Psychology - Chapter 12
An irresistible urge to repeat an act or engage in ritualistic behavior such as hand washing/d
What is a compulsion?
Fear of high places.
What is acrophobia?
A disorder like PTSD that is characterized by feelings of anxiety and helplessness caused by a traumatic event, acute stress occurs withing a month of the event and lasts from two days to four weeks.
What is acute stress disorder?
The diagnosis given a person who is in frequent conflict with society, yet who is undeterred by punishment and experiences little or no guilt and anxiety.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A disorder in which the mood alternates between two extreme poles(elation and depression)to as also referred manic depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
Refusal to talk.
What is mutism?
Persistent fear of specific objects or situations.
What is specific phobia?
A condition in which the senses, thought, and movement are dulled.
What is stupor?
Disorders in which there are sudden, temporary changes in consciousness or self-identity.
What are dissociative disorders?
The deficiencies strong people with schizophrenia, such as the affect lack of motivation, loss of pleasure, and social withdrawal.
What are negative symptoms?
A personality disorder characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, mood, and lack of impulse control.
What is borderline personality disorder?
A type of schizophrenia characterized by striking motor impairment.
What is catatonic schizophrenia?
Fear of tight, small places.
What is clausterphobia?
A type of schizophrenia characterized by disorganized delusions, vivid hallucinations, and inappropriate affect.
What is disorganized schizophrenia?
A dissociativie disorder marked by loss of memory or self-identity,skiills.and general knowledge are usually retained.
What is dissociative disorder?
A dissociative disorder in which one experiences amnesia and then flees to a new location
What is dissociative fugue?
A recurring thought or image that seems beyond control.
What is obsession?
The recurrent experiencing of attacks of extreme anxiety in the absence of external stimuli that usually elicit anxiety.
What is panic disorder?
A personality disorder characterized by persistent suspiciousness, but not involving the disorganization of paranoid schizophrenia.
What is paranoid personality disorder?
Elated, showing excessive excitement.
What is manic?
Slowness in motor activity and (apparently) in thought.
What is psychomotor retardation?
A personality disorder characterized by social withdrawal.
W yethat is schizoid personality disorder?
Enduring patterns of maladaptive behavior that are sources of distress to the individual or others.
What are personality disorders?
The excessive and sometimes bizarre symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations, delusions, and loose associations.
What are positive symptoms?
Fear of open, crowded places.
What is agoraphobia?
A type of schizophrenia characterized primarily by delusions--commonly of persecution and vivid hallucinations.
What is paranoid schizophrenia?
A disorder that follows a distressing event outside the range of normal human experience by features such as intense fear, avoidance of stimuli associated with the event and the reliving of the event.
What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Rapid speech and topic changes, characteristic of manicky behavior
What is rapid flight of ideas?
A psychotic disorder characterized by loss of control of thought processes and inappropriate emotional responses.
What is schizophrenia?
A personality disorder characterized by oddities of thought and behavior, but not involving bizarre psychotic behaviors.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
An irrational, excessive fear of public scrutiny.
What is social phobia?
A feature of catatonic schizophrenia in which people molded into postures that they maintain for quite some time.
What is waxy flexiblilty?
The tendency to attribute one's behavior to internal or external factors, stable or unstable factors, and so on.
What is attributional style?
A personality disorder in which the person is unwilling to enter relationships without assurance of acceptance because of fears of rejection and criticism.
What is avoidance personality disorder?
A disorder in which a person appears to have one or more distinct identities or personalities that may alternately emerge.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Feelings of dread and foreboding and sympathetic arousal of at least six months in duration.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A model for the acquisition of depressive behavior based on findings that organisms in aversive situations learn to show inactivity when their operants go unreinforced.
What is learned helplessness?
A serious to severe depressive disorder in which the person may show loss of appetite, psychomotor retardation, and impaired reality testing.
What is major depressive disorder (MDD)?
The previous term for dissociative identity disorder.
What is multiple personality disorder?
A personality trait characterized largely by persistant anxiety.
What is neuroticism?