Health and Stress
This phase of the general adaptation syndrome is the first reaction to a stressor, involving heightened physiological arousal.
What is the alarm reaction phase?
What term means behavior that interferes with daily functioning?
Dysfunction
This spectrum disorder is characterized by challenges in social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
What are false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur?
delusions
This type of therapy focuses on helping individuals identify and change maladaptive thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
What term describes positive, motivating stress?
What is Eustress?
What term refers to judgment based on a person’s race, gender, or age?
Discrimination
This disorder is marked by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
What term describes incoherent speech, often found in schizophrenia?
word salad
Although Paul seems bright and capable to his parents and friends, he has been failing in school. Paul agrees to speak with a psychologist, who suggests that his problems stem from internal processes such as unrealistic expectations and negative thinking. The psychologist’s view is typical of which of the following models of behavior?
This chronic condition, often linked to stress, involves consistently high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
A perspective that examines how gender, race, and economic status influence the development and diagnosis of disorders.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
This personality disorder involves a pattern of disregard for the rights of others, often leading to manipulative or criminal behavior.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Name the obsessive behavior disorder where people can’t discard possessions.
hoarding disorder
This type of medication is used to stabilize mood and is often prescribed to individuals with bipolar disorder.
lithium
These early life traumatic events can increase vulnerability to stress-related disorders later in life.
What are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?
This theory focuses on unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences as causes of mental illness.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
This disorder involves cycles of binge eating followed by behaviors to prevent weight gain, such as purging or excessive exercise.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
This personality disorder is characterized by excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior, often including the need for approval and a focus on being the center of attention.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Electroconvulsive therapy has been most successful in the treatment of...
clinical depression
This coping strategy targets the source of stress by taking direct action to eliminate or reduce it.
What is problem-focused coping?
What model suggests a predisposition plus stress causes disorders?
Diathesis-stress model
This disorder is marked by a sudden, unexpected travel away from home, with an inability to recall the past.
What is Dissociative Fugue?
This disorder, formerly known as dysthymia, is characterized by a chronic, low-level depressive mood lasting for at least two years, with occasional periods of more severe symptoms.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
One suspected cause of schizophrenia is the abnormal increase of which of the following neurotransmitters in the brain?
Dopamine