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chapter 18
Psycology
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Psychology
12th Grade
03/19/2014

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Psychological Disorder
Definition
Patterns of mental behavior or process that causes a person suffering.
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Typicality
Definition
Degree of normal.
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Anxiety
Definition
A general feeling of dread or uneasiness in response to a bague or imagined danger. Symptoms trembling, faint, rapid heart rate, dizzy.
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Phobia disorder
Definition
Irrational fear of an situation. Most will impact a normal life.
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Panic disorder
Definition
Is a short period of intense fear or discomfort.
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agoraphobia
Definition
Fear of not being in place or situation which escape is difficult.
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Generalized anxiety disorder
Definition
Excessive worry about life circumstances, usually lasts up to 6 months.
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Obsession
Definition
Unwanted thoughts or images.
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Compulsions
Definition
Reduces the anxiety. ritual behavior checking or cleaning. Go through great lengths to hide these habits.
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Post traumatic Stress Disorder
Definition
Intense persistent feelings of anxiety- cause stressful situation.
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Acute Stress Disorder
Definition
Short term disorder, symptoms are similar
PTSD. Happens right away.
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Psychoanalytic
Definition
Not widely accepted- results are forbidden childhood urges that we have repressed.
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Learning
Definition
Conditioned in childhood learn to avoid things that cause anxiety.
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Cognitive
Definition
People make themselves anxious- Problem people feel helpless in having control.
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Biological View
Definition
Heredity is controlled by DNA- identical twin have a higher rate than fraternal. Genetic predisposition to fear certain objects.
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Dissociative Amnesia
Definition
Sudden after a stressful event not biological. War time natural disasters.
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Dissociative Fugue
Definition
Forgetting identity, life- relocating taking on a new identity.
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Dissociative identity
Definition
two or more distinct personalities exist in one person. not aware of each other.
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Depersonalization
Definition
Detached from ones mental process or body. Outside body observing and distance.
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