Chapter 14

Question 1

Anxiety Disorders

Answer 1

are a class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.

Question 2

Bipolar Disorder

Answer 2

is typically marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.

Question 3

Delusions

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Dissociative Disorders

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Hallucinations

Answer 5

are sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real external stimulus or that represent gross distortions of perceptual input.

Question 6

Medical model

Answer 6

proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.

Question 7

Neurotransmitters

Answer 7

are chemicals that carry signals from one neuron to another.

Question 8

Personality Disorders

Answer 8

are a class of disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning.