1. Psychological Disorders

Question 1

What is a psychological disorder?

Answer 1

set of behavioral and/or psychological symptoms that are not in keeping with cultural norms and that are severe enough to cause significant personal distress and/or significant impairment to social, occupational, or personal function

Question 2

What is the current standard for classification and diagnosis for psychological disorders?

Answer 2

diagnostical and statistical manual for mental disorders

Question 3

What is an anxiety disorder?

Answer 3

intense, frequent, irrational, and uncontrollable emotional state of unpleasant physical and mental arousal

Question 4

What are the four types of anxiety disorders?

Answer 4

1. panic disorder
2. generalized anxiety disorder
3. specific phobia
4. social phobia

Question 5

What is a panic disorder?

Answer 5

person who has suffered at least one panic attack and is worried about having more of them

Question 6

What is a panic attack?

Answer 6

feeling of intense dread, shortness of breath, chest pain, choking sensation, and cardiac symptoms

Question 7

What is generalized anxiety disorder?

Answer 7

person feels tense or anxious much of the time about many issues but does not experience panic attacks

Question 8

What is a specific phobia?

Answer 8

persistent, strong, and unreasonable fear of a certain object or situation

Question 9

What are the four types of specific phobia?

Answer 9

1. situational
2. natural environment
3. blood/injection/injury
4. animal

Question 10

What is social phobia?

Answer 10

unreasonable, paralyzing fear of feeling embrassed or humiliated while one is seen or watched by others even while performing routine activities

Question 11

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Answer 11

person has has obsession, compulsions, or both

Question 12

What are obsessions?

Answer 12

repeated, intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts or impulses that cause distress or anxiety

Question 13

What are compulsions?

Answer 13

repeated physical or mental behaviors that are performed in response to an obsession or in accordance with a set of strict rules in order to reduce distress or prevent something dreaded from happening

Question 14

What is post traumatic stress disorder?

Answer 14

can arise when a person feels intense fear, horror, or helplessness after experiencing, witness, or otherwise confronting an extremely traumatic event that involves actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence

Question 15

What is acute stress disorder?

Answer 15

similar to PTSD but symptoms last between 3 days and one month

Question 16

What is an adjustment disorder?

Answer 16

maladaptive response is to a stressor rather than a trauma

Question 17

What are somatic symptom disorders?

Answer 17

psychological disrdoers characterized primarily by distress and decreased functioning due to persistent physical symptoms and concerns which may mimic physical disease

Question 18

What are the four subtypes of somatic symptom disorders?

Answer 18

1. somatic symptom disorder
2. illness anxiety disorder
3. conversion disorder
4. factitious disorder

Question 19

What is illness anxiety disorder?

Answer 19

somatic aspect of the illness is not central or can be nonexistent

Question 20

What is conversion disorder?

Answer 20

person experiences change in sensory or motor functions that has no discernible physical or physiological cause and that seems to be significantly affected by psychological factors

Question 21

What is factitious disorder?

Answer 21

fabricated illness that can either be imposed on oneself or someone else