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CPHS Adv. Psych.
CPHS Adv. Psych. Abnormal Psych. Set 1 Anxiety Disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biological Model | View that abnormal behavior has a biochemical or physiological basis. |
| Psychoanalytic Model | View that abnormal behavior is the result of unconscious internal conflicts. |
| Cognitive Behavioral Model | View that abnormal behavior is the result of learning maladaptive ways of thinking. |
| Mood Disorders | Disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state. |
| Depression | A mood disorder characterized by overwhelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and perhaps excessive guilt or feelings of worthlessness. |
| Mania | A mood disorder characterized by euphoric states, extreme physical activity, excessive talkativeness, distractedness, and sometimes grandiosity. |
| Bipolar Disorder | A mood disorder in which periods of mania and depression alternate, sometimes with periods of normal mood intervening. |
| Diathesis | Biological predisposition. |
| Anxiety Disorders | Disorders in which anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior |
| Agoraphopbia | An anxiety disorder that involves multiple, intense fear of crowds, public places, and other situations that require separaton from a source of secuity such as the home. |
| Panic Disorder | An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent panic attacks in which the person suddenly experiences intense fear or terror without any reasonable cause. |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | An anxiety disorder characterized by prolonged vague but intense fears that are not attached to any particular object or circumstance. |
| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | An anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts and/or to perform senseless rituals. |
| Dissociative Disorders | Disorder in which some aspect of the personality seems separated from the rest. |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | A somatoform disorder in which a person becomes so preoccupied with his or her imagined ugliness that normal life is impossible. |
| Hypochondriasis | A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absence of any organic evidence of such illness. |
| Conversion Disorder | Somatoform disorders in which a dramatic specific disability has no physical cause but instead seems related to psychological problems. |
| Somatoform Disorders | Disorders in which there is an apparent physical illness for which there is not an organic cause. |
| Psychosomatic Disorders | Disorders in which there is real physical illness that is largely caused by psychological factors such as stress and anxiety. |
| Dissociative Fugue | A dissociative disorder that involves flight from home and the assumption of a new identity, with amnesia for past identity and events. |
| Diathesis--stress Model | View that people biologically predisposed to a mental disorder (those with a certain diathesis) will tend to exhibit that disorder when particularly affected by stress. |
| Phobia | A persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that is excessive and unreasonable, given the reality of the threat. |
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