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Abnormal Chapter 5
Abnormal Psychology chapter 5 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. May involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses | Anxiety |
| Emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies | Fear |
| Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror | Panic |
| Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms such as dizziness or heart palpitations | Panic Attack |
| Brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety | Behavior inhibition system (BIS) |
| Biological reaction to alarming stressors that muster the body's resources (such as blood flow and respiration) to resist a threat | Fight or flight system (FFS) |
| Characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms or tenseness, irritability, and restlessness | Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) |
| fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack | Panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) |
| Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult | Agoraphobia |
| Panic attacks experienced without development of agoraphobia | Panic disorder without agoraphobia (PD) |
| Cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them | Panic control treatment (PCT) |
| Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning | Specific phobia |
| Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection | Blood-injury-injection phobia |
| Anxiety involving enclosed places (for example, claustrophobia) or public transportation (fear of flying) | Situational phobia |
| Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water | Natural environment phobia |
| Unreasonable, enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early in life | Animal phobia |
| Excessive, enduring fear in some children that harm will come to them or their parents while they are apart | Separation anxiety disorder |
| Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations | Social phobia |
| enduring, distressing, emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness or fear-inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and increased arousal | Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
| Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. Many victims later develop PTSD | Acute stress disorder |
| Disorder involving unwanted, persistant, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them | Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) |
| Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by outside forces | Obsessions |
| Repetitive, ritualistic, time consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform | Compulsions |
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