Chapter 12 Ap Psych

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examples-mental illness, mental disorder, and psychological disorder.

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psychopathology

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false sensory experiences that may suggest mental disorder.

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hallucinations

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extreme disorders of thinking, involving persistent false beliefs.

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delusions

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someones emotion like depressed.

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affect

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the view that mental disorders are diseases that like ordinary physical diseases, have objective physical causes and require specific treatments.

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medical model

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views psychology through a combination of the social cognitive and behavioral perspectives.

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social-cognitive-behavioral approach

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the classification system most widely accepted psychiatric in the united states.

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DSM-IV

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term used as a label for subjective distress or self-defeating behavor. another word for disorder

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neurosis

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distubances in perception, rational thinking, or affect

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psychosis

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any abnormal disturbances in emotion or mood

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mood disorders

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when your depression lasts for weeks months or years you have

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major depression

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form of depression caused by a deprivation of sunlight

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SAD- seasonal affective disorder

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a mental abnormality involving swings of mood from mania to depression

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bipolar disorder

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panic disorders, specific phobias and OCD.

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anxiety disorders

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having a persistent and pervasive feeling of anxiet w/out any external cause

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generalized anxiety disorders

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panic attacks that have no obvous connection with events in the person's present expierience.

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panic disorder

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fear of public places and open spaces commonly accompanying panic disorder

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agoraphobia

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pathological fear of specific object or situation

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phobias

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notion that we have innate tendancy acquired through natural selection to respond quickly and automatically to stimuli that posed a survival threat to our ancestors

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preparedness hypothesis

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condition characterized b patterns of persistent unwanted thoughts and behaviors

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OCD- obsessive compulsive disorder

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psychological problems appearing in the form of bodily symptoms or physical complaints.

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somatoform disorders

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type of somatoform disorder characterized by paralysis, weakness, or loss of senation but with no discenible physical cause

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conversion disorder

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type of somatoform characterized by worry of getting sick. every ache and pain signals an illness

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hypochondriasis

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group of pathologies involving fragmentation of the personality in which some parts of the personality have become detached or dissociated from other parts

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dissociative disorders

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psychological induced loss of memory for personal information.

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dissociative amnesia

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same as dissociative amnesia but with the addition of flight

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dissociative fugue

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an abnormality involving the sensation that mind and body have seperated as in n out of body expierience

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depersonalization disorder

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a conditonin which an individual displays mutiple identities or personalities

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dissociative identity disorder

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eating disorder that involves not eating at all

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anorexia nervosa

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eating binges followed by induced vomiting and/or bal movements.

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bullimia nervosa

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any pattern of emotions, behaviors, or thoughts inappropriate to the situatio and leading to personal distress or the inability to achieve important goals. ie mental illness, mental disorder, psychological disorder.

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psychopathology

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a psychic disorder involving distortions in thoughts perceptions and/or emotions

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schizophrenia

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the proposal that says that genetic factors place the individual at risk while enviornment stress factors transform this potential into an actual chizophtenic disorder

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diathesis-stress hypothesis

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conditions involving a chronic pervasive inflxible and maladaptive pattern of thinking emotion social relationships or impulse control

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personality disorders

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need for constant attention or admiration. someone who thinks the world revolves around them

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narcissistic personality disorder

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characterized by a long-standing patern of irresponsible behavior indicating a lack of conscience and a diminished sense of responsibility to others

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antisocial personality disorder

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an unstable personality given to impulsive behavior

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borderline personality disorder

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a developmental disorder marked by disabilities in language social interaction and the ability to understand another persons state of mind

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autism

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a reading disability thought by some experts to involve a brain disorder

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dyslexia

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a developmental disability involving short attention span distractibility and extreme difficulty in remaining inactive for any period

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attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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A legal term not a psychological or psychiatric one referring to a person who is unable because of a mental disorder or defect to conform his or her behavior to the law

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insanity