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Unit 12 Psychology

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Psychological Disorder   a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior  
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Medical Model   the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital  
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DSM-5   the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders  
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Anxiety Disorders   psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety  
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder   an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense; apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal  
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Panic Disorder   an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations  
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Phobias   an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation  
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Social Anxiety Disorder   intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such  
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Agoraphobia   fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic  
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder   a disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions  
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PTSD   a disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience  
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Posttraumatic Growth   positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises  
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Mood Disorder   psychological disorder characterized by emotional extremes  
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Major Depressive Disorder   a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, 2 or more weeks with 5 or more symptoms, at least 1 of which must be either (1) depressed mood (2) loss of interest or pleasure  
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Mania   a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state  
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Bipolar Disorder   a mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania  
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Rumination   compulsive fretting; overthinking about out problems and their causes  
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Schizophrenia   a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and diminished or inappropriate emotional expression  
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Psychosis   a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions  
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Delusions   false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders  
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Hallucination   false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus  
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Somatic Symptom Disorder   a psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause  
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Conversion Disorder   a disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found  
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Illness Anxiety Disorder   a disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease  
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Dissociative Disorder   disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings  
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