Syndromes and more
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
What is a psychological disorder?
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
What is an anxiety disorder?
A condition where someone goes to extreme efforts to lose weight, such as excessive working out and not eating enough calories.
What is Anorexia nervosa?
To remain motionless (rigid) for long periods of time. A symptom of schizophrenia.
What is Catatonia?
True or False:
When examining case studies of individuals diagnosed with dissociative disorders, dissociative disorders develop as a way for individuals to cope with trauma.
What is true?
An approach that studies how biological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors interact to produce specific psychological disorders.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
Intense fear and avoidance of social situations.
What is social anxiety disorder?
An inflated sense of self-importance, exaggerating achievements and abilities, and exploiting others for personal gain are characteristics of ________.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
Brandon is superficially charming and skilled at exploiting people for his gain. He is also impulsive and irresponsible, and he generally disregards social norms. Brandon is diagnosed with...
What is antisocial personality disorder?
The suspected cause of schizophrenia is the abnormal increase of _______ neurotransmitters
What is dopamine?
A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
A person displaying anxiety, irritability, inability to concentrate, and apathy.Also reexperiences a disastrous event through nightmares and vivid memories. This person is experiencing?
What is PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder?
Psychological disorder in which there is a binge-purge cycle.
What is Bulimia nervosa?
Following the failure of his business, Mr. Jones disappeared and was discovered two years later in another state practicing law without a license. When questioned, he responded that he had found himself in a strange city and could not remember personal information. Mr. Jones most likely would be diagnosed with
What is dissociative fugue?
Repettive thoughts that cannot be controlled
What are obsessions?
A common criticism of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) is that it uses labels that can create this damaging effect for the person diagnosed.
What is stigma?
Disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror, accompanying chest pains, choking, and other frightening sensations which is classified as an anxiety disorder:
Dissociative identity disorder
ADHD
Bipolar disorder
Panic disorder
What is a panic disorder?
A fear of snakes or heights may be due to this process of natural selection, where humans develop a predisposition to fear certain stimuli that threatened their survival in the past
What is evolution or the evolutionary process?
A person exhibits diminished pleasure in her daily activities, significant weight loss, insomnia, fatigue, and feelings of excessive guilt.
Psychologists have found that the rates of depression in the countries of the world vary greatly. Many things we consider normal greatly depend on how we define them. This plays a significant role in this.
What is culture?
A critical component for labeling a person's behavior as abnormal is that the behavior must:
A) Pose a serious threat to those around the person
B) Interfere with some aspect of the person's life
What is interfere with some aspect of the person's life?
A repeated action, such as checking to ensure the oven is turned off throughout the night
What is a compulsion?
One suspected cause of schizophrenia is the abnormal increase of _______ neurotransmitters in the brain.
What is Dopamine?
A factor that distorts the true relationship between two variables being studied. Example: participants are assigned to groups based on their previous treatment history rather than randomly, creating differences that could affect the study's outcome:
(A) Independent variable
(B) Dependent variable
(C) Control variable
(D) Confounding variable
What is (D) Confounding variable?
This perspective suggests that depression is due to the unconscious conflicts and hostile feelings that originate in early childhood.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?