PSYC 14

Question 1

A significant dysfunction in a person’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

Answer 1

Psychological Disorder

Question 2

A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

Answer 2

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Question 3

The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.

Answer 3

Medical Model

Question 4

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, with an updated “text revision”; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.

Answer 4

DSM-IV-TR

Question 5

Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. See major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder.

Answer 5

Mood Disorders

Question 6

A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods or diminished interest or pleasure in most activities, along with at least four other symptoms.

Answer 6

Major Depressive Disorder

Question 7

A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (Formerly called manic-depressive disorder.)

Answer 7

Bipolar Disorder

Question 8

A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common.

Answer 8

Mania

Question 9

A group of sever disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.

Answer 9

Schizophrenia

Question 10

A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.

Answer 10

Psychosis

Question 11

False beliefs, often of persecution of grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.

Answer 11

Delusions

Question 12

Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.

Answer 12

Anxiety Disorders

Question 13

An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.

Answer 13

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Question 14

An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.

Answer 14

Panic Disorder

Question 15

An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.

Answer 15

Phobia

Question 16

An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both.

Answer 16

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Question 17

An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.

Answer 17

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Question 18

Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.

Answer 18

Dissociative Disorders

Question 19

A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder.

Answer 19

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Question 20

An eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15 percent or more) underweight.

Answer 20

Anorexia Nervosa

Question 21

An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use) or fasting.

Answer 21

Bulimia Nervosa

Question 22

Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa.

Answer 22

Binge-Eating Disorder

Question 23

Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.

Answer 23

Personality Disorders

Question 24

A personality disorder in which a person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.

Answer 24

Antisocial Personality Disorder