Abnormal Psych WSU Ch. 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Somotaform Disorders | preoccupation with health and body appearance/functioning |
| Dissociative Disorders | severe alterations or detachments |
| Derealization | losing a sense of the external world |
| Hypochondriasis | severe anxiety about having a disease that is no present |
| Somatization Disorder | extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms which have no medical cause |
| Conversion Disorder | physical malfunctioning (blindness, ex) suggesting neurological impairment with no organic pathology to account for it |
| Malingering | deliberate faking of a disorder for personal gain |
| Factitious disorder | nonexistent disorders deliberately faked for no apparent gain except sympathy |
| Pain Disorder | Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in severity and maintenance |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Somatoform disorder featuring disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect (imagined ugliness) |
| Depersonalization | altering of perception that causes people to temporarily lose a sense of reality |
| 1. Depersonalization Disorder | dissassociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate one's life, preventing normal functioning |
| 2. Disociative Amnesia | Dissociative Disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or a traumatic nature |
| Generalized Amnesia | loss of memory of all personal information, including identity. |
| Localized Amnesia | memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events |
| 3. Dissociative Fugue | features sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with the inability to recall the past, sometimes with the assumption of new identity |
| 4. Dissociative Trance Disorder | altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits (culturally determined) |
| 5. Dissociative Identity Disorder | Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist in an individual (multiple personality disorder) |
| alter ego | one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative disorder |
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