Unit 9 : Abnormal Behavior Module 65-69 Flashcards
Psychological disorder
Significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion, regulation or behavior
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Extreme inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity
The medical model
States that Psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured through treatment in hospitals
DSM-5
Widely used system to classify disorders, includes definitions, medications, and labels sometimes change
Immigrant paradox
Immigrants who immigrate to United States are less likely to have mental disorders than thise who are born in America
Anxiety disorder
Worry anxiety or fear that reflects on daily life
Generalized anxiety disorder
Person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal
Panic disorder
Unpredicatvle minute long episodes of intense dresd in which a person experiences terror, chest pain, choking and others. Often followed by worry of possible next attacks
Phobia
Irrational fear and avoidance of object, activity, situation
Social-Anxiety disorder
Intense fear of social situations
Agrophobria
Fear and avoidance of crowds and open spaces; where one feels loss of control
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Obsessive repetitive thoughts and actions to stop those thoughts
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Environmental triggers Memories, nightmares, social withdrawls that happen after a traumatic experience
Posttraumatic growth
Positive psych changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises
Mood disorders
Emotional extremes; highs and lows
Major depressive disorder
Due to absense of meds symptoms include depressive mood or loss of interest and pleasure
Persistent depressive disorder
Showing depressive mood for at least 2 years
Mania
Hyperactive state, overly optimistic and increased creativity as well as thoughts snd sexual desires
Bipolar disorder
Person alternates between mania and depressive mood
Linkage analysis
Examine dna from unaffected and affected family members to see difference in chromosomes
Rumination
Consistent repetitive thinking and worrying about problems and causes
Explanatory style
Who what people blame for failures and credit for success
Schizophrenia
Split mind, Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and innapropriate emotional expression
Psychosis
Loss of contact with reality
Loses contact with reality and experiences irrational ideas and disordered perceptions
Delusions
Fake beliefs usually paranoia and character delusions
Paranoid
Distrust in others and things
Word salad
unintelligent mixture of random words
Hallucination
False sensory experience (auditory more common> visual)
Flat affect
No emotional response- no response on face
Catatonia
Physically unmoving-frozen like a statue
Dissociative identity disorder
Presence of two or more distict personality states
Chronic schizophrenia
Slow developing
Acute/ reactive schizophrenia
Development of schizophrenia rapidly
Somatic symptom disorder
Physical pain, but no physical cause is found
Conversion disorder
Anxiety converts to a physical form
Illness anxiety disorder
Interprets normal pain (headaches) as a life threatening disease (brain tumor)
Dissociative disorder
Conscious Awareness becaimes seperated from previous memories thoughts and feelings
Fugur state
Unexpected inability to recall some or all of ones past
Anorexia nervosa
Starvation diety dignificantly underweight
Bulimia nervosa
Episodes of binge eating followed by purging
Binge eating disorder
Massive overeatinf folloeed by massive guilt
Personality disorders
Unchanging and continious behavioral patterns that damage social functioning
Avoidant peronality disorder
Anxiety
Schizoid personality disorder
Odd behaviors and emotionlessness, avoid social activities
Histrionic personality disorder
Impulsive behaviors
Attention seeking
And seduction at young age
Narcisstic personality disorder
Self focused
Antisocial personality disorder
Men show lack of conscious for wrongdoing even towards friends and family members. Can be aggressive and ruthless
Body dysmorphic disorder
Focus on a percieved flaw in appearance
Borderline personality disorder
Unstable moods behavior, and relationships
Dissociative amnesia
Person cannot remember important info about their life
Pain disorder
Physical condition ehich #1 symptom is pain
Psychopath
Person with mental disorder, has violent social behaviors
Sociopath
Person sith personality disorder showing in antisocial attitudes and lack of conscious
