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Abnormal Disorders
Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abnormal Behavior | anything that differs from the what the average person would do is abnormal, failure to adjust to society |
| Addiction | dependence on a drug |
| Agoraphobia | a fear of leaving a safe place (or person) |
| Alcoholism | dependence on alcohol |
| Anhedonia | lack of energy |
| Antabuse | |
| Antisocial personality disorder | involves a totally disregard for the feelings of others. These people are said to lack empathy, is correlated with biological changes, like lowered activity in the amygdala(psychopaths) |
| Anxiety | is made up of negative emotions and feelings of tension |
| Anxiety Disorders | GAD, phobic disorder, panic disorder, OCD*, and PTSD* |
| Bipolar Disorder | involves two mood states: periods of depression cycled with mania |
| Catatonic Schizophrenia | involves long periods of remaining motionless and emotionally unresponsive |
| Compulsions | ritualistic behaviors designed to get rid of obsessions |
| Conversion Disorder | physical disabilities without any real source |
| Delirium Tremens | he most extreme form of alcohol withdrawal, can produce frightening hallucinations and body tremors |
| Delusions | false beliefs that are kept despite real evidence against them |
| Dependent Personality Disorder | have an excessive need to be taken care of |
| Depression | |
| Diathesis-stress hypothesis | |
| Disorganized Schizophrenia | includes displays of random and inappropriate behavior |
| Dissociation | involves losing one’s sense of self or of the outside world |
| Dissociative Amnesia | refers to memory loss with no physical cause, usually in response to a traumatic event. |
| Dissociative Disorders | DID, dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue |
| Dissociative Fugue | people leave and later find themselves in a new place, unable to remember why or how they got there |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder | involves the adoption of new identities, called alters, inside a person’s mind |
| Dopamine | |
| DSM-V(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) | APA lists all recognized abnormal disorders |
| Four D's | Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction , and Danger |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | characterized by intense, unfocused symptoms of WORRY, symptoms: muscle tension |
| Hallucinations | perceptual experiences without true sensation |
| Histrionic Personality Disorder | involves excessive dramatization and attention seeking |
| Hypochondriasis | preoccupied about the fact that they may have a disease |
| La belle indifference | People with conversion disorders are also usually surprisingly calm about their affliction |
| Major Depression Disorder | involves at least a two week period of uncontrollable sadness and negative emotions symptoms: anhedonia, lack of energy, problems with sleep and appetite |
| Mania | characterized by elation, risk-taking, impulsiveness, and high energy |
| Mood Disorders | major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder |
| Obsessions | uncontrollable thoughts |
| Obsessive compulsive disorder | involves uncontrollable thoughts (obsessions) coupled with ritualistic behaviors designed to get rid of these thoughts (compulsions) |
| Obsessive compulsive personality disorder | have an unusually strong interest in tidiness and perfection |
| Panic disorder | involves a person experiencing an unexpected panic attack and developing anxiety about the possibility of another attack |
| Paranoid Schizophrenia | is marked by severe delusions and hallucinations |
| Phobia | is an extreme fear of a specific object or situation, include significant dysfunction |
| Post traumatic stress disorder | occurs after an overwhelming trauma such as war, assault, natural disaster, or death of a loved one |
| Psychological dependence | |
| Schizophrenia | characterized by disordered cognitive (thought) patterns and a break from reality |
| Seasonal Affective Disorder | |
| Somatoform Disorders | characterized by an excessive fixation with health or body appearance ( conversion disorders and hypochondriasis ) |
| Thomas Szasz | argues that there are no such things as mental disorders, though few agree with him |
| Tolerance | requiring greater and greater amounts of the drug to experience the same effect |
| Undifferentiated Schizophrenia | includes the basic symptoms but does not fall neatly into one of the other three categories |
| Withdrawal | experiencing negative physical reactions when the drug is not in your system |
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