A mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience and solve problems
What is intelligence?
100
The practice of drilling holes in the skull in order to release evil spirits and cure mental disorders
What is trephening?
100
This is the most commonly found mood disorder, this may affect 13% of all US adults during their lifetime.
What is depression?
100
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive and in a state of nervous system arousal
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
100
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
What are delusions?
200
A condition in which someone otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
What is savant syndrome?
200
The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and cured.
What is the medical model?
200
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between depression and mania
What is bipolar disorder?
200
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity or situation
What is phobia?
200
A type of schizophrenia marked by immobility, extreme negativism, and/or the parrotlike repeating of others' speech or movements
What is the catatonic type?
300
Howard Gardner believed in 8 of these:
What are multiple intelligences?
300
A culturally-exclusive disorder in Japan, its symptoms include a readiness to blush and a fear of eye contact
What is Taijin-kyofusho?
300
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
What is mania?
300
Anxiety disorder marked by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions
What is Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder?
300
Type of schizophrenia marked by the absence of most symptoms - unfortunately not a "cured" state
What is the residual type?
400
A test designed to predict a person's future performance; the capacity to learn
What is an aptitude test?
400
The comprehensive guide to mental disorders - widely used to diagnose psychological disorders
What is the DSM-IV-TR?
400
Name one of the two major neurotransmitters that is absent during major depression
What is norepinephrine or serotonin?
400
While not an anxiety disorder, this somatoform disorder is characterized by specific and genuine physical symptoms, for which there is no physiological cause.
What is conversion disorder?
400
This has been found to be the cure for schizophrenia
What is there is no cure for schizophrenia?
500
A condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is Down's Syndrome?
500
An unfortunate example of superstition instead of science, this event led to the unfortunate torture and execution of many young women during the 1690's - their erratic behavior is now realized as a bad reaction to a fungus that is also found in LSD.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
500
Depression is often descibed as being __________ in nature
What is cyclical?
500
A dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
500
This eating disorder is marked by binges and purges