Izzy Psych Vocab 1
Izzy's psychology class vocabs on disorders
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- Manic episode
- a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
- DSM-IV
- The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (fourth edition), a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
- Psychological disorder
- harmful dysfunction in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable.
- Personality disorders
- a class of mental disorders characterized by rigid and on-going patterns of thought and action
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsession) and/ or actions (compulsions).
- Antisocial personality disorder
- a personality disorder in which the person (usually man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrong doing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or clever con artist.
- Bipolar disorder
- a mood disorder in which the person alternates between hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
- Anxiety disorder
- Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
- 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.
- Mood disorders
- psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
- Major depressive disorder
- mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.
- Dissociative disorders
- disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
- Dissociative identity disorder
- a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
- Phobia
- An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
- Schizophrenia
- a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
- Bio-psycho-social perspective
- contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders
- Medical model
- concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders, the medical model assumes that these "mental" illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
- Delusions
- false beliefs often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders