Chapter 17

Question 1

panic disorder

Answer 1

sudden attacks of severe, overwhelming anxiety without an indentifiable cause

Question 2

phobia

Answer 2

intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation or even the thought of it

Question 3

acr/o-

Answer 3

extremity, highest point

Question 4

acrophobia

Answer 4

fear of heights

Question 5

agoraphobia

Answer 5

fear of crowds or public places

Question 6

agor/a-

Answer 6

open areas or space

Question 7

arachnophobia

Answer 7

fear of spiders

Question 8

arachn/o-

Answer 8

spider, spider web

Question 9

claustrophobia

Answer 9

fear of closed-in spaces

Question 10

claustr/o-

Answer 10

enclosed space

Question 11

mirophobia

Answer 11

fear of germs

Question 12

ophidiophobia

Answer 12

fear of snakes

Question 13

ophidi/o-

Answer 13

snake

Question 14

soci/o-

Answer 14

human beings; community

Question 15

thanatophobia

Answer 15

fear of death

Question 16

thanat/o-

Answer 16

death

Question 17

xenophobia

Answer 17

fear of strangers

Question 18

xen/o-

Answer 18

foreign

Question 19

post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 19

continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event

Question 20

Bipolar Disorder

Answer 20

chronic mood swings between mania and depression, extreme happiness and then swings of severe depression

Question 21

Psychosis

Answer 21

loss of touch with reality

Question 22

Delusional disorder

Answer 22

continued false beliefs concerning events of everyday life that are fixed and unchanged despite the efforts of others to persuade or evidence

Question 23

Schizophrenia

Answer 23

chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life with bizarre behviorr

Question 24

Oppositional defiant disorder

Answer 24

persistent aggressive behavior defiance of and refusal to obey rules, disrespect for authority figures, with anger, stubbornness and touchiness

Question 25

Tourette's syndrome

Answer 25

frequent, spontaneous, invultary movement tics (throat clearing, eye blinking) and vocal tics (grunts, barks) and comments that are socially inappropriate vulgar or obsecene, or racial

Question 26

Exhibitionisn

Answer 26

obtaining power, control and sexual arousal by exposing the genital area in public areas to strangers

Question 27

Fetishism

Answer 27

obtaining sexual arousal from objects rather than a person

Question 28

Rape

Answer 28

obtaining power, control and sexual arousal from forces sexual intercourse with a noncensting adult

Question 29

Sadism

Answer 29

obtaining power, control, and sexual arousal by deliberately causing abuse, pain, humiliation, or bondage to another person

Question 30

Transsexualism

Answer 30

person's beliefs that he or she has been assigened to the wrong sexual identlty

Question 31

Transvestism

Answer 31

obtaining sexual arousal by wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex or posing as someone of the opposite sex

Question 32

Voyeurism

Answer 32

practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people

Question 33

Munchausen syndrome

Answer 33

exhibiting factitious medical or psychiatric symptoms; patients are aware that they are lying, but are unaware that their motivation is the desire fo assistance, attention, pity, and being exucsed from the normal expectations of life

Question 34

Depersonalization

Answer 34

loss of connection between personal thoughts and sense of self and the environment

Question 35

Fufue state

Answer 35

abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories

Question 36

Rorschach test

Answer 36

inkblot test, using cards, patients is asked to describe what the inkblot shapes mean to them

Question 37

Hypnosis

Answer 37

sleeplike trance, patient is still able to remember who htey are and what is happening