Anxiety Disorders
Intense fear and avoidance of social situations:
Social Anxiety Disorder
Which gender is more likely to attempt suicide:
Women
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
Hallucinations
A disorder related to somatic symptom disorder in which a person experiences very specific physical symptoms that are not compatible with recognized medical or neurological conditions:
Conversion Disorder
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a form of currency for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange this form of currency for privileges or treats:
Token Economy
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania:
Bipolar Disorder
A form of schizophrenia in which symptoms usually appear by late adolescence or early adulthood. As people age, psychotic episodes last longer and recovery periods shorten:
Chronic Schizophrenia
A rare disorder in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings:
Dissociative Disorders
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Insight Therapies
Fear of avoidance of situations such as crowds or wide open places:
Agoraphobia
Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes:
Rumination
A form of schizophrenia that can begin at any age; frequently occurs in response to a traumatic event:
Acute Schizophrenia
Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning:
Personality Disorders
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors:
Counterconditioning
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, actions, or both:
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A disorder in which a person experiences, in absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure:
Major Depressive Disorder
List:
Depressed mood
Reduced interest or enjoyment in most activities
Changes in appetite and weight
Significant challenges regulating sleep
Physical agitation and lethargy
No energy
Feeling worthless
Problems thinking and concentrating
Thinking repetitively about death
When PET Scans were performed on people with schizophrenia who were experiencing hallucinations, the part of their brain that lit up was the part of the brain that receives sensory information. What part of the brain is this?
Thalamus
Significant eating, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory behavior that marks bulimia nervosa:
Binge-eating disorder
Psychopharmacology
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdraw, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more:
PTSD
What percentage of American college students answered "yes" to being "so depressed that it was difficult to function?
31%
What hormone do people with schizophrenia have in abundance compared to people people without schizophrenia?
Dopamine
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity:
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)