1. Psychological Disorders Part 4

Question 1

What is avoidant personality disorder?

Answer 1

person feels inadequate, inferior, and undesirable and is preoccupied with fears of criticism and conflict

Question 2

What is dependent personality disorder?

Answer 2

person feels a need to be taken care of by others and an unrealistic fear of being unable to take care of him or herself

Question 3

What is the stress-diathesis theory?

Answer 3

suggests that while genetic inheritance provides a biological predisposition for schizophrenia, stressors elicit the onset of the disease

Question 4

What is the dopamine hypothesis?

Answer 4

suggests that the pathway for neurotransmitter dopamine is hyperactive in people with schizophrenia

Question 5

What is dementia?

Answer 5

term for a severe loss of cognitive ability beyond what would be expected from normal aging

Question 6

What is Alzheimer’s disease?

Answer 6

most prevalent form of dementia affecting a large number of people in their 80/90s

Question 7

What causes Alzheimer’s?

Answer 7

cortical disease that is caused by the formation of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles

Question 8

What is Parkinsons disease?

Answer 8

movement disorder caused by the death of cells that generate dopamine in the basal ganglia and substantia nigra