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29 Cards in this Set
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Abnormal Behavior |
Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distressful over a relatively long period of time |
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Medical Model |
The view that psychological disorders are medical diseases with a biological origin |
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DSM-IV |
The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; the major classification of psychological disorders in the united states |
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
One of the most common psychological disorders of childhood, in which individuals show one or more of the following; inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity |
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Anxiety Disorders |
Psychological disorders involving fears that are uncontrollable, disproportionate to the actual danger the person might be in, and disruptive of ordinary life |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
fPsychological disorder marked by persistent anxiety for at least six months and in which the individual is unable to specify the reasons for anxiety |
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Panic Disorder |
Anxiety disorder in which the individual experiences recurrent, sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror, often without warning with no specific cause |
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Phobic Disorder or Phobia |
Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, overwhelming persistent fear of a particular object or situation |
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
Anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away, and or/ urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Anixety disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event that has overwhelmed the persons ability to cope |
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Mood Disorder |
Psychological disorders - the main types of which are depressive disorders and bipolar disorder - in which there is a primary disturbance of mood: prolonged emotion that colors the individuals entire emotional state |
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Depressive Disorder |
Mood disorders in which the individual suffers from depression- an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life |
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Major Depressive Disorder |
Psychological disorder involving a significant depressive episode and depressed characteristics, such as lethargy and hopelessness, for at least two weeks |
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Dysthymic Disorder |
Mood disorder that is generally more chronic and has fewer symptoms than MDD: the individiual is in a depressed mood for most days for at least two years as an adult or at least one year asa child or adolescent |
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Bipolar Disorder |
Mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that inculde one or more episodes of mania, an overexcited, unrelastically optimistic state |
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Dissociative Disorders |
Psycological disorders that involve a sudden loss of memory or change in identity due to the dissociation of the indiviuals conscious awareness from previous memore or thoughts |
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Dissociative Amnesia |
Dissociative disored characterized by extreme meoroy loss that is caued by extensive psychological stress |
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Dissociative Fugue |
Dissociative disorder in which the individual not only develops amnesia but also unexpectedly travels away from home and sometimes assumes a new identity |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder |
Formerly called multiple personality disorder, a dissociative disorder in which the individual has two or more disticnt personalities or identities, ach wih its own memories, behaviors and relationships |
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Schizophrenia |
Severe psycholgical disorder characterized by highly disorder though processes, referred to as psychotic because they are so far removed from reality |
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Hallucinations |
Sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli |
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Deluisons |
False, unusual and sometimes magical beliefs that are not part of an individuals culture |
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Referential Thinking |
Ascribing personal meaning to completely random events |
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Catatonia |
State of immobility and unresponsiveness lasting for long periods of time |
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Flat Affect |
The display of little or no emotion- a common negative sympton of schizophrenia |
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Diathesis-Stress Model |
View of schizophrenia emphasizing that a combintation of biogenetic disposition and stress cause of disorder |
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Personality Disorders |
Chronic, maladaptive cognitive behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into an individuals personality |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder |
A psycholgocial disorder characterized by guiltlessness, law-breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit |
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Borderline Personality Disorder |
A psycholgocail disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern on instablity in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions, and of marked impulsivity beginning by early adultood and present in a variety of contexts |
