Ch.12: Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Patterns of behaviors, thoughts, or emotions considered pathological for these four criteria

Answer 1

Abnormal behavior

Question 2

The four criteria’s include

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Deviance,Distress,Dysfunction, and Danger

Question 3

The diagnostic perspective which assumes that disease have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured

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Medical Model

Question 4

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental ilness

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Psychiatry

Question 5

A classification system developed by the American Psychiatric Association that is used to describe abnormal behaviors

Answer 5

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Question 6

A person does not have signs of brain abnormalities and does not display grossly irrational thinking or violate basic norms but does experience subjective distress

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Neurosis

Question 7

Characterized by extreme mental disruption and defective or lost contact with reality

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Psychosis

Question 8

The legal designation for the state of an individual judged to be legally irresponsible or incompetent to manage his or her own affairs because of mental illness

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Insanity

Question 9

The co-occurence of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time, as when a person suffers from both depression and alcoholism

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Comorbidity

Question 10

A mental disorder characterized by overwhelming tension and irrational fear accompanied by physiological arousal

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anxiety disorder

Question 11

Three types of anxiety disorders are

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Phobia

Question 12

Characteristics of Generalized anxiety disorder

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persistent, uncontrollable, and free-floating nonspecified anxiety

Question 13

Characteristics of Panic Disorder

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intense apprehension that cause trembling, dizziness and difficulty in breathing.

Question 14

__________ generally happen after frightening experiences or prolonged stress

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Panic Attack

Question 15

A persistent and intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation

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Phobia

Question 16

________ restrict their normal activities because they fear having a panic attack in crowded enclosed or wide open paces, refuse to leave their home

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Agraphobia

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________ a fear of specific objects or situation

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Specific Phobia

Question 18

_________ irrational fear of embarrassing themselves in social situations, public speaking

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Social Anxiety Disorder

Question 19

Constantly scan environment for signs of danger rather than sefety

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Faulty cognitive process

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Inadevertent and improper conditioning and social learning

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Maladaptive learning

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A group of mental disorders characterized by sad, empty irritable mood that interfere with the ability to function

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Depressive disorder

Question 22

A mental disorder characterized by repeated episodes of mania alternating with depression

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Bipolar disorder

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Seligman’s term for which humans or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible, stops trying

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Learned helplessness

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A group of severe disorders involving major disturbances in perception, language, thought, emotion, and behavior

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Schizophrenia, Split minded, split from reality

Question 25

A false imaginary sensory perception that occurs without an external objective source

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Hallucinations

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A false or irrational belief maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary

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Delusions

Question 27

hypothesis that suggest that people inherit a predisposition that increases their method for mental disorders if they are extremely stressed

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diathesis-stress model

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disorder charcterized by persistent, anxiety provoking thoughts will not go away or irresistible urges to perform repetitive behaviors

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Question 29

A psychological disorder murked by a disturbance in the integration of consciousness, identity, memory, and other features

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Dissociative disorder

Question 30

A mental disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality system in the same individual at different times

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Dissociative identity disorder

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A mental disorder characterized by chronic, inflexiblem maladaptive personality traits which cause significant impairment of social and occupational functioning

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Personality disorder

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A pattern of disregard for violation and the rights of others. Traits include unlawful behaviors,decietful, and manipulative, impulsive, irritability and aggressiveness. lack of remorse

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Antisocial personality disorder

Question 33

A mental disorder characterized by severe instability in emotion and self- concept, along with impulsive and self-destructive behaviors

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Borderline personality