Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders

Question 1

medical model

Answer 1

thinking of abnormal behavior as disease

Question 2

characteristics for diagnosis

Answer 2

deviance, maladaptive behavior, personal distress

Question 3

comorbidity

Answer 3

coexistence of two or more disorders

Question 4

prevalence

Answer 4

percentage of people that exhibit a disorder during a specific time period

Question 5

most common psychological disorders

Answer 5

1. substance abuse
2. anxiety disorders
3. mood disorders

Question 6

generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 6

chronic, high level of anxiety not tied to a specific threat

Question 7

phobic disorder

Answer 7

persistent and irrational fear or an object or situation that presents no realistic danger

Question 8

panic disorder

Answer 8

recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that occur suddenly and unexpectedly, serotonin

Question 9

agoraphobia

Answer 9

fear of going out in public places

Question 10

concordance rate

Answer 10

percentage of twins or relatives who exhibit the same disorder

Question 11

dissociative disorders

Answer 11

loss of contact with portions consciousness or memory, disrupted sense of identity

Question 12

dissociative amnesia

Answer 12

sudden loss of memory

Question 13

dissociative fugue

Answer 13

people loss memory for entire life along with personal identity

Question 14

dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Answer 14

multiple personalities

Question 15

mood disorders

Answer 15

emotional disturbances that disrupt physical, perceptual, social and thought processes

Question 16

major depressive dissorder

Answer 16

sadness and despair, loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

Question 17

anhedonia

Answer 17

diminished ability to experience pleasure

Question 18

schizophrenic disorders

Answer 18

delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and deterioration of adaptive behavior. emerge during adolescence and early adulthood, structural abnormalities

Question 19

delusions

Answer 19

false beliefs that are out of touch with reality

Question 20

hallucinations

Answer 20

sensory perceptions that occur in absence or distortion of sensory input

Question 21

paranoid schizophrenia

Answer 21

delusions of persecution, delusion of grandeur

Question 22

catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 22

motor disturbances

Question 23

disorganized schizophrenia

Answer 23

severe deterioration of adaptive behavior

Question 24

negative symptoms

Answer 24

behavioral deficits

Question 25

positive symptoms

Answer 25

behavioral excesses

Question 26

expressed emotion

Answer 26

degree to which a relative of a patient is highly critical or emotionally over involved of/with the patient, high EE causes relapse

Question 27

personality disorders

Answer 27

extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired functioning

Question 28

antisocial personality disorder

Answer 28

impulsive, agressive, irresponsible behavior

Question 29

insanity

Answer 29

legal status indicating that a person can’t be held accountable for their actions

Question 30

culture-bound disorders

Answer 30

only found in certain cultural groups, windigo