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Abnormal Psychologyy
Abnormal Psychology notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Normal | following the expected patterns of behavior for a society. |
| Abnormal behavior | Behavior that is different from what is expected in society |
| Everyone displays abnormal behavior at times but if you display it constantly you are considered ________ ________ | mentally ill |
| Abnormal psychology | The study of mental disorders |
| DSM-IV | This is the manual used to classify what mental illness a patient has |
| Insanity | A legal term that says a person can't be held responsible for their actions due to a mental disorder. |
| Anxiety Disorders | Illnesses caused by high levels of stress and anxiety. |
| Panic disorders | Feelings of anxiety overwhelm the person for no apparent reason (they stop functioning) |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | A person has thoughts that wil not stop and performs a behavior to reduce the anxiety caused by those thoughts. |
| Phobias | Irrational fears |
| Somatoform Disorders | Disorders characterized by physical problems for which there is no apparent physical cause |
| Hypochondria | Disorder where a person lives in fear of illness or constantly believes they are ill. |
| Hysterical Paralysis | Extremities of the body can't be used |
| Hysterical blindness | Loss of sight due to anxiety |
| Dissociative disorders | Group of disorders characterized by changes in memory, identity, or consciousness |
| Amnesia | Disorder where there is a degree of memory loss |
| Selective forgetting | Partial memory loss (repression) |
| Fugue episode | Complete personal memory loss occurs and a person travels to another place to start a new life |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder | (multiple personality) A person creates additional personalities to cope with high levels of anxiety |
| Mood disorders | disorders characterized by inappropriate emotional responses |
| depression | disorder in which a person has recurring or persistent feelings of being sad or unhappy moderate or major |
| Bipolar disorder | (manic depression) disorder that involves wide mood swings from extreme excitement to being very sad |
| Seasonal affective disorder | a typre of depression caused by a lack of exposure to sunlight |
| postpartum depression | woman becomes sad and upset after the birth of a child |
| psychotic disorders | Illnesses characterized by bizarre behavior including speech, perception, movement, and ideas |
| Psychotic episodes | person loses touch with reality momentarily then returns to reality |
| Schizophrenia | disorder characterized by withdrawal form reality, inappropriate emotions and illogical thinking |
| delusions | false beliefs |
| hallucinations | perceptions that don't exist |
| undifferentiated schizophrenia | disorder where a person displays all the different symptoms of schizophrenia at different times |
| paranoid schizophrenia | person has 2 types of delusions |
| grandeur | delusions of becoming a famous person |
| persecution | delusions in which a person thinks everyone is out to get them |
| catatonia | person has delusions and hallucinations then goes into a stupor for long periods of time |
| disorganized schizophrenia | person reverts to childish behavior and displays odd actions, speech, and thoughts |
| delusional | person suffers from 3 or more types of delusions:grandeur, persecution, or reference |
| reference | they think everything is about them |
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