Mental Illness
The four basic standards (Ds) of identifying Mental Illness
What is Deviance, Dysfunctional, Distress, and Dangerous?
How we learn through rewards, punishments, and observation.
What is the Behavioral perspective?
The tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals with passion and perseverance
What is Grit?
The physiological responses to stress situations characterized by arousal responses such as increased heart rate.
What is “fight or flight” response?
This refers to feeling liked and encouraged by intimate friends and family.
What is Social Support?
A disorder that caused enslaved persons to run away from slavery.
What is drapetomania?
How the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of select genes.
What is the Evolutionary Perspective?
Seligman's well-being concept referring to knowing your strengths and using them in service of something greater than you
What is the Meaningful Life?
A challenging or threatening event
What is a Stressor?
Neurotransmitters associated with boosting mood
What are serotonin and norepinephrine?
Characterized by continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruptions and/or physical risk
What is Substance Use Disorder?
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
What is Relative Deprivation?
Attempting to alleviate stress by attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction or response.
What is Emotion-Focused Coping?
Sustained, oxygen consuming, exertion that increases heart and lung fitness and can alleviate symptoms of depression
What is Aerobic Exercise?
A personality disorder marked by distrust or suspicion
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural viewpoints
What is the Biopsychosocial approach?
An outlook correlated with more personal control, coping better with stressful situations, and an expectation that good things happen
What is Optimism?
Personality style term used for describing easygoing, relaxed people and is not associated with chronic heart disease
What is Type B?
This is associated with longevity largely due to frequent active participation in community activities- religious or otherwise.
What is the Faith Factor?
Diagnosis requires at least a manic episode and a depressive episode
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
The concept that diseases, such as psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured.
What is the Medical Model?
A subjective sense of well-being and satisfaction with life
What is Happiness?
Large scale events beyond one’s control
What are catastrophes?
A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.
What is Health Psychology?