Abnormal Psychology Flashcards
Avoidant Personality Disorder
A personality disorder marked by extreme shyness and sensitivity to rejection.
Bipolar Disorder I
A mood disorder characterized by a least one manic episode and the symptoms are not explained by a personality disorder.
Bipolar Disorder II
A mood disorder characterized by having at least one hypomanic episode and at least one major depressive episode.
Borderline Personality Disorder
A mental disorder characterized by the instability in mood, behavior, and functioning.
Confounding Variables
Variables not originally part of the research design but contribute to the results in a meaningful way.
Cross-Sectional Validity
When a behavior made in one environment happens in other environments as well.
Conversion Disorder
A disorder in which a person experiences blindness, paralysis, or other symptoms affecting the nervous system that cannot be explained solely by a physical illness or injury.
Dependent Personality Disorder
A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior as well as fears of separation.
Derealization
Feelings of unreality or detachment from the world.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.
Dissociative Fugue
A psychological state in which a person loses awareness of their identity or other important autobiographical information and also engages in some form of unexpected travel.
Ego
The part of personality that attempts to mediate the desires of the id against the demands of reality, and the moral limitations or guidelines of the superego
Id
The personality component made up of unconscious psychic energy that works to satisfy basic urges, needs, and desires.
Superego
Component of personality composed of the internalized ideals that we have acquired from our parents and society.
Existential Perspective
This approach stresses the need for people to continually re-create themselves and be self-aware, acknowledges that anxiety is a normal part of life, focuses on free will and self-determination, emphasizes that each person has a unique identity known only through relationships and the search for meaning,
Factitious Disorder
Falsification of medical or psychological symptoms of oneself or another (by proxy), with the overall intention of deception. (Munchausens)
Histronic Personality Disorder
A mental health condition characterized by overwhelming desire to be noticed and dramatic behavior.
Humanism
The worldview that emphasizes human welfare and the uniqueness of the individual.
Major Neurocognitive Disorder
When individuals show significant decline in both overall cognitive functioning as well as the ability to independently meet the demands of daily living such as paying bills, taking medications, or caring for oneself.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A mental disorder with exaggerated feelings of self-importance, but low self-esteem.
Negative Symptoms
The inability or decreased ability to initiate actions, speech, expressed emotion, or to feel pleasure.
Positive Symptoms
Symptoms that are an over-exaggeration of normal brain processes
Neurological Tests
Used to diagnose cognitive impairments caused by brain damage due to tumors, infections, or head injury; or changes in brain activity.
Persecutory Delusions
Involves the individual believing that they are being conspired against, spied on, followed, poisoned or drugged, or harassed.
