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Abnormality
Theories and Diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
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The four basic standards of identifying abnormal behavior.
What is statistical infrequency, disability or dysfunction, personal distress, and violation of norms?
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The perspective that abnormal behavior consists of maladaptive responses learned through reinforcement of the wrong kinds of behavior.
What is the behavioral approach?
100
The largest single group of people suffering from this are women who were sexually assaulted and who were abuse victims.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
100
The two different types of depression.
What is major depressive disorder and seasonal affective disorder?
100
Personality disorder characterized by egocentrism, lack of conscience, impulsive behavior, and manipulation of others.
What is Antisocial Personality?
200
the specialized branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders.
What is psychiatry?
200
Criticisms of the use of DSM-IV
What is the thought "labeling is disabling"?
200
People with this disorder may find that they occasionally check stove burners, count steps, clean homes and offices past the point of normal standards, and wash their hands multiple times in order for it to be "clean."
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
200
unipolar (depressive) and bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders are the two types of ____.
What are mood disorders?
200
The co-occurence of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time, as when a person suffers from both depression and alcoholism.
What is co-morbidity?
300
An example would be the movie 50 First Dates.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
The classification system, developed by the American Psychiatric Association, used to describe abnormal behaviors; it is often abbreviated as DSM-IV-TR.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
300
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
300
Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder?
300
The DSM-IV-TR describes individuals with inflexible, maladaptive personality traits; the best known type is the anti-social personality.
What are personality disorders?
400
When a person unrealistically interprets physical signs-such as pains, lumps, and irritations-as evidence of serious diseases.
What is hypochondriasis?
400
A legal label/term for people with a mental disorder that implies a lack of responsibility for their behavior and an inability to manage their affairs.
What is insanity?
400
Fear or discomfort that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less.
What is a panic attack?
400
A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results.
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
The most commonly diagnosed personality disorder
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
500
One random day Susan wandered off and was later found, four years later, living under a new name, with no memory of her previous life.
What is a possible situation an individual undergoes with Dissociative Disorder?
500
List the Five Axis of DSM-IV-TR in order.
What is clinical disorders, personality disorders and mental retardation, general medical condition, psychosocial and environmental problems, and global assessment and functioning?
500
A common chronic problem that affects twice as many women as men and leads to considerable impairment.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
500
Significant change in a teen's eating or sleeping patterns, decline in school performance, dramatic change in personality or appearance, drug or alcohol abuse, obsession with death, withdrawal from friends, family and regular activities, profound guilt or hopelessness, "cleaning house" by giving away favorite possessions are all warning signs of this.
What is suicide?
500
This personality disorder was named after an individual from a Greek myth, in which he fell in love with his reflection.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?