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chapter 13 quiz
Psychology Chapter 13 Vocab quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mental Disorder | A disturbance in thinking, emotion, or behavior that causes a person to suffer, is self-destructive, seriously impairs a person's ability to work or get along with others, or makes a person unable to control the impulse to endanger others. |
| DSM | the standard reference manual used to diagnose mental disorders. |
| Projective assessment | Psychological tests used to infer a person's motives, conflicts, and unconscious dynamics on the basis of the person's interpretations of a ambiguous stimuli. |
| GAD | A continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry, apprehension, difficulties in concentration, and signs of motor tension. |
| Panic DO | An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring panic attacks, periods of intense fear, and feelings of impending doom or death, accompanied by physiological symptoms such as rapid heart rate and dizziness. |
| Phobia | Exaggerated, unrealistic fear and avoidance of a specific situation, activity, or object. |
| Agoraphobia | A fear and avoidance of places where escape or rescue might be difficult in the event of a panic attack or other incapacitating symptoms. |
| PTSD | A disorder in which a person who has experienced a traumatic or life-threatening event has symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, intrusive memories, and increased physiological arousal. |
| OCD | An anxiety disorder in which a person feels trapped in repetitive, persistent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive, ritualized behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) |
| Major Depression | A disorder involving disturbance in emotion (excessive sadness), behavior (loss of interest in one's usual activities), cognition (thought of hopelessness), and body function (fatigue and loss of appetite). |
| Bipolar | A mood disorder in which episodes of both depression and mania (excessive euphoria) occur. |
| Borderline personality do | A disorder characterized by extreme negative emotionally and an inability to regulate emotions, which often results in intense but unstable relationships, impulsivity, self-mutilating behavior, feelings of emptiness, and a fear of abandonment |
| Psychopathy | A set of personality characteristics that can accompany antisocial personality disorder and is marked by fearlessness; lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse; the use of deceit; and cold heartedness. |
| Antisocial personality do | (APD) A personality disorder characterized by a lifelong pattern of irresponsible, antisocial behavior such as law breaking, violence, and other impulsive, reckless acts. |
| Dissociative Identity do | (DID) A controversial disorder marked by the apparent appearance within one person of two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits; formerly know as multiple personality disorder. |
| Schizophrenia | A psychotic disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speech, inappropriate behavior, and cognitive impairments. |
| Psychosis | An extreme mental disturbance involving perceptions of reality, irrational behavior, and impaired function. |
| Hallucination | False sensory experiences that seem intensely real. Ex: hearing voices |
| Delusion | False beliefs that are held with complete conviction. They insist that someone is putting thoughts into their head. |
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