HEALTH, STRESS & WELLNESS
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The diagnostic manual used to classify mental disorders.
DSM-5
A disorder characterized by excessive fear/anxiety disproportionate to threat.
Anxiety disorder
Enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Personality
A learned evaluation of people, objects, or ideas.
Attitudes
The model stating health is influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors.
Biopsychosocial model
The concept that a disorder exists when dysfunction causes harm based on social values.
Harmful dysfunction
A disorder characterized by excessive fear/anxiety disproportionate to threat.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
A temporary state influencing behaviour (vs trait).
State
Attitudes outside conscious awareness that influence behaviour.
Implicit attitudes
Stress defined as a mismatch between perceived demands and available resources.
Stress (definition: demand > resources)
The idea that mental disorders arise from vulnerability interacting with stress.
Diathesis-stress model
A disorder involving psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions.
Schizophrenia
Errors in thinking like magnification or fortune telling.
Cognitive distortions
The emotional, cognitive, and behavioural components of attitudes collectively.
ABC model of attitudes
The model of stress emphasizing appraisal and interpretation of stressors (Lazarus).
Transactional model of stress
A criterion for defining disorder based on rarity of behaviour.
Statistical infrequency
A mood state defined by elevated mood, decreased need for sleep, and increased activity lasting at least 1 week.
Manic episode
A personality test that is standardized, reliable, and measures traits via self-report.
Objective personality test (self-report measure)
The theory that persuasion depends on motivation, ability, and opportunity.
Elaboration likelihood model
The study of how psychological factors influence physical health and illness.
Health psychology
The presence of multiple disorders at the same time.
Comorbidity
A milder version of mania lasting at least 4 days without severe impairment.
Hypomanic episode
The statistical method used to validate personality dimensions.
Factor analysis
The fundamental human motivation to form and maintain relationships.
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