chapter 14 set 3 (exam 7)

specific phobia

anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation

panic disorder

anxiety disorder characterized by unexpected panic attacks, along with at least one month of worry about panic attacks or self-defeating behavior related to the attacks

paranoid delusion

characterized by beliefs that others are out to harm them

social anxiety disorder

characterized by extreme and persistent fear or anxiety and avoidance of social situations in which one could potentially be evaluated negatively by others

psychological disorder

condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

suicide

death caused by intentional, self-directed injurious behavior

persistent depressive disorder

depressive disorder characterized by a chronically sad and melancholy mood

supernatural

describes a force beyond scientific understanding

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

experiencing a profoundly traumatic event leads to a constellation of symptoms that include intrusive and distressing memories of the event, avoidance of stimuli connected to the event, negative emotional states, feelings of detachment from others, irritability, proneness toward outbursts, hypervigilance, and a tendency to startle easily; these symptoms must occur for at least one month

personality disorder

group of DSM-5 disorders characterized by an inflexible and pervasive personality style that differs markedly from the expectations of one's culture and causes distress and impairment; people with these disorders have a personality style that frequently brings them into conflict with others and disrupts their ability to develop and maintain social relationships

rumination

in depression, tendency to repetitively and passively dwell on one's depressed symptoms, their meanings, and their consequences

prodromal symptom

in schizophrenia, one of the early minor symptoms of psychosis

safety behavior

mental and behavior acts designed to reduce anxiety in social situations by reducing the chance of negative social outcomes; common in social anxiety disorder

ventricle

one of the fluid-filled cavities within the brain

schizophrenia

severe disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, perception, emotion, and behavior with symptoms that include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, andnegative symptoms

psychopathology

study of psychological disorders, including their symptoms, causes, and treatment; manifestation of a psychological disorder

seasonal pattern

subtype of depression in which a person experiences the symptoms of major depressive disorder only during a particular time of year

peripartum onset

subtype of depression that applies to women who experience an episode of major depression either during pregnancy or in the four weeks following childbirth

suicidal ideation

thoughts of death by suicide, thinking about or planning suicide, or making a suicide attempt

somatic delusion

Diondre harbors the belief that spider eggs have been implanted underneath his fingernails and that the spiders will hatch inside his skin and will eventually begin to eat his organs. What kind of delusion is this?