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APPsych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. | antisocial personality disorder |
| A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. | dissociative identity disorder |
| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes | mood disorders |
| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal | generalized anxiety disorder |
| An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations. | panic disorder |
| a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state | mania |
| positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises | post-tramatic growth |
| The American Psychiatric Association's system for classifying psychological disorders | DSM-V |
| A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities. | major depressive disorder |
| irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or activity | phobia |
| psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form w/out apparent physical cause | somatoform disorders |
| A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. | conversion disorder |
| a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease | Hypochondriasis |
| a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions | Schizophrenia |
| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | Delusions |
| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning | personality disorders |
| Mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and overexcited state of mania | biopolar disorder |
| An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/ or actions. | obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience | post-traumatic stress disorder |
| psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety | anxiety disorders |
| a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity | attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
| Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings | disossociative disorders |
| the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital. | medical model |
| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors | psychological disorder |
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