Anxiety Disorders
Sudden unexplainable attack of intense anxiety - feel intense doom
What is panic disorder
A person who is in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments
What is hypochondriasis
A false belief that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
What is a delusion
A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience
What is anit-social personality
the manual used by psychologists to help them classify psychological disorders
What is the DSM-V
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
What is Conversion disorder
Severe form of depression that interferes with functioning, concentration, and mental and physical well-being
What is Major Depressive Disorder
Cluster A: Suspicious, Odd
Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
A modern name for the medical model, in which psychological disorders are seen as reflecting disturbances in the anatomy and chemistry of the brain and in other biological processes.
Neurobiological Model
Thinking the same thoughts over and over
What is an obsession
A dissosiative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectently travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
What is dissociative fugue
perceptions that have no direct external cause
What is a hallucination
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits with reduced capacity for close relationships as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
A way of looking at mental disorders in relation to gender, age, ethnicity, and other social and cultural factors.
Sociocultural Model
Continually performing irrational actions
What is a Compulsion
Two or more distinct personalities each with their own patterns of thinking and behaving
What is dissociative identity disorder
Language sped up or disorganized
What is word salad
Pervasive pattern on instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, affects, and marked impulsivity.
Borderline Personality Disorder
A view of mental disorders as caused by a combination of interacting biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.
Biopsychosocial Model
A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger
What is anxiety
physical symptoms for which there are no apparent physical cause
What is a somataform disorder
Type of schizophrenia that causes limbs to remain motionless for long periods of time and in unusual positions "waxy flexibility"
What is catatonic schizophrenia
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that are maladaptive, disruptive, or uncomfortable for those who are affected or for those with whom they come in contact.
Psychopathology