Ch 14 Psychological Disorders

Question 1

What is the medical model?

Answer 1

Abnormal behavior=disease

Question 2

Define diagnosis

Answer 2

distinguishing and identifying illness

Question 3

Define etiology

Answer 3

Cause and development (why someone thinks they have it)

Question 4

Define prognosis

Answer 4

Forecast about corse and outcome of disorder

Question 5

Define chronic

Answer 5

Long lasting- over a persisting time

Question 6

Define acute

Answer 6

Rapid onset- short duration

Question 7

Define episodic

Answer 7

Periods of illness separated by periods of wellness

Question 8

Three most used criteria for abnormal behavior

Answer 8

Personal distress, maladaptive behavior, deviance

Question 9

Which of the three methods is not used in the DSM-V

Answer 9

Deviance

Question 10

What is the DSM?

Answer 10

Diagnostician and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Question 11

What are some of the tests in the DSM-V

Answer 11

diagnoses mental disorders with interviews and self-repots

Question 12

What are anxiety disorders?

Answer 12

Excessive fear and anxiety and opprenension

Question 13

Anxiety not tied to any specific event- past or future

Answer 13

GAD- Generalized anxiety disorder

Question 14

Irrational fear of an object

Answer 14

Specific phobia

Question 15

What are the specific phobia types

Answer 15

Animals, situation, natural environment, or blood injection

Question 16

Fears of being negatively judged

Answer 16

Social anxiety disorder

Question 17

What is a panic attack?

Answer 17

Intense fear, abruptly, within 10 minutes

Question 18

What is panic disorder?

Answer 18

Recurrent panic attacks- fear of having another

Question 19

Fear of going into public

Answer 19

Agoraphobia

Question 20

What is OCD

Answer 20

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Unwanted thoughts (O) with repetition behaviors (C)

Question 21

What is PTSD

Answer 21

Post traumatic stress disorder

Question 22

Class of disorders with emotional disturbances

Answer 22

Mood disorders

Question 23

What is MDD

Answer 23

Major depressive disorder- persistent feeling of sadness and despair- loss of interest in pleasurable experience

Question 24

What is bipolar disorder

Answer 24

Ian Gallagher- manic and depressive episodes

Question 25

What is a positive symptom

Answer 25

Adding something- either good or bad

Question 26

What is a negative symptom

Answer 26

Taking something away- good or bad

Question 27

What is the autism spectrum

Answer 27

neurodivergent disorder- Impairment of social interactions and communication

Question 28

Three clusters of personality disorders

Answer 28

Odd/eccentric, dramatic, and anxious

Question 29

Engaging in binge-eating, followed by vomiting, fasting, and other unhealthy efforts

Answer 29

Bulimia nervosa

Question 30

Intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, dangerous measures to lose weight

Answer 30

Anorexia nervosa

Question 31

Distress-inducing eating that are not followed by the purging, fasting, and exercise

Answer 31

Binge-eating disorder

Question 32

About ________ of patients diagnosed with anorexic and bulimic disorders are female.

Answer 32

90-95%