Anxiety
Repetitive behaviors
What are compulsions?
The most commonly treated psychological disorder in the world.
What is major depressive disorder?
Includes disorders where we experience a separation of self?
What are dissociative disorders?
False beliefs, like someone is God or a martyr.
What are delusions?
Ways to explain human behavior.
What are perspectives?
Repetitive Thoughts
Includes long periods without sleeping, racing thoughts and reckless behaviors.
What is bipolar disorder?
Includes those related to anxiety, impulsive behaviors, and odd behaviors.
What are personality disorders?
Feeling something crawling on your skin.
What is a hallucination?
Psychology should focus exclusively on observable behavior.
What is behaviorist perspective?
What type of cause of anxiety are brain scans showing their brains work differently?
What is biological?
The two neurotransmitters most often lacking in major depressive disorder.
What are serotonin and norepinephrine
Harming others with no remorse, often charming.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Excess of receptor sites of this neurotransmitter with schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
Idea that clinical depression is caused by illogical thought patterns and faulty interpretations of life experiences.
What is cognitive perspective?
What "anxiety disorder" would have a symptom of upsetting recurrent memories of a trauma?
What is PTSD?
Includes feelings of worthlessness and not being able to do or enjoy your regular activities.
What is major depressive disorder?
Described by extremely unstable emotions, self-image, behavior, and relationships.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Increased likelihood (due to genetics) that a disorder will develop
What is a predisposition?
interaction of environment and inherited genetic traits.
If you feel apprehensive and fearful most of the time and don't know why, what anxiety disorder MIGHT you have?
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Giving up after repeated unpleasant events make us feel things are out of our control.
What is learned helplessness?
If you experience a traumatic event, remember nothing but have no physical injuries this could possibly suggest a disorder.
What is dissociative amnesia?
Flat affect, avolition, alogia
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
What is psychoanalysis?