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Personality
Disorders
Mood Disorders
& Abnormal Behavior
Random Disorders
Random Disorders
Part Deux
Models
100
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
What type of personality disorder causes the person to be withdrawn and lacks feelings for others?
100
What is Insanity?
What is a legal term, not a psychological one?
100
What is a disorder in which anxiety is a characteristic feature of the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior?
What are Anxiety Disorders?
100
What are Dissociative Disorders?
What is rarely marked by temporary disruptions in memory, identity, or conciousness?
100
What is Biological Model, Psychological Model, Diathesis- Stress Model, and Cognitive-Behavioral Model?
What are the models of Abnormal Behavior?
200
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
What type of person is inappropriately suspicious and mistrustful of others?
200
What is DSM-IV-TR?
What provides a complete list of mental disorders, with each category painstakingly defined in terms of significant behavior patterns?
200
What is an intense, paralyzing fear of something that perhaps should be feared, but the fear is excessive and unreasonable?
What are Specific Phobias?
200
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
What disorder is characterized by loss of memory for past events without organic cause?
200
What is a behavior disorder that symbolizes expressions of unconscious conflicts, which can be traced to childhood?
What is a Psychoanalytic Model?
300
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
What type of person has fears of rejection by others which leads to social isolation?
300
What is Bipolar Disorder?
What is a mood disorder in which periods of mania and depression alternate, sometimes with periods of normal mood intervening?
300
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
What obsession contains involuntary thoughts or ideas that keep reoccuring despite the persons attempts to stop them, whereas the compulsions are repetitive, ritualistic behaviors that a person feels compelled to perform?
300
What is Dissociative Fugue?
What disorder involves flight from home and the assumption of a new identity with amnesia for past identity and events?
300
What is the Biological Model?
What model says that psychological disorders are caused by psychological malfunctions often stemming from hereditary factors?
400
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
What type of person has an exaggerated sense of self importance and needs constant admiration?
400
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
What disorder is a depressive disorder characterized by an episode of intense sadness, depressed mood, or marked loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities?
400
What is 1) Psychosomatic Disorder and 2) Somatoform Disorder?
What is 1) a disorder in which there is real physical illness that is largely caused by psychological factors such as stress and anxiety and 2) an apparent physical illness for which there is no organic basis?
400
What is Hypochondriasis?
What disorder is a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absence of any organic evidence of such illness?
400
What is Cognitive- Behavioral Model?
What model suggests that psychological disorders, like all behavior, results from learning?
500
What is Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder?
What two types of people are 1) characterized by marked instability in self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships and 2) involves a pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical and exploitative behavior and an inability to feel affection for others?
500
What is Dysthymia?
What disorder is a depressive disorder where the symptoms are generally less severe than for major depressive disorder that are present most days and persistent for at least two years?
500
What are Pedophiles?
What is defined as engaging in sexual activity with a child, generally under the age of 13?
500
What are characterizd by excessive, inappropriate fears connected with social situations or performances in front of other people?
What is Social Phobia?
500
What is the model that suggests that a biological predisposition, called a diathesis, must combine with a stressful circumstance before the prepostion to a mental disorder is manifested?
What is the Diathesis- Stress Model?