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Question 1

Personality Disorder?

Answer 1

A chronic, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of perceiving, thinking and behaving that seriously impairs an individual’s ability to function in social or other settings.

Question 2

Borderline Personality Disorder?

Answer 2

A disorder defined by instability and intensity in personal relationships as well as turbulent emotions and impulsive behaviours.

Question 3

Antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 3

A disorder characterised by stable patterns of irresponsible or unlawful behaviour that violates social norms.

Question 4

Somatoform disorder?

Answer 4

A disorder in which people have physical illnesses or complaints that cannot be fully explained by actual medical conditions.

Question 5

Hypochondriasis?

Answer 5

A disorder in which individuals are preoccupied with having or getting physical ailments despite reasssurances that they are healthy.

Question 6

Somatisation disorder?

Answer 6

A disorder characterised by unexplained physical complaints in several categories over many years.

Question 7

Conversion disorder?

Answer 7

A disorder in which psychological conflict or stress brings about loss of motor or sensory function.

Question 8

Dissociative disorder?

Answer 8

A personality disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of identity, memory or consciousness.

Question 9

Dissociative amnesia?

Answer 9

The inability to remember important personal experiences, caused by psycholgoical factors in the absence of any organic dysfuunction.

Question 10

Dissociative fugue

Answer 10

A disorder characterised by a flight from home or work accompanied by a loss of ability to recall the personal past.

Question 11

Dissociative Indentity Disorder (DID)?

Answer 11

A dissociative mental disorder in which two or more distinct pesonalities exist within the same individual, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Question 12

Schizophrenic disorder?

Answer 12

Severe form of psychopathology characterised by the breakdown of integrated personality functioning, withdrawal from reality, emotional distortions, and disturbed thought processes.

Psychopathology - study of mental disorder, mental distress, and abnormal/ maladaptive behavior

Question 13

Delusion?

Answer 13

False or irrational belief maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Question 14

Diathesis-stress hypothesis?

Answer 14

A hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, that suggests that genetic factors predispose an individual to a certain disorder but that environmental stress factors must impinge in order for the potential risk to manifest itself

Question 15

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?

Answer 15

A disorder of childhood characterised by inattention and hyperacitvity-impulsivity.

Question 16

Autistic disorder?

Answer 16

A developmental disorder characterised by severe disruption of children’s ability to form social bonds and use language.

Question 17

Stigma?

Answer 17

The negative reaction of people to an individual or group becaue of some assumed inferiority or source of difference that is degraded.