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McCrary Unit 6
AP Psychology class 18-19, Psych disorders unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychological disorder | a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion, regulation, or behavior |
| attention defecit hyperactivity disorder | a psychological disorder marked by appearance by age 7 of one or more key symptoms; extreme inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsivity |
| philipe pinel | insisted that madness is not demon possession but a "sickness of the mind caused by severe stresses and inhumane conditions, "moral treatment" |
| medical model | the concept that diseases, in this case psych disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and usually cured, often through treatment in a hospital |
| DSM5 | the American psychiatric association's diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders |
| anxiety disorders | psychological disorders characterizes by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
| generalized anxiety disorder | an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic system arousal |
| panic disorder | an anxiety marked by unpredictable minute long episodes of intense dread when a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations. often followed by worry of a possible next attack |
| phobia | an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation |
| social anxiety disorder | intense fear of social situations leading to avoidance of such, social phobia |
| agoraphobia | fear or avoidance of situations , such as crowds or wide open spaces where one has felt a loss of control or power |
| obsessive compulsive disorder | a disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts(obsessions) or actions(compulsions) |
| post traumatic stress disorder | a disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumping anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience |
| post traumatic growth | a positive psychological change as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances/life crises |
| mood disorders | psych disorders characterized by emotional extremes, major depressive disorder, mania, bipolar |
| major depressive disorders | a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with 5+ symptoms, at least one of which must be 1. depresses mood, 2. loss of pleasure |
| mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
| bipolar disorder | a mood disorder in which a person alternates between hopelessness/lethargy and an overexcited state of mania |
| rumination | compulsive fretting, overthinking, about our problems and their causes |
| schizophrenia | a psych disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished/inappropriate emotional expression |
| psychosis | a psych disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas/distorted perception |
| delusions | false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychological disorders |
| hallucinations | false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimuli |
| negative symptoms | the absence of appropriate behaviors, the existence of a toneless voice, expressionless face, or rigid bodies |
| positive symptoms | the presence of inappropriate behaviors like experiencing hallucinations, talking in disorganized/deluded ways, and exhibiting inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage |
| chronic/processing schizophrenia | when schizophrenia is a slow-developing process with the often exhibited negative symptoms for social withdrawl |
| acute/reactive schizophrenia | when well-adjusted people develop it rapidly following particular life stresses, medication is more effective |
| dopamine | excess of receptors exist for those with schizophrenia, sixfold for D4 dopamine receptor, intensifies brain signals, creating positive symptoms like hallucinations paranoia |
| somatic symptom disorder | a psych disorder in which symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause |
| conversion disorder | a psych disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine symptoms for which no psychological basic can be found |
| illness anxiety disorder | a disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease(hypochondriasis) |
| dissociative disorders | disorders in which consciousness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
| dissociative identity disorders | a rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalities; formerly called multiple personality disorder |
| anorexia nervosa | an early disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15%+) underweight |
| bulimia nervosa | an eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually high calorie foods) with purging by vomiting or laxative use, excessive exercise, fasting |
| binge eating disorder | significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, guilt, but without compensatory purging or fasting marking bulimia nervosa |
| personality disorders | psych disorders characterized by inflexible/enduring behavior patterns impairing social functioning |
| antisocial personality disorder | personality disorder in which a person(usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends/family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist |
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