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Defining Psychological Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Somatoform and Dissociative Disoders
Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders and Drug Abuse
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This term implies that psychological disturbances or abnormality is like a physical sickness, such as the flu
What is mental illness
100
an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is phobia
100
When a person in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments
What is hypochondiasis
100
This is a mood disorder with extreme highs and extreme lows.
What is bipolar disorder
100
This personality disorder has symptoms of shallow or attention-getting behavior. Think they are more important than they really are.
What is narcissistic behavior disorder
200
A standard system to classify abnormal symptoms
What is DSM IV or V
200
Victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
200
This disorder is changing emotional difficulties into a loss of specific body function
What is conversion disorder.
200
This is a mood disorder that lasts for more than 2 weeks and there is a loss of interest.
What is depression or major depressive disorder
200
physical adaptation to a drug so that a person needs an increased amount in order to produce the original effect
What is tolerance.
300
Term for any deviation from normal. It assumes that what most people do is normal.
What is abnormality or abnormal.
300
an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
What is panic disorder
300
A disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness
What is dissociative disorder.
300
What is a characteristic of paranoid schizophrenia?
What is it involves delusions and hallucinations
300
a drug used in the treatment of alcoholism, that acts by inducing nausea and other unpleasant symptoms following ingestion of alcohol
What is antabuse?
400
Two psychologists who believed people strive for self-actualization.
Who are Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung?
400
OCD is characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts called __________ and/or actions called ______________.
What is obsessions; compulsions
400
Define la belle indifference?
What is the calmness associated with a person who has lost a physical ability due to a conversion disorder?
400
Autism usually manifests itself by what age?
What is age 3?
400
This is the depression caused by changes in hormones in a woman's body after giving birth.
What is post-partum depression?
500
The psychologist who said people with mental disorders had problems with living.
Who is Thomas Szasz.
500
This personality disorder has symptoms of lack of remorse.
What is antisocial personality
500
This is a psychological disorder where a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
What is What is Dissociative identity disorder? It used to be called multiple personality disorder.
500
What are some of the possible causes of schizophrenia?
What is 1. biological, 10 times more likely to get schizophrenia if it is already in family. 2. chemical imbalances in the brain. 3. family interactions, being part of an unhealthy family. 4. stress can bring on the disease with those who have a genetic predisposition for it. (diathesis)
500
List three of the five steps of how alcohol affects the body.
What is 1. lowered inhibitions, may do things they wouldn't normally do. 2. perceptions and sensations become distorted 3. the person will stumble and weave 4. speech becomes slurred and reaction times slow down. 5. can lead to unconsciousness, coma, and death