Unit 12 Flashcards
Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional
Psychological Disorder
Disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more three key symptoms extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
ADHD
Concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured in a hospital
Medical Model
American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders
-system for classifying psychological disorders
DSM-IV-TR
Distressing, persistent anxiety or dysfunctional anxiety-reducing behaviors
Anxiety Disorder
Disorder when a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of nervous arousal
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of dread in which a person experiences terror
Panic Disorder
Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation
Phobia
Anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts or actions
OCD
Anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and insomnia that lingers after a traumatic experience
PTSD
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crisis
Post-traumatic Growth
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause
Somatoform Disorder
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause
Somatoform Disorder
A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physical bias can be found
Conversion Disorder
A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
Hypochondrias
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
Dissociative Disorder
Rare disorder when a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities Disorder)
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
Mood Disorder
Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive wildly optimistic state
Mania
Mood disorder when the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
Bipolar Disorder
Group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
Schizophrenia
False beliefs, often of persecution that may accompany psychotic disorders
Delusions
When someone manipulates, exploits, or violates someone without feeling bad about it or thinking they are doing anything wrong
Antisocial Personality Disorder
