Ch 12 Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Delusions

Answer 1

Extreme disorders of thinking, involving persistent false beliefs. Delusions are the hallmark of paranoid disorders

Question 2

Affect

Answer 2

A term referring to emotion or mood

Question 3

Medical model

Answer 3

The view that mental disorders are diseases that, like ordinary physical diseases, have objective physical causes and require specific treatments

Question 4

Hallucinations

Answer 4

False sensory experiences that may suggest mental disorder. Hallucinations can have a other causes, such as drugs or sensory isolation

Question 5

Social-cognitive-behavioral approach

Answer 5

A psychological alternative to the medical model that views psychological disorder through a combination of the social, cognitive, and behavioral perspective

Question 6

DSM-IV

Answer 6

The forth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association; the classification system most widely accepted psychiatric in the United States

Question 7

Neurosis

Answer 7

Before the DSM-IV, this term was used as a label for subjective distress or self-defeating behavior that did not show signs of brain abnormalities or grossly irrational thinking

Question 8

Psychosis

Answer 8

A disorder involving profound disturbances in perception, rational thinking, or affect