Abnormal Behavior

Question 1

Anxiety

Answer 1

A feeling of impending doom or disaster from a specific or unknown source that is characterized by symptoms of tension, agitation, apprehension,

Question 2

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Answer 2

Characterized by persistent, pervasive feelings of doom for at least 6 months not associated with a particular object or situation.

Question 3

Panic Disorder

Answer 3

Unpredictable attacks of acute anxiety accompanied by high levels of physiological arousal that last from a few secs to hours.

Question 4

Phobia

Answer 4

Irrational fear of specific objects or situations.

Question 5

OCD

Answer 5

Recurrent, unwanted thought or ideas or compelling urges to engage in repetitive, ritual like behavior.

Question 6

PTSD

Answer 6

Feelings of social withdrawal accompanied by atypically low levels of emotions caused by prolonged exposure to a stressor, such as a catastrophe, an individual may have flashbacks and nightmares.

Question 7

Somatic Symptoms Disorder

Answer 7

Physical symptoms include: pain, high anxiety about disease.

Question 8

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Answer 8

Preoccupation with mild or nonexistent symptoms such as nausea with high anxiety.

Question 9

Conversion Disorder

Answer 9

Actual loss of bodily function, such as blindness, paralysis, or numbness, due to excessive anxiety with no physiological cause.

Question 10

Dissociation

Answer 10

Experience of two or more streams of consciousness cut off from each other. (Multiple Personality).

Question 11

Dissociative Amnesia

Answer 11

Characterized by inability to remember repressed events or personal info.

Question 12

Depressive disorders

Answer 12

Affective disorders characterized by extremely sad mood that effects normal perception, thought, and behavior.

Question 13

Major Depressive Disorder

Answer 13

Involves persistent and sever feelings of sadness and worthlessness accompanied by changes in appetite, sleeping, and behavior.

Question 14

Schizophrenia

Answer 14

A serious mental disorder characterized by thought disturbances, hallucinations, anxiety, emotional withdrawal, and delusions.

Question 15

Psychosis

Answer 15

Disorder characterized by an apparent break with reality.

Question 16

Delusion

Answer 16

Fixed belief that is maintained even when compelling evidence to the contrary is presented.

Question 17

Hallucinations

Answer 17

False sensory perception such as hearing voices or seeing images that are not present.

Question 18

Catatonia

Answer 18

Characterized by bizarre or frenzied movements, or lack of movement, such as immobile stupor and waxy flexibility, and unresponsive behavioral interactions with others, negativism, meaningless repetition of words or sounds, and/Or withdrawal.

Question 19

Personality Disorder

Answer 19

Characterized by longstanding maladaptive thought and behavior patterns that are troublesome to others, harmful, illegal.
Odd/eccentric
Dramatic/emotionally problematic
Chronic fearfulness/avoidant

Question 20

Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Answer 20

Involve disturbances in learning, language, and motor or social skill showing up in infancy, childhood, or adolescents.

Question 21

ADHD

Answer 21

Characterized by the inability to focus attention, distractibility, and impulsivity.

Question 22

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Answer 22

Characterized by impaired social interaction, poor comms, and limited activities and interests.