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Ch 16 Vocabulary
AP Psychology Abnormal Vocab
Term | Definition |
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amnesia | condition causing memory disruption/loss |
post-traumatic stress disorder | psychological stress disorder charcterized by episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares resulting from some disturbing event in the past |
sleep disorders | a disturbance of the normal sleep pattern |
substance abuse | a pattern of drug use that diminishes the user's ability to fulfill responsibilities at home, work or school, that results in repeated use of a drug in dangerous situations, legal problems |