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Abnormal Chapter 7
Abnormal psychology Chapter 7 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Group of disorders involving severe and enduring disturbances in emotionality ranging from elation to severe depression | Mood disorders |
| Most common and severe experience of depression, including feelings of worthlessness, disturbances in bodily activities like sleep, loss of interest, and inability to experience pleasure, lasting at least 2 weeks. | Major depressive episode |
| Period of abnormally elevated or irritable mood that may include inflated self esteem, decreased need for sleep, pressured speech, flight of ideas, agitation, or self destructive behavior | Mania |
| Less severe and less disruptive version of a manic episode that is one of the criteria for several mood disorders | Hypomanic episode |
| Condition in which the individual experiences both elation and depression or anxiety at the same time | Mixed manic episode/ Dysphoric manic episode |
| involving one (single episode) or more (separated by 2 months without depression - recurrent) major depressive episodes | Major depressive disorder |
| Mood disorder involving persistently depressed mood, with low self-esteem, withdrawal, pessimism, or despair, present for at least 2 years, with no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months | Dysthymic disorder |
| Severe mood disorder typified by major depressive episodes superimposed over a background of dysthymic disorder | Double depression |
| psychotic symptoms of perceptual disturbance in which things are seen, heard, or otherwise sensed although they are not actually present | Hallucinations |
| psychotic symptoms involving disorder of thought content and presence of strong beliefs that are misrepresentations of reality | Delusions |
| motor movement disturbance seen in people with some psychoses and mood disorders in which body postures are waxy and can be "sculpted" to remain fixed for long periods | Catalepsy |
| Mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically with depression occurring during the winter | Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) |
| extreme reaction to the death of a loved one that involves psychotic features, suicidal ideation, or severe loss of weight or energy or that persists for more than 2 months | Pathological or impacted grief reaction |
| alternation of major depressive episodes with hypomanic episodes | Bipolar II disorder |
| Alternation of major depressive episodes with full manic episodes | Bipolar I disorder |
| chronic (at least 2 years) mood disorder characterized by alternating mood elevation and depression levels that are not as severe as manic or major depressive episodes | Cyclothymic disorder |
| hormones that affect the brain and are increasingly the focus of study in psychopathology | Neurohormones |
| Martin Seligman's theory that people become anxious and depressed when they make an attribution that they have no control over the stress in their lives | Learned helplessness theory of depression |
| Thinking errors in depressed people negatively focused in 3 areas: themselves, their immediate world, and their future. | Depressive cognitive triad |
| a medication used in the treatment of mood disorders that is effective in preventing and treating pathological shifts in mood | Mood-stabilizing drug |
| biological treatment for severe, chronic depression involving the application of electrical impulses through the brain to produce seizures. The reasons for its effectiveness are unknown | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
| treatment approach that involves identifying and altering negative thinking styles related to psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety and replacing them with more positive beliefs and attitudes and better behavior and coping styles | Cognitive therapy |
| Brief treatment approach that emphasizes resolution of interpersonal problems and stressors in marital conflict or relationship in marriage or a new job. Helps problems such as depression | Interpersonal psychotherapy |
| Combination of continued psychosocial treatment, medication, or both designed to prevent relapse following therapy | Maintenance treatment |
| Serious thoughts about committing suicide | Suicidal ideation |
| The formulation of a specific method of killing oneself | Suicidal plans |
| Efforts made to kill oneself | Suicidal attempts |
| postmortem psychological profile of a suicide victim constructed from interviews with people who knew the person before death | Psychological autopsy |
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