Psych Chapter 12

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Dysfunctional

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term used to describe behaviors that adversely affect an individual’s day-to-day functioning

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Insanity

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Legal ruling that a person accused of a crime is not held responsible for that act; defined in most states as the inability to tell the difference between right and wrong at the time the crime is committed

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Medical Model

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The view that mental disorders are like physical illness and have underlying organic causes

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Psychodynamic Model

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Psychodynamic Model The view that psychological disorders result from unconscious conflicts related to sex or aggression

Freud

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Behavioral model

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The view that psychological disorders are learned behaviors that follow principles of classical and operant conditioning or modeling

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Cognitive model

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- The view that emphasizes thinking as the key element in causing psychological disorders

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sociological model

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- The view that emphasizes the importance of society and culture in causing psychological disorders

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DSM-IV-TR

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revision
Most frequently used system for classifying psychological disorders
more than 200 disorders listed in the manual

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Prevalence

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number of percentage of people in a population that ever had a particular disorder during a specified time period

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Incidence

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number of percentage of newly diagnosed causes of a particular disorder in a given population

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Anxiety

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general feeling of apprehension characterized by behavioral, cognitive, or physiological symptoms

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Agoraphobia

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avoidance of public places or situations in which escape may be difficult (fear of Market Place)

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Social Phobia

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A fear related to being seen or observed by others

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Specific Phobia

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Any phobia other than agoraphobia or social phobias

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Somatoform Disorders

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disorders involving physical complaints that do not have a known medical cause but are related to psychological factors

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Somatization Disorder

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disorder involving multiple physical complaints
that do not have a medical explanation and do not suggest a specific known
disease

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Conversion Disorder

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disorder in which a person presents sensory or motor symptoms that do not have a medical explanation

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Dissociative Disorders

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disorders affecting a function of the mind, such as memory for events, knowledge of one’s identity

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Dissociative Amnesia

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disorder that involves a sudden inability to recall important personal information; often occurs in response to trauma or extreme stress

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Dissociative Fugue

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disorder involving amnesia and flight from workplace or home; may involve establishing a new identity in a new location

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Mania

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excessive activity, accelerated speech, poor judgment, elevated self-esteem, and euphoria that occur in bipolar disorder

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concordance rate

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percentage of twin pairs in which both twins have a disorder that is of interest to an investigartor

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learned helplessness

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belief that one cannot control outcomes through one's action; usually leads to passivity and reduced motivation and may cause depression

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Arbitrary inference

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Conclusion drawn in the absence of supporting information

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Psychosis

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Any disorder in which a severely disturbed individual loses contact with reality

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Cluster A

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Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal

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Cluster B

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Antisocial, borderline, histronic, Narcissistic

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Cluster C

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Avoidant, dependent, obssessive compulisive

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Paraphilia

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Sexual arousal by objects or situations not considered sexual by most people