6684859071 | Psychological Disorder | Syndrome with clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior | 0 | |
6684859072 | ADHD | Disorder with appearance by age 7 of one or more of 3 symptoms: -extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity | 1 | |
6684859073 | Medical Model | Concept that diseases/disorders have physical causes that can be: -diagnosed -treated -cured -can only be cured through treatment in a hospital | 2 | |
6684859074 | DSM 5 | Most widely used system for classifying and diagnosing psychological disorders. | 3 | |
6684859076 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Anxiety disorder where the person is: -continually tense -apprehensive -in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal | 4 | |
6684859077 | Panic Disorder | anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread ( terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, etc.) | 5 | |
6684859078 | Phobia | Anxiety disorder with a persistent, irrational fear | 6 | |
6684859079 | Social Anxiety Disorder | Intense fear of social situations | 7 | |
6684859080 | Agoraphobia | Fear or avoidance of situations where one has lost control and panicked (crowds or wide open spaces) | 8 | |
6684859081 | OCD | Disorder with unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions | 9 | |
6684859082 | PTSD | Disorder with haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling and/or insomnia Symptoms must be present for at least 4 weeks | 10 | |
6684859083 | Post traumatic growth | Positive psychological changes as a result of extremely challenging circumstances and life crises | 11 | |
6684859084 | Mood Disorders | Psychological disorders with emotional extremes: -Major Depressive Disorder -Mania -Bipolar Disorder | 12 | |
6684859085 | Major Depressive Disorder | Mood disorder with depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure Must have at least 5 symptoms for at least 2 weeks The patient must not have been affected by drugs or other medical conditions | 13 | |
6684859086 | Mania | Mood disorder with hyperactive, wildly optimistic states | 14 | |
6684859087 | Bipolar Disorder | Mood disorder where the person switches between: -hopelessness/lethargy of depression -overexcited state of mania | 15 | |
6684859088 | Rumination | -compulsive fretting -overthinking about problems and their causes | 16 | |
6684859089 | Schizophrenia | Disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression. | 17 | |
6684859090 | Psychosis | Disorder with person losing contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions | 18 | |
6684859091 | Delusions | False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | 19 | |
6684859092 | Hallucinations | False sensory experience | 20 | |
6684859093 | Somatic Symptom Disorder | Psychological disorder where symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without an apparent physical cause -conversion disorder -illness anxiety disorder | 21 | |
6684859094 | Conversion Disorder | Disorder with person experiencing specific genuine physical symptoms with no physiological basis | 22 | |
6684859095 | Illness anxiety disorder | Disorder with person interpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease | 23 | |
6684859096 | Dissociative Disorders | Disorders with conscious awareness becoming separated from previous thoughts, memories, and feelings | 24 | |
6684859097 | DID | Rare dissociative disorder with person exhibiting 2 or more distinct or alternating personalities | 25 | |
6684859098 | Anorexia Nervosa | Eating disorder with person maintaining a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight (15% or more) -mostly adult females | 26 | |
6684859099 | Bulimia nervosa | Eating disorder with alternating binge eating and purging/excessive exercising/fasting | 27 | |
6684859100 | Binge-Eating Disorder | Significant binge-eating episodes followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without purging/fasting | 28 | |
6684859101 | Personality Disorders | Psychological disorders with inflexible and enduring behavior patterns impairing social funtioning | 29 | |
6684859102 | Antisocial Personality Disorder | Personality disorder with person (usually man) exhibiting lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards family/friends Person may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist | 30 |
AP Psychology Unit 12 Flashcards
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