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Unit 12 Flashcards

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What is illness anxiety disorder?

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A disorder where a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

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What is social anxiety disorder?

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Intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of them

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What is agoraphobia?

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Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places

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What is conversion disorder?

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A disorder where a person experiences specific genuine physical symptoms but no physiological basis can be found

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What are phobias?

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

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What is panic disorder?

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An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minute long episodes of intense dread

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What physical symptoms occur during a panic attack?

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Choking, chest pain, frightening sensations, and a terror

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What is generalized anxiety disorder?

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An anxiety disorder where a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic NS arousal

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What is the DSM-5?

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A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders

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What is the medical model?

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The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured usually through treatment in a hospital

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What is ADHD?

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A psychological disorder marked by one or more of 3 key symptoms:

  1. Extreme inattention
  2. Hyperactivity
  3. Impulsivity
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What is a psychological disorder?

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A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion, regulation, or behavior

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What are anxiety disorders?

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

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What is OCD?

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A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions

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What is PTSD?

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A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness, and insomnia that last longer than 4 weeks after a traumatic experience

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What is Posttraumatic growth?

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Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances in life crises

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What is antisocial personality disorder?

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A personality disorder where a person shows a lack of conscience for wrongdoing

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What are personality disorders?

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Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns and impairs social functioning

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What is binge eating disorder?

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Significant binge – eating episodes followed by distress, disgust, or guilt but without purging or fasting

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What is Bulimia Nervosa?

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An eating disorder where a person alternates binge eating with purging, excessive exercise, or fasting

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What is anorexia nervosa?

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An eating disorder where a person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight

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What are dissociative disorders?

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Disorders where Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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What is dissociative identity disorder?

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The rare dissociative disorder where a person shows two or more alternating personalities

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What is somatic symptom disorder?

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A psychological disorder where the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause

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What is a hallucination?

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False sensory experience

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What are the delusions?

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False beliefs that may accompany psychotic disorders?

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What is psychosis?

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A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality

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What is schizophrenia?

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A psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression

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What are mood disorders?

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Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes

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What is major depressive disorder?

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A mood disorder where a person experiences 2+ weeks with 5+ symptoms and one must be a depressed mood or loss of interest

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What is mania?

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A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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What is bipolar disorder?

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A mood disorder in which a person alternates between being hopeless and in an overexcited state

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What is rumination?

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Overthinking about our problems and their causes

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