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General Terms & Definitions
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Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional

What are psychological disorders

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Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
What are Anxiety Disorders?
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Disorders characterized by emotional extremes
What are Mood Disorders?
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"split mind" a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
What is Schizophrenia?
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Disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
What are Personality Disorders?
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This approach to abnormal psychology focuses on how internal thoughts, perceptions, and reasoning contribute to psychological disorders.

What is the Cognitive approach?

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Sara is always stressed out whether it be driving to work or just making an meal, what disorder does she have?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Mary randomly starts to sing very loudly and dance in the super market, what could be going on?

Manic Episode

Drug-use reaction

Autism Spectrum or other social behavior disorder

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James has the false belief that the world will end in 2012. What is this an example of?
What are delusions?
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Joe lacks empathy for others, he can't distinguished between right and wrong. What is this an example of?
Anti-Social Personality Disorder?
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This manual contains a listing of psychiatric disorders, diagnostic codes, information on the prevalence of each disorder, and diagnostic criteria.

What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 

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Jim struggles with random episodes of short tense terrors and experiences chest pain, and choking, what disorder does he have?
Panic Disorder
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One minute Jamie can be jumping off the wall with excitement and another minute she is extremely depressed, what disorder does she have?
Bipolar disorder
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_________ symptoms are those that are present in someone with schizophrenia that someone without schizophrenia or another mental health condition would not experience. Examples of this can include things like:

  • Delusions
  • Hallucinations
  • Disorganized speech
  • Disorganized behavior

What are positive symptoms?

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Symptoms: Exaggerated feelings of self-worth and constant need for affirmation.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
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A contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders.
What is bio-psycho-social perspective?
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Kathy at all cost avoids clowns and can not to go to the circus because of this, what is this called?
Phobia
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Disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and a loss of interest in finding pleasure.

Major Depressive Disorder

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One of the most researched models of therapy used in the treatment of schizophrenia is ____________. This model of psychotherapy addresses the connection between thoughts and behaviors, helping people to learn more about how negative patterns of thought about themselves and the world influence their decision making.

What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?

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Symptoms: moody, impulsive, manipulative, empty, worthlessness, self-destructive, and fear of abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
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This model suggests that people with an underlying predisposition for a disorder (i.e., a diathesis) are more likely than others to develop a disorder when faced with adverse environmental or psychological events (i.e., stress), such as childhood maltreatment, negative life events, or trauma

What is the diathesis-stress model?

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Sammy every night turns on and off the lights and locks the doors 5 times each, what disorder does she show?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Jerry at different moments has variety of different personalities. What is this called?
Dissociative Disorder
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_______________theories of schizophrenia suggest that something goes wrong when the brain is developing. Brain development, from the earliest stage of fetal development, the early years of life and through adolescence, is an extremely complicated process. Millions of neurons are formed, migrate to different regions of the forming brain, and specialize to perform different functions.

What are Developmental?

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Symptoms: overly emotional/seductive, and attention seeking.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?