AP Psychology Unit 10 Flashcards

6693984326	narcissistic personality disorder	characterized by a lack of ability to empathize with others and a desire to keep the focus on themselves at all times	0
6693943083	DSM-5	the primary book used in diagnosing psychological problems	1
6693944862	Social Anxiety Disorder	typically are terrified of how others will perceive them, and this often leads to avoidance of various situations	2
6693944863	Phobia	An irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation	3
6693946979	Agoraphobia	Involves intense fear and anxiety of any place or situation where escape might be difficult	4
6693950140	Post-traumatic stress disorder	triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety	5
6693950141	generalized anxiety disorder	a person feels tense and apprehensive on a very regular occassion	6
6693952995	panic disorder	characterized by uncontrollable episodes of fear and its physical manifestations, such as heart palpitations, sweating, and dizziness	7
6693953017	obsessive-compulsive disorder	an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations, or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something	8
6693957927	dissociative disorders	conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception	9
6693960610	somatic-symptom disorder	involves being distressed or having one's life disrupted by concerns involving physical symptoms when there is no obvious physical or medical cause for the symptoms	10
6693962527	illness anxiety disorder	involve preoccupation with the idea that you're seriously ill, based on normal body sensations (such as a noisy stomach)	11
6693962528	conversion disorder	condition in which you show psychological stress in physical ways	12
6693966727	rumination	Obsessive thoughts concerning extreme, recurring ideas or concepts that interrupt other types of cognitive actions	13
6693966728	anorexia nervosa	pathological loss of appetite and self induced limiting of food intake	14
6693968515	fugue	Describes a psychiatric disorder that involves memory loss and travel	15
6693968516	dissociative identity disorder	two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in—and alternately take control of—an individual	16
6693972057	schizophrenia	includes hearing internal voices, thinking that other people are reading one's mind, controlling one's thoughts, or plotting harm, which may leave a person feeling fearful and withdrawn	17
6693972058	major depressive disorder	people have periods of hopelessness and sadness that last for more than 2 weeks and don't appear to have a specific cause	18
6693975859	seasonal affective disorder	a type of depression that follows the seasons	19
6693975860	bipolar disorder	characterized by serious and significant mood swings	20
6693979388	delusions	false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur	21
6693979389	hallucination	experience of perceiving objects or events that do not have an external source, such as hearing one's name called by a voice that no one else seems to hear	22
6693982032	dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia	argues that the unusual behavior and experiences associated with schizophrenia can be fully or largely explained by changes in dopamine function in the brain	23
6693984327	bulimia nervosa	People with this eating disorder engage in binge eating and purging behaviors	24
6693991017	binge-eating disorder	characterized by a loss of control over eating behaviors. The binge eater consumes unnaturally large amounts of food in a short time period	25
6693994177	anxiety disorder	The class of disorders containing any disorder in which anxiety is the primary feature	26
6693998874	lobotomy	a type of psychosurgery in which the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the parts of the brain that control emotions are severed	27
6693998875	psychotherapy	A process whereby psychological problems are treated through communication and relationship factors between an individual and a therapist	28
6694004058	tardive dyskinesia	a nervous system disorder that results in repetitive, involuntary body movements	29
6694007627	biomedical therapy	physical or medical treatments such as drug therapy that are used to treat mental or psychological disorders	30
6694007628	paranoid personality disorder	Excessive distrust and suspicion	31
6713292261	antisocial personality disorder	characterized by a long-standing pattern of disregard for other people's rights, often crossing the line and violating those rights	32
6713295350	rosenhan study	a famous experiment done in order to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis	33
6713301381	aaron beck	regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and his pioneering theories are widely used in the treatment of clinical depression	34
6713307432	histrionic personality disorder	characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality	35
6713307433	obsessive-compulsive personality disorder	characterized by a preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency	36
6713315002	systematic desensitization		37
6713315003	aversive conditioning	process by which an unwanted behavior is paired with a noxious or unpleasant stimulus, with the intention to reduce the undesired behavior	38
6713319494	psychoanalysis	concentrates on bringing forward repressed unconscious thoughts	39
6713319495	free association	Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing	40
6713320668	resistance	somewhat disruptive response by the client to some topic they find sensitive	41
6713320669	transference	phenomenon where patients undergoing clinical therapy begin to transfer their feelings of a particular person in their lives to the therapist	42
6713325878	counterconditioning	type of therapy based on the principles of classical conditioning that attempts to replace bad or unpleasant emotional responses to a stimulus with more pleasant, adaptive responses	43
6713325879	active listening	involves a person (typically a therapist) listening to a person and then responding to the person using techniques such as paraphrasing	44
6713329417	antianxiety drugs		45
6713333075	client-centered therapy (person-centered therapy)		46
6713333076	exposure therapies		47
6713335239	gestalt therapy		48
6713341858	electroconvulsive therapy		49
6713342928	psychosurgery		50
6713342929	token economy		51
6713346132	attention deficit hyperactivity disorder		52
6713346133	meta-analysis		53
6713348627	cognitive behavioral therapy		54
6713348628	rational emotive behavior therapy		55
6713351772	group therapy		56
6713354472	repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation		57
6713356226	psychopharmacology		58
6713357671	antipsychotic drugs		59
6713368331	antidepressant drugs		60
6713372901	dependent personality disorder		61