All The Terms You Should Know For This Unit

Here are the terms that you most definitely should know for this unit. If you understand what they are, any free response that you have to answer regarding them should be a breeze! Good luck!

Psychological Disorder: characterized as deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts feelings and behaviors

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): characterized by one or more of the following; extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

Medical Model: this is the idea that any disease has a physical cause that can be diagnosed, treated, and often cured through medical treatment

DSM-IV-TR: the American Psychological Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, "Text Revision" It is used to help classify psychological disorders

Anxiety Disorders: psychol
ogical disorders that are often marked by distressing and persistent anxiety or being unable to adapt properly to reduce the anxiety

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: the anxiety disorder in which the person is in a constant state of tension, are apprehensive, and the autonomic nervous system is constantly aroused

Panic Disorder: this disorder is marked by unpredictable, sometimes minute-long episodes of feeling intense dread in which the sufferer may be terrified and may be accompanied by physical pain in the chest, the feeling of choking, or any others symptoms that might cause one to be frightened

Phobia: this is characterized by persistent and irrational fear, and the avoidance of specific objects, activities or situations

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: this is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by repetitive thoughts and actions that are unwanted and disruptive to normal life

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: a disorder that is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and insomnia that last for four or more weeks after a traumatic event is experienced

Post-Traumatic Growth: positive psychological changes that are caused by struggling with extremely difficult and challenging life crises and circumstances

Mood Disorders: these are psychological disorders that are marked by emotional extremes

Major Depressive Disorder: a mood disorder in which the patient experiences, without drugs or any underlying medical condition, a significant depression or lessened interest or pleasure in activities for two or more weeks.

Mania: this is a mood disorder that is characterized by a crazy, hyperactive, extremely optimistic state

Bipolar Disorder: a disorder in which a person experiences the same feelings of hopelessness and lethargy of depression as well as the overexcited state of mania

Schizophrenia: severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed and distorted perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.

Psychosis: This disorder is when a patient loses contact with all reality, and begins to experience irrational ideas, and their perceptions distorted

Delusions: Delusions are false beliefs, often of grandeur or persecution, that accompany many psychotic disorders

Dissociative Disorders: Disorders in which a persons conscious awareness becomes separated from their previous thoughts, memories and feelings

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): A rare dissociative disorder where a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities

Anorexia Nervosa: This is an eating disorder in which a person, usually a teenaged girl, starves themself in order to stay thin, despite being severely underweight

Bulimia Nervosa: Another eating disorder, but this one is when a person, again often a teenaged girl, alternates between binge eating, and purging, or fasting

Binge-Eating Disorder: Significant episodes of eating past the point of full, and then followed by the feeling in digust, guilt, or distress, but without the purging or fasting that follows with bulimia nervosa

Personality Disorders: Psychological disorders that are characterised by inflexible and enduring behavioral patterns that impair normal social functioning

Antisocial Personality Disorder: Personality disorder in which a person, usually a man exhibits an extreme lack of conscience for any wrongdoing, even when it's towards friends or family. They may be ruthless and aggressive, or a clever con artist