Abnormal Behavior Test Review

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4 Criteria used to determine psychological disorders

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Maladaptive, Disturbing, Atypical, and Irrational/Unjustifiable.

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System used by clinicians in diagnosing various psychological disorder

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Person is continually tense, apprehensive and aroused.

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Phobia

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Persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or subject.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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Unwanted and repetitive actions.

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Panic Disorder

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A minute lang episode of terror. Feeling of dread. Continual event.

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

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Traumatic event. Symptoms-flashbacks, and withdrawal

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Selective memory brought on by extreme stress.

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Dissociative Fugue

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A person flees from their home and identity and is followed with amnesia.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Person exhibits two or more personalities.

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Person for no reason experiences depressed moods, self loathing, and lack of pleasure in regular activities for two weeks.

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Mania

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Hyperactive and wildly optimistic plans.

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Bipolar Disorder

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Swap between depression and mania.

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Paranoid Schizophrenic

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Feel like they are someones target/being watched.

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Disorganized Schizophrenic

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Speech/train of thought is out of place and disorganized, flat affect, and disorganized emotions.

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Catatonic Schizophrenic

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Immobility and extreme negativity, repetitive and fixed on something.

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Undifferentiated Schizophrenic

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Left over. Doesn't fit into these categories exhibit symptoms but don't fit in a category.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Person lacks a conscience for wrong doings even to family and friends. My be aggressive and ruthless or a con artist.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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A constant need for praise and reassurance, over dramatic.

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Narcissist Personality Disorder

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Everything revolves around them. Believe they are better than everyone else.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Person experiences unstable way of thinking and unstable personality and erratic behavior.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Person suspects without sufficient basis that others are exploiting, harming and deceiving.

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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Person shows emotional coldness, detachment and flat affect. Don't want relationships.

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Schizotypical Personality Disorder

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Displays odd, eccentric or peculiar behavior.

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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A person who views themselves as socially inept, unappealing and inferior to others.

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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a person who feels they are inept and poor self image however they need advice and reassurance from others.

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Insanity

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The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness, extreme foolishness or irrationality.

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Hallucinations

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A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception

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Delusions

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An idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.

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Affect

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to impress the mind or move the feelings of

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Neurosis

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Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations. Neurotic behavior is typically within socially acceptable limits.

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Psychosis

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A mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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A mood disorder characterized by depression that occurs at the same time every year.

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Conversion Disorder

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A conversion disorder causes patients to suffer from neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits without a definable organic cause.

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Anorexia

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An eating disorder causing people to obsess about weight and what they eat.

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Bulimia

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A serious eating disorder marked by binging, followed by methods to avoid weight gain.