ch 17

Question 1

psychological disorder

Answer 1

any distress or dysfunction in an individual that affects their everyday functioning

Question 2

the 4 categories of disorders

Answer 2

mood disorders
personality disorders
psychotic disorders
anxiety disorders

Question 3

mood disorder

Answer 3

persistent feeling of sadness, periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness

Question 4

examples of mood disorders

Answer 4

major depressive disorder (MDD)
dysthymia
bipolar disorder
cyclothymic disorder

Question 5

personality disorders

Answer 5

an individual shows consistent, rigid, unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving

Question 6

personality disorders

Answer 6

• difficulty perceiving and relating to others
• difficulty relating to different situations
• experience inflexible behaviours

Question 7

psychotic disorders

Answer 7

cause abnormal thinking and/or behaviour and individuals are unable to distinguish the imaginary from reality

Question 8

symptoms of psychotic disorders

Answer 8

-issue communicating
-withdrawn from society
-live in a work of delusions, hallucinations and confused thinking
-episodes of psychosis