psychology 1-22

Question 0

Involves distinguishing one illness from another

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Diagnosis

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Proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease

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Medical model

Question 2

Refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness

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Etiology

Question 3

A forecast about the possible course of an illness

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Prognosis

Question 4

A sexual disorder in which a man achieves sexual arousal by dressing in women’s clothing

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Transvestism

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The study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population

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Epidemiology

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Refers to the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specific time period

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Prevalence

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A class of disorders marked by feeling of excessive apprehension and anxiety

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Anxiety disorders

Question 8

Disorder marked by a chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat

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Generalized anxiety disorder

Question 9

Disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger

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Phobic disorder

Question 10

Disorder that involves recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly

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Panic disorder

Question 11

Disorder marked by persistent uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 12

A fear of going out in public places

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Agoraphobic

Question 13

Physical ailments with a genuine organic basis that are caused in part by psychological factors

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Psychosomatic diseases

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A class of disorders involving physical ailments that have no authentic organic basis and are due to psychological factors

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Somatoform disorders

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Disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin

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Somatization disorder

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Disorders that involves a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis,) usually in a single-organ system

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Conversion Disorder

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Disorder that involves excessively preoccupation with health concerns and incessantly worrying about developing physical illness

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Hypochondrias

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A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity

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Dissociative disorders

Question 19

A sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting

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Dissociative amnesia

Question 20

People’s loss of memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity

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Dissociative fugue

Question 21

Older term, still widely used, that describes the coexistence in one person of two or more personalities

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Multiple personalty disorder