abnormal behavior
Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personaly distressful over a relatively long period of time.
What is Abnormal behavior
Characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania.
What is bipolar depression?
Characterized by guiltlessness, lawbreaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit.
What is Antisocial personality disorder?
Eating disorder in which an individual consistently follows a binge and purge eating pattern.
What is Bulemia Nervosa?
View that abnormal behavior is fundamentally different from normal psychological problems.
What is Discontinuity hypothesis?
Maladaptive behavior
What is interfere's with one's ability to function effectively in the world.
eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Low serotonin levels high; poor physical health becomes a risk factor.
What is Bipolar Biological factors?
A view that abnormal behavior is just a more severe form of normal psychological problems.
What is Continuity hypothesis?
sociological approach
What is emphasizes the social contexts in which a person lives?
Characterized by extreme memory loss that is caused by extensive psychological stress.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
Prejudice and discrimination leads to individuals not seeking treatment because of the stigma attached to psychological disorders.
What is Consequences of stigma?
Mental abuse, traumatic high stress, substance abuse.
What is Bipolar Psychological factors?
Not merely atypical but is socially unacceptable in how it deviates from normal behavior.
What is Deviant behavior?
Disabling psychological disorders that feature motor tension, hyperactivity, and apprehensive expectations and thoughts.
What is anxiety disorders
Characterized by highly disordered thought processes.
What is Schizophrenia?
Positive examples of people with these disorders, overcome views of individuals.
What is Overcoming stigma?
SES, gender, cultural and religious norms.
What is Bipolar Sociocultural factors?
Posits that psychological disorders have biological factors, psychological factors, and sociocultural factors.
What is Biopsychosocial model?
Mood disorder that is generally more chronic and has fewer symptoms than Major depressive disorder.
What is Dysthymic disorder?
Individual has two or more distinct personalities or selves.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Unexpectedly travels away from home and assumes a new identity.
What is Dissociative Fugue?
Focuses on the contributions of experiences, thoughts, emotions, and personality characteristics.
What is Psychological approach?
The first major classification of psychological disorders.
What is DSM and DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR?