AP Psych. Unit 10 Flashcards
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| 6079591227 | 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 | 0 | |
| 6079591228 | DSM-IV-TR | the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, with an updated "text revision"; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders | 1 | |
| 6079591229 | 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 | 2 | |
| 6079591230 | Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) | 3 | |
| 6079591231 | Somatoform disorders | psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. (See conversion disorder and hypochondriasis.) | 4 | |
| 6079591232 | Dissociative disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings | 5 | |
| 6079591233 | 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.) | 6 | |
| 6079591234 | Schizophrenia | a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. | 7 | |
| 6079591235 | Delusions | false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | 8 | |
| 6079591236 | Antisocial personality disorder | a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrong-doing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist | 9 | |
| 6079591237 | Mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state | 10 | |
| 6079591238 | Hypochondriasis | a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease | 11 | |
| 6079591239 | Personality disorders | psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning | 12 | |
| 6079591240 | Psychodynamic therapy | therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight | 13 | |
| 6079591241 | Biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system | 14 | |
| 6079591242 | Behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | 15 | |
| 6079591243 | Systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias | 16 | |
| 6079591244 | Aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) | 17 | |
| 6079591245 | Antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | 18 | |
| 6079591246 | Antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | 19 | |
| 6079591247 | Antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters | 20 | |
| 6079591248 | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | 21 | |
| 6079591249 | Lobotomy | a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain | 22 | |
| 6079591250 | Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity | 23 |