AP Psychology: Psychological Disorders Flashcards

Psychological Disorders: important terms

6534124826	Agoraphobia	A morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place)	0
6534124828	Antisocial personality disorder	A personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist	1
6534124829	Anxiety disorders	Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety	2
6534124830	ADHD	A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity	3
6534124831	Bipolar disorder	A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. was once known as Manic Depression.	4
6534124834	Catatonia	a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods	5
6534124835	Conversion disorder	A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found	6
6534124836	compulsions	The person's need to perform repetitive behaviors	7
6534124837	Delusions	False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders	8
6534124839	Dissociative disorders	Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. the person may become "detached" from themselves	9
6534124841	Dissociative identity disorder (DID)	A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities; formerly called multiple personality disorder	10
6534124844	dopamine	neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement, attention, alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia	11
6534124845	DSM-V	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition: A reference for coding psychiatric disorders or conditions. Organized by symptoms	12
6534124847	Generalized anxiety disorder	An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal	13
6534124848	Hallucinations	False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus	14
6534124849	Hypochondriasis	Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments	15
6534124851	Major depressive disorder	A mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminishes interest or pleasure in most activities	16
6534124852	Medical model	The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured	17
6534124853	Mood disorders	Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes	18
6534124854	Negative symptoms	Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech	19
6534124855	Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)	An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)	20
6534124856	obsessions	persistent ideas, thoughts, or impulses that are unwanted and inappropriate, causing marked distress	21
6534124857	Panic disorder	An anxiety disorder characterized by unpredictable panic attacks. May be triggered by the amygdala.	22
6534124858	Personality disorders	Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning	23
6534124859	phobia	An anxiety disorder characterized by a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation	24
6534124860	Positive symptoms	Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas	25
6534124861	PTSD	Post Traumatic Stress Disorder A disorder in which a person has lingering memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after a severely threatening, uncontrollable event	26
6534124862	postpartum depression	A new mother's feelings of inadequacy and sadness in the days and weeks after giving birth	27
6534124863	Prevalence	The percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period	28
6534124866	Schizophrenia	psychological disorder marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual, social, and emotional processes	29
6534124867	Somatoform disorders	Disorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists	30
6534124868	serotonin	a neurotransmitter that affects hunger,sleep,arousal,and mood. appears in lower than normal levels in depressed persons	31
6534124870	mania	A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. extravagant shopping sprees may happen or a flight of ideas	32
6534124871	flat affect	A marked lack of expressed emotions; a symptom of schizophrenia.	33
6534124873	paranoia	A tendency toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution	34
6534124875	Distress	Abnormal indicator involving prolonged levels of unease or anxiety	35