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50 Cards in this Set
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A fear of going out to public places.
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Agoraphobia
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Eating disorder characterized by intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight.
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Anorexia Nervosa
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A type of personality disorder marked by impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive, and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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A class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.
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Anxiety Disorders
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Basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind.
` After seeing news reports about people losing their jobs, you might start to believe that you are in danger of being layed-off. You start lying awake in bed each night worrying that you are about to be fired. ` After seeing several television programs on shark attacks, you start to think that such incidences are relatively common. When you go on vacation, you refuse to swim in the ocean because you believe the probability of a shark attack is high. `After reading an article about lottery winners, you start to overestimate your own likelihood of winning the jackpot. You start spending more money than you should each week on lottery tickets. |
Availability Heuristic
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Mood disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.
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Bipolar Disorder(Formerly Known as Manic-Depressive Disorder)
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Eating disorder characterized by habitually engaging in out-of-control overeating followed by unhealthy compensatory efforts, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and excessive exercise.
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Bulimia Nervosa
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A type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity.
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
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The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder.
As many conditions, i.e. schizophrenia and cancer, are only partially related to genetics with some components of the disease process being due to external factors (environment, lifestyle, etc). These conditions may or may not occur despite a genetic predisposition. Statistically, the chance of two identical twins both being diagnosed with schizophrenia is estimated to be around 50%, and fraternal (non-identical) twins being around 15%. |
Concordance Rate
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The coexistence of two or more disorders.
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Comorbidity
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An error that occurs when people estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone.
This usually happens when it is easier to imagine two events occurring in a combination than occurring alone. Consider the following statements and decide which is more likely: 1) Carol has several students that practice the piano everyday; or 2) Her students that practice the piano everyday are proficient. Of these two statements, the first statement is more likely. The amount of students that are proficient and practice the piano is not the same as the probability that her students are either proficient or practice the piano. |
Conjunction Fallacy
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A somatoform disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system.
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Conversion Disorder
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Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups.
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Culture-Bound Disorders
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Exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbance.
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Cyclothymic Disorder
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False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality.
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Delusions
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Distinguishing one illness from another.
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Diagnosis
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A type of schizophrenia in which particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen.
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Disorganized schizophrenia
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A sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting.
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Dissociative amnesia
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A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity.
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Dissociative disorders
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A disorder in which people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity.
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Dissociative fugue
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A type of dissociative disorder characterized by the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities. Also called multiple-personality disorder.
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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
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A chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to merit diagnosis of a major depressive episode.
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Dysthymic disorder
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Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight.
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Eating disorders
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The study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population.
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Epidemiology
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The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness.
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Etiology
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Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus, or gross distortions of perceptual input.
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Hallucinations
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A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses.
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Hypochondriasis
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A legal status indicating that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness.
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Insanity
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A civil proceeding in which people are hospitalized in psychiatric facilities against their will.
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Involuntary commitment
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Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure.
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Major depressive disorder
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A psychological disorder marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.
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Generalized anxiety disorder
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See Bipolar disorder.
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Manic-depressive disorder
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The view that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.
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Medical model
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A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes.
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Mood disorders
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See Dissociative identity disorder.
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Multiple-personality disorder
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A distribution in which most scores pile up at the high end of the scale.
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Negatively skewed distribution
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A type of anxiety disorder marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions).
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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A type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly.
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Panic disorder
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A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur.
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Paranoid schizophrenia
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A class of psychological disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning.
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Personality disorders
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A type of anxiety disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger.
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Phobic disorder
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Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas.
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Positive symptoms
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Disturbed behavior that is attributed to a major stressful event but that emerges after the stress is over.
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Post traumatic stress disorder
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The percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period.
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Prevalence
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A forecast about the probable course of an illness.
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Prognosis
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Basing the estimated probability of an event on how similar it is to the typical prototype of that event.
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Representativeness heuristic
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A class of psychological disorders marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual, social, and emotional processes.
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Schizophrenic disorders
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A type of somatoform disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin.
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Somatization disorder
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A class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments with no authentic organic basis that are due to psychological factors.
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Somatoform disorders
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A type of schizophrenia marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms.
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Undifferentiated schizophrenia
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