unit 8

Question 1

agoraphobia

Answer 1

fear of going out to public places

Question 2

anhedonia

Answer 2

less ability to experience pleasure, lack energy or motivation

Question 3

anorexia nervosa

Answer 3

severe food restriction

Question 4

antisocial personality disorder

Answer 4

impulsive, manipulative, failure to accept social norms

Question 5

anxiety disorders

Answer 5

excessive apprehension and anxiety

Question 6

autism

Answer 6

developmental disorder, social and emotional deficits, repetitive behaviours and interest.

Question 7

availability heuristic

Answer 7

estimated probability of an event is based on prevalence of memory of it

Question 8

binge-eating disorder

Answer 8

binges from stress and then purging

Question 9

bipolar disorder

Answer 9

manic depressive disorder, 1 or more manic episodes and depression

Question 10

bulimia nervosa

Answer 10

binging and vomiting/purging

Question 11

catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 11

striking motor disturbances

Question 12

comorbidity

Answer 12

coexistence of two or more disorders

Question 13

concordance rate

Answer 13

the percentage of twins or relatives that have the same disorder

Question 14

conjunction fallacy

Answer 14

estimate that the odds of two things occurring at once is greater than one happening alone

Question 15

culture-bound disorder

Answer 15

syndromes found in only a few groups

Question 16

cyclothymic disorder

Answer 16

chronic but mild bipolar symptoms

Question 17

delusions

Answer 17

out of touch with reality, false beliefs

Question 18

distinguishing one illness from another

Answer 18

diagnosis

Question 19

disorganized schizophrenia

Answer 19

severe deterioration of adaptive behaviour, babbling, giggling

Question 20

dissociative amnesia

Answer 20

sudden loss of memory of personal information, too extensive to be normal forgetting, occur after trauma

Question 21

dissociative disorders

Answer 21

people lose contact with bits of their consciousness or memory, disrupts sense of identity

Question 22

dissociative fugue

Answer 22

loss of memory for their entire lives, loss of sense of personal identity. Can remember things like driving

Question 23

dissociative identity disorder (DID) multiple personality disorder

Answer 23

occurs when two or more personalities coexistence in one person. Personalities are unaware of each other

Question 24

dysthymic disorder

Answer 24

mild, chronic depression that is insufficient to be diagnosed as major depression

Question 25

eating disorders

Answer 25

preoccupation with weight and control, severe disturbances to eating

Question 26

epidemiology

Answer 26

the study of the distribution of mental/physical disorders in a population

Question 27

apparent cause and developmental history of an illness

Answer 27

etiology

Question 28

expressed emotion (EE)

Answer 28

relative of a schizophrenic patient and how much emotionally over-involved attitudes they exhibit towards the patient

Question 29

hallucinations

Answer 29

hearing voices, sensory perceptions that occur without a stimulus

Question 30

generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 30

(free floating anxiety) chronic, high level of anxiety not tied to any specific threat

Question 31

major depressive disorder

Answer 31

persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest in previously joyful things

Question 32

Model that believes abnormal behaviour is a disease

Answer 32

medical model

Question 33

mood disorders

Answer 33

disturbed emotions, lead to disturbing physical and social thought processes

Question 34

negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 34

behavioural deficits, flattened emotions, social withdrawal...

Question 35

OCD

Answer 35

uncontrollable unwanted thoughts and senseless rituals

Question 36

panic disorder

Answer 36

unexpected and recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety

Question 37

paranoid schizophrenia

Answer 37

delusions of persecution and grandeur

Question 38

personality disorder

Answer 38

extreme and inflexible personality traits, distress and impaired social functioning

Question 39

phobic disorder

Answer 39

persistent/irrational fear of object/situation with no realistic danger

Question 40

positive symptoms for schizophrenia

Answer 40

behavioural excess, hallucinations, dreams...

Question 41

postpartum depression

Answer 41

depression that can occur after childbirth (within 4 weeks), can also include mania, higher when there is less social support

Question 42

prevalence

Answer 42

percentage of a population that has a specific disorder in a time period

Question 43

forecast of the course of an illness, what might happen

Answer 43

prognosis

Question 44

representative heuristic

Answer 44

estimated probably of an event based on similarity to a prototype

Question 45

seasonal affective disorders

Answer 45

depression that follows a seasonal pattern, less sunlight, melatonin production, circadian rhythms

Question 46

schizophrenic disorders

Answer 46

disturbed thought, marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, deteriorating adaptive behaviour

Question 47

undifferentiated schizophrenia

Answer 47

cannot be placed in one category, mix of symptoms

Question 48

Nancy Andreasen

Answer 48

subtypes of positive/negative schizophrenia

Question 49

hi

Answer 49

Martin Antony and Karen Rowa

Question 50

hi

Answer 50

Aaron Beck

Question 51

Robert Hare

Answer 51

hi

Question 52

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Answer 52

hi

Question 53

David Rosenhan

Answer 53

hi

Question 54

Regina Schuller

Answer 54

psychology and canadian law,

Question 55

Martin Seligman

Answer 55

learned helplessness, giving up with unavoidable events, people who are pessimistic are more likely to be depressed

Question 56

Thomas Szasz

Answer 56

Person that says abnormal behaviour is really just deviation from social norms rather than an illness

Question 57

criterion of abnormal behaviour

Answer 57

deviance, maladaptive behaviour, personal distress

Question 58

PTSD

Answer 58

caused by a traumatic event,, higher prevalence in women

Question 59

echolia

Answer 59

schiz children repeat what they hear