This is a general sate of dread or uneasiness in response to a vague or imagined danger.
What is anxiety?
100
This the most common type of psychological disorder.
What are mood disorders?
100
People who suffer from this personality disorder believe that they deserve to be admired because they are superior.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
100
This is the most commonly used biological therapy.
What is drug therapy?
100
Brain surgery used to treat psychological disorders is known as ___________.
What is psychosurgery?
200
This disorder involves feelings of helplessness, worthlessness, guilt, and great sadness.
What is depression?
200
These are the most common of all anxiety disorders.
What are phobias?
200
Patterns of inflexible traits that disrupt social life or work and/or distress the individual.
What are personality disorders?
200
This type of therapy uses operant conditioning to decrease undesirable behaviors and increase desirable behaviors.
What is behavior therapy?
200
Clusters of symptoms that describe an illness in a particular society are called what?
What are culture-bound syndromes?
300
Repetitive ritual behaviors are called ___________.
What are compulsions?
300
People with this disorder have frequent delusions or hallucinations that all relate to a common theme.
What is paranoid schizophrenia?
300
A person who suffers from this disorder is likely to act without any concern for the feelings or rights of other people.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
300
This type of therapy involves verbal interactions with a trained professional.
What is psychotherapy?
300
Individuals with this disorder are often incoherent in their thought and speech, and may also suffer from random hallucinations.
What is disorganized schizophrenia?
400
A person who has an unrealistic obsession with the idea that he or she has a serious disease is suffering from _______.
What is hypochondria?
400
This is the separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought.
What is dissociation?
400
A person who suffers from this disorder will usually be very unstable in their relationships with other people.
What is borderline personality disorder?
400
One common effect of psychoanalysis is that the patient may begin to experience feelings towards their therapist that are similar to feelings of another important relationship in their lives. This effect is called _________.
What is transference?
400
This is the most commonly used classification system for psychological disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? (DSM-IV)
500
These are the four criteria used to determine whether or not a person suffers from a psychological disorder.
What are typicality, maladaptivity, emotional discomfort, and socially unacceptable behavior?
500
This is the expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms.
What is somatization?
500
This personality disorder results in extreme social inhibition and feelings of inadequacy around other people.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
500
This therapy strategy tries to help people correct false or illogical assumptions that are contributing to emotional problems.
What is rational-emotive behavior therapy?
500
This personality disorder causes a person to suffer extreme discomfort in personal relationships and to behave very erratically and eccentrically.