Disorders and treatment

Question 1

Psychological disorder

Answer 1

Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

Question 2

Psychopathology

Answer 2

The scientific study of psychological disorders including their symptoms, causes, and treatment.

Question 3

Etiology

Answer 3

The cause of a psychological disorder.

Question 4

Atypical

Answer 4

Not typical; abnormal.

Question 5

Harmful dysfunction

Answer 5

The view that psychological disorders result from the inability of an internal mechanism to perform its natural function.

Question 6

Flight of ideas

Answer 6

System of mania that involves an abruptly switching in coversation from one topic to another.

Question 7

Hopelessness theory

Answer 7

A cognitive theory of depression proposes the expectancy that highly desirable outcomes will not occur and that one is powerless to change the situation.

Question 8

Rumination

Answer 8

In depression, the tendency to repetitively and passively dwell on one’s depressed symptoms, their meanings, and their consequences.

Question 9

Suicide

Answer 9

Death caused by intentional, self-directed injurious behavior.

Question 10

Schizophrenia

Answer 10

A mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, and negative symptoms.

Question 11

Hallucination

Question 12

Delusions

Question 13

Disorganized thinking

Question 14

Negative symptoms

Question 15

Catatonic behavior

Question 16

Disorganized/abnormal motor behavior

Question 17

Genetic causes

Question 18

Dopamine hypothesis

Question 19

Ventricles

Answer 19

One of the fluid-filled cavities within the brain.

Question 20

Prodromal symptoms

Answer 20

In schizophrenia, one of the early minor symptoms of psychosis.