Mental Health Quiz Flashcards

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Anxiety/ anxiety disorders

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are a group of mental disturbances characterized by anxiety as a central or core symptom. Although anxiety is a commonplace experience, not everyone who experiences it has an anxiety disorder.

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Apathy

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can be defined as an absence or suppression of emotion, feeling, concern or passion. Apathy is an indifference to things generally found to be exciting or moving.

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Behavior Therapy- or Behavior modification

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is an empirically based psychological treatment approach founded on the principles of operant conditioning. The goal is to replace undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior.

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Biofeedback

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applied psychophysiological feedback is a patient-guided treatment that teaches an individual to control muscle tension, pain, body temperature, brain waves, and other bodily functions and processes through relaxation, visualization, and other cognitive control techniques.

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Bipolar disorder

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formerly known as manic depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by severe and unusual changes in energy level, mood, and interactions with others.

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Depression

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the general name for a family of illnesses known as depressive disorders. As an illness, depression can affect not only the personal mood and internal thoughts of a person, but also the outwardly physical functions of affected individuals.

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Desensitization

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treatment method which weakens the learned association between anxiety and feared objects or situations by strengthening another response—in this case, relaxation—that is incompatible with anxiety.

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Ego

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that portion of the personality that imposes realistic limitations on the id.

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Empathy

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capacity to vicariously experience and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person by putting oneself in that person’s place.

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Extroversion

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term used to characterize people who are typically outgoing, friendly, and open toward others.

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Id

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The id is the part of the personality that includes such basic biological impulses or drives as eating, drinking, eliminating wastes, avoiding pain, attaining sexual pleasure, and aggression. The id operates on the “pleasure principle,” seeking to satisfy these basic urges immediately with no regard to consequences.

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Introversion

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commonly used term for people who are quiet, reserved, thoughtful, and self-reliant and who tend to prefer solitary work and leisure activities.

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Mania

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description of the condition opposite depression in manic-depressive psychosis, or bipolar disorder. It is characterized by a mood of elation without apparent reason.

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Narcissism

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Excessive preoccupation with self and lack of empathy for others.

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Passive Aggressive Personality

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Its main distinguishing feature is indirect resistance to the demands or expectations of others through stubbornness, forgetfulness, inefficiency, procrastination, and other covert means.

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Placebo

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substances with no known pharmacological value that are given to members of a control group in an experiment.

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Psychosis

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symptom of mental illness characterized by a radical change in personality and a distorted or diminished sense of objective reality.

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Superego

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psychoanalytic theory, the part of the human personality that represents a person’s inner values and morals; also known as conscience.

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Affect

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A person’s affect is the expression of emotion or feelings displayed to others through facial expressions, hand gestures, voice tone, and other emotional signs such as laughter or tears.