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Unit 12
Unit 12 AP Psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychological Disorder | Deviant, distressful,and dysfuntional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. |
| Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) | A psychological disorder marked by the appearence by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. |
| Medical Model | The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, ofetn through treatment in a hospital. |
| DSM-IV-TR | The American Associations's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, classifies psychological disorders. |
| Panic Disorder | An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experineces terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening situations. |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | An Anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal. |
| Phobia | An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation. |
| Obssesive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts(obssesions) and or actions (compulsions) |
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawl, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. |
| Post-traumatic Growth | Positive psychological changes as a resule of srtuggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises. |
| Somatoform Disorder | Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. |
| Conversion Disorder | A rare somatofor disorder in which a person experinces very specific genuine physical symptoms for which on psychological basis can be found. |
| Hypochondriasis | A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. |
| Dissociative Disorders | Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes seperated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) | A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhitbits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. |
| Mood Disorders | Psychological disorders characteized by emotional extremes. |
| Major Dipressive Disorder | A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, tow or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activites. |
| Mania | A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. |
| Bipolar Disorder | A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state if mania. |
| Schizophrenia | A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions and inapproproate emotions and actions. |
| Delusions | False beliefs, often persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders. |
| Personality Disorders | Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. |
| Antisocial Personality Disorder | A personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggresive and ruthless or a clever con artist. |
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