Unit 12 Vocab Flashcards
Psychological Disorder
Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme in attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
Medical Model
The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, curate often through treatment in the hospital
DSM-IV-TR
The American psychiatric Association‘s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, updated as a 2000 quotation text revision quotation; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
And anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
Panic Disorder
And anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pains, choking, or other frightening sensations
Phobia
And anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, rational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation
OCD
Anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted and repetitive thoughts, obsessions, and/or actions, compulsions
Post traumatic stress disorder
An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after dramatic experience
Post Traumatic Growth
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances in life crises
Somatoform Disorder
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cars
Conversion Disorder
A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no psychological basis can we found
Hypochondriasis
A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
Dissociative Disorders
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
Dissociative Identity Disorders
a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
Mood Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
Major Depressive Disorders
A mood disorder where 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
Mania
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
Bipolar Disorder
A mood disorder in which a person fluctuates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the hyperactivity of mania
Schizophrenia
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized or delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
Delusions
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
Personality Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
Antisocial Personality Disorder
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends and family. Such a person could be aggressive and ruthless or a con artist
