CHAPTER 12 Vocab A-E

Question 1

Fear of going out into public places

Answer 1

Agoraphobia

Question 2

A significant memory that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting

Answer 2

Amnesia

Question 3

Eating disorder characterize by intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed bod image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight

Answer 3

Anorexia nervosa

Question 4

Loss of memories for events that occur after a head inry

Answer 4

Anterograde amnesia

Question 5

A type of personality disorder marked by impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive, and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms

Answer 5

Antisocial personality disorder

Question 6

A calss of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety

Answer 6

Anxiety disorders

Question 7

The system of nerves that connect to the heart, blood; vessels, smooth muscles, and glands

Answer 7

Autonomic nervous system

Question 8

Basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind

Answer 8

Availability heuristc

Question 9

Any overt response or activity by an organism

Answer 9

Behavior

Question 10

Mood disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods

Answer 10

Bipolar disorder

Question 11

Eating disorder characterized by habitually engaging in out of control overeating followed by unhealthy compensation efforts, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse, and abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and excessive exercise

Answer 11

Bulimia nervosa

Question 12

Unrealistically pessimistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one’s problems

Answer 12

Catastrophic thinking

Question 13

A type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity

Answer 13

Catatonic schizophrenia

Question 14

An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of difficulties and costs that may arise

Answer 14

Commitment

Question 15

The coexistence of two or more disorders

Answer 15

Comorbidity

Question 16

The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder

Answer 16

Concordance rate

Question 17

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning

Answer 17

Conditioned response

Question 18

A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response

Answer 18

Conditioned stimulus

Question 19

An error that occurs when people estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone

Answer 19

Conjunction fallacy

Question 20

A somatoform disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system

Answer 20

Conversion disorder

Question 21

Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups

Answer 21

Culture-bound disorders

Question 22

Exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbances

Answer 22

Cyclothymic disorder

Question 23

False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality

Answer 23

Delusions

Question 24

Distinguishing one illness from another

Answer 24

Diagnosis

Question 25

A type of schizophrenia in which particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen

Answer 25

Disorganized schizophrenia

Question 26

A sudden loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting

Answer 26

Dissasociative amnesia

Question 27

A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity

Answer 27

Dissociative disorders

Question 28

A disorder in which people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity

Answer 28

Dissasociated fugue

Question 29

A type of dissociative disorder characterized by the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities - multiple-personality disorder

Answer 29

Dissociative identity disorder

Question 30

A chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to merit diagnosis of a major depressive episode

Answer 30

Dysthymic disorder

Question 31

Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns episodes

Answer 31

Eating disorders

Question 32

The study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population

Answer 32

Epidemiology

Question 33

The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness

Answer 33

Etiology