Unit 12: Abnormal Psychology
Myers Psychology for the AP
David G. Myers
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| 6362021561 | Psychological Disorder | Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thought, feelings, or behaviors | 0 | |
| 6362021562 | Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of these key symptoms: Extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity | 1 | |
| 6362021563 | 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 | |
| 6362021564 | DSM 5 | The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Edition, a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. | 3 | |
| 6362021565 | Anxiety Disorders | Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. Includes: Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, agoraphobia | 4 | |
| 6362021566 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. Free floating anxiety (chronic anxiety not associated with any specific situation or object. | 5 | |
| 6362021567 | 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 | |
| 6362021568 | Phobia | An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation | 7 | |
| 6362021569 | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | An obsessive-compulsive disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) | 8 | |
| 6362021570 | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | A trauma-related dsiorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that linger four weeks or more after a traumatic experience | 9 | |
| 6362021571 | Post-Traumatic Growth | Positive psychological chances as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises | 10 | |
| 6362021572 | Somatoform Disorder | Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause, includes functional neurological symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder | 11 | |
| 6362021573 | Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder | A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found | 12 | |
| 6362021574 | Illness Anxiety Disorder | A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as a symptom of a disease | 13 | |
| 6362021575 | Dissociative Disorders | Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings | 14 | |
| 6362021576 | Dissociative Identity Disorders (DID) | A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Symptoms includes blackouts. Formerly called multiple personalities disorder. | 15 | |
| 6362021577 | Depressive disorders | Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes includes depressive disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. | 16 | |
| 6362021578 | Major Depressive Disorder | A deoressuve 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 | |
| 6362021579 | Mania | A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state | 18 | |
| 6362021580 | Bipolar Disorder | A bipolar and related disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depressing and the overexcited state of mania | 19 | |
| 6362021581 | Schizophrenia | characterized by a disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions | 20 | |
| 6362021582 | Delusions | False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | 21 | |
| 6362021583 | Personality Disorders | Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning | 22 | |
| 6362021584 | 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 | |
| 6362021585 | Social Anxiety Disorder | Anxiety disorder. Persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations. | 24 | |
| 6362021586 | Agoraphobia | Anxiety disorder, Fear of being in public | 25 | |
| 6362021587 | Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders | Disorders that include obsessive thoughts and/or unwanted behavior. Includes: obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder. | 26 | |
| 6362021588 | Hoarding disorder | An obsessive-compulsive disorder, characterized by difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of the value | 27 | |
| 6362021589 | Body Dysmorphic Disorder | An obsessive-compulsive disorder, characterized by an obsession with perceived flaw(s) in physical appearance. | 28 | |
| 6362021590 | Dissociative Amnesia | A dissociative disorder characterized by a loss of memory for who you are, fugue state includes traveling far from home and the loss of memory | 29 | |
| 6362021591 | Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder | a depressive disorder characterisized by extreme temper outbursts at least 3 times a week, must be under 18. | 30 | |
| 6362021592 | Bipolar and related disorders | Disorders characterized by extreme mood changes, includes bipolar disorder | 31 | |
| 6362021593 | Mania | A symptom of bipolar characterized by elevated mood, overtalkative, overactive, little need for sleep, risky behavior | 32 | |
| 6362021594 | Positive symptoms | symptoms of schizophrenia which include addition of inappropriate behavior: hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and inappropriate actions | 33 | |
| 6362021595 | Negative symtoms | symptoms of schizophrenia which include loss of appropriate behavior: flat affect, catonic state, alogia, avolition | 34 | |
| 6362021596 | Borderline personality disorder | A personality disorder characterized by fear of abandonment, unstable intense relationships, rapid changes in self-identity, impulsive and risky behavior, suicidal threats, and wide mood swings. | 35 | |
| 6362021597 | Dependent personality disorder | A personality disorder characterized by difficulty making everyday decisions, needing others to assume responsibility, difficulty expressing disagreement, difficulty initiating projects, need for support from others. | 36 | |
| 6362021598 | Paranoid personality disorder | A personality disorder characterized by suspicions that others are deceiving him/her, preoccupied with doubts of others trustworthiness, reluctance in confiding in others, holding grudges | 37 | |
| 6362021599 | Narcissistic personality disorder | A personality disorder characterized by exaggerated sense of self-importance, expecting to be recognized as superior, exaggerating achievements, preoccupied with fantasies about success, requiring constant admiration, sense of entitlement, expecting special favors, and taking advantage of others. | 38 | |
| 6362021600 | Histrionic personality disorder | A personality disorder characterized by being uncomfortable in situations which he/she is not the center of attention, inappropriate sexual seductiveness, the use of physical appearance to draw attention, self-dramatization | 39 | |
| 6362021601 | Passive-aggressive personality | A personality disorder characterized by avoiding responsibility by claiming forgetfulness, being inefficient on purpose, blaming others, complaining, feeling resentment, fear of authority | 40 | |
| 6362021602 | Diathesis stress model | In order for an onset of a disorder an individual needs both the genetic and stressor | 41 |
