Abnormal Psychology (Myers for AP) Flashcards
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| 9266615580 | psychological disorder | deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. |  | 0 |
| 9266615581 | 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 |
| 9266615582 | 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 |
| 9266615583 | DSM-V | the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders |  | 3 |
| 9266615584 | anxiety disorders | psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. |  | 4 |
| 9266615585 | generalized anxiety disorder | an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. |  | 5 |
| 9266615586 | 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 |
| 9266615587 | phobia | an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation. |  | 7 |
| 9266615588 | obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions). |  | 8 |
| 9266615589 | 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 |
| 9266615590 | post-traumatic growth | positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises. |  | 10 |
| 9266615591 | somatoform disorder | psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. (See conversion disorder and hypochondriasis.) |  | 11 |
| 9266615592 | 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 |
| 9266615593 | hypochondriasis | a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. |  | 13 |
| 9266615594 | dissociative disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. |  | 14 |
| 9266615595 | dissociative identity disorder | rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder. | 15 | |
| 9266615596 | mood disorders | psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. See major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder. |  | 16 |
| 9266615597 | 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 |
| 9266615598 | mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. |  | 18 |
| 9266615599 | 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 |
| 9266615600 | schizophrenia | characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by a deficit of typical emotional responses. |  | 20 |
| 9266615601 | delusions | A delusion is an unshakable belief in something untrue |  | 21 |
| 9266615602 | 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 |
| 9266615603 | 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 |
| 9266615604 | psychoanalytic theory | this school hypothesized that the interactions among the id, the ego, and the superego were responsible for abnormal behavior. | 24 | |
| 9266615605 | humanistic theory | abnormal behavior is partly the result of people being too sensitive to the criticisms and judgements of others, inability to accept their own nature or have low self-esteem | 25 | |
| 9266615606 | behavioral theory | based on the idea that maladaptive behavior is learned, and treatment involves unlearning of the maladaptive behavior or the modification of the learned response to certain stimuli. | 26 | |
| 9266615607 | biological theory | argues that society and culture help define what is acceptable behavior | 27 | |
| 9266615608 | fugue | the sudden and complete loss of identity, sometimes caused by severe stress, followed by the assumption of a new identity. | 28 | |
| 9266615609 | borderline personality disorder | a "stable instability" of relationships, moods, and self-image - seeing people as either "bad" or "good" | 29 | |
| 9266615610 | abnormal behavior | four components: atypical (deviates statistically from typical behavior), maladaptive (interferes with a person's ability to function in a particular situation), unjustifiable (not easy to explain to most people) | 30 |