Concepts In Abnormal Psychology

Question 1

What is dysfunction?

Answer 1

A failure of a mental mechanism to perform a natural function.

Question 2

What is a natural function?

Answer 2

It is the function of an organ or a biological mechanism designed by evolution.

Question 3

What is psychopathology?

Answer 3

I problematic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that is associated with present distress or impairment in one or more areas of functioning.

Question 4

What is prevalence?

Answer 4

Percentage of the population that exhibits a disorder during a specific time period.

Question 5

What is comorbidity?

Answer 5

Experiencing more than one psychological disorder simultaneously

Question 6

What is abnormal psychology?

Answer 6

A branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder. Although many behaviours could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology generally deals with behavior in a clinical context.

Question 7

What is the DSM-V and what is it used for?

Answer 7

The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders is a standard diagnostic tool used by psychiatrist and psychologist in the treatment of mental disorders.

Question 8

What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?

Answer 8

A disorder characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that it’s not cold related with particular object or situation.

Question 9

What is panic disorder and panic attacks?

Answer 9

Panic disorder is featured with repeated panic attacks and fear of future attacks. While panic attacks are characterized by intense fear and auto autonominic arousal.

Question 10

What is social phobia?

Answer 10

A disorder characterized by an unrealistic fear of being scrutinized and criticized by others.

Question 11

What is the specific phobia?

Answer 11

Fears of the objects or situations other than those associated with add agoraphobia and social phobia.

Question 12

What are somatoform disorders

Answer 12

Physical symptoms that do not have an underlying medical cause.

Question 13

What is hypochondriasis?

Answer 13

A health phobia of getting sick and dying.

Question 14

What is conversion disorder?

Answer 14

A conversion disorder causes patients to suffer from neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits without a definable organic cause.

Question 15

What is somatization disorder?

Answer 15

A long-term chronic condition in which a person has physical symptoms that involve more than one part of the body but no physical cause can be found.

The pain and other symptoms people with this disorder feel are real and are not created or faked on purpose.

Symptoms include back pain, difficulty swallowing, nausea, and sometimes vomiting pain during intercourse and sexual activity

Question 16

What are mood disorders?

Answer 16

Involves intense and disruptive change in mood often at extreme both happy and despair typically fluctuate and include both periods of normality in periods of intense emotion.

Question 17

What are dissociative disorders?

Answer 17

Features disruption in a person’s identity memory or consciousness. caused by stress or trauma.

Question 18

What is dissociative Davy?

Answer 18

People become confused over their identity and often combined this loss of identity was said and travel and assumption of a new identity. Does not last longer than a few hours or days.

Question 19

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 19

A serious disorder that affects a broad range of behaviors including; perception, cognition, movement, and emotion.

Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, disorganize thought and speech, and disorders of movement.

Prevalence equals 0.7% almost 40% of the homeless

Question 20

What are the four subtypes of schizophrenia?

Answer 20

1. )Paranoid type
2. )Catatonic type
3. ) Disorganized type
4. ) Undifferentiated type

Question 21

What is the paranoid type of schizophrenia.?

Answer 21

Dominated by delusions of persecution, delusions of grandeur

Question 22

What is the chaotic type of schizophrenia?

Answer 22

Marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from rigidity to random activity

Question 23

What is the disorganized type of schizophrenia?

Answer 23

Incoherent patterns of thinking and grossly bizarre and disorganized behavior

Question 24

What is the undifferentiated type of schizophrenia?

Answer 24

Marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of symptoms

Question 25

What is harm?

Answer 25

A value term based on social norms, it is culturally defined, And not based in biology.

Question 26

What is borderline personality disorder?

Answer 26

Characteristics of this disorder fall on the border between anxiety and psychosis commonly found in females.

Characterized by instability in relationships, self image, and emotion.

Question 27

What is antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 27

Characterized by an unusual lack of remorse and empathy usually found in men

Question 28

What is a personality disorder?

Answer 28

Characterized by impairments in identity, in personality traits, and in the establishment of empathy or intimacy.

Question 29

What is schizotypal personality disorder?

Answer 29

characterized by a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs.

Question 30

What is schizoid personality disorder?

Answer 30

characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, and apathy.