This psychological disorder used to be called "Multiple Personality Disorder"
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
The best treatment for all psychological disorders is a mixture of these two things
What are Therapy and Medication?
This perspective would say that abnormal behavior can be described as a chemical imbalance in brain chemistry
What is the Biological Perspective?
This is a type of false, fixed belief that is one of the main symptoms of schizophrenia
What is a delusion?
This group of drugs is most commonly prescribed to people dealing with depression
What are Anti-depressants?
A psychologist from this perspective focuses on the way that people’s thoughts influence their emotions and actions.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
Marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous non-specific events and activities for at least 6 months (on more days than not).
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
This type of dissociation occurs when someone forgets personal information or other detail pertinent to their identity
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
A Humanistic Therapist is most interested in improving their patient's this...
What is Self-Concept?
This perspective focuses on your actions and ignores your inner feelings
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
Pattern of extreme discomfort in close relationships, odd forms of thinking and perceiving, and behavioral eccentricities.
What is schizotypal disorder?
A flat affect, or emotionless face, is this type of symptom of schizophrenia
What is a Negative Symptom?
This type of therapy focuses on changing your thoughts so that your actions change as well...
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This perspectives focuses on understanding the impact of unconscious motives and drives in human behavior
What is the Psychoanalytic Perspective?
Obsession is to thought; as Compulsion is to this
What is Behavior/Ritual?
The term schizophrenia comes from the Greek words that mean this...
What is Split Mind?
True or False: On average, it takes about 2 weeks to find the right combination of therapies and medications to treat a mental disorder
What is false?
Adaptations and inherited genes that influence our behaviors would be of most interest to a psychologist from this perspective
What is the Evolutionary Perspective?