AP Psychology Unit 12 Abnormal Psych
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Psychological Disorder | deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns. |
| Medical Model | the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. |
| DSM-IV | The American psychiatric association's widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |
| Neurotic Disorder | a psychological disorder that is usually distressing but that allows one to think rationally and function socially. |
| Psychotic Disorder | a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions. |
| Anxiety Disorders | psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. |
| Phobia | an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation. |
| Obsessive-compulsive Disorder | An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions. |
| Panic Disorder | an anxiety disorder marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations. |
| Somatoform Disorders | disorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists. |
| Conversion Disorders | Somatoform disorders in which individuals experience serious somatomic symptoms such as fuctional blindness, deafness, and paralysis. |
| Hypochondriasis | a condition characterized by misinterpretation of physical symptoms and fearing that one has a serious illness despite appropriate medical evaluation and reassurance. |
| Dissociative Disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. |
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | a disorder characterized by an acute emotional responce to a traumatic event or severe emotional stress such as an airplane crash, repeated physical or emotional trauma. |
| Amnesia | loss of memory |
| Fugue | condition of having amnesia for your current life and starting a new life somewhere else. |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder | a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. |
| Mood Disorders | psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. See major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder. |
| Major Depressive Disorder | a mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminishes interest or pleasure in most activities. |
| Bipolar Disorder | a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. |
| Mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. |
| Schizophrenia | a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. |
| Delusions | false beliefs, often of 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 | A person who lacks a conscience, is emotionally shallow, impulsive, and selfish, and tends to manipulate others. |
| Bio-psycho-social Perspective | a contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors combine and interact to produce pscyhological disorders. |
| Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 or one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. |
| Post-traumatic Growth | The positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. |
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