Unit 5 - Abnormal Psychology

Question 1

Sometimes accompanied by actions which become compulsions, or ritualistic behaviors to relieve intense and unbearable anxiety

Answer 1

Obsessive-compulsive-disorder

OCD

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Psychological disorders

Question 3

When a person’s ability to work and live is clearly, often measurably impaired

Answer 3

Dysfunction

Question 4

_________ are characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety, and also the dysfunctional behaviors that reduce that anxiety

Answer 4

Anxiety disorders

Question 5

Behavior that is out of place, or unacceptable

Answer 5

Deviant behavior

Question 6

The idea that psychological disorders have physiological causes that can be diagnosed on the basis of symptoms, treated, and sometimes cured.

Answer 6

Medical model

Question 7

A subject feeling that something is really wrong

Answer 7

Distress

Question 8

Uses the idea that everything psychological is simultaneously biological and that truism is useful to understand what is happening, what is going wrong, and how it can be treated. Takes into account biological, social-cultural, and psychological influences.

Answer 8

Biopsychological model

Question 9

Sudden episodes of intense dread or sudden fear that comes without warning

Answer 9

Panic attacks

Question 10

Affects 1 in 75 people, most often teens and young adults

Answer 10

panic disorder

Question 11

Persistent, irrational fears of specific objects, activities, or situations.

Answer 11

Phobias

Question 12

Continually tense and apprehensive, experiencing unfocused, negative, and out of control feelings.

Answer 12

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

GAD

Question 13

Causes of _______ are a combination of biological, genetic, psychological, and environmental factors.

Answer 13

Mood disorders

Question 14

Not sleeping for days, feeling long periods of euphoria, racing thoughts/ideas, manic (alternation between depression and mania)

Answer 14

Bipolar disorder

Question 15

Emotional states that are even more subjective and harder to define than emotions themselves. Long-term.

Answer 15

Mood

Question 16

Characterized by emotional extremes and challenges in regulating mood (tend to be longer-term disturbances)

Answer 16

Mood disorders

Question 17

A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.

Answer 17

Mania

Question 18

An eating disorder in which a person (usually adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being 15+% underweight

Answer 18

Anorexia nervosa

Question 19

The act of ______ which usually consists of an extremely low calorie diet, excessive exercise, or purging, like vomiting or taking laxatives.

Answer 19

restriction

Question 20

involves episodes of binge eating, combined with the restriction behavior

Answer 20

binge/purge

Question 21

Abnormally slow heart rate, loss of bone density, fatigue, muscle weakness, hair loss, severe dehydration, and extremely low body mass index are all negative results of what?

Answer 21

Anorexia nervosa

Question 22

Eating disorder in which a person alternates binge-eating (usually high calorie foods) with purging or fasting

Answer 22

Bulimia nervosa

Question 23

Significant binge eating followed by emotional distress, feelings of lack of control, disgust, or guilt, but without purging or fasting.

Answer 23

binge-eating disorders

Question 24

A psychological illness that centers on a person’s obsession with physical flaws – either minor or imagined

Answer 24

Body dysmorphic disorder

Question 25

Excessive exercise, obsessive grooming, extreme cosmetic procedures, critical and unsatisfied with appearance, fears of deformity, anxiety and depression, avoiding social situations, fear of being judged are all symptoms of _____

Answer 25

Body dysmorphic disorder