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Psychological Dirsorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
A little bit of everything
100
Patterns of thought, feelings, or emotions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional
What are psychological disorders?
100
Continually worrying about something, even when that something is resolved another worry appears
What is GAD, or General Anxiety Disorder?
100
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
What are mood disorders?
100
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors; a split from reality.
What is schizophrenia?
100
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are dissociative disorders?
200
This term is used to describe attitudes that vary from the culturally defined norms.
What is deviance?
200
Intense unwanted worries paired with a strong need to carry out repeated actions describes which type of anxiety disorder?
What is OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
200
When a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, tow or more weeks of significantly depressed moods or diminished interest or please in most activities, along with at least four other symptoms
What is major depressive disorder?
200
When a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.
What is psychosis?
200
When a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalities.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
300
He instituted asylums to remove beatings to be replaced with "moral treatment"
Who is Philippe Pinel?
300
Repeated intrusive recall of memories, nightmares, social withdraw, and insomnia are symptoms of this disorder
What is PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
300
Marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
What is mania?
300
Another name for dissociative personality disorder
What is multiple personality disorder?
400
This is a guide for psychologists to assess, interview, observe, and later diagnose a patient.
What is the DSM or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
400
Marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity or situation. For an extra 100 points, what is an overwhelming fear of clowns?
What is a phobia? What is coulrophobia?
400
when a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
400
The neurotransmitter that is found in excess in the brain's of schizophrenics.
What is dopamine?
400
The three eating disorders mentioned in module 51.
What are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge sting disorder?
500
When understanding a person's mental illness, this perspective takes into account such things like social pressures, genetics, and the level of stress.
What is the Biopsychosocial Approach?
500
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises
What is post-traumatic growth?
500
In the past, this term was used to describe what we currently know as bipolar disorder.
What is manic-depressive disorder?
500
The five subtypes of schizophrenia.
What is paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual?