Chapter 16 sections 2-3 Flashcards
An intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation
Phobia
Disorder in which victims of a Trumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
Post–taumatic stress syndrome
A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger
Anxiety
A condition in which there is no apparent physical cause
Somatoform
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
Conversion disorder
He disorder in which a person experiences alternations in memory identity or consciousness
Dissociative disorder
The inability to recall important personal events or information is usually associated with stressful events
Dissociative amnesia
A dissociation this order in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
Disassociation fugue
A person exhibits two or more personality states each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving
Disassociation identity disorder
An extreme anxiety that manifests itself in the form of panic attacks
Panic disorder