Myers Exploring Psychology 9th Edition Chapter 14 Flashcards

3421299714	Psych disorder	A significant dysfunction in a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors	0
3421299715	Dysfunction	Impaired or abnormal function and behavior	1
3421299716	Distress	Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain	2
3421299717	Deviance	Departing from usual or accepted standards	3
3421299718	Medical model	The concept that diseases, in this case psych disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured, often through treatment in a hospital	4
3421299719	DSM-IV-TR	The APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed, with an updated "text revision"; a widely used system for classifying psych disorders	5
3421299720	Anxiety disorders	Psych disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety	6
3421299721	GAD	An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal	7
3421299722	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	8
3421299723	Phobia	An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation	9
3421299724	OCD	An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both	10
3421299725	PTSD	An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience	11
3421299726	Survivor resiliency	Ability to recover after severe stress	12
3421299727	Mood disorders	Psych disorders characterized by emotional extremes	13
3421299728	SAD	Depression associated with autumn and winter and thought to be caused by lack of light	14
3421299729	Major depressive disorder	A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, 2 or more weeks of significantly depressed moods or diminished interest or pleasure in most activities, along with at least 4 other symptoms	15
3421299730	Bipolar disorder	A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania	16
3421299731	Mania	A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement is common	17
3421299732	Schizophrenia	A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors	18
3421299733	Psychosis	A psych disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions	19
3421299734	Positive symptoms	The presence of inappropriate behaviors	20
3421299735	Negative symptoms	The absence of appropriate behaviors	21
3421299736	Delusions	False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders	22
3421299737	Word salad	Jumbled ideas that make no sense to others	23
3421299738	Selective attention	Giving undivided attention to one set of sensory stimuli while filtering out others	24
3421299739	Hallucinations	Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation	25
3421299740	Flat effect	Emotionless state of no apparent feeling	26
3421299741	Catatonia	A condition in which a person remains motionless for hours	27
3421299742	Chronic or process schizophrenia	Slow-developed schizophrenia	28
3421299743	Acute or reactive schizophrenia	Rapidly-developed schizophrenia	29
3421299744	Dissociative disorders	Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings	30
3421299745	DID	A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities	31
3421299746	Anorexia nervosa	An eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15% or more) underweight	32
3421299747	Bulimia nervosa	An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use) or fasting	33
3421299748	Binge-eating disorder	Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa	34
3421299749	Personality disorders	Psych disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning	35
3421299750	Avoidant pd	A personality disorder characterized by feeling of extreme social inhibition, inadequacy, and sensitivity to negative criticism and rejection	36
3421299751	Schizoid pd	A personality disorder in which a person avoids social activities, preferring their own company	37
3421299752	Histrionic pd	A personality disorder characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality	38
3421299753	Narcissistic pd	A personality disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance	39
3421299754	Antisocial pd	A personality disorder in which a 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	40