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psych ch16 vocab
psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| essential features | characteristics that define the disorder |
| differential diagnosis | how to distinguish this disorder from other disorders with which it might be confused |
| anxiety | a vague, generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger |
| phobia | an intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation |
| specific phobia | phobia focused on almost anything |
| social phobia | the fear that one will embarrass themselves in a public place or a social setting |
| panic disorder | an extreme anxiety that manifests itself in the form of panic attacks |
| obsession | an uncontrollable pattern of thoughts |
| compulsion | repeatedly preform copied behaviors |
| obsessive-compulsive disorder | a condition in which a person with an anxiety-based disorder experiences obsession and compulsion together |
| post-traumatic stress disorder | disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks |
| somatoform disorder | physical symptoms for which there is no apparent physical cause |
| conversion disorder | changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function |
| hypochondrias | a person who is in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments |
| dissociative disorder | a disorder in which a person experiences alternations in memory, identity, or consciousness |
| dissociative amnesia | the inability to recall important personal events or information; is usually associated with stressful events |
| dissociative fugue | a dissociative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past |
| dissociative identity disorder | a person exhibits two or more personality states, each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving |
| munchausen's syndrome | when a person develops great sensitivity to emotional pain and will use any methods possible to avoid feeling it |
| schizophrenia | a group of disorders characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions |
| delusions | false beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence |
| hallucinations | perceptions that have no direct external cause |
| paranoid schizophrenia | involves hallucinations and delusions |
| catatonic schizophrenia | remaining motionless for long periods, exhibiting a waxy flexibility in which limbs in usual positions may take a long time to return to resting, relaxed position |
| disorganized type schizophrenia | includes incoherent language, inappropriate emotions, giggling for no apparent reason, generally disorganized motor behavior, and hallucinations and delusions |
| remission type schizophrenia | anyone whose symptoms are completely gone or still exist but are not severe enough to have earned a diagnosis of schizophrenia in the first place |
| undifferentiated type schizophrenia | the basic symptoms of schizophrenia, such as deterioration of daily functioning, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate emotions, and thought disorders |
| major depressive disorder | severe form of lowered mood in which a person experiences feelings of worthlessness and diminished pleasure or interest in many activities |
| bipolar disorder | disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania (euphoria) and depression |
| manic phase | a person experiences elation, extreme confusion, distractibility, and racing thoughts |
| depressive phase | the individual is overcome by feelings of failure, sinfulness, worthlessness, and dispair |
| seasonal affective disorder | through out the winter they struggle with depression and their spirits lift only with the coming of spring |
| personality disorders | maladaptive or inflexible ways of dealing with others and one's environment |
| antisocial personality | a personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience |
| psychological dependence | use of a drug to such an extreme that a person feels nervous and anxious without it |
| addiction | a pattern of drug abuse characterized by an overwhelming and compulsive desire to obtain and use the drug |
| tolerance | physical adaptation to a drug so that a person needs an increased amount in order to produce the original effect |
| withdrawal | the symptoms that occur after a person discontinues the use of a drug to which he or she has become addicted |
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