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Disorders I
Disorders II
Disorders III
Misc 1
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An excess of this neurotransmitter is found in patients with schizophrenia.

What is dopamine?

100
These are the two phobia subtypes.
What are specific and social phobias?
100

These two neurotransmitters have been implicated in depression.

What are serotonin and norepinephrine?

100
This reference book is currently used as a text to help clinicians diagnose psychological disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
100
This psychological perspective would claim that psychological disorders result from illogical or faulty thinking patterns.
What is the cognitive perspective?
200

A person leaves their current life, travels to a new location, and assumes a new identity. They have no memory for past personal information.

What is dissociative fugue?

200
Flight of ideas, lack of need for sleep, feelings of euphoria and reckless behaviour are symptoms of this mood disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
200
False sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist are called this.
What are hallucinations?
200
This category of psychological disorders involves inflexible, maladaptive behaviour patterns that keep a person from functioning appropriately in society.
What are personality disorders?
200
The DSM is published by this organization.
What is the APA?
300
This anxiety disorder is characterized by intruding, persistent thoughts and/or repetitive ritualistic behaviour.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
300
Bipolar disorder is sometimes incorrectly diagnosed as schizophrenia due to the presence of this symptom.
What are delusions of grandeur?
300
This is the most common category of psychological disorders.
What are anxiety disorders?
300
This psychological perspective would argue that psychological disorders stem from chemical imbalances, genetic problems, brain damage or illness/infection.
What is the biomedical perspective?
300
In Rosenhan’s Study – “On Being Sane in Insane Places” – the pseudo patients were admitted into psychiatric facilities across the united states pretending to suffer from these symptoms.
What are auditory hallucinations?
400
People who worry about most aspects of their lives, including money, their children, work, getting to places on time, etc could be said to be suffering from this anxiety disorder.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
400
This schizophrenia subtype is characterized by disturbances in movement.
What is catatonic schizophrenia?
400
This disorder is characterized by a lack of morals or conscience, lack of strong emotions, as well as habitual law breaking and taking advantage of others.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
400
This psychological perspective would argue that disordered behaviour is the result of repressed thoughts, memories or feelings in the unconscious mind.
What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
400
This psychological perspective would claim that abnormal behaviour is learned just like normal behaviour is.
What is behaviourst/learning perspective?
500
This refers to the firmly held, unshakable beliefs with no basis in reality held by some people with schizophrenia.
What are delusions?
500
This anxiety disorder is characterized by sudden, recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror.
What is panic disorder?
500
This is the fear of being in a place or situation where a person may not be able to get help or escape might be difficult should something go wrong.
What is agoraphobia?
500
This criteria for defining abnormality refers to the difficulties one may have functioning in their daily life due to their symptoms.
What is maladaptive behaviour?
500
This disorder used to be called multiple personality disorder.
What is dissociative identity disorder?