Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 4200340412 | psychological disorder | deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. |  | 0 |
| 4200340413 | 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 |
| 4200340414 | 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 |
| 4200340415 | DSM-V-TR | the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders |  | 3 |
| 4200340416 | anxiety disorders | psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. |  | 4 |
| 4200340417 | generalized anxiety disorder | an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. |  | 5 |
| 4200340418 | 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 |
| 4200340419 | phobia | an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation. |  | 7 |
| 4200340420 | obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions). |  | 8 |
| 4200340421 | 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 |
| 4200340422 | post-traumatic growth | positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises. |  | 10 |
| 4200340423 | somatoform disorder | psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. (See conversion disorder and hypochondriasis.) |  | 11 |
| 4200340424 | 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 |
| 4200340425 | hypochondriasis | a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. |  | 13 |
| 4200340426 | dissociative disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. |  | 14 |
| 4200340427 | dissociative identity disorder | rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder. |  | 15 |
| 4200340428 | mood disorders | psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. See major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder. |  | 16 |
| 4200340429 | 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 |
| 4200340430 | mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. |  | 18 |
| 4200340431 | 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 |
| 4200340432 | schizophrenia | characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by a deficit of typical emotional responses. |  | 20 |
| 4200340433 | delusions | A delusion is an unshakable belief in something untrue |  | 21 |
| 4200340434 | personality disorders | are a class of mental disorders characterised by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating markedly from those accepted by the individual's culture |  | 22 |
| 4200340435 | antisocial personality disorder | characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. |  | 23 |
