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| 12953785036 | Postpartum Depression | depression occurring within a year after giving birth in about 10 percent of women and that includes intense worry about the baby, thoughts of suicide, and fears of harming the baby | 0 | |
| 12953839481 | Psychopathology | the study of abnormal behavior | 1 | |
| 12953846689 | Trepanning (trephining) | the process of cutting holes into the skull of a living person | 2 | |
| 12953852568 | Situational Context | the social or environmental setting of a person's behavior | 3 | |
| 12953857829 | Subjunctive Discomfort | emotional distress or emotional pain | 4 | |
| 12953869384 | Maladaptive | anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life | 5 | |
| 12953874567 | Psychological Disorders | any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life | 6 | |
| 12953877890 | Insanity Defense | legal term used to argue that a mentally ill person who has committed a crime should not be held responsible for his or her actions | 7 | |
| 12953887172 | Cultural Relativity | the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place | 8 | |
| 12953894607 | Culture-Bound Syndromes | disorders found only in particular cultures | 9 | |
| 12953899870 | DSM-5 | describes about 250 psychological disorders, symptoms, typical path, criteria needed to have that disorder, assessments in 5 areas | 10 | |
| 12953934746 | Prevalence of Psychological Disorders | Psychological disorders are more common than many physical ailments | 11 | |
| 12953976206 | Psychology Student Syndrome | students that read about symptoms often begin to see those symptoms in themselves or others | 12 | |
| 12953980012 | Pros and Cons of Labeling | Pros: helps diagnose patients, common language in health community, clear and efficient communication between medical doctors, help receive effective treatment Cons: overly influential, bias us, affect our judgment, preconceived notions that may be false, long lasting and powerful, change how people view others and themselves | 13 | |
| 12954004365 | Anxiety Disorders | disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety and fearfulness | 14 | |
| 12954011447 | Free-floating Anxiety | anxiety that is unrelated to any realistic, known source | 15 | |
| 12954018062 | Phobia | an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity | 16 | |
| 12954022528 | Social Phobias | fear of interacting with others or being in a social situation | 17 | |
| 12954029943 | Specific Phobias | fear of objects or specific situations or events | 18 | |
| 12954037950 | Claustrophobia | fear of being in a small, enclosed space | 19 | |
| 12954058043 | Acrophobia | fear of heights | 20 | |
| 12954111443 | Agoraphobia | fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible | 21 | |
| 12954119078 | Panic Attack | sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying | 22 | |
| 12954124579 | Panic Disorder | disorder in which panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life | 23 | |
| 12954136389 | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental act (compulsion) | 24 | |
| 12954145825 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more | 25 | |
| 12954154321 | Magnification | the tendency to interpret situations as far more dangerous, harmful, or important than they actually are | 26 | |
| 12954162838 | All-Or-Nothing Thinking | the tendency to believe that one's performance must be perfect or the result will be a total failure | 27 | |
| 12954167421 | Overgeneralization | the tendency to interpret a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat and failure | 28 | |
| 12954172703 | Minimization | the tendency to give little or no importance to one's successes or positive events and traits | 29 | |
| 12954196261 | Somatoform Disorders | disorders that take the form of bodily illnesses and symptoms but for which there are no real physical disorders | 30 | |
| 12954203305 | Psychosomatic Disorders | disorders in which psychological stress causes a real physical disorder or illness | 31 | |
| 12954229529 | Psychophysiological Disorder | modern term for psychosomatic disorder | 32 | |
| 12954239168 | Hypochondriasis | somatoform disorder in which the person is terrified of being sick and worries constantly, going to the doctors repeatedly, and becoming preoccupied with every sensation of the body | 33 | |
| 12954266049 | Somatization Disorder | somatoform disorder in which the person dramatically complains of a specific symptom such as nausea, difficulty swallowing, or pain for which there is no real physical cause | 34 | |
| 12954278270 | Conversion Disorder | somatoform disorder in which the person experiences a specific symptom in the somatic nervous system's functioning, such as paralysis, numbness, or blindness, for which there is no physical cause | 35 | |
| 12954285370 | Dissociative Disorders | disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination | 36 | |
| 12954294201 | Dissociative Amnesia | loss of memory for personal information, either partial or complete | 37 | |
| 12954314931 | Dissociative Fugue | traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trip and possible amnesia for personal information | 38 | |
| 12954332220 | Dissociative Identity Disorder | disorder occurring when a person seems to have two or more distinct personalities within one body | 39 | |
| 12958935113 | Depersonalization Disorder | dissociative disorder in which individuals feel detached and disconnected from themselves, their bodies, and their surroundings | 40 | |
| 12958938700 | Affect | a term indicating "emotion" or "mood", also known as an emotional reaction | 41 | |
| 12958942416 | Mood Disorders | disorders in which mood is severely disturbed | 42 | |
| 12958945072 | Dysthymia | a moderate depression that lasts for two years or more and is typically a reaction to some external stressor | 43 | |
| 12958947615 | Cyclothymia | disorder that consists of mood swings from moderate depression to hypomania and lasts two years or more | 44 | |
| 12958975019 | Major Depression | severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause | 45 | |
| 12958987780 | Bipolar Disorder | severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes | 46 | |
| 12959001178 | ADHD | a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity | 47 | |
| 12959013987 | Schizophrenia | severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | 48 | |
| 12959032762 | Psychotic | term applied to a person who is no longer able to perceive what is real and what is fantasy | 49 | |
| 12959071107 | Delusions | false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness | 50 | |
| 12959076082 | Delusions of Persecution | people believe that others are trying to hurt them in some way | 51 | |
| 12959083594 | Delusions of Influence | people believe that they are being controlled by external forces, such as the devil, aliens, or cosmic forces | 52 | |
| 12959089804 | Delusions of Grandeur | people are convinced that they are powerful people who can save the world or have a special mission | 53 | |
| 12959097107 | Delusions of Reference | people believe that other people, television characters, and even books are specifically talking to them | 54 | |
| 12959104399 | Delusional Disorders | a psychotic disorder in which the primary symptom is one or more delusions | 55 | |
| 12959107101 | Hallucinations | false sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist | 56 | |
| 12959119137 | Flat Affect | a lack of emotional responsiveness | 57 | |
| 12959123151 | Disorganized Schizophrenia | behavior is bizarre and childish and thinking, speech, and motor actions are very disordered | 58 | |
| 12959130568 | Catatonic Schizophrenia | person experiences periods of statue-like immobility mixed with occasional bursts of energetic, frantic movement and talking | 59 | |
| 12959161760 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | person suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations | 60 | |
| 12959170517 | Positive Symptoms | symptoms of schizophrenia that are excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior; hallucinations, delusions, and distorted thinking | 61 | |
| 12959210360 | Negative Symptoms | symptoms of schizophrenia that are less than normal behavior or an absence of normal behavior; poor attention, flat affect, and poor speech production | 62 | |
| 12959232256 | Stress-Vulnerability Model | explanation of disorder that assumes a biological sensitivity, or vulnerability, to a certain disorder will result in the development of that disorder under the right conditions of environmental or emotional stress | 63 | |
| 12959237736 | Personality Disorders | disorders in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal social interactions | 64 | |
| 12959250402 | Antisocial Personality Disorder | disorder in which a person has no morals or conscience and often behaves in an impulsive manner without regard for the consequences of that behavior | 65 | |
| 12959256545 | Borderline Personality Disorder | maladaptive personality pattern in which the person is moody, unstable, lacks a clear sense of identity, and often clings to others | 66 | |
| 12959260346 | Seasonal Affective Disorder | a mood disorder caused by the body's reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months | 67 | |
| 12959265941 | Phototherapy | the use of lights to treat seasonal affective disorder or other disorders | 68 | |
| 12959271207 | Hippocrates | believed that mental illness came from an imbalance in the body's four humors | 69 | |
| 12959276561 | Biological Model of Psych Disorders | the psychological perspective that emphasizes the influence of biology on behavior | 70 | |
| 12959287662 | Sociocultural Perspective | perspective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture | 71 | |
| 12959290227 | Psychodynamic Perspective | the approach based on the view that behavior is motivated by unconscious inner forces over which the individual has little control | 72 | |
| 12959296520 | Behaviorist Perspective | the psychological perspective primarily concerned with observable behavior that can be objectively recorded and with the relationships of observable behavior to environmental stimuli | 73 | |
| 12959300283 | Cognitive Perspective | modern perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning | 74 | |
| 12959307925 | Biopsychosocial Model | a model of health that integrates the effects of biological, behavioral, and social factors on health and illness | 75 | |
| 12959307926 | Sybil | one of the most fameous cases of dissociative identity disorder. This woman claimed to have 16 distinct personalities. The cause of this disorder were believed to be abuse by the mother. | 76 | |
| 12959316037 | Genetics and Schizophrenia | -researchers identify specific genes related to schizophrenia, most genetic studies have focused on twins and adoptions -research indicates that the risk of schizophrenia increases with genetic similarity and people who share more genes with a person who has schizophrenia are more likely to develop the disorder | 77 | |
| 13020172530 | Sociopath | person with antisocial personality disorder | 78 |
