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PSYCH 110 CH 14
Psychological Disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/23/2010

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medical model
Definition
it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.
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diagnosis
Definition
to distinguish one illness from another
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etimology
Definition
apparent causation, and developmental history of an illness
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prognosis
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forcast about probable course of an illness
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epidimiology
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study of distribution of mental disorders in a population
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anxiety disorders
Definition
class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety
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generalized anxiety disorder
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chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat
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phobic disorder
Definition
marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents to realistic danger.
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Agorophobia
Definition
fear of going out to public places.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Definition
enduring psychological disturbance attrubuted to a major traumatic event.
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Concordance Rates
Definition
Indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other relatives who exhibit the same disorder.
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Psychosomatic diseases
Definition
involve genuine physical ailments caused in part by psychological factors, especially reactions to stress.
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Somatoform disorders
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physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors. symptoms more imaginary than real
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Conversion disorder
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characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis) usually in a single organ system.
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hypochondria
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characterized by excessive preoccupatino with health concerns and incesstant worry about developing physical illness.
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Dissociative Disorders
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A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity.
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Dissociative Amnesia
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sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be forgetting.
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Dissociative Fuege
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people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity
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Dissociative Identity disorder
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involves the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very different personalities.
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Mood Disorders
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A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical perceptual social and thought processes
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Major Depressive Disorder
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people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a losee of interest in previous sources of pleasure
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Dysthmic Disorder
Definition
consists of chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to justify diagnosis of major depression
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cyclothymic disorder
Definition
exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbance.
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Schizophrenia disorders
Definition
class of disorders marked by delusions hallucinations disorganized speech and deterioration of adaptive behavior
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Disorganized schizophrenia
Definition
Severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen.
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Dopamine Hypothesis
Definition
excess dopamine activity is the neurochemical basis for schizophrenia.
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Expressed Emotion
Definition
The degree to which a relative of a patient displays highly critical or emotionally overinvovled attitudes towards the patient
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3 kinds of personality disorders
Definition
odd/eccentric, anxious/fearful, dramatic/impulsive
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culture bound disorders
Definition
abnormal syndromes that are found only in a few cultural groups.
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neurosis
Definition
mild forms of psychopathology. patient does not lose contact with reality. anxiety
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psychosis
Definition
very severe forms of psychopathology. almost always hospitalized in life. lose contact with reality. delusions and hallucinations.
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