Anxiety & Mood Disorder
A diminished ability to experience pleasure is known as ________
anhedonia
_____________ is a sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
Dissociative Amnesia
What are false beliefs that are maintained by schizophrenic patients even though they clearly are out of touch with reality?
Delusions
Which subtype of anxiety disorder is marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Personality disorders are grouped into three related clusters, what are these 3 clusters?
anxious-fearful, odd-eccentric, and dramatic-impulsive.
Most individuals with eating disorders are male or female?
female
Correlations have been found between mood disorders and abnormal levels of which key neurotransmitters in the brain?
Serotonin
Which theorist believed that people with multiple personalities are engaging in intentional role-playing to use mental illness as a face-saving excuse for their personal failings?
Nicholas Spanos
Which disorder involves distress-inducing eating binges that are NOT accompanied by purging, fasting, and excessive exercise?
Binge-eating disorder
What is Martin Seligman's concept of developing phobias of certain types of object or situation?
concept of preparedness
What is the only personality disorder that has a long history of extensive research?
Antisocial Personality Disorder
What is the hypothesis which asserts that excess dopamine activity is the neurochemical basis for schizophrenia?
Dopamine hypothesis
What is the key stress hormone that tends to be elevated in depressed patients?
Cortisol
Which personality disorder is characterized as being defective in capacity for forming social relationships; and showing the absence of warm, tender feelings for others?
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Nancy Andreason devised a new scheme that divides schizophrenic disorders into just two categories based on predominance, what are these 2 categories called?