Abnormal Psychology
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| a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions | ||
| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) | ||
| practice in which holes were drilled into the skull in an attempt to release evil spirits | ||
| diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders- criteria used to diagnose a mental disorder | ||
| psychological disorders of thought and perception, characterized by inability to distinguish between real and imagined perceptions | ||
| usually distressing but allows one to think rationally and function socially | ||
| psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. | ||
| irrational fears of specific objects or situations. | ||
| abnormal fear of being in crowds, public places, or open areas | ||
| fear of enclosed spaces | ||
| an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or light-headedness that has lasted for more than six months | ||
| an anxiety disorder characterized by unpredictable panic attacks | ||
| an irrational preoccupation with an idea or feeling that usually results in severe anxiety | ||
| a disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images | ||
| disorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists | ||
| chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments | ||
| Somatoform disorders in which individuals experience serious somatomic symptoms such as fuctional blindness, deafness, and paralysis | ||
| disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings | ||
| this is when a person cannot remember things and no physiological basis for the disruption in memory can be identified | ||
| disorder in which one travels away from home and is unable to remember details of his past, including often his identity | ||
| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. | ||
| severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause | ||
| a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania | ||
| depression that involves recurrent depressive episodes in a seasonal pattern | ||
| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. | ||
| a personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends or family members | ||
| Extreme dependence on others, particularly the need to be taken care of, leading to clinging and submissive behavior | ||
| characterized by shallow, attention-getting emotions and going to great lengths to gain others' praise and reassurance | ||
| characterized by an unwarranted & grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with fantasies of success or power | ||
| preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism and control | ||
| A class of psychological disorders marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual, social, and emotional processes. | ||
| The loosening of associations. Ideas shift from one subject to another, completely unrelated or only obliquely connected. May result in incoherent, incomprehensible speech. | ||
| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur. | ||
| false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus. | ||
| a state of unresponsiveness to one's outside environment, usually including muscle rigidity, staring, and inability to communicate | ||
| feature of catatonic schizophrenia in which people rigidly maintain the body position or posture in which they are placed by others | ||
| symptoms of schizophrenia that are excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior; hallucinations, delusions, and distorted thinking | ||
| Behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech | ||
| type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes, frequent incoherence, disorganized behavior, and inappropriate affect. | ||
| psychotic speech in which words are rhymed | ||
| A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur. | ||
| a schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type. | ||
| sexual disorders in which unconventional objects or situations cause sexual arousal | ||
| someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others | ||
| someone who obtains pleasure from receiving physical punishment | ||
| an inability to pay attention, often with hyperactivity and poor impulses control. | ||
| (Problems with diagnostic labels) Went to hospital claimed hearing voices, admitted and diagnosed with schizophrenia; Doctors didn't discover that they weren't truly sick; real patients knew though | ||
| a neurotransmitter that affects arousal and mood. appears in lower than normal levels in depressed persons | ||
| influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion | ||
| a mood disorder involving a pattern of comparatively mild depression that lasts for at least two years |