Sudden unexplainable attack of intense anxiety - feel intense doom
What is panic disorder
100
A person who is in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments
What is hypochondriasis
100
A false belief that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
What is a delusion?
100
A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience
What is anit-social personality
100
the manual used by psychologists to help them classify psychological disorders
What is the DSM-IV?
200
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
200
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function.
What is Conversion disorder
200
Feelings such as inferiority, or sadness lasting greater than 2 weeks, and that interferes with functioning, concentration, and mental and physical well-being.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
200
Society's 2 terms for people suffering from Anti-Social personality disorder (not diagnosed)
What are Sociopath and Psychopath?
200
the five major dimensions that describe a person's mental functioning (in general) These were removed by the DSM-5
What are the AXES?
300
Thinking the same thoughts over and over
What is an obsession
300
Symptom of dissosiative disorders in which a person suddenly and unexpectently travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
What is dissociative fugue
300
perceptions that have no direct external cause
What is a hallucination?
300
These characteristics make criminals suffering from anti-social PD particularly scary (serial killers)
What are fake emotions, intelligence and charismatic/entertaining?
300
what type of schizophrenia includes incoherent language, inappropriate emotions, giggling for no apparent reason,
generally disorganized motore behavior, and hallucinations and delusions
What is disorganized schizophrenia?
400
Continually performing irrational actions
What is a Compulsion
400
Two or more distinct personalities each with their own patterns of thinking and behaving
What is dissociative identity disorder (commonly called to as multiple personality disorder)
400
Language sped up or disorganized
What is "word salad"?
400
Characterized by feelings of superiority, lack of care for other's time and inability to see faults in self.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
400
Behavior that breaks from the "norms" of society.
What is abnormal?
500
A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger
What is anxiety
500
physical symptoms for which there are no apparent physical cause
What is a somataform disorder
500
Type of schizophrenia that causes limbs to remain motionless for long periods of time and in unusual positions.
What is catatonic schizophrenia
500
Characterized by unstable emotions, feelings of worthlessness, self injury and inappropriate anger.
What is borderline personality disorder?
500
List 2 characteristics/statistics of suicide
Women attempt more,
Men succeed more,
30k Americans/ yr
Most who threaten will attempt