Unit 12 Vocab Flashcards
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
Psychological disorder
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.
Medical model
The American psychiatric associations diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fourth edition updated as a 2000 text revision; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
DSM-IV-TR
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
Anxiety disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
Generalized anxiety disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, chocking, or other frightening sensations.
Panic disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
Phobia
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts ( obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).
Obsessive- compulsive disorder
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.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises.
Post-traumatic growth
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic ( bodily ) form without apparent physical cause.
Somatoform disorder
A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found
Conversion disorder
A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.
Hypochondriasis
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
Dissociative disorders
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
Dissociative identity disorder
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
Mood disorders
A mood disorder in which a person experiences in the absence of drugs or a medical condition two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods feelings of worthlessness and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.
Major depressive disorder
Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive widely optimistic state.
Mania
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
Bipolar disorder
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
Schizophrenia
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
Delusions
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
Personality disorders
A personality disorder in which the 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.
Antisocial personality disorder
