CHAPTER 12 Vocab A-E Flashcards
Fear of going out into public places
Agoraphobia
A significant memory that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
Amnesia
Eating disorder characterize by intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed bod image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight
Anorexia nervosa
Loss of memories for events that occur after a head inry
Anterograde amnesia
A type of personality disorder marked by impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive, and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms
Antisocial personality disorder
A calss of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety
Anxiety disorders
The system of nerves that connect to the heart, blood; vessels, smooth muscles, and glands
Autonomic nervous system
Basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind
Availability heuristc
Any overt response or activity by an organism
Behavior
Mood disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods
Bipolar disorder
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
Bulimia nervosa
Unrealistically pessimistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one’s problems
Catastrophic thinking
A type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity
Catatonic schizophrenia
An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of difficulties and costs that may arise
Commitment
The coexistence of two or more disorders
Comorbidity
The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder
Concordance rate
A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning
Conditioned response
A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response
Conditioned stimulus
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
Conjunction fallacy
A somatoform disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system
Conversion disorder
Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups
Culture-bound disorders
Exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbances
Cyclothymic disorder
False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality
Delusions
Distinguishing one illness from another
Diagnosis
A type of schizophrenia in which particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen
Disorganized schizophrenia
A sudden loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
Dissasociative amnesia
A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity
Dissociative disorders
A disorder in which people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity
Dissasociated fugue
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
Dissociative identity disorder
A chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to merit diagnosis of a major depressive episode
Dysthymic disorder
Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns episodes
Eating disorders
The study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population
Epidemiology
The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness
Etiology
