Anxiety Disorders
What is the occurrence of anxiety without an obvious external cause, affecting how you live your day-to-day life?
Anxiety
What disorders are characterized by separating or dissociating different parts of a person's personality that are normally together?
Dissociative Disorders
What is a disturbance in a person's emotional experience strong enough to intrude on everyday living?
Mood disorders
A class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs
Schizophrenia
What is the most common childhood disorder?
ADHD attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
What is anxiety that is persistent, sometimes can be identifiable issues involving money, family, work, and health?
Generalized Anxiety
What disorder was previously called multiple personality disorder?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID).
What kind of depression interferes with concentration, decision-making, and sociability?
Major depressive disorder
What is a characteristic distinguishing to Schizophrenia.
Disturbance of thought and language or decline of a previous level of function.
What disorder impairs ones ability to communicate and relate to others?
Autism spectrum disorder
What is the act of doing something repeatedly that seems strange and unreasonable that has an irresistible urge?
Compulsions
What is the kind of dissociation when a piece of information is forgotten but is still present in the memory?
Dissociative Amnesia
Are men or women more likely to experience depression?
Women are more likely to experience depression
Delusions, hallucinations, perceptual problems, inappropriate emotion, and withdrawal
What is the chance of a child having autism?
1 in 88 chance of having the disorder
What kind of factor is caused by a gene in the production of the neurotransmitter?
Genetic Factors
What is a form of amnesia in which the individual leaves home and assumes a new identity?
Dissociative fungue
What percentage of the people in the U.S. experience major depressive disorder?
6-10%
What is the risk of having schizophrenia if your twin has it?
48 percent of development
What difficulties does a child with autism have?
verbal and nonverbal communication
What kind of cause is employed when a dog bites a girl and the next time the girl is scared of the dog
Environmental factor
What is another name for "forgotten material"?
Repressed Memories
What are the factors to major depressive disorder?
Genetic and biological factors. Internal, unconscious conflicts, environmental factors and finally cognitive and emotional factors.
What are the two kinds of symptoms for schizophrenia?
Positive and negative symtoms
What percentage of children and adolescens experience an episode of major depression?
15 to 20 percent