psych ch 14
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pscyhopathology | the study of abnormal behavior |
| subjective discomfort | emotional distress or emotional plain; this is a sign of abnormality Ex: a woman suffers from a fear of going outside her house for example, would experience a great deal of anxiety when trying to leave home and distress over being unable to leave |
| maladptive | anything that does not allow a person to function with in or adpt to the stresses and veryday demand of life : maladaptive behavior includes behavior that may intitally help a person cope but has harmful or damaging effects Ex: a woman who cuts her self to relieve anxiety does experience intitial relief but is harmed by the action |
| psychological disorder | an patten of behavior that cause people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or hamrs their ability to function in daily life |
| anxiety disorders | disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety and fearfulness |
| free-floating anxiety | anxiety that is unrelated to any realistic, known source |
| panic attack | sudden onset of intense panic in whcih multiple physical symtoms of stress occur, ofetn with feelings that one is dying |
| panic disorder | disorder in which pani attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life; having a panic disorder can lead to agoraphobia |
| obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is releived by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental act |
| acute stress disorder (ASD) | a disorder reulsting from exposure to a major stresor, with symptoms of anxiety, dissociation, reucrring nightmares, sleep disturbances, problems in concentration, and moments in which people seem to "relive" the event in dreams and flash backs for a s long as 1 month following the event |
| posttraumatic disorder (PTSD) | a disorder relsuting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety dissociation, and concentration problems lasting for more than 1 month : may not occyr until 6 months or late after the event |
| generalized anxiety disorder | disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more: escessive ancxiety have no real source, nor can the person control the feelings even if an effort is made to do so: they feel tense, edgy, get tired easily, and may have trouble concentrating |
| affect | in pscyh a term indicating "emotion" or "mood" |
| mood disorders | disorders in which mood is severly disturbed |
| major depression | severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no ecternal cause, or is to severe for current circumstances : would dall at far extreme of sadness: are depressed for most of everyday : most common diagnosed mood disorder |
| manic | having the quality of excessive xcitement, energy and elation or irriatibility |
| bipolar disorder | severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes : there is usually no external cause for the extreme ups and downs of the bipolar person : the depressive phases are indistinguishable from major depression but give way to manic epsiodes that may last from a few weeks to a few months |
| dissociative disorders | disorders in which there is a break in sconscious awarenss, memory, the sense of identity or some combination Ex: people who sometimes drive somehwere and then wonder how they got there |
| dissociative amnesia | loss of memory, for personal information, wither partial or complete : cannot remember things such as own name or personal events |
| dissociative fugue | traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia about the trip and possible amnesia for personal information : usually take place after an emotional trauma and are more common in items of disasters or war |
| dissociative identity disorder | disorder occuring when a person seems to have two or more disitinct personalities with in one body |
| depersonalization disorder | dissociative disorder in which individuals feel deatched and disconnected from them selves, their bodies and theur surroundings ; have lower brain activity in areas responsible for their sense of body awareness |
| schizophrenia | sever disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre hebavior, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality |
| pscyhiotic | term applied to a person who is no longer able to eprceive what is real and what is fantasy as wells as disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior and perception |
| delusions | false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness |
| delusional disorder | a psychotic disorder in which the primary symtom is one or more delusions |
| hallucinations | false sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist |
| flat affect | a lack of emotional responsiveness |
| disorganzied (schizophrenia) | type of schizophrenia in which behavior is bizarre and cildish, and thinking, speech and motor actions are very disorganized : are socially impaired, unable to engage in the normal social rituals of daily life |
| catatonic | type of schizophrenia in which the person experiences periods of statuelike immobility mixed with occasional bursts of energetic, frantic movement, and talking |
| paranoid | type of schizophrenia in which the person suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations : their delusions is very bizarre |
| personality disorder | disorders in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal social interactions ; does not affect merely one aspect of the person's life, such as a higher than normal level of anixety or a set of distorted beliefs |
| antisocial personality disorder | disorder in whixh a person has no morals or conscience and often behaves in an impulsive manner with out regard for the consequences of that behavior : these people are agianst society , sometimes called a sociopath, habitually breaks the laws, disobeys rules, tells lies |
| borderline personality disorder | maladaptive perosnality patern in which the person is moody, unstable, lacks a slear sense of identity and often clings to others : untrusting of others, some may engage in drug abuse, suicidal behavior etc |
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