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Psyc 107
CH 15 Psychological Disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/13/2011

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Abnormal Behavior
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Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distress over a relatively long period of time
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Medical Model
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The view that psychological disorders are medical diseases with a biological origin
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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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
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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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Generalixed anxiety disorder
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Psychological disorder marked by persitent anxiety for at least six months and in which the individual is unableto specify the reasons for the anxiety
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Panic disorder
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Anxiety disorder in which the individual experiences reccurent, sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror, often without warning and with no specific cause
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Phobic disorder or Phobia
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Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, overwhelming persitent fear of a particular object to situation
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OCD
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Anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety proviking thoughts taht 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
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Anxiety Disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event that has overwhelmed the person's abilities to cope
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Mood Disorders
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Psychological disorders-the main types of which are depressive disorders and bipolar diorder- in which there is a primary disturbance of mood: prolonged emotion that colors the individual's entire emotinal state
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Depressive Disorders
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Mood Disorders in which the individual suffers from depression- an unreleting lack of pleasure in life
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Major Depressive Disorder
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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
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Mood disorder that is generally more chronic and has fewer symptoms than MDD; the individual is in a depressed mood for most days for at least two years as an adult or at least one year as a child or an adolescent
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Bipolar disorder
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Mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania, an over excited, un realistically optimistic state
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Dissociative disorders
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Psychological disorders that involve sudden loss of memory or change in identity due to the dissociation of the individual's conscious awareness from previous memories and thoughts
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Dissociative Amnesia
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Dissociative disorder charachterized by extreme memory loss that is caused by extensive psychological stress
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Dissociative Fugue
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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
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Formely called multiple personality disorder, the individual has two or more distinct personalities or identities, each with its own memories, behaviors, and relationships
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Schizophrenia
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Severe psychological disorder characterized by highly disordered thought processes, referred to as psychotic because they are so far removed from reality
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Hallucinations
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Sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli
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Delusions
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False, unsual, and sometimes magical beliefs that are not part of an individual's culture
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Refential thinking
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Ascribing personal meaning to completely random events
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Catatonia
Definition
State of immobility and unresponsiveness lasting for long periods of time
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Flat effect
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The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia
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Flat effect
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The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia
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Flat effect
Definition
The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia
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Flat effect
Definition
The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia
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Diathesis stress model
Definition
View of schizopherina emphasizing that a combination of biogenetic dispostion and stress causes the disorders
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Pesonality disorders
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Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly intergrated into an individual's personality.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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A psychological disorder characterized by guiltlessness, law-breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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A psychological disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal realtionships, self image, and emotions, and of marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a vareity of context
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