Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 6534523662 | psychological disorder | deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. |  | 0 |
| 6534523663 | Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. |  | 1 |
| 6534523664 | medical model | the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital. |  | 2 |
| 6534523665 | DSM-IV-TR | the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, updated as a 2000 "text revision"; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |  | 3 |
| 6534523666 | anxiety disorders | psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. |  | 4 |
| 6534523667 | generalized anxiety disorder | an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. |  | 5 |
| 6534523668 | panic disorder | an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations. |  | 6 |
| 6534523669 | phobia | an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation. |  | 7 |
| 6534523670 | obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions). |  | 8 |
| 6534523671 | post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. |  | 9 |
| 6534523672 | post-traumatic growth | positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises. |  | 10 |
| 6534523673 | somatoform disorder | psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. (See conversion disorder and hypochondriasis.) |  | 11 |
| 6534523674 | conversion disorder | a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. |  | 12 |
| 6534523675 | hypochondriasis | a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. |  | 13 |
| 6534523676 | dissociative disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. |  | 14 |
| 6534523677 | dissociative identity disorder (DID) | rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder. |  | 15 |
| 6534523678 | mood disorders | psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. See major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder. |  | 16 |
| 6534523679 | major depressive disorder | a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities. |  | 17 |
| 6534523680 | mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. |  | 18 |
| 6534523681 | bipolar disorder | a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (Formerly called manic-depressive disorder) |  | 19 |
| 6534523682 | schizophrenia | a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. |  | 20 |
| 6534523683 | delusions | false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders. |  | 21 |
| 6534523684 | personality disorders | psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. |  | 22 |
| 6534523685 | antisocial personality disorder | a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. |  | 23 |
