Crim3 Flashcards
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a mild mental disorder NOT arising from organic diseases - instead, it can occur from stress, depression or anxiety.
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Neurosis
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class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.
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Neurosis
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major personality disorder characterized by mental and emotional disruptions.
It is much more severe than neurosis - often impairing and debilitating the affected individual.
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Psychosis
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are blanket terms covering several different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety.
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Anxiety disorder
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This is an intense, unrealistic fear. In this case, anxiety is focused so intensely on some objects or situations that the individual is acutely uncomfortable around it and will often go to great pain to avoid it.
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Phobias
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Fear of high places
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Acrophobia
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open spaces and market places
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Agoraphobia
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Fear of pain
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Malgophobia
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storms, thunder, and lightning
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Astraphobia
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fear of dogs
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Gynophobia
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Fear of - closed places
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Claustrophobia - closed places
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Fear of blood
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Hematophobia
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Fear of contamination or germs
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Mysophobia
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Fear of being alone
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Monophobia
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Fear of- darkness
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Nyctophobia
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- fear of crowds
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Ochlophobia
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- fear of water
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Hydrophobia
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Fear of disease
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Pathophobia
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Fear of fire
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Pyrophobia
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fear of syphilis
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Syphilophobia
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- animals or some particular animals
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Zoophobia
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This is an anxiety provoking (annoying) thoughts that will not go away.
Thoughts and impulses which occur in the person’s mind despite attempts to keep them out.
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Obsession
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It is an urge wherein a person is compelled to perform some actions against his free will and with duress as a result of external factors.
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Compulsion
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the impulse to count anything.
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Arithomania
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the impulse to drink liquor.
Dipsomania
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the impulse to kill.
Homicidal mania
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the impulse to steal.
Kleptomania
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the impulse for fame or power.
Megalomania
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the impulse to set fire.
Pyromania
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- the impulse to take one's life.
Suicidal mania
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develop after an individual has experienced exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.
PTSD
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The term affect is roughly equivalent to emotion or mood.
Affective disorder
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major depressive disorder, is characterized by feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness.
Depression
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disorder means having periods of depression, and periods of mania.
Bipolar
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Unusual and chronic mood swings
During depression, symptoms similar to those for major depressive disorder
Bipolar
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Means body
Soma
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disorders involve a neurotic patter in which the individuals complain of bodily symptoms that suggest the presence of a physical problem, but for which no organic basis can be found.
Somatoform disorder
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disorder in which the physical illness is considered to be highly associated with emotional factors.
The individual may not perceive that his emotional state is
contributing to his physical illness.
Psychosomatic Disorder
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This is an intensely and chronically uncomfortable condition that indirectly creates a high risk of medical complications.
Somatization disorder
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are somatoform disorders in which individuals experience serious somatic symptoms such as functional blindness, deafness, paralysis, fainting, seizures, inability to speak or other serious impairments in the absence of any physical cause.
Conversion disorder
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are somatoform disorders in which the individual experiences a relatively specific and chronic pain that has a psychological rather than physical cause.
Somatoform pain disorder
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This covers a broad category of loosely related rare conditions involving sudden alterations in cognition, characterized by change in memory, perceptions or "identity".
Dissociative disorder
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This refers to loss of memory that can have either physical or psychological cause. It most often occurs after a period of intense stress and involves loss of memory for all or part of the stressful experience itself.
Amnesia
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This resembles amnesia in that there is a loss of memory but the loss is so complete that the individuals cannot remember his or her identity or previous life
Psychogenic Fugue State
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This refers to experiences in which the individual feels that he or she has become distorted or "unreal" or that distortions have occurred in one's surroundings. One might feel that she is a real robot - even though she knows she is a real person
Depersonalization
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This is a dissociative disorder in which the individual shifts abruptly and repeatedly from one personality to another as if more than one person were inhabiting the same body. This is commonly known as "split personality disorder."
Multiple personality disorder
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a psychotic condition marked by withdrawal from reality, indifference conceming everyday problems, and tendency to live in a world of fantasy.
- formerly called dementia praecox by Emil Kreaplin,
SCHIZOPHRENIA
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It means "splitting of minds".
Schizophrenia
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characterized by a gradual decline of interest and ambition.
The person withdraws from social contacts as well as irritable and inattentive.
Simple schizophrenia
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characterized principally by delusions of persecutions, somet and/or grandeur. Hallucinations, usually auditory, are most of time present.
Paranoid schizophrenia
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manifests severe integration of personality and can be observed through inappropriate giggling and smiling without apparent reasons which to an untrained observer may only be childish playfulness.
Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
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manifests extreme violence and shown with excessive motor activity, grimacing, talkativeness and unpredictable emotional outburst.
Catatonic schizophrenia
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refers to cases showing delusions and impaired contact with reality but without the severe personality disorganization characteristic of schizophrenia.
> The main symptom is characterized by suspicion
Paranoia
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having delusions of persecution.
Persecutory Paranoia
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both delusions of persecution and grandeur
Litigious Paranoia
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delusion that a certain person is in love with him or her.
Erotic paranoia
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Characterize feel with great power of importance.
Exalted Paranoia
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characterized by irrational jealousy.
Jealous paranoia
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formerly referred to as character disorders, are a class of personality types and behaviors defined as "an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it".
Personality disorder
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This is characterized by suspiciousness, hypersensitivity, rigidity, envy, excessive self-importance, and argumentativeness plus a tendency to blame others for one's own mistakes and failures and to ascribe evil motives to others.
Paranoid personality
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Individuals with this personality disorder neither deserve nor enjoy close relationship. They live a solitary life with little interest in developing friendships.
Schizoid personality
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Individuals with this type of personality disorder exhibit odd behaviors based on a belief in magic or superstition and may report unusual perceptual
experiences.
Schizotypal Personality
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this is characterized by attempt to be the center of attention through the use of theatrical and self-dramatizing behavior.
Histrionic personality
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Individuals with this type of personality have a pervasive sense of self-importance.
Narcissistic personality
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This is characterized by a lifelong history of inability to conform to social norms.
Antisocial personality
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This is characterized by instability, reflected in drastic mood shifts and behavior problems.
Borderline personality
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Individuals with this personality are fearful of becoming involved with people because of excessive fears of criticism or rejection.
Avoidant personality
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This is characterized by inability to make even daily decisions without excessive advice and reassurance from others and needs others to assume responsibility for most major areas of his or her life.
Dependent personality
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This is characterized by excessive concern with rules, order efficiency, and work coupled with insistence that everyone do things their way and an inability to express warm feelings.
Compulsive personality
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The individual with personality disorder is usually found to have overindulged in many things during the early years to the extent that the person comes to anticipate that his needs will always be met and gratified
Passive aggressive personality
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crime inspired by another crime that has been publicized in the news media or fictionally or artistically represented in which the offender incorporates aspects of the original offense.
Copycat crime
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sexual act that seeks gratification by means other than heterosexual relationship.
Sexual deviancy
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normal sexual relationship between members of the opposite sex which could lead to reproduction.
Heterosexuality
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- obtaining sexual gratification by wearing the clothes of the opposite sex.
Transvestitism
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obtaining sexual pleasure by watching the members of the opposite sex undressing or engaging in sexual activities.
Voyeurism
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obtaining pleasure by exposing one's genitals to others
Exhibitionism
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is when you feel extremely positive and active.
Mania
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- obtaining sexual gratification primarily and exclusively from specific objects
Fetishism
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by inflicting pain to others
Sadism
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by inflicting pain upon themselves.
Masochism
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sexual act through the anus of another human being.
Sodomy
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form of sexual perversion in which three (3) persons are participating in sexual act.
Froilism
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group participates in sexual orgies (sexual festival).
Pluralism
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licking of woman's genitals
Cunnilingus
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obtaining pleasure from sexual contact with children.
Pedophilia
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sexual relations between persons related by blood.
Incest
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sexual intercourse with a living animal.
Bestiality
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desire to engage in sexual intercourse with a dead body.
Necrophilia
