Psychological Disorder
A collection of symptoms
What is a syndrome?
People with this disorder become extremely anxious in social settings
Social anxiety disorder
What are obsessive?
What are soldiers?
Freud would blame this psychological process for psychological disorders
What is repression?
Psychological disorders disturb individuals in these three main areas
What is cognition, emotion regulation, and behavior?
This disorder is marked by feelings of free-floating agitation lasting more than 6 months
Generalized anxiety disorder
Someone with OCD has these type of behaviors
What is compulsive?
Give an example of a typical symptom.
What is haunting memories/nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, or trouble sleeping?
Rebecca is a prostitute who survived a sexual assault. She is most likely at risk for this disorder.
What is PTSD?
Term that describes an interference with normal day-to-day life
What is maladaptive or dysfunctional?
This disorder is marked by recurrent panic attacks
Panic disorder
What is intrusive, irrational, persistent, uncontrollable, or haunting?
Terms that describes the tendency to recover after severe stress
What is survivor resiliency?
What is classical conditioning?
People often feel this emotion about their psychological disorder
What is distress?
This process of classical conditioning may increase OCD behaviors (Hint: doing the behaviors release anxiety)
What is reinforcement?
This percentage of people will develop PTSD during their lifetime
What is 5-10%?
Derek always has to eat his meat first, then his vegetables at dinner. What disorder is he most likely to have?
What is OCD?
The fact that this term was no longer defined as a disorder in 1973 shows the role of culture in diagnosing psychological disorders
What is homosexuality?
Anxiety disorders are marked both by persistent anxiety and what type of behaviors?
What is maladaptive?
Do brain scans of people with OCD show overarousal or underarousal of brain activity?
This experience can cause increased stress for people with PTSD
What is reliving the situation that caused the PTSD?
We are more likely to have a phobia of spiders than falling pianos. This is likely due to this process.
What is natural selection?