Intro
To be a disorder, it must be deviant, dysfunctional and _____.
What is distressing?
Schizophrenic disorders are on a ______. This means that the symptoms vary from weak to strong.
What is spectrum?
A fear of a specific thing.
What is phobia?
Low levels of this neurotransmitter are linked to depression.
What is serotonin?
This disorder often starts around age 2-3 and occurs on a spectrum.
What is autism?
This model views mental illness like physical illnesses with symptoms and treatments.
What is the medical model?
This is what you call it when. a patient has a belief that they are some amazing person, like the president or Jesus.
What is delusion of grandeur?
The behaviorist perspective explains anxiety as a result of this process.
What is negative reinforcement?
This is when you get depressed during a certian season of the year, usually winter.
What is seasonal affective disorder?
This is when a person has an inflated sense of their own importance, often treating others as inferiors and thinking they are never wrong about anything.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
This is the idea that disorders have biologocial, psychological, and social contributin factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This symptom is when the person has very little emotional response to anything.
What is flat affect?
Some people think we have certain phobias because ______ would give us a sense of fear of heights and spiders.
What is natural selection?
In men, depression often looks like this.
What is irritability and grumpiness?
This disorder is characterized by excessively repetitive thoughts and behaviors.
What is OCD?
This is the name of the experiment where researchers checked themselves into mental hospitals to check the effects of labels.
What is the Rosenhan experiment?
One of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia is having auditory ______.
What is hallucinations?
This disorder is characterized by free-floating fear that always is around and may be attached to different things.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
During an intense macin episode, a person with bipolar disorder might experience ______, a symptom also present in schizophrenia.
What is delusions?
This is the new name for multiple personality disorder.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Psychologists never release the names or any other info about their clients. This is called "Maintaining ____."
What is confidentiality?
Too much of this neurotransmitter is related to schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
This disorder is characterized by intense, brief episodes of fear that may only last a few minutes.
What is panic disorder?
To qualify as bipolar disorder, the symptoms of mania and depression must each last for a couple of ____.
What is weeks?
With this disorder, a person fells no sense of guilt for wrong-doing.
What is antisocial personality disorder?