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Ch. 9, Pt. 1
Summer Health: Ch. 9
Question | Answer |
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Disease of the mind that affects one's personality, thoughts, and emotions | Mental illness |
physical attributions that can cause mental illness (cancer, brain injury, infections) | Organic |
environmental attributions that can cause mental illness (rape, war) | Functional |
Study of human behavior | Psychology |
Study of the human mind | Psychiatry |
Expressing one's own thoughts, emotions, and actions | Neurosis |
Consuming, on average, 600 calories daily | Anorexia |
Purging and vomiting intentionally | Bulemia |
Physical symptoms without physical causes | Hypochondria |
Physical illness with mental causes | Psychosomatic |
Total breakdown in a person's ability to cope with society | Psychosis |
Irrational suspiciousness or distrust in others | Paranoia |
A condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control | Anxiety disorder |
A condition that may develop after exposure to a life-threatening event or physical harm | PTSD |
An illness, often with an organic cause, that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living | Mood disorder |
A pattern of behavior in which the rights of others or basic social rules are violated | Conduct disorder |