Abnormality
Diagnosis of Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
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This book is a manual for describing psychological disorders

What is the DSM? (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

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When a person unrealistically interprets physical signs-such as common pains, lumps, and irritations-as evidence of serious diseases.
What is hypochondriasis?
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This type of anxiety disorder is largely a learned or conditioned response to experiences or specific things.
What are phobias?
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The two types of depression.
What are major depression and bipolar disorder?
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Personality disorder characterized by egocentrism, lack of conscience, impulsive behavior, and manipulation of others.

What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

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Name two out of the three groups that decide how 'normal' is defined.

What is the individual and society?

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This disorder combines psychological symptoms with unexplained physical symptoms.
What is somatoform disorder?
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People with this disorder may find that they occasionally check stove burners, count steps, clean homes and offices past the point of normal standards, and wash their hands multiple times in order for it to be "clean."
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
200

The old term Manic depression is now renamed this.

What is bipolar disorder?

200
This disorders differs from others because it involves a break from reality or psychosis.
What is schizophrenia?
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How psychoanalysts would describe the main cause of abnormal behavior?

What is unresolved conflict from childhood traumatic repressed memories?

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The classification system, developed by the American Psychiatric Association, is used to describe abnormal behaviors; it is often abbreviated as DSM-IV-TR.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
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Intense fear or discomfort including shortness of breath, heavy pounding of the heart that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less.
What is a panic attack?
300
Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder?
300
This personality disorder involves excessively needing others & having difficulty making any independent decisions
What is dependent personality disorder?
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Theory that says abnormal behavior is caused by wrong ways of thinking. Also believes the mind may only see things negatively and tends to magnify or exaggerate events.

What is cognitive theory?

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This type of somatoform disorder involves the actual loss of bodily function (e.g. paralysis, blindness) but cannot be traced to a physical problem.
What is conversion disorder?
400
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
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A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results.
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
A commonly diagnosed personality disorder, this involves difficulty establishing a self-image, mood disorder swings, and impulsive behavior.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
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A model that combines previous theories and says human behavior is complex and interrelated?
What is the BioPsychoSocial Model?
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One random day Susan wandered off and was later found, four years later, living under a new name, with no memory of her previous life. She then regressed to that of being a 13-year old girl. Name the new technical term for this disorder according to DSM-V?
What is a possible situation an individual undergoes with Dissociative Identity Disorder?
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This anxiety disorder is ironic in that those who are most sensitive and empathetic to others often suffer from it. They are ultra-sensitive, attuned to others reactions, and may feel like they are being judged by others.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
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Symptoms of this disorder include persistent low-energy, lack of appetite, sadness, and possible self-harm.
What is major depression?
500
This personality disorder is characterized by grandiose ideas of one's own self-worth, constant need for admiration and approval. Derived from a tragic Greek mythical figure who fell in love with his own reflection and died.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
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