is affected by bipolar disorder?
Around 1.2%
300
What does it mean to show practically no emotional response at all?
Flat affect
300
What does "doctor shop" mean?
going from one physician to another
400
How many Perspectives on Psychological Disorders are there?
5
400
Two types of situational phobias.
Claustrophobia and Acrophobia
400
What are the key symptoms of major depressive disorder?
Psychomotor disturbances
400
What does disorganized schizophrenia result in?
the most severe disintegration of the personality
400
What percentage of cases of dissociative identity disorder does the host personality not know of the alter personalities?
80%
500
Which Perspective on Psychological Disorder is related to this cause? Faulty thinking or distorted perceptions can cause psychological disorders.
Cognitive Perspective
500
If a person washes their hands about 100 times a day what disorder do they have?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
500
What two main factors cause mood disorders?
heredity and abnormal brain chemistry
500
Where are the two places schizophrenics have defects?
the neural circuitry of the cerebral cortex and the limbic system
500
What does the term psychosomatic refer to?
physical disorders or psychological origin
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