Mental Health
Disorders
Disorders
This disorder involves obsessive thoughts and repetitive actions
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This is the study of mental disorders through evolution
What is Evolutionary Psychopathology
This model represents the five main traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (OCEAN)
What are the Big Five Personality Factors
These are traits found universally in human cultures
What are Cultural Universals
This type of germ causes disease
What is a Pathogen
This disorder is a type of depression that is caused by a change in the seasons and less sunlight
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
This evolutionary concept explains how some genetic traits can offer advantages, like resistance to diseases
What is Heterozygous Advantage?
A temporary mood or behavior in a given moment
What are Personality States
This term describes the process by which genes and culture evolve together
What is Gene-Culture Co-evolution
This is the body’s system responsible for fighting off germs
What is the Immune System
These mood disorders include depression and bipolar disorder
What are Affective Disorders
The idea that certain traits or behaviors may have been helpful in the past and now contribute to mental disorders
What are Disorders as Adaptations
Long-term traits that are a part of a person's personality
What are Personality Traits
This concept describes the way culture is passed through learning
What is Transmitted Culture
This is how a disease develops in the body
What is Pathogenesis
This disorder, often marked by hallucinations or delusions, involves a disconnect from reality
What is Schizophrenia
This theory suggests that diseases happen because our bodies aren’t built for modern life
What is Mismatch Hypothesis
This ability allows an individual to learn, adapt, and solve complex problems
What is Intelligence
This concept describes the way culture is shaped by the environment
What is Evoked Culture
This refers to the cause of a disease
What is Aetiology (Etiology):
This disorder is characterized by long-term behavior patterns that cause issues, such as borderline personality disorder
What are Personality Disorders
This model suggests that disorders come from genes plus stress
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model
This idea explains a person's overall ability across many tasks
What is General Intelligence (g)
This term refers to how behaviors or ideas spread within the same generation
What is Horizontal Transmission
This field of study uses evolution to explain health and disease
What is Darwinian Medicine