Anxiety Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Schizophrenia
Other Disorders
Treatment
100

Intense fear and avoidance of social situations:

Social Anxiety Disorder

100

Which gender is more likely to attempt suicide:

Women 

100

False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

Hallucinations 

100

A disorder related to somatic symptom disorder in which a person experiences very specific physical symptoms that are not compatible with recognized medical or neurological conditions:

Conversion Disorder

100

An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a form of currency for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange this form of currency for privileges or treats:

Token Economy

200

An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal 

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

200

A disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania:

Bipolar Disorder

200

A form of schizophrenia in which symptoms usually appear by late adolescence or early adulthood. As people age, psychotic episodes last longer and recovery periods shorten: 

Chronic Schizophrenia 

200

A rare disorder in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings:

Dissociative Disorders

200

Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

Insight Therapies

300

Fear of avoidance of situations such as crowds or wide open places: 

Agoraphobia 

300

Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes:

Rumination 

300

A form of schizophrenia that can begin at any age; frequently occurs in response to a traumatic event:

Acute Schizophrenia

300

Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning:

Personality Disorders

300

Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors:

Counterconditioning 

400

A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, actions, or both:

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

400

A disorder in which a person experiences, in absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure:

Major Depressive Disorder

List:

Depressed mood

Reduced interest or enjoyment in most activities 

Changes in appetite and weight

Significant challenges regulating sleep

Physical agitation and lethargy 

No energy 

Feeling worthless

Problems thinking and concentrating 

Thinking repetitively about death

400

When PET Scans were performed on people with schizophrenia who were experiencing hallucinations, the part of their brain that lit up was the part of the brain that receives sensory information. What part of the brain is this?

Thalamus 

400

Significant eating, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory behavior that marks bulimia nervosa:

Binge-eating disorder

400
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior:

Psychopharmacology 

500

A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdraw, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more:

PTSD

500

What percentage of American college students answered "yes" to being "so depressed that it was difficult to function?

31%

500

What hormone do people with schizophrenia have in abundance compared to people people without schizophrenia?

Dopamine

500
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities:

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)


500

The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity: 

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

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