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Psychology- Huss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the criteria for abnormality? | Statistical rarity interference with norm. func. personal distress deviance from social norm |
| What is prevalence of a disorder? | the percent of pop. or # of persons experiencing a given disorder during some specified period |
| What is incidence of a disorder? | rate/number of new cases reported during a given period |
| What are social phobias? | fear related to being seen or observed by others |
| What is specific phobia? | any phobia other than agoraphobia or social phobias |
| What involves chronically high levels of anxiety that is not attached to a specific stimulus with low levels of GABA? | Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) |
| An anxiety disorder that is characterized by repetitive, irrational, intrusive, thoughts, impulses, or images, and irresistible, repetitive acts. | Obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD is also associated with anxiety reduction thru operant conditioning and it... |
| A reaction to a traumatic or life-threathening situation; characterized by repeated experience of traumatic event, avoidance of reminders, emotional numbness, and increased arousal | Posttraumatic stress disorder is characterized by... |
| complaint of bodily symptoms that do not have medical cause but psych factors are involved | somatoform disorder |
| Dissociative dissociative disorders | con. awareness becomes sep. from prev memory, thoughts, and feelings |
| Dissociative Amnesia | person suddenly unable to recall important personal information |
| Dissociative Fugue | person suddenly leaves home or place of work and travels to another place, losing all memory of their past. New personality is more outgoing |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder/ Multiple personality disorder | rare, person exhibits 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities |
| Mood disorders | emotional extremes |
| Major Depressive disorder | no reason, experiences 2 or more weeks of sad moods, worthlessness, and loss of interests in most acts. |
| Bipolar/ manic-depressive disorder | alternate between hopelessness and lethargy of depression and overexcited mania |
| Manic episode | hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
| Schizophrenia | characterized by disorganization, delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, inappropriate emotions and acts |
| positive symptoms | inappropriate behaviors |
| delusions | false beliefs, persecution or grandeur |
| hallucinations | false sensory experiences |
| Negative symptoms | absence of appropriate behavior |
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